SIR

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:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

ROBERT

See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

GEORGE

See also:

• GRAHAM, SIR GERALD (1831–1899)
• SIR JAMES ROBERT GEORGE GRAHAM
• GRAHAM, SYLVESTER (1794-1851)
• GRAHAM, THOMAS (1805-1869)

GRAHAM  , Bart . (1792-1861), British statesman, son of a baronet, was born at Naworth, Cumberland, on the 1st of June 1792, and was educated at Westminster and Oxford . Shortly after quitting the university, while making the " grand tour " abroad, he became private secretary to the British minister in Sicily . Returning to England in 1818 he was elected to parliament as member for Hull in the Whig interest; but he was unseated at the election of 1820 . In 1824 he succeeded to the baronetcy; and in 1826 he re-entered parliament as representative for Carlisle, a seat which he soon exchanged for the county of Cumberland . In the same year he published a pamphlet entitled " Corn and Currency," which brought him into prominence as a man of advanced Liberal opinions; and he became one of the most energetic advocates in parliament of the Reform Bill . On the formation of Earl Grey's administration he received the post of first lord of the admiralty, with a seat in the cabinet . From 1832 to 1837 he sat for the eastern division of the county of Cumberland . Dissensions on .the Irish Church question led to his withdrawal from the ministry in 1834, and ultimately to his joining the Conservative party . Rejected by his former constituents in 1837, he was in 1838 elected for Pembroke, and in 1841 for Dorchester . In the latter year he took office under Sir Robert Peel as secretary of state for the home department, a post he retained until 1846 . As home secretary he incurred considerable odium in Scotland, by his unconciliating policy on the church question prior to the " disruption " of 1843; and in 1844 the detention and opening of letters at the post-office by his warrant raised a storm of public indignation, which was hardly allayed by the favourable report of a parliamentary committee of investigation .

From 1846 to 1852 he was out of office; but in the latter year he joined Lord

Aberdeen's cabinet as first lord of the admiralty, in which capacity he acted also for a short. time in the Palmerston ministry of 1855 . The appointment of a select committee of inquiry into the conduct of the Russian war ultimately led to his withdrawal from official life . He continued as a private member to exercise a considerable influence on parliamentary opinion . He died at Netherby, Cumberland, on the 25th of October 1861 . His Life, by C . S . Parker, was published in 1907 .