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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
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 ...
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.
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.
Born James Gibson he was the second son of William Gibson, an Edinburgh merchant. [2] His mother was Mary Cecilia Balfour, daughter of James Balfour of Pilrig. [1] Gibson was educated at Edinburgh High School, and became a Writer to the Signet in 1786. [1] He was a partner in the law firm Craig, Dalziel & Brodie. [2]
A student of Christ Church from 1854 to 1861, Ramsay left upon marriage and was called to the bar in 1863 but likely never practised. [2] After examining modern history and law papers at the University of Oxford in the late 1860s, he decided to produce his own history of England, financially enabled when he succeeded to his father's title and estates in 1871, [2] which would comprise 13,872 ...
Outram Hall, named after Sir James Outram, is located across from the popular Murrays Bay beach on Auckland's North Shore in New Zealand. Outram Street, Ripley, Derbyshire , United Kingdom, is a street in the neighbouring Village to where Sir James Outram was born, named in 1861 to honour his legacy.