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. 1864. d. 57 Conduit st. Regent st. London 17 March 1860. G. Macpherson’s Memoirs of life of A. Jameson (1878), portrait; Winter studies by Mrs. Jameson 3 vols. (1838); B. R. Parkes’ Vignettes (1866) 441–8; I.L.N. xxxvi 300, 309 (1860), portrait; Martineau’s Biog. sketches 4 ed. (1876) 429–36; Powell’s Pictures of living authors (1851) 165–77.
JAMESON, Francis James (2 son of Robert Francis Jameson, barrister I.T. 1815, judge at Havannah 1819). b. Hampstead 13 Sep. 1828; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., 6 wrangler and B.A. 1850, M.A. 1853; fellow of Caius March 1852; fellow and tutor of St. Cath. coll. June 1855–62; C. of St. Sepulchre’s, Camb. 1852–62; pro-proctor at Camb. 1858–9, select preacher 1862; R. of Coton near Camb. 1862 to death; author of The principles of the solutions of Senate-house riders, Camb. 1851; The analogy between the miracles and doctrines of scripture: Norrisian prize essay 1852. d. Bournemouth 6 Feb. 1869. Correspondence between the vice chancellor and the pro-proctors G. Williams and F. J. Jameson (1859); F. J. Jameson’s Heaven’s whisper in the storm (1869), Memoir pp. ix–xx.
JAMESON, Sir George Inglis. Entered Bombay army 1819; lieut. col. 3 European regiment 17 Sep. 1855 to 29 Sep. 1860; colonel 30 Bombay N.I. 29 Sep. 1860 to 1863; col. 23 N.I. 1863–9; M.G. 15 June 1862; K.C.S.I. 20 May 1871. d. Heathville, 1 Vanbrugh park road east, Blackheath 24 Oct. 1871.