James Carlile McCoan (14 July 1829 – 13 January 1904)[1] was an Irish Home Rule League, Liberal and independent politician, author and journalist.
[2] Towards the end of the war, McCoan travelled in Georgia and Circassia, before settling in Constantinople where he worked in the supreme consular court until 1864.
In 1856 he founded the first English newspaper in the Ottoman Empire, The Levant Herald, which was for some time subsidised by the UK government.
He was renowned for attacking the government's 'coercive' legislation, and being among the Home Rulers suspended for defying the Speaker of the House of Commons' authority in 1881.
[2][5] After this, he rebuked illegal activity and methods of the Home Rule League and supported William Ewart Gladstone's land bill, although he also tried to amend it.