James Edmund Vincent

James Edmund Vincent (17 November 1857 – 18 July 1909) was a Welsh barrister, known as a journalist and author.

Life Born on 17 November 1857 at St. Anne's, Bethesda, he was eldest son of the cleric James Crawley Vincent, son of James Vincent Vincent and then incumbent there, by his wife Grace, daughter of William Johnson, rector of Llanfaethlu, Anglesey; his father as vicar of Caernarfon died during the cholera epidemic of 1867. He elected to scholarships at Eton College and Winchester College in 1870, going to the latter, and in 1876 won a junior studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, matriculating on 13 October. He gained a second class in classical moderations in 1878 and a third class in the final classical school in 1880, when he graduated B.A.

Entering the Inner Temple on 13 April 1881, Vincent was called to the bar on 26 January 1884. He went the North Wales circuit, and was also a reporter for the Law Times in the bankruptcy department of the Queen's Bench division from 1884 to 1889. In 1890 he was appointed chancellor of the diocese of Bangor. The Land Question in South Wales, a defence of the landowners of South Wales and Monmouthshire (1897). Through East Anglia in a Motor-Car (1907) with illustrations by Frank Southgate. London : Methuen. Hertfordshire in the Twentieth Century (1908). Story of the Thames (1909).

He contributed occasionally to the Quarterly Review and the Cornhill Magazine.

Family Vincent married on 12 August 1884 Mary Alexandra, second daughter of Silas Kemball Cook, governor of the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich, who survived him with two daughters.