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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 Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (/ ˈ b æ r i /; 9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London , where he wrote several successful novels and plays.
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
The first merchant ship that James served onboard was a coastal trading vessel operating out of Bristol, though historian Charles Rathbone Low claimed that by 1738 James, by now at the age of sixteen, had entered into the Royal Navy as a cabin boy. [2] After a few years, James left the navy and became a sea captain, sailing a merchant ship ...
Sir James Wright reached Venice as Resident in mid-September 1766. Shortly, by March 1767, Lord Northington , Lord Chancellor under successive Prime Ministers, showed a wish to exert nepotism on Wright's behalf: [ 44 ] through his mother's sister Jane Huband, Wright was a nephew-by-marriage to Northington. [ 52 ]
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 .
He was born in Edinburgh in 1740 or early in 1741, the son of Alexander Stirling, and his wife Jane Muir, daughter of James Muir of Lochfield in Perthshire.Although sometimes stated as the son of a cloth merchant, more contemporary records state he was the son of a fish merchant standing on the Royal Mile at the head of Marlin's Wynd, now the site of the Tron Kirk.
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.