3-053-484 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Mr. Henry James, Q.C., M.P. for Taunton, the new Solicitor-General, 1873. 'Mr. Henry James, Q.C., who was lately re-elected M.P. for Taunton, after his appointment as the successor of Sir George Jessel in the office of her Majesty's Solicitor-General, is the youngest son of Mr. Philip Turner James, of Hereford, by Frances Gertrude, third daughter of Mr. John Bodenham, of the Grove, Presteign, Radnorshire. He was born at Hereford, in the year 1820, and was educated at Cheltenham College. He was called to the Bar in the Middle Temple in Hilary Term, 1852, and went the Oxford Circuit. Ha had already distinguished himself in the legal profession, having been Lecturer's prizeman at the Inner Temple in 1850, and again in 1851. Mr. James was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1869, in the early part of which year he obtained a seat in Parliament as one of the members for Taunton, unseating, on a scrutiny, his opponent, Mr. Serjeant Cox, who had been returned at the general election of the previous December. In 1867 he was nominated to the ancient office of "Postman of the Court of Exchequer".' From "Illustrated London News", 1873.