Modern English biography

(1882) 29, 457–61, 592. JAMES, EDWARD (2 son of Frederick Wm. James, merchant). _b._ Manchester 1807; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; barrister L.I. 16 June 1835, bencher 1853 to death; went Northern circuit, leader of it 1860 to death; assessor of the court of passage, Liverpool 1852 to death; Q.C. Nov. 1853; attorney general and queen’s serjeant of co. palatine of Lancashire 1863 to death; M.P. for Manchester 13 July 1865 to death; author of Has Dr. Wiseman violated the law? 1851. _d._ Hotel du Louvre, Paris 3 Nov. 1867. _bur._ Highgate cemetery, London 9 Nov. _Law mag. and law review_, _Feb. 1868 pp._ 293–300. JAMES, EDWIN JOHN (eld. son of John James 1783–1852). _b._ 1812; on the stage for a time but not successful; barrister I.T. 30 Jany. 1836; Q.C. 28 Feb. 1850 to 15 July 1862 when name removed; recorder of Brighton, Jany. 1855 to March or April 1861; M.P. Marylebone, London 25 Feb. 1859 to 10 April 1861; visited Garibaldi, present at skirmish before Capua 10 Sep. 1860; his call to bar vacated and he was disbarred 18 July 1861; his debts amounted to £100,000; went to New York, Aug. 1861, admitted to bar of state of New York 5 Nov. 1861, practised there short time; played at Winter garden theatre, New York, April 1865; returned to London 1872; lectured on subject of America, at St. George’s hall, London 17 April 1872; articled to Wm. Henry Roberts, 46 Moorgate st. solicitor, May 1873; author of The bankrupt law of the United States 1867; The political institutions of England and America 1872. _d._ 11 Bayley st. Bedford sq. London 4 March 1882. _Law magazine and law review_, _xii_ 263–86 (1882), _xiii_ 335–45; _I.L.N. xxxiv_ 429, 430 (1859), _portrait_; _A.R._ (1862) 140–43; _Law Times_, _lxxii_ 358 (1882); _Daily News 7 March 1882 p._ 5 _col._ 2. JAMES, FRANK LINSLY (eld. son of Daniel James of Liverpool, metal merchant). _b._ Liverpool 21 April 1851; ed. at Caius and Downing colls. Cam., B.A. 1877, M.A. 1881; explored the Basé country in the Soudan winters of 1879–80 and 1880–1; explored interior of the Somali country 1885; author of The wild tribes of the Soudan 1883, 2 ed. 1884; The unknown horn of Africa, an expedition from Berbera to the Leopard river 1888, 2 ed. 1890; _killed_ by an elephant at San Benite about 100 miles north of the Gaboon river 21 April 1890. _F. L. James’s Unknown horn of Africa_ (1890), _portrait_. JAMES, GEORGE. _b._ 30 June 1791; 2 lieut. R.A. 5 March 1810, lieut. col. 1 Nov. 1848, retired on full pay 27 May 1850; L.G. 2 Feb. 1868. _d._ Hersham, Surrey 1 Nov. 1875. JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFORD (son of Pinkstan James 1766–1830, physician, London). _b._ 1 George st. Hanover sq. 9 Aug. 1801; encouraged to write by sir Walter Scott and Washington Irving; wrote his first novel Richelieu 1825, published 1829; historiographer royal to William iv. 20 May 1837; produced Blanche of Navarre, drama 5 acts 1839 and Camaralzaman, fairy drama 3 acts 1848; British consul in Massachusetts 12 Oct. 1852–5, Richmond, Virginia 1855–8 and for the Austrian ports in the Adriatic 24 July 1858 to death; wrote 77 novels and other works in 198 vols. including Darnley 1830; Philip Augustus 1831; Henry Masterton 1832; The Huguenot 3 vols. 1845; The Smuggler 3 vols. 1845; a collected edition of his novels 1844–9, 21 vols.; his style caricatured by Thackeray in his Barbazure by G. R. P. Jeames, Esq., in Punch July 1847, in Novels by Eminent Hands, and in The Book of Snobs, chapters 2 and 16; published Memoirs of Great commanders 3 vols. 1832; Life of the Black prince 2 vols. 1836; The Life and times of Louis xiv. 4 vols. 1838. _d._ of apoplexy at Venice 9 June 1860. _R. H. Horne’s A new spirit of the age_, _i_ 215–32 (1844); _Maunsell B. Field’s Memories of many men_ (1874) 186–210; _Bentley’s Miscellany_, _xlix_ 192–5 (1861); _Notes and Queries 8 Nov. 1862 p._ 366; _The work of G. P. R. James_ (1844) _vol. i_, _portrait_. NOTE.--The copyright of 46 of his novels, of which 43 were stereotyped, was sold to Routledge & Co. for £2075 in March 1858. James’ widow Frances _d._ Eau Claire, Wisconsin, U.S. America 9 June 1891 in 91 year. JAMES, SIR HENRY (5 son of John James, attorney, Truro, _d._ 1819). _b._ Rose-in-Vale near St. Agnes, Cornwall 8 June 1803; ed. at Exeter gram. sch. and Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 22 Sep. 1826, colonel 9 Feb. 1862, colonel commandant 21 Nov. 1874 to death; L.G. 21 Nov. 1874; local superintendent of geological survey, Ireland 1842–6; superintendent of dockyard construction works, Portsmouth 1846–50; superintendent of ordnance survey, Scotland 1850; director of ordnance survey of United Kingdom 21 Aug. 1854 to Aug. 1875; reduced plans from larger to smaller scale by photography 1855; director of topographical and statistical department of war office 22 Aug. 1857 to 1870; F.R.S. 9 June 1848; A.I.C.E. 1 May 1849; knighted at St. James’ palace 28 March 1860; arranged for a survey of Jerusalem 1864–5; mainly instrumental in invention of photozincography 1859, now much used in ordnance office; author of On the figure, dimensions and specific gravity of the earth 1856; Principal triangulations of the earth 2 vols. 1858; Extension of the triangulations of the survey with France and Belgium and measurement of an arc of parallel 1863. _d._ 3 Cumberland ter. Southampton 14 June 1877. _I.L.N. lxx_ 595 (1877); _Palmer’s Ordnance survey of United Kingdom_ (1873) _passim_; _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ 266–8, 1243–4; _Boase’s Collect. Cornub._ (1890) 414, 415. JAMES, HOUGHTON. Entered Bombay army 1819; major 18 Bombay N.I. 23 March 1847, lieut. col. 17 Feb. 1852 to 1856; lieut. col. 15 N.I. 1856–7; lieut. col. 6 N.I. 1857 to 30 Sep. 1862; L.G. 14 Dec. 1871. _d._ Brighton 9 March 1875. JAMES, JABEZ. _b._ 1810; a locksmith and bell hanger 1837, then an engineer and model maker; had large contracts in connection with the palace at Westminster, hung the bells in the clock tower 1859; established a factory 28A Broadwall, Blackfriars, London and afterwards at 40 Princes st. Commercial road where he manufactured engines and constructed special machinery for the bank of England, the royal mint, the royal arsenal and the inland revenue department; name became associated with mechanical excellence; for government small arms he made exact gauges and machines; A.I.C.E. 1852, M.I.C.E. 1878; M.I.M.E.