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| | Portrait of Sir Henry James, first Lord James |
 | | Description: Lord James of Hereford 1828-1911, lawyer and statesman, born at Hereford on 30 Oct. 1828, was third and youngest son of Philip Turner James, surgeon, of Hereford, by his wife Frances Gertrude, daughter of John Bodenham of The Grove, Presteign, Radnorshire. |
 | | From 1892 to 1895 he acted as attorney-general of the Duchy of Cornwall to King Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, with whom he had formed a close intimacy. |
 | | He died on 18 Aug. l911 at Kingswood Warren near Epsom He was unmarried, and the peerage became extinct at his death..A fund in his memory for the endowment of Cheltenham College was inaugurated in July 1912. |
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