BART

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• SIR

SIR

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• 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

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• EMERSON, RALPH WALDO (1803-1882)
• EMERSON, WILLIAM (1701-1782)

EMERSON

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• BART SIR JAMES EMERSON TENNENT

TENNENT  . (1804-1869), English politician and traveller, the third son of William Emerson, a merchant of Belfast, was born there on the 7th of April 1804 . He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, of which he afterwards became LL.D . He took up the cause of Greek independence, and travelled in Greece, publishing a Picture of Greece (1826), Letters from the Aegean (1829), and a History of Modern Greece (183o) ; and he was called to the English bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1831 . In this year he married the daughter and co-heiress (with her cousin, Robert James Tennent, M.P. for Belfast, 1848–52) of William Tennent, a wealthy merchant at Belfast, who died of cholera in 1832, and he adopted by royal licence the name of his wife in addition to his own . He entered parliament in 1832 as member for Belfast . In 1841 he became secretary to the India Board, and in 1845 he was knighted and appointed colonial secretary of Ceylon, where he remained till 185o . The result of his residence there appeared in Christianity in Ceylon (1850) and Ceylon, Physical, Historical and Topographical (2 vols., 1859) . On his return, he became member for Lisburn, and under Lord Derby was secretary to the Poor Law Board in 1852 . From 1852 till 1867 he was permanent secretary to the Board of Trade, and on his retirement he received a baronetcy from Lord Palmerston . In his early years his political views had a Radical tinge, and, although he subsequently joined the Tories, his Conservatism was of a mild type . He withdrew from the Whigs along with Lord Stanley and Sir James Graham, and afterwards adhered to Peel .

He died in

London on the 6th of March 1869 . His family consisted of two daughters and a son, Sir William Emerson Tennent, and baronet (1835–1876), who was an official in the Board of Trade, and at whose death the baronetcy be-came extinct . Besides the books above mentioned, Emerson Tennent wrote Belgium in 1840 (1841), and Wine; its Duties and Taxation (1855), and was a contributor to magazines and a frequent correspondent of Notes and Queries . (H .