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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.
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 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
Sir James Gibson-Craig, 1st Baronet (1765–1850) was a Scottish lawyer and government official. In politics he was a Foxite Whig. [1] In early life he was known as James Gibson of Ingleston. He was created a baronet in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1831.
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.
James Modyford, younger brother of Sir Thomas Modyford, was, as a youth, at Constantinople in the service of the Turkey Company. [a] Afterwards he appears to have been settled at Chelsea as a merchant, and under the Commonwealth was employed in Ireland, presumably through the interest of his cousin George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle.
Lieutenant-General Sir James Campbell, 1st Baronet GCH (25 May 1763 – 5 June 1819) was a British Army officer, politician and colonial administrator. He was Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Ionian Islands , Adjutant-General to the British Forces and Heritable Usher of the White Rod for Scotland .
James was born in Port Glasgow, Scotland, the son of William Todd Lithgow; in the same year his parents moved to Langbank.His father was a partner in the shipbuilding firm of Russell & Co. and James was educated along with his brother Henry Lithgow, at first privately at home then at the Glasgow Academy before the two were apprenticed in the shipbuilding industry.