781 Walter James

Constituency : Gateshead  1874-93

Walter  succeeded  Sir  William  Hutt  at  Gateshead. The  James  family  were  lords  of  the  manor  and  philanthropic  in  the  town.

Walter  was  the  son  and  heir  of  Baron  Northborne, a  former  Conservative MP  who  became  a  Peelite  and  was  a  close  friend  of  Gladstone  He  was  educated  at  Oxford.

Walter  opposed  alterations  to  Charterhouse  Schoool  as  "an  act  of  Philistinism  and  Vandalism".

Walter  had  to  resign  his  seat  in  1893  when  he  succeeded  his  father.

He  died  in  1923  aged  76.