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Adm. pens. at SIDNEY, June 25, 1779. S. and h. of William James, of Camberwell [and Mary, dau. of the Rev. Richard Venn]. B. July 20, 1759, in St Mary's, Aldermary, London. Schools, Kensington (Mr Elphinstone) and Hackney (Mr H. Newcome). ' Matric. Lent, 1780; Scholar; B.A. 1783; M.A. 1786; C. of Chart-by-Sutton, Kent, 1789. R. of Langley, 1789. R. of St Mary's, Strand, London, 1813- (vacant, 1839). Married, Nov. 7, 1782, Eleanor, dau. of Richard Bardwell, of Beccles, Suffolk, and had issue. Died May 12, 1839. Father of Philip V. (next). (Cant. Act Bk.; J. Venn, Annals of a Clerical Family; G. Mag., 1838, II. 6; Foster, Index Eccles.)