James Grahame

(1790-1842)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Grahame, James, 1790-1842 LBT ID: JaGraha1842 VIAF ID: 41943016 LOC ID: n85158374	B/BAP: 1790-12-21 DIED: 1842-07-03
SOURCES: James C. Corson, Notes and Index to Grierson's Letters of Scott; Memoir in Grahame, History of the United States of North America (1852); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Scottish lawyer born in Glasgow and educated at Glasgow University and St. John's College, Cambridge, he became an advocate in 1812 and published Defence of Usury Laws (1817) and History of the United States of North America (1827).
WRITINGS IN THE ARCHIVE: Two Letters (Edinburgh: John Fairbairn, 1817) Another Letter: being the third (Edinburgh: John Fairbairn, 1817) Two more Letters: being the fourth and last (Edinburgh: John Fairbairn, 1817)