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Lieutenant-General Sir James Erskine, 3rd Baronet (30 September 1772 – 3 March 1825) was a British Army officer who served through the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, briefly commanding a brigade during the Peninsular War. Joining the army in 1788, Erskine was promoted quickly and in 1794 became a lieutenant-colonel.
Sir James Hamlyn Williams, 3rd Baronet (25 November 1790 – 10 October 1861) was a Welsh politician. Hamlyn Williams was educated at Winchester College. He had houses at Edwinsford in Carmarthenshire, and Clovelly Court in Devon. He served as a major in the 7th Queen's Own Hussars in the Peninsular War.
There have been four baronetcies created for persons with the surname James, one in the Baronetage of England, two in the Baronetage of Great Britain and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. James baronets of Creshall (1682) James baronets of Park Farm Place, Eltham (1778) James baronetcy of Langley Hall (1791): see Baron Northbourne
Sir James Hall of Dunglass, 4th Baronet FRS FRSE (17 January 1761 – 23 June 1832) was a Scottish geologist and geophysicist. He was a Member of Parliament for St. Michael's borough ( Mitchell , Cornwall) 1807–1812.
Sir James Wright, 1st Baronet (c. 1730 – 8 March 1804) was an English diplomat and art collector who served as the Minister Resident of Great Britain to Venice from 1766 to 1774. [ 1 ] Background
James Anderson was the eldest son of John Anderson, the founder of Fermoy, by his second wife, Elizabeth, the only daughter of Mr. James Semple, of Waterford.He was created a baronet on 22 March 1813, of Fermoy in the County of Cork, [2] [1] for the great public services rendered to Ireland by his father.
Rae reluctantly gave the names of Sir William Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet and James Wedderburn; with Rae they had subscribed to a bond to pay for any debts of the Beacon. [18] For the Edinburghshire constituency, before the reform of 1832, Gibson-Craig and his group supported Sir George Clerk, 6th Baronet as Member of Parliament.
Sir James Harington (1542–1614) of Ridlington, Rutland, was an English politician. He was the third son of Sir James Harington of Exton, Rutland and Lucy Sidney of Penshurst [ 1 ] and educated at Shrewsbury School and Christ's College, Cambridge .