Constituency : Dartmouth 1857-9, Stirling Burghs 1859-65
James was a Scotsman and graduate of Edinburgh University but he originally entered Parliament as representative for Dartmouth. In 1859 he switched to a Scottish seat.
James was an expert on agriculture and wrote the tract British Agriculture 1850-1.
After leaving Parliament in 1865 he was President of the Royal Statistical Society 1880-2 and director of the land department of the Board of Agriculture 1889-91.
He died in 1892 aged 76.
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