Modern English biography

lxxiii_ 358–60 (1882–3); _Proc. Instit. Mechanical engineers_ (1884) 64. JAMES, JOHN. _b._ 1783; attorney in city of London 1806 to death; secondary of the Giltspur st. Compter, city of London 1831 to death. _d._ 11 Artillery place, Finsbury sq. 21 July 1852. JAMES, JOHN (son of John James _d._ about 1814). _b._ West Witton, Wensleydale, Yorkshire 22 Jany. 1811; ed. at West Witton; worked at a lime kiln for 10d. a day; clerk to Ottiwell Tomlin, solicitor, Richmond, then in London; clerk to Richard Tolson, solicitor, Bradford to his decease 1847; correspondent of Leeds Times, York Herald and of Bradford Observer 1834; author of The history of Bradford 2 vols. 1841–66; The history of the worsted manufacture in England 1857; F.S.A. _d._ Netheredge, Sheffield 4 July 1867. _bur._ West Witton ch. 8 July. _William Smith’s Old Yorkshire_ (1883) 131–33. JAMES, JOHN (eld. son of John James of St. Andrew’s, Cambridge). _b._ 1783; ed. at Rugby 1792–9; probationary fellow of St. John’s coll. Oxf. 1799; B.A. 1803, M.A. 1807, B.D. and D.D. 1834; master of Oundle gr. sch.; C. of Oundle; V. of Southwick, Northamptonshire 1828–34; canon res. of Peterborough 9 Feb. 1829 to death; V. of Maxey 1832–50; V. of St. John the Baptist, Peterborough 1833–50; R. of Peakirk with Glinton 1850–65; V. of Glinton 1865 to death, all in Northants.; author of The happy communicant 1849, 2 ed. 1883; A devotional comment on the morning and evening services in the book of common prayer 2 vols. 1851; A harmonized summary of the four gospels 1853; Spiritual life 1869. _d._ at 12.15 p.m. 15 Dec. 1868 in the Minster precincts, Peterborough. _Reg. and Mag. of Biog. Feb. 1869 pp._ 116–7. JAMES, JOHN (2 son of John James of Redbrook Newland, Gloucs.) _b._ 1806; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; R. of Rawmarsh, Yorkshire 1831–43; V. of Pinhoe, Devon 1844; P.C. of Tor-Mohun and Cockington, Devon 1844–8; V. of Headington Quarry, Oxf. 1851–3; R. of Avington near Hungerford 1853–79; author of A comment upon the collects 1824,16 ed. 1866; Christian watchfulness in the prospect of sickness 1839, 2 ed. 1840; A harmonized summary of the four gospels 1853; The happy communicant 1849, 2 ed. 1883. _d._ Highfield, Lydney, Gloucs. 16 Dec. 1886. JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (eld. son of John James, draper, _d._ 1812). _b._ Salisbury st. Blandford, Dorset 6 June 1785; apprentice to a draper at Poole 1798; ed. at Gosport acad. 1802; pastor Carr’s lane chapel, Birmingham 11 Jany. 1805 to death, rebuilt the chapel at cost of £11,000, 1819 and erected six other chapels as offshoots of his congregation; chairman of board of education Spring Hill coll. (now Mansfield coll. Oxf.) 1838 to death; a projector of the Evangelical alliance May 1842; presented with £500 on jubilee of his pastorate 1855 which he made nucleus of a pastors’ retiring fund; D.D. of Glasgow univ.; D.D. of Princeton coll. New Jersey; author of The Sunday school teacher’s guide 1816; Christian charity explained or the influence of religion upon the temper 1828, many editions; The anxious enquirer after salvation 1834 many editions, translated into Welsh, Gaelic and Malagasy; Collected Works 17 vols. 1860–64. _d._ 283 Hagley road, Edgbaston, Birmingham 1 Oct. 1859. _G. Redford’s True greatness, A memoir_ (1860); _R. W. Dale’s Life and letters of J. A. James 2 ed._ (1861), _portrait_; _Drawing room portrait gallery 3 ser._ (1860), _portrait_; _S. Couling’s History of temperance movement_ (1862) 312–14; _R. K. Dent’s Birmingham_ (1880) 362, _portrait_. JAMES, JOHN HADDY (son of a merchant at Bristol). _b._ Exeter 6 July 1788; ed. at Exeter gram. sch.; apprentice to B. W. Johnson surgeon 1805, and to Mr. Patch 1806–8; studied at St. Bartholomew’s 1808–12; M.R.C.S. 1811, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; assist. surgeon first life guards 27 Oct. 1812, placed on h.p. 30 July 1816; present at Waterloo and in garrison in France; surgeon Devon and Exeter hospital, Aug. 1816 to 1858; a general practitioner in Cathedral close, Exeter 1816 to death; president Exeter meeting of Provincial medical and surgical assoc. 1842; sheriff of Exeter 1826, mayor 1828; one of the few surgeons who tied the abdominal aorta for aneurism of the internal iliac; author of Observations on some of the general principles and treatment of inflammation 1821; Chloroform versus pain and paracentisis of the bladder above the pubes 1870. _d._ Southernhay, Exeter 17 March 1869. _Register and Mag. of Biography_, _May 1869 pp._ 402–404; _Medical Times_, _i_ 369–71 (1869). JAMES, JOHN HUTCHISON (son of John James, Wesleyan minister, _d._ 1832). _b._ Macclesfield 1 _Jany._ 1816; Wesleyan M. minister in London 1839–42, 1854–7, 1871–7, in Sheffield 1860–2 and at many other places; D.D.; assist. tutor Hoxton coll. 1838–9; governor of Wesleyan coll. Sheffield 1862–8; sec. of conference 1870 and president 1871; author of A false witness unmasked 1847; A sermon on the Russian war 1854. _d._ suddenly at res. of Bickford Smith, M.P., Trevarno, Helston 26 Sep. 1891. _I.L.N. lix_ 157, 158 (1871), _portrait_. JAMES, SIR JOHN KINGSTON, 1 Baronet (son of Francis James). _b._ 28 April 1784; a wine and West India merchant in Dublin; sheriff of Dublin 1812, alderman 25 June 1817 to 1840, lord mayor 1821–22 and 1840–41; knighted by marquess Wellesley 29 Dec. 1821; cr. a baronet 19 March 1823; a director of bank of Ireland to death; M.R.I.A. _d._ 9 Cavendish row, Rutland sq. Dublin 28 Jany. 1869. _Reg. and mag. of biog._, _i_ 200 (1869). JAMES, JOHN POLGLASE. _b._ 1791; entered Madras army 1806; lieut. col. 45 Madras N.I. 1833; col. 32 Madras N.I. 3 Nov. 1844 to 1853; col. 20 Madras N.I. 1853 to death; commanded Hydrabad subsidiary force 11 Jany. 1848 to 26 Jany. 1852; brigadier general northern division 16 Feb. 1852 to death. _d._ George st. Devonport 5 July 1854. JAMES, MARIA. _b._ Wales 11 Oct. 1793; emigrated to U.S. of America 1803 when she learnt English; lived at domestic service in the Garrison family of Dutchess county, N.Y.; author of Wales and other poems. New York 1839. _d._ Rhinebeck, N.Y. 11 Sep.