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JAMES, PINKSTAN, third son of Robert James MD LRCP, Bruton Street, Hanover Square, London, patentee of fever powders and gout pills, and Anne, sister of John Stephens; b. 11 Jul 1763; at Merchant Taylors’ Sch. 1769-76; adm. 29 Jan 1777; entered Royal Navy; served as Midshipman on HMS Invincible, and on HMS Pegasus in West Indies; MD Edinburgh 12 Sep 1787; LRCP 25 Jun 1799; practised in London; Physician to Parochial Infirmary, Hanover Square; Physician Extraordinary to Prince Regent [check]; m. at Edinburgh 26 Dec 1791 Jean Churnside (IGI), by whom he was father of the novelist G. P. R. James; d. at his son’s house near Evreux, France 14 Jul 1830, aged 64 (sic).

JAMES, PTOLEMY, son of Charles James (KS 1686, qv); b. 19 Oct 1671; adm.; KS 1686; left 1688; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 13 Jun 1688, aged 16, Canoneer Student 9 Jul 1688 – void 1704, expiry year of grace as R. Whatcott from 29 Jan 1703, Tutor 1699; BA 1692; MA 13 Mar 1694/5; ordained; Rector of Whatcote, Warwicks., 3 Nov 1702; Prebendary of St. Paul’s from 4 Jun 1713; Vicar of St. Helen’s, Bishopsgate, London, from 1715 [check : not in Hennessy]; d. 26 Apr 1729.

JAMES, RICHARD, brother of Jonathan James (qv); bapt. All Hallows, Bread Street, London 9 Aug 1730 (IGI); adm. (aged 9) Nov 1739 (Bainbrigg's); KS 1744; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1748, matr. 14 Jun 1748, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1748 – expelled 19 Jun 1750; his expulsion was for “providing entertainment both of dinner and supper for several persons” in celebration of the Pretender’s birthday, for “forcing himself out of the College Gate at a very late hour, by threatening to kill the porter”, and for failing to appear before the Dean and Chapter when cited (see Thompson, Christ Church, 153-4); ordained; Curate, Mortlake, Surrey, in 1765-6; Vicar of Broad Hinton, Wilts., from 1772; d. 16 May 1781.

James, Robert Clabbum Trevenen, brother of Hilary Trevenen James (v); b. 8 Nov. 1917; adm. Sept. 1931 (G); left July 1936; St Edmund Hall Oxf., matric. 1938, but did not graduate; a prep. school master until 1950; market res. A. C. Nielsen Co. 1950, dir. 1959, retd 1977; Countryside Officer Dyfed RDC 1977-82; vol. Warden Pembs Coast National Park 1983-; m. 1st 1 Apr. 1944 Elizabeth Angelika, d. of Leonard Walk, engineer, of Vienna; 2nd 11 Feb. 1961 Kathleen Joan Wynne, d. of Frank William Brindle, municipal accountant, of Oxford; d. 1 Dec. 2008.

JAMES, ROBERT GEORGE GORDON, son of Robert Harcourt James, St. George’s, Hanover Square, London; nephew of Pinkstan James (qv); b.; at school under Carey (name up School, 1804); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 29 Jan 1807, aged 18.

JAMES, ROBERT; b.; at school 1792.

JAMES, SYDNEY JOHN, son of William James, Romford, Essex, and Anna Maria --- (IGI); b. 30 Aug 1812; at Merchant Taylors’ Sch. 1822-3; adm. 5 Feb 1824; Registrar, Mixed British and Portuguese Slave Commission, Jamaica 1843-52; living at Birkenhead, Cheshire 1881 (1881 Census); m. Margaret E. --- (living 1881).

JAMES, THOMAS CHRISTOPHER; b. 16 Dec 1830; adm. (G) 2 Oct 1843; BB 1844.

JAMES, THOMAS, brother of Charles James (qv); bapt. 27 Dec 1642; adm.; a boarder 1656-7 (Busby’s Account Book).

JAMES, THOMAS, son of Thomas James, East Grinstead, Sussex, and Cowden, Kent; bapt. Cowden, Kent 30 Apr 1698 (IGI); adm.; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1712; QS 1713; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1717, adm. pens. 19 Jun 1717, scholar 2 May 1718, matr. 1718; BA 1720/1; MA 1724; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1 Oct 1723, Major Fellow 7 Jul 1724, occasional Tutor 1725; adm. Middle Temple 17 Nov 1715; ordained deacon (Llandaff) 7 Mar 1730/1, priest (Chichester) 14 Mar 1730/1; Rector of Ripe, Sussex 21 Apr 1737-42; Rector of Ashurst, Kent 4 May1740-6; Rector of Waldron, Sussex, from 1742; Vicar of East Grinstead, Sussex, from 25 Nov 1746; d. 10 Jan 1757.