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:

    “I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favour of doing it.”
    —Henry James (1843–1916)

    “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)