Constituency : County of Armagh 1880-85
James captured this longtime Tory seat for the Liberals.
James was a Quaker educated privately and then at a Quaker school in London. His father was a linen merchant and philanthropist who acquired a substantial estate through his second marriage. James travelled widely in America and Russia.
James was elected as a strong supporter of tenant rights. He supported Gladstone's second Irish Land Act.
James left the Commons when his seat was scrapped.
He died in 1921 aged 75.
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