JAMES

See also:

• JAMES MACDONELL (1841-1879)

MACDONELL (1841-1879)  , British journalist, was born at Dyce, Aberdeenshire . In 1858, after his father's death, he became clerk in a merchant's office . He began writing in the Aberdeen Free Press; in 1862 he was appointed to the staff of the Daily Review at Edinburgh, and at twenty-two he became editor of the Northern Daily Express . In 1865 he went to London to accept a position on the staff of the Daily Telegraph, which he retained until 1875, being special correspondent in France in 187o and 1871 . In 1873 he became a leader-writer on The Times . He died in London on the 2nd of March 1879 . His posthumous France since the First Empire, though incomplete, gave a clever and accurate account of the French politics of his time .