GRAHAM, SIR JAMES ROBERT GEORGE, BART., eldest son of Sir James Graham, Bart. MP, Netherby, Cumberland, and Lady Catherine Stewart, sister of George Stewart, 8th Earl of Galloway (S) (qv); grandson of Robert Graham (qv); b. 1 Jun 1792; adm.; left 1809; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 8 Jun 1810; continental tour 1812-5; MP Hull 1818-20, St. Ives 1820 – Mar 1821, Carlisle 1826- Jan 1829, Cumberland 16 Jan 1829-32, East Cumberland 1832-7, Pembroke District 30 Feb 1838-41, Dorchester 1841-7, Ripon 1847-52, Carlisle from 1852; succ. father as 2nd baronet 13 Apr 1824; First Lord of the Admiralty 25 Nov 1830 – Jun 1834, when he resigned owing to his opposition to the Whig government’s policy on the Irish Church; Privy Councillor 22 Nov 1830; Home Secretary 6 Sep 1841 – Jul 1846; First Lord of the Admiralty 30 Dec 1852 – Mar 1855; FRS 22 Dec 1831; LLD Cambridge 1835; Rector, Glasgow University 1838-40; GCB 15 Apr 1854; DL JP Cumberland; as a politician sat as a Whig in House of Commons to 1834; one of the committee of four which prepared the first Reform Bill 1830; after a short period of independence, crossed the floor of the house to join Conservatives Jun 1835; followed Sir Robert Peel in 1846 and his subsequent political career was initially as a Peelite, then as a Liberal; a highly unpopular Home Secretary, and his tampering with the letters of foreign refugees in 1844 caused general indignation; author, Corn and Currency 1826; m. 8 Jul 1819 Fanny, youngest dau. of Col. James Callander (afterwards Campbell), Craigforth, Stirlingshire; d. 25 Oct 1861. DNB.
GRAHAM, JAMES WILLIAM, son of Joseph Graham, London, and Johanna Lomax, Sleaford, Lincs.; b. 16 Jul 1785; adm.; KS 1799; Cadet, EICS Bombay 1800; Ensign, 6th Bombay Native Infantry 22 May 1801; Lieut., 18 Dec 1803; Capt., 8 Jan 1816; 12th Bombay Native Infantry 5 Jun 1817; interpreter and translator, Supreme Court of Justice, Bombay; Maj., 12th Bombay Native Infantry 1 May 1826 – 21 Nov 1828, cashiered in India; returned to England; d. 22 Jun 1849.
GRAHAM, JOHN, eldest son of John Smith Graham, Bernard Street, Bloomsbury, London, and Anne Elliott (IGI); b. 12 Dec 1812; adm. 10 Jan 1825 (Stelfox's); Wadham Coll. Oxford, matr. 27 Oct 1831; Newdigate Prize for English Verse 1833; migr. to New Inn Hall; BA 1837; ordained deacon (London) 12 Jun 1840, priest 6 Jun 1841; Curate, St. John’s, Hackney; his poem on Staffa, written for the Newdigate Prize in 1832, when he was defeated by Roundell Palmer (afterwards Earl of Selborne) was published in Blackwood’s Magazine, 1832; d. 28 Nov 1845.
GRAHAM, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 11) Apr 1739 (in school lists 1739-40 as “Grimes”).
GRAHAM, JOHN; b.; adm. 24 Oct 1790 (Clapham); at school 1793; in school lists 1795, 1797; left Mich. 1799.
Graham, Roderic Arthur, brother of Stuart Douglas Graham (q.v.); b. July 2, 1891; adm. Jan. 18, 1906 (G); left Easter 1910; R. M.C. Sandhurst 1910-1; 2nd Lieut. unattached Sept. 6, 1911, Indian Army Nov. 4, 1912; Lieut. 31st Punjabis Dec. 6, 1913; Capt. Sept. 6, 1915; served in France 1914-5, Egypt 1916, Mesopotamia 1916-8, and Salonika 1918; mentioned in despatches; Major Sept. 6, 1928; retired, and re-employed in Great War II with local rank of Lieut.-Col. as Commandant Indian State Forces Training School; O.B.E. June 13, 1946; d. 12 Oct. 1964.
Graham, Stuart Douglas, second son of Major William Bannatyne Graham, of the Manchester Regt., by Mary Beatrice, daughter of the Rev. Edward Halifax Hansell, Rector of East Ilsley, Berks; b. Feb. 18, 1890; adm. Sept. 24, 1903 (H); migrated up Grant's; left July 1908; R.M.A. Woolwich 1909; 2nd Lieut. R. A. July 23, 1910; Lieut. July 23, 1913; Capt. July 23, 1916; acting Major Dec. 30, 1916; served in Great War I 1914-9, on the staff on the western front and in Greek Macedonia, etc.; mentioned in despatches L. G. Jan. 1, 1916, and May 21, 1918; M.C. Jan. 1, 1916; p. s. c.; staff Capt. at the War Office 1926-8; Major May 1, 1927; Ede. Major, Aldershot, 1928-30, and in India 1934; Lieut.-Col. Jan. 1, 1937; Col. Jan. 9, 1939; Brigadier; wounded 1940; M.I. 11, War Office, 1941-3; chairman, Inter-Services Security Board; retired May 1946; Jurat of the Royal Court, Jersey, 1955-60; m. July 11, 1916, Marjorie Helen, elder daughter of George Harry Le Maistre, of London; d. 15 Dec. 1980.
GRAHAM, T.; b.; in school list 1797.