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See also:WHARNCLIFFE, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES See also:ARCHIBALD See also:STUART-WORTLEYMACKENZIE, 1ST See also:BARON (1776–1845), See also:English statesman, was the son of See also:Colonel Stuart, son of the 3rd See also:earl of See also:Bute and of his wife See also:Mary Wortley-See also:Montagu (Baroness Mountstuart in her own right), as whose See also:heir Colonel Stuart added the name of Wortley, taking later also that of See also:Mackenzie (which his son in later See also:life discarded) as heir to his See also:uncle J. S. Mackenzie of Rosehaugh. He entered the See also:army, becoming colonel in 1797, but retired in 18or and devoted himself to politics, sitting in See also:parliament as a Tory for Bossiney in See also:Cornwall till 1818, when he was returned for See also:Yorkshire. His attitude on various questions became gradually more Liberal, and his support of See also:Catholic emancipation lost him his seat in 1826. He was then raised to the See also:peerage as Baron Wharncliffe of Wortley, a recognition both of his previous See also:parliamentary activity and of his high position among the See also:country gentlemen. At first opposing the Reform See also:Bill, he gradually came to see the undesirability of a popular conflict, and he separated himself from the Tories and took an important See also:part in modifying the attitude of the peers and helping to pass the bill, though his attempts at See also:amendment only resulted in his pleasing neither party. He became See also:lord privy See also:seal in See also:Peel's See also:short See also:ministry at the end of 1834, and again joined him in 1841 as lord See also:president of the See also:council. In 1837 he brought out an edition of the writings of his ancestress, See also:Lady Mary Wortley-Montagu (new ed. 1893).
On his See also:death in 1845 he was succeeded as 2nd baron by his eldest son, See also:John Stuart-Wortley (1801–1855), whose son See also:Edward, 3rd
baron (1827–1899), best known as chairman of the See also:Manchester, See also:Lincoln & See also:Sheffield railway, converted under him into the See also:Great Central, was created 1st earl of Wharncliffe and See also:Viscount Carlton in 1876; his name was prominently identified with railway enterprise, and became attached to certain features of its nomen-
clature. He was succeeded as end earl by his See also:nephew See also:Francis (b. 1856).
Among other members of the See also:family, several of whom distinguished themselves in See also:law, politics, See also:art and the army, may be mentioned the 1st baron's third son, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley (1805--1881), See also:recorder of See also:London and See also:solicitor-See also:general; his son, C. B. Stuart-Wortley, K.C. (b. 1851), became well known
in parliament as under-secretary for the See also:home See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office (1885, and 1886–1892) and See also:deputy-chairman of committees.
End of Article: WHARNCLIFFE, JAMES ARCHIBALD
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