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James, Benjamin Fuller; second son of John Haddy James FRCS, Exeter, Devon, surgeon, Mayor of Exeter, previously Assistant Surgeon, 1st Life Guards, and Elizabeth Withall, Sowden Cottage, Lympstone, Devon ; bapt.Exeter Cathedral 12 Jan 1825 (IGI) ; ed. school in Exeter ; Exeter Coll.Oxford, matr. 11 Nov 1841, aged 17, scholar 1842 ; BA 1846 ; MA 1848 ; ordained priest 3 Jun 1849 (London) ; Assistant Master (Classics) 1847 – Dec 1884 ; House Master, 1 Little Dean’s Yard (Rigaud’s) 1850 – Dec 1884 ; “he did his work in school carefully, but without much energy, and as though he had but little heart in it” (Markham, Recollections, 1903, 29), but, according to E.F.Knight (qv), “Mr.James, “Jimmy” …was loved and respected by all the boys under him” ; P.G.L.Webb (qv) described him as “delightfully bluff, breezy, human, and accessible, and he had no pretentions or pose” ; “Jimmie, the ‘Old Man’, then nearing the end of his labours and a martyr to lumbago ; a scholar and a gentleman of the old type, full of a quaint and kindly humour which he exercised in chaffing the boys with Greek jokes” (Lionel James, (qv)) ; benefactor ; m. 13 Aug 1862 Eloisa Mary Angela, only dau. of Francis Heald, Puerto de Santa Maria, Xeres, Spain, sherry wine merchant ; d. 29 Jan 1892. Father of Francis Fuller James (qv).
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.