Sir James Bourne, 1st Baronet, (8 October 1812 – 14 March 1882) was an English

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politician who sat in the

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from 1865 to 1880. Bourne was the son of Peter Bourne of Hackinsall, Lancashire, and Heathfield, Liverpool, and his wife Margaret Drinkwater, daughter of James Drinkwater of Bent, Lancashire. He was educated at

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. He was a Deputy Lieutenant and

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for Lancashire. He was also Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the Royal Lancashire Militia Artillery, and Colonel of the 4th Brigade Lancashire Artillery Volunteers.Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1870
/ref> Bourne stood for parliament unsuccessfully at Wexford Borough in 1841. At the 1865 general election Bourne was elected as a

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(MP) for

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. He held the seat until 1880. He was made a

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, of Hackinsall Hall, in the parish of Stalmine, and of Heathfield, in the parish of Childwell, both in the County Palatine of Lancaster, on 10 May 1880. He was appointed Companion of the

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(CB) in the

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. In 1841, Bourne married Sarah Harriet Dyson, daughter of Thomas Fournis Dyson of Willow Hall, Yorkshire, and of Everton, near Liverpool. They had children. He died at the age of 69, at his home of Heathfield House in

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near Liverpool, and his son succeeded him briefly in the baronetcy.

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* 1812 births 1882 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1865–1868 UK MPs 1868–1874 UK MPs 1874–1880 Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Deputy Lieutenants of Lancashire People educated at Shrewsbury School Companions of the Order of the Bath {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1810s-stub