Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford
- Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford
Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford PC, QC (30 October 1828 – 18 August 1911), was an Anglo-Welsh lawyer and statesman.
Life
He was the son of Philip Turner James, a surgeon from Hereford. His father's family was descended from the Gwynnes of Glanbran, Carmarthenshire, described in the nineteenth century as "one of the oldest in the Empire." His grandfather, Gwynne James, was also a surgeon, while his great-grandfather, another Gwynne James, was an apothecary.[ [Anon.] (1911) " [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Henry_James,_1st_baron_James_of_Hereford Henry_James,_1st_baron_James of Hereford] ", "Encyclopaedia Britannica"] ]He was educated at Cheltenham College. A prizeman of the Inner Temple, he was called to the bar in 1852 and joined the Oxford circuit, where he soon established a notable reputation. In 1867 he was made postman of the Exchequer of pleas, and in 1869 became a Queen's Counsel.
At the United Kingdom general election, 1868 he won a seat in parliament for Taunton as a Liberal, by the beating Edward William Cox after an election petition heard in March 1869. He held the seat until 1885, when he was returned for Bury. He attracted attention in parliament by his speeches in 1872 in the debates on the Judicature Act.
In the September of 1873 he was made Solicitor General, and, in November, Attorney General and was knighted. When William Gladstone returned to power as prime minister in 1880 James resumed his office. He was responsible for introducing the Corrupt Practices Act 1883 and guiding it through parliament.
On Gladstone's conversion to Irish Home Rule, Sir Henry James distanced himself from him and became one of the most influential of the Liberal Unionists. Gladstone had offered him the Lord Chancellorship in 1886, but he declined it and the knowledge of the sacrifice he had made in refusing to follow his old chief in his new departure lent great weight to his advocacy of the Unionist cause in the country. He was one of the leading counsel for "The Times" before the Parnell Commission, and from 1892 to 1895 was Attorney General to the Prince of Wales. From 1895 to 1902 he was a member of the Unionist ministry as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and in 1895 he was made a peer as Baron James of Hereford. In later years he was a prominent opponent of the Tariff Reform movement, adhering to the section of Free Trade Unionists.
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