George Payne Rainsford James

(1801-1860)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford), 1801?-1860 NRA: James George Payne Rainsford (1799-1860) novelist historian and diplomat DNB: James, George Payne Rainsford (1801-1860), novelist LBT ID: GeJames1860 VIAF ID: 62569842 LOC ID: n88068106	B/BAP: 1801-08-09 DIED: 1860-06-09
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English novelist and historiographer royal to William IV; he published Richelieu (1829) and Philip Augustus (1831).
REFERENCES TO George Payne Rainsford James: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter III 1778-83 Found 1: ¶ 14 Chapter VIII 1831 Found 1: ¶ 33 Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 4 March 1841 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Found 1: ¶ 1 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 4: Amusements Found 1: ¶ 30 Ch. 11: The R.S.L. Found 1: ¶ 24 Ch. 17: Wellesleys Found 1: ¶ 23 Ch. 3: Fresh Start Found 1: ¶ 4 Ch. 11: Bulwer-Lytton Found 1: ¶ 16 Ch. 12: G. P. R. James Found 1: ¶ 2 Ch. 14: Private Life Found 1: ¶ 3 Ch. 18: Literary List Found 2: ¶ 22 ¶ 26 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R. Plumer Ward XVIII Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXXII. Found 1: ¶ 1