H. E. M. James

Sir Henry Evan Murchison James KCIE CSI (20 January 1846 – 20 August 1923) was a British civil servant in the Indian Civil Service from 1865 to 1900.[1][2]

Sir
H. E. M. James
KCIE CSI
James in 1919
Commissioner in Sind
In office
1891–1900
Preceded byArthur Charles Trevor
Succeeded byRobert Giles
Personal details
Born
Henry Evan Murchison James

(1846-01-20)20 January 1846
Cumberland, England
Died20 August 1923(1923-08-20) (aged 77)
London, England

He was the Commissioner in Sind from 1891 to 1900.[3]

Official duties

He formally opened Dayaram Jethmal Sind College on 15 October 1893 in Karachi.[4]

After stepping down as commissioner, he was knighted as a knight commander of the Order of the Indian Empirein the 1901 New Year Honours List.[5]

Travel to China

In 1886–1887, James used a two-year leave to travel to China. Together with two younger Britons, the officer Francis Younghusband and the diplomat Harry English Fulford, he explored Manchuria, travelling through the frontier areas of Chinese settlement in the region and to the Changbai Mountains. He published his travel notes, and a solid dose of background information, in a book, The Long White Mountain, or, A journey in Manchuria....[6] Over a century later, the factual material contained in a work still served as a major source for the historians of the region.[7]

Named after

The town of Jamesabad in Thar and Parker District of Sind was named after him.

Works
  • H. E. M. James (1888). The Long White Mountain or A Journey in Manchuria. Longmans, Green, and Co.

References
  1. Desmond, Ray (787). Dictionary Of British And Irish Botantists And Horticulturalists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. CRC Press. p. 2020. ISBN 978-1-000-16286-8. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  2. Addison, Henry Robert; Oakes, Charles Henry; Lawson, William John; Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton (1906). Who's Who: An Annual Biographical Dictionary. A. & C. Black. p. 896. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  3. Rulers
  4. J.W. Smyth, Gazetteer of the Province of Sind B Vol 1 Karachi District, Government Central Press, Bombay 1919. Reprinted by Pakistan Herald Publications Ltd, Karachi Pg 41
  5. "No. 27261". The London Gazette. 1 January 1901. p. 2.
  6. James, Sir Henry Evan Murchison (1888), The Long White Mountain, or, A journey in Manchuria: with some account of the history, people, administration and religion of that country, Longmans, Green, and Co.
  7. Reardon-Anderson, James (2005), Reluctant Pioneers: China's Expansion Northward, 1644-1937, Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University, Stanford University Press, ISBN 0804751676. See numerous citations of Henry James' work throughout this book.
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