James, G. P. R., historical novelist, born in London; wrote as many as a hundred novels, beginning with “Richelieu” in 1829, which brought him popularity, profit, and honour; was burlesqued by Thackeray (1801‒1860).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
James, Epistle of * James, Sir Henry