Modern English biography

Female poets of America, Stoddard’s ed._ (1874) _pp._ 66–8. JAMES, PAUL MOON. _b._ Exeter 1780; manager of Galton’s bank at Birmingham, afterwards a partner; manager of the Birmingham banking company 1829; managing director of Manchester and Salford bank 10 Mosley st. Manchester, Aug. 1836 to death; author of Poems 1821. _d._ Summerville, Pendleton 13 July 1854. _R. W. Procter’s Memorials of bygone Manchester_ (1880) 12–20. JAMES, THOMAS (eld. son of rev. Thomas James, preb. of Worcester, _d._ 1804). _b._ 1781 or 1782; barrister G.I. 23 Nov. 1810, bencher 1834 to death; practised as conveyancer. _d._ 21 Burton crescent, London 5 Oct. 1853. JAMES, THOMAS (2 son of Thomas James of Croydon). _b._ Croydon, Feb. 1809; ed. at Eton, univ. of Glasgow and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; assist. master Charterhouse 1832; chap. to Bp. of Peterborough; V. of Sibbertoft, Northamptonshire 23 May 1838 to death; V. of Theddingworth, Leics. 1842 to death; hon. canon of Peterborough, Sep. 1852 to death; rural dean Dec. 1853 to death; author of Æsop’s Fables, a new version 1848, 3 ed. 1858; The history and antiquities of Northamptonshire 1864. _d._ Theddingworth 18 Oct. 1863. JAMES, THOMAS SMITH (son of rev. John Angell James 1785–1859). _b._ 1809; solicitor in Birmingham 1831 to death; edited a collected edition of his Father’s works 17 vols. 1860–4; author of The history of the litigation and legislation respecting Presbyterian chapels and charities in England and Ireland 1867, with an Addendum [1868]. _d._ Hagley road, Edgbaston 3 Feb. 1874. JAMES, WILLIAM (son of William Evans James 1763–95). _b._ Liverpool 29 March 1791; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816; contested Carlisle 1820 and 1826; M.P. Carlisle 1820–26, 1831–35, the 1820 election cost him £13,000; sheriff of Cumberland 1827; M.P. East Cumberland 1836–47; opposed the grant of £50,000 for coronation of George IV. 1821. _d._ Barrock park near Carlisle 4 May 1861. _Saunders’ Portraits of reformers_ (1840) 154–6, _portrait_; _Bean’s Representation of six northern counties_ (1890) 39–45. JAMES, WILLIAM HENRY (eldest son of Wm. James, railway projector 1771–1837). _b._ Henley-in-Arden, March 1796; assisted his father in survey of Liverpool and Manchester railway; an engineer in Birmingham; took out patents for locomotives, steam engines, railway carriages, diving apparatus, &c. _d._ Dulwich college almshouses 16 Dec. 1873. JAMES, SIR WILLIAM MILBOURNE (2 son of Christopher James of Swansea). _b._ Merthyr-Tydvil, Glamorganshire 29 June 1807; ed. at univ. of Glasgow, M.A. 1828, hon. D.C.L. 1873; barrister L.I. 10 June 1831, bencher 15 April 1853 to death, treasurer 1873–4; vice chancellor of county palatine of Lancaster at Liverpool 4 Jany. 1853 to 6 Jany. 1869; Q.C. Feb. 1853; contested Derby 30 April 1859; counsel for Bishop of Natal 1864; leading counsel for plaintiff in spiritualist case of Lyon v. Home 1868; vice chancellor 11 Jany. 1869 to 2 July 1870; knighted at Osborne 4 Feb. 1869; lord justice of appeal 4 July 1870 to death; P.C. 6 July 1870; arbitrator under European Assurance society arbitration acts 1872 and 1873, 20 Jany. 1875; author of The British in India 1882. _d._ 47 Wimpole st. London 7 June 1881. _A generation of judges by their reporter_ (1886) 95–111; _Red Dragon_, _i_ 483–93 (1882), _portrait_; _I.L.N. liv_ 304 (1869), _portrait_. JAMES, WILLIAM POWELL (1 son of rev. Wm. Henry James). _b._ 1837; ed. at Oriel coll. Oxf., scholar 1854–8; B.A. 1858, M.A. 1862; author of King Alfred surveying Oxford at the present time: Newdigate prize poem 1856; Scenes from Plautus, with notes 1879; Guesses at purpose in nature, with especial reference to plants 1882; From source to sea, or gleanings about rivers in many fields 1884. _d._ 1885. JAMES, WILLIAM WITHALL (eld. son of John Haddy James 1788–1869). _b._ Exeter 1823; studied King’s coll. London; M.R.C.S. 1844, F.R.C.S. 1848; L.S.A. 1845; in practice at Exeter 1846 to death; surgeon Devon and Exeter hospital 1858 to death, to which he left £2000, the interest to be divided among its four surgeons; fellow Med. Chir. soc. _d._ Exmouth 17 March 1865. _Proc. Med. and Chir. Soc. iv._ 148–9, 156–9 (1865). JAMESON, ANDREW (son of Andrew Jameson, sheriff substitute of Fifeshire). _b._ 1811; called to Scotch bar 1835; sheriff substitute of Ayrshire 1843–5; sheriff substitute of Midlothian 1845–65; sheriff of Aberdeen 6 Nov. 1865 to death; reported on the laws of Malta and framed a civil and criminal code for that island 1854. _d._ Edinburgh 30 Oct. 1870. _Journal of jurisprudence_, _xv_ 666–8 (1870); _Law magazine and review_, _xxx_ 345–47 (1871). JAMESON, ANNA BROWNELL (eld. dau. of Dudley Brownell Murphy, miniature painter, _d._ March 1842). _b._ Dublin 19 May 1794; governess to children of marquess of Winchester 1810–14, to children of E. J. W. Littleton afterwards lord Hatherton 1821–5. (_m._ 1825 Robert Sympson Jameson, barrister of M.T. 28 Nov. 1823, vice chancellor of Upper Canada 1837, _d._ Toronto 1 Aug. 1854); resided in Germany 1833–6, 1845 etc.; lived with her husband in Canada, Sep. 1836 to March 1838; great friend of lady Byron from 1846, disagreed with her about 1853; resided in Italy 1847 etc. studying art; granted civil list pension of £100 Aug. 30, 1851; her friends gave her an annuity of £100, 1854; author of The Diary of an Ennuyée. By A Lady 1826; Companion to the private galleries of art in London 1842; Memoirs of the early Italian painters 2 vols. 1845, 4 ed. 1868; Sacred and legendary art 2 vols. 1848, 3 ed. 1857; Legends of the monastic orders as represented in the fine arts 1850, 2 ed. 1852; Legends of the Madonna 1852, 2 ed. 1857; The history of our Lord and of his life as exemplified in works of art 2 vols.