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The late Sir W. M. James, Judge of the Court of Appeal, 1881. Creator: Unknown.
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The late Sir W. M. James, Judge of the Court of Appeal, 1881. 'Sir William Milbourne James was the son of Christopher James, Esq., of Swansea, by Anne, daughter of Mr. Williams, of Merthyr Tydvil. He was born in 1807, was educated at the University of Glasgow, was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in June, 1831; appointed a Queen's Counsel, 1853; married, in 1840, Maria, daughter of the late Right Rev. Dr. Otter, Bishop of Chichester; was Vice-Chancellor of County Palatine of Lancaster from January, 1853, to January, 1869, when he became one of the Vice- Chancellors of England, and was on that occasion knighted; was appointed a judge of the Court of Appeal in Chancery (now of the High Court of Judicature) in June, 1870, and was then added to the Privy Council. Sir William James is described in a letter recently published by Sir Laurence Peel, formerly Chief Justice of Calcutta, and a judicial member of the Privy Council, as one of the best of many great Judges who have sat on the Bench in his time. At the sitting of the Court of Appeal, on Tuesday, the Lord Chief Justice and Mr. Baron Bramwell spoke of the deceased Judge in the highest terms of esteem, and so did the Master of the Rolls, in the Chancery Division'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.
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