"1876-04-17Z"^^ . "Ian Hay"@en . "British writer and soldier" . "John Hay Beith"@en . "1952Z"^^ . "0020Z"^^ . . . . "1876Z"^^ . "Hay, Ian (pen name)"@en . "Beith, John Hay"@en . . . "1952-09-22Z"^^ . "0020Z"^^ . . "Major General John Hay Beith, CBE (17 April 1876 \u2013 22 September 1952), was a British schoolmaster and soldier, but he is best remembered as a novelist, playwright, essayist and historian who wrote under the pen name Ian Hay.After reading Classics at Cambridge, Beith became a schoolmaster. In 1907 he published a novel, Pip; its success and that of several more novels enabled him to give up teaching in 1912 to be a full-time author."@en . . .