A Naval Biographical Dictionary/James, Henry
JAMES. (Lieut., 1829. f-p., 20; h-p., 15.)
Henry James was born 1 Aug. 1799.
This officer entered the Navy, 14 July, 1812, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Pompée 74, Capt. Sir Jas. Athol Wood, with whom he served in the Mediterranean until 1815, latterly as Midshipman. He then successively joined the Berwick and Impregnable, flag-ships of Sir John Thos. Duckworth at Plymouth, where he was further employed under the orders of Lord Exmouth, inclusive of a short period passed in the Fox and Wolf cutters, until 1818. The next four years were spent by Mr. James again in the Mediterranean, on board the Révolutionnaire 46, Capt. Hon. Sir Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew. In 1822 he proceeded to the Brazils and Pacific in the Tartar 42, Capt. Thos. Brown; and on his return in that frigate to Rio de Janeiro he removed to the flag-ship of the Commander-in-Chief, Sir Geo. Eyre. On his arrival in England in 1826 Mr. James made a trip to Lisbon with Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy. In July, 1827, he joined the Victory 104, lying at Portsmouth, whence he soon sailed, in the Fairy sloop, for the West Indies, and was there, it appears, transferred to the Skipjack schooner. On 3 July, 1829, being at the time in the Barham 50, the flag-ship on the latter station of Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming, he was promoted to a Lieutenancy in the Harlequin 18. He came home in the course of the same year in the Druid 46; and he was lastly appointed, 7 Oct. 1834, as Additional-Lieutenant, to the Winchester 52, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Thos. Bladen Capel, and, 7 July, 1835, to the Wolf 18, Capt. Edw. Stanley, both on the East India station. He invalided home in 1838 on board the Zebra sloop. Lieut. James married, 27 Aug. 1833, Mary, daughter of the late Thos. Ridley, Esq., of Chester Square, London, by whom he has issue three children.