Walter James, 1st Baron Northbourne

Walter Charles James, 1st Baron Northbourne (3 June 1816 – 4 February 1893), known as Sir Walter James, 2nd Baronet, from 1829 to 1884, was a British Member of Parliament.

For other people named Walter James, see Walter James (disambiguation).

James was the son of John James, Minister Plenipotentiary to the Netherlands, and grandson of Sir Walter James, 1st Baronet. He succeeded his grandfather in the baronetcy in 1829 and in 1837 he was elected to the House of Commons for Kingston upon Hull as a Tory, a seat he held until 1847. He acquired Betteshanger House in Kent in 1850 and commissioned George Devey to oversee extensions and alterations to the house.

He served as High Sheriff of Kent for 1855.[1] He was a friend of William Ewart Gladstone and in 1884, during Gladstone's second term as Prime Minister, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Northbourne, of Betteshanger in the County of Kent.[2] From at least 1882 James was the lord of the manor of Langdon.[3]

Lord Northbourne married Sarah Caroline, daughter of Cuthbert Ellison, in 1841. She died in 1890. Lord Northbourne survived her by three years and died in February 1893, aged 76. He was succeeded in his titles by his son Walter.

Ancestry

References
  1. "No. 21660". The London Gazette. 9 February 1855. p. 470.
  2. "No. 25411". The London Gazette. 4 November 1884. p. 4753.
  3. Kelly's Directory of Kent 1882, pp. 306, 307
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
William Hutt
Thomas Perronet Thompson		 Member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull
1837–1847
With: William Wilberforce 1837–1838
William Hutt 1838–1841
Sir John Hanmer 1841–1847		 Succeeded by
Matthew Talbot Baines
James Clay
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baron Northbourne
1884–1893		 Succeeded by
Walter Henry James
Baronetage of Great Britain
Preceded by
Walter James		 Baronet
(of Langley Hall)
1829–1893		 Succeeded by
Walter Henry James

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