James Chalmers

James Chalmers is the name of:

  • James Chalmers (loyalist) (c. 1730–1806), Scottish-born Loyalist officer from Maryland in the American Revolutionary War
  • James Chalmers (inventor) (1782–1853), Scottish inventor of the adhesive postage stamp
  • James Ronald Chalmers (1831–1898), American politician and Confederate brigadier general in the Civil War
  • James Chalmers (missionary) (1841–1901), Scottish-born missionary to New Guinea
  • James Chalmers McRuer (1890–1985), Canadian lawyer and author
  • James Chalmers (actor) (born 1974), British actor

Famous quotes containing the words james and/or chalmers:

    “The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.”
    —William James (1842–1910)

    “A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.”
    —Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (b. 1929)