Educated at Eton, Glasgow, and at Christ Church, Oxford, he was assistant master at the Charterhouse (1832), and rector of Theddingworth (1842); he contributed to the Quarterly Review.

REFERENCES TO Thomas James:

George David Boyle to Andrew Lang, [1895 c.] in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897)