Constituency : Greenock 1868-78
James replaced Alexander Dunlop at Greenock.
James was educated in Scotland and was a senior partner in a mercantile firm through his mother. He was a shipowner. In 1868 he gave free passage back home to the survivors from a group of young stowaways who had been brutally abandoned on an ice field in Newfoundland by a Scottish captain.
James was a local benefactor. He was a leading promoter of the Greenock and Ayrshire railway and he helped develop the port and the water supply.
James was elected unopposed in 1874. James retired and relinquished his seat in 1878.
He died in 1891 aged 81.
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