James Edmund Vincent

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

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.

Vincent joined the staff of The Times in 1886, and then for most of his life was the main descriptive reporter of the paper. In 1901, as special correspondent, he accompanied the Duke of Cornwall and York on his colonial tour. From 1894 to 1897 he edited the National Observer, after W. E. Henley's retirement, and from 1897 to 1901 Country Life.

Vincent bought Lime Close, Drayton, a house near Abingdon. He died of pleurisy at a nursing home in London on 18 July 1909, and was buried in Brookwood cemetery. A brass memorial tablet, with Latin inscription, was placed in Bangor Cathedral in 1910.

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