David James (1919 - 1986)
25 Dec 1919 – 15 Dec 1986
David Pelham James was the son of Bridget Guthrie and Sir Archibald James. He attended Summer Fields School in Oxford and then Eton College, after which he signed on as an apprentice on the four masted barque Viking to sail to Australia and back. He then went to witness the Spanish Civil War with his father, before taking his place at Balliol College, Oxford, to read Geography. His studies were interrupted by the Second World War, and he became an officer in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in charge of a Motor Gun Boat on coastal patrol in the English Channel. On February 27th, 1943 they
