See also: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:STANSFELD (182o-1898)
, See also:English politician, was See also:born at Moorlands, See also:Halifax, on the 5th of See also:October 182o, the son of 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:Stansfeld, a See also:county-See also:court See also:judge
.
Educated at University See also:College, See also:London, he was called to the See also:bar in 1849
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In 1847 he was introduced through his See also:father-in-See also:law, W
.
H
.
Ashurst, to Mazzini, with whom he formed a See also:close friendship
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In 1859 he was returned to See also:parliament as See also:Radical member for Halifax, which See also:town he continued to represent for over See also:thirty-six years
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He voted consistently on the Radical See also:side, but his See also:chief energies were devoted to promoting the cause of See also:Italian unity
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He was selected by See also:Garibaldi as his adviser when the Italian patriot visited See also:England in 1862
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In 1863 he moved in the See also:House of See also:Commons a See also:resolution of sympathy with the Poles, and two months later was made a junior See also:lord of the See also:admiralty
.
In 1864, as the result of charges made against him by the See also:French authorities, in connexion with See also:Greco's cdnspiracy against See also:Napoleon III., Disraeli, in the House of Commons, accused him of being " in See also:correspondence with the assassins of See also:Europe." Stansfeld was vigorously defended by See also:Bright and See also:Forster, and his explanation was accepted as quite satisfactory by See also:Palmerston
.
Nevertheless he only escaped a See also:vote of censure by ten votes, and accordingly resigned 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
.
In 1865 he was re-elected for Halifax, and in 1866 became under-secretary of See also:state for See also:India
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In the first See also:Gladstone See also:administration he held a variety of public offices, finally becoming, in 1871, the first See also:president of the See also:local See also:government See also:board
.
The See also:remainder of his See also:life was mainly spent in endeavouring to secure the See also:repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts, and in 1886 this See also:object was attained
.
In the same See also:year Stansfeld again became president of the local government board
.
He died on the 17th of See also:February 1898
.
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