Constituency : Huddersfield 1895-1906
James recovered Huddersfield from the Tories after a by-election defeat in 1893.
James was knighted in the same year as he was elected.
James stood down in 1906 shortly after his re-election but remained a public servant. He was a Railway and Canal Traffic Commissioner from 1906 until his death and chaired the Losses Under Defence of the Realm Commission from 1915.
James was elevated to the peerage as Baron Terrington in 1918.
He died in 1921 aged 68.
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