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# James George Semple Lisle

James George Semple Lisle (1759–1815) was a Scottish adventurer and Swindler. He used numerous aliases, taking Lisle as a surname additional to his original name, and published in 1799 The Life of Major J. G. Semple-Lisle, an autobiography, from Tothill Fields Prison.

## Life

He was born James George Semple at Irvine, Ayrshire, the son of James Semple, an exciseman and peerage claimant to the title Viscount Lisle. In 1776 he was soldier serving in British North America, was taken prisoner in the American Revolutionary War, then was released and came back to Great Britain.
Semple came to know the novelist Elizabeth Sarah Gooch, with whom he had a brief relationship. Marrying a goddaughter of Elizabeth Pierrepont, Duchess of Kingston-upon-Hull, he accompanied the latter to the continent of Europe. He made autobiographical claims about this period to 1784, involving Frederick the Great during his bloodless campaign of 1778, Catharine of Russia, and Prince Potemkin. He also visited Copenhagen.
Returning to England in 1784, Semple was arrested for obtaining goods by false pretences, and on 2 September 1786 was sentenced to seven years' transportation. Released on condition of leaving England, he went to Paris: he later claimed to have served on General Jean-François Berruyer's staff, and so to have witnessed in the execution of Louis XVI. Back England to avoid arrest, he was again, on 18 February 1795, sentenced to transportation for defrauding tradesmen. In Newgate Prison that year he had dinner with James Boswell, to whom as a lawyer he applied for help with his case.
Unable to obtain a pardon, Semple stabbed himself in Newgate Prison in 1796, when about to be shipped for Botany Bay, and then tried to starve himself to death. He recovered, however, and in 1798 was despatched in the Lady Jane Shore transport, bound for Australia. During the voyage a mutiny broke out, Semple's warning of the plot having been disregarded by the captain, Wilcox. Semple, with several others, was allowed to put off in a boat, landed in South America, and, after adventures, reached Tangier, where he gave himself up, and was sent back to England.
Semple was committed to Tothill Fields prison, and at the time of publishing his autobiography in 1799 was still confined there. In 1804 he offered himself to the government, as a spy. In 1807 he was charged with fraud, but was acquitted. In 1814 he was once again sentenced to transportation, in a fraud case for food. Pardoned by the Prince Regent, he undertook to go to Morocco, and died in Lisbon in 1815.
# James J. Pleasants

James J. Pleasants served as the third Secretary of State of Alabama from 1821 to 1824.
He was married and had eight children, including the author, Julia Pleasants Creswell.
# James Bane

James Bane (or Ben or Bennet) (died 1332) was Bishop of St. Andrews for a brief period in the early 14th century. In his earlier career, James had been a canon of Aberdeen and prebendary of Cruden.
James rose to the position of Archdeacon of St. Andrews, one of the most senior positions within the diocese. He was appointed one of the ambassadors to France along with Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray, Robert Keith the Marischal of Scotland, Adam de Moravia and Walter de Twynham in 1326 to renew the Auld Alliance with the signing of the Treaty of Corbeil (1326). Ten days after the death of Bishop William de Lamberton in 1328, the chapter held an election to fill the vacancy. James, although absent at the court of Pope John XXII at Avignon, stood against Alexander de Kyninmonth, Archdeacon of Lothian, and won. However, before news of his victory reached Avignon, Pope John, who had previously reserved his right to do so, had already provided James to the see. James was consecrated, sometime in the same year, by Bertrand de Turre, Bishop of Frascati.
In the aftermath of the Battle of Dupplin Moor on 12 August 1332, after roughly two years back in Scotland as chief-bishop of the kingdom, James fled to Flanders. He met his death at Bruges in the same year. The bishopric then lay vacant for over nine years, due to the turmoil of repeated invasion from England and civil war within Scotland. The prior and the chapter of the see had actually chosen a man called William Bell, dean of diocese of Dunkeld, but William Bell resigned all rights deriving from the election to Pope Benedict XII. William Landallis, rector of Kinkel in the diocese of Aberdeen, was appointed to the bishopric by Benedict on 18 February 1342.
# James Banford Thompson

James Banford Thompson (1832 – 18 November 1901) was an Irish-born politician, surveyor and land valuer in New South Wales, Australia.
He was born in Fintona, County Tyrone, to postmaster William Thompson and Jane née Jeffries. His date of birth is uncertain: his parliamentary biography lists him as born in 1832, which would make him aged 68–69 at his death, while the notice of his death lists his age as 72, which would mean he was born in 1828 or 1829. His family migrated to Australia around 1836. He worked as a licensed surveyor, and on 11 February 1861 married Margaret Catherine Carroll; they would have twelve children. In 1877 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Queanbeyan, serving until his resignation in 1881, to accept an appointment as a railway land valuer. He was made bankrupt in 1884.
Thompson died at Ryde in 1901.
# James Banks Taylor

James Banks Taylor (31 January 1834 – 31 January 1884) was a Scottish businessman and member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.
Taylor was born in Tranent, a small town near Edinburgh. He entered the firm of Smith, Archer & Co. in Hong Kong in 1861 and was admitted a partner of the firm in 1864. He was appointed Justice of the Peace in 1867 and member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in 1868 vice Phineas Ryrie's absence on leave. He retired from the Smith, Archer & Co. in December 1871. He died on 31 January 1884 in New York.
# James H. McCurdy

James Huff McCurdy (December 2, 1866 – September 4, 1940) was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Springfield College (then known as the Springfield YMCA Training School) in Springfield, Massachusetts from 1895 to 1903 and again from 1907 to 1916, compiling a record of 69–41–14.
Dr. McCurdy was elected Fellow #7 in the National Academy of Kinesiology (née American Academy of Physical Education).
Huff was born on December 2, 1866, in Princeton, Maine. He died on September 4, 1940, at Springfield Hospital in Springfield, Massachusetts.
# James Hamilton (bishop of Galloway)

James Hamilton (1610–1674), bishop of Galloway, was the second son of Sir James Hamilton of Broomhill, by Margaret, daughter of William Hamilton of Udston and brother of John, first lord Belhaven.

## Life

He studied at the University of Glasgow, graduated there in 1628, and in 1634 was ordained as minister of Cambusnethan by Archbishop Patrick Lindsay.
He was deposed by the synod of Glasgow in April 1639 for signing the protestation of the bishops and their adherents against the assembly of 1638, but on professing penitence was restored by the assembly of 1639. The committee, to whom his case was referred, reported that "he was a young man of good behaviour, and well beloved of his parish, and guilty of nothing directly but the subscribing of the declinature".
Thereafter he went with the times. In 1648 he supported the "Engagement", and was urged by his kinsman the Duke of Hamilton to accept a chaplaincy in the army raised for the rescue of the king. At the Restoration he was rewarded by a grant of money and the bishopric of Galloway, and along with Sharp, Leighton, and Fairfoul was consecrated at Westminster on 15 December 1661. Galloway was a stronghold of the extreme covenanters.
Many of the ministers refused to submit to episcopacy, and when deprived held field meetings, which were largely attended by their old flocks. At the request of the bishop and his clergy, whose ranks had been recruited from the north, soldiers were quartered on the frequenters of conventicles to compel their attendance at church, and there appears to be good authority for the statement that Sir James Turner, the officer in command, "was obliged to go beyond his instructions to satisfy the bishop".
Hamilton acquired the estate of Broomhill in 1669 from his brother, who had been raised to the peerage, and died in August 1674. Burnet describes him as "a good-natured man, but weak". Wodrow says: "His gifts were reckoned every way ordinary, but he was remarkable for his cunning and time-serving temper"; while one of his grandsons describes him as "mighty well seen in divinity, accurate in the fathers and church history … very pious and charitable, strict in his morals … and every way worthy of the sacred character he bore". In 1635 he married Margaret, only daughter of Alexander Thomson, minister of Edinburgh, and had four daughters and two sons, one of whom, James, an advocate died in 1674.
# James Hodges

James Hodges may refer to:
* James Hodges (mayor) (1822–1895), American politician and businessman
* James L. Hodges (1790–1846), delegate from Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives
* James Hodges (1814–1879), builder and engineer who constructed the Pennyhill Park Hotel
* Jim Hodges (born 1956), governor of South Carolina from 1999 until 2003
* Jim Hodges (artist) (born 1957), New York-based installation artist
# James Stonnes

James Stonnes (b. 1513; d. after 1585) was an English Catholic priest, active in northern England.

## Life

He was ordained at Durham by Bishop Tunstall in 1539. After Elizabeth I's accession he never entered a church, but wandered about Durham and Yorkshire, with occasional visits to Lancashire. He was known as Uncle James, saying Mass as often as the opportunity of time, place, and company gave leave.
He was eventually arrested by the Earl of Derby about midnight 19 November 1585, at the house of a very poor man, eight miles from the earl's seat, Newpark, in the Parish of Ormskirk, Lancashire. As he would not commit himself to the royal supremacy, though he acknowledged the queen as temporal sovereign, and as he confessed that he regarded her ecclesiastical policy as contrary to God's law and refused to give up saying Mass, he was committed to the New Fleet, Manchester. There, as he was then aged 72, it is probable he died.
# James Stopford, 1st Earl of Courtown

James Stopford, 1st Earl of Courtown (1700 – 12 January 1770) was an Irish politician.
Courtown was the son of James Stopford, of Courtown, County Wexford, who represented County Wexford in the Irish House of Commons, and his wife Frances (née Jones). He succeeded his father as member of parliament for County Wexford in 1721, a seat he held until 1727, and then represented Fethard (County Wexford) from 1727 to 1758. In 1756, he was appointed High Sheriff of Wexford. In 1758, he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Courtown, of Courtown in the County of Wexford. Four years later he was further honoured when he was made Viscount Stopford and Earl of Courtown, in the County of Wexford, also in the Peerage of Ireland.

## Family

Lord Courtown married Elizabeth, daughter of the Right Reverend Edward Smyth, Bishop of Down and Connor, and his first wife and cousin Elizabeth Smyth, in 1727. He died in January 1770 and was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son, James, who became a prominent Tory politician. His second son the Hon. Edward Stopford (1732–1794) was a Lieutenant-General in the Army. Another son, the Hon Thomas Stopford, became Bishop of Cork and Ross.
Lady Courtown survived her husband by 18 years and died in September 1788.
# James Malone Rentschler

James Malone Theodore Rentschler (October 16, 1933 Rochester, Minnesota - May 2007 Paris, France) was an American Career Foreign Service Officer who was Ambassador to Malta. He succeeded Joan M. Clark who was named Director General of the Foreign Service.

## Education

Rentschler received a certificate from the University of Paris in 1954, graduated from Yale University in 1955, and received a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University.

## Career

From 1955 until 1958, Rentschler was a military linguist with the U.S. Army Security Agency before joining the Foreign Service in 1959.
He became a senior staff member in 1978. That year, he was posted as Director of West European Affairs on the National Security Council under the Carter administration, and continued in the Reagan administration. Reagan appointed him Ambassador to Malta (1982 until April 1985). While there, he was asked to head the Summit Public Diplomacy Inter-Agency Team. He was appointed Ambassador to Guinea in 1986 but the nomination was withdrawn on September 11, 1986 before the Senate could act on it.

## Publications

* A Reason to Get Up in the Morning: A Cold Warrior Remembers Publisher Estate of James M. Rentschler, 2008 ISBN 055701753X, 9780557017539
# James Sloan (Latter Day Saints)

James Sloan (October 28, 1792 – October 24, 1886) was an official historian and recorder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a secretary to Joseph Smith, and one of the first Mormon settlers in Nauvoo, Illinois.
Sloan was born in County Tyrone, Ireland. In the mid-1830s, he became a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and emigrated to the United States. On February 18, 1838, Sloan was ordained a high priest by Joseph Smith, Sr. In 1840, he became one of the first Latter Day Saints to settle in Hancock County, Illinois, in what would later be called the city of Nauvoo. On February 1, 1840, Sloan was appointed to be the first city recorder in Nauvoo's history and the first clerk of the Nauvoo Court. In September 1842, Sloan was elected Nauvoo's first notary public.
In 1841 and 1842, Sloan was an official historian and recorder of the church and from 1840 to 1843 he served as a scribe to President of the Church Joseph Smith and Assistant President of the Church Hyrum Smith. He is one of many writers whose work was collected into the LDS Church's official early history, History of the Church.
In May 1843 Sloan traveled to Ireland as a church missionary. While on his mission, he was selected to preside over the Irish Conference and later the Bradford Conference of the church.
Upon returning to America, Sloan settled in Pottawattamie County, Iowa. While in Pottawattamie County Sloan served as the first county clerk and in 1851 he was elected District Judge for that county. After 1851, he traveled to Utah Territory as a Mormon pioneer to join the main gathering of Latter-day Saints.
Later in his life, Sloan left the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and became a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Sloan emigrated to California and died in Sacramento, just four days short of his 94th birthday.
# James Whitfield

James Whitfield may refer to:
* James Whitfield (bishop) (1770–1834), Roman Catholic Bishop of Baltimore, 1828–1834
* James Whitfield (Mississippi politician) (1791–1875), Governor of Mississippi, 1858–1859
* James B. Whitfield (1860–1948), Florida lawyer and justice of the Florida Supreme Court
* James Monroe Whitfield (1822–1871), African American poet, abolitionist and political activist
* James Whitfield, principal of Colleyville Heritage High School
# James U. Blanchard III

James U. Blanchard III (November 10, 1943 – March 19, 1999) was an American dealer in rare coins and precious metals, active in the movement to legalize private gold holdings in the United States. He was the founder of Blanchard and Company, a precious metals investment firm.

## Early life

Blanchard was born on November 10, 1943, in Greenwood, Mississippi, and grew up in Houston, Texas. As a boy, he attended New Orleans Academy but was sent to Chamberlain-Hunt Academy, a historic Christian preparatory school, after misbehavior.
After a car accident that broke his back when he was a teenager, Blanchard was a paraplegic and used a wheelchair. He recuperated at Warm Springs, GA, the spa town President Franklin Roosevelt had often visited to treat his paraplegia.
Blanchard acquired his G.E.D. and in 1964 enrolled at what is now the University of New Orleans (UNO). It was during this period that he first read Ayn Rand, whom he admired, later naming his son after Rand's novella Anthem. He graduated with a major in history and taught for several years before founding the National Committee to Legalize Gold (NCLG). American citizens had not been able to privately own gold since 1933, when President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6102.

## Career

Blanchard hired an airplane to fly over President Richard Nixon’s second inauguration with a banner that read "Legalize Gold." He also dared the Treasury Department to arrest him for owning a two-ounce bar of gold, and he displayed a gold coin smuggled into the U.S. from Canada at protests, daring the police to arrest him.
President Gerald Ford was persuaded to legalize gold after seeing a television commercial of Blanchard, who held a bar of gold and asked, "Why can I not own this?" Blanchard also successfully lobbied Congress for his cause.
After legalization of gold, Blanchard was a key figure in the U.S. gold industry. He founded an influential newsletter called Gold Newsletter, published a memoir titled Confessions of a Gold Bug, and founded the gold investment industry's longest-running conference, which has hosted speakers such as Margaret Thatcher, Milton Friedman, F.A. Hayek, Ayn Rand, and Ed Crane. Blanchard also served on the Cato Institute’s Board of Directors.
He died on March 19, 1999, age 55, in Metairie, Louisiana.
# James Warden (Royal Navy officer)

Lieutenant James Warden (1736–1792) was a Royal Navy officer and Lord of the Manor of Charmouth. He died in a duel after an argument with a neighbouring landowner.

## Life

James Warden had enjoyed a distinguished career in the Royal Navy as a commissioned officer, seeing action in both the Seven Years' War and the American War of Independence. He was created lieutenant in the year 1760.
He married Elizabeth Newell and had three children, William Weeks Wharton (born 1766), Ann (1764) and Hannah (1763).
In 1783, Warden bought the manor of Charmouth and soon fell out with many of the local inhabitants. He objected to a number of local rates and elections at parish meetings, he took legal action against the vicar and others for removing sand from the beach and he also disinherited his son.

## Death

Warden had an altercation with a neighbouring landowner, Norman Bond. When Warden and Bond met in the street, an argument ensued in which Warden became extremely abusive and threatened to shoot Bond's dogs. Bond demanded Warden apologise, Warden refused, and so Bond challenged Warden to a duel. The time and place were quickly set and the duellers met at Hunters' Lodge on the morning of 28 April 1792.
According to contemporary sources, Warden's wife, Elizabeth, did not oppose the duel, and in fact, seemed to support it. She made no attempt to alert the authorities about the impending bloodshed, even though one of her neighbours was a magistrate. She was the one who had obtained the pistols for the duel. On the day of the duel, as Bond had issued the challenge, Warden took the first shot. Bond had a narrow escape as the ball passed straight through his hat. Bond now took his shot and Warden fell to the ground. He had been shot through the heart and died almost instantly. Bond reportedly fled to Barbados.
There is a memorial tomb for James Warden in the churchyard of the St Andrew's Church at Charmouth.
# Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference

The Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC) is an academic organisation and conference which was designed to be an arena for open discussion of archaeological theory in Roman archaeology.

## History

TRAC, organised initially by Eleanor Scott, was held for the first time in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Newcastle on 23–24 March 1991.
Historically, one of TRAC's main focuses has been on the debates surrounding Romanisation, and this dominated many of the volumes during the 1990s. However, since the early 2000s, there have been a rising number of discussions relating to post-imperial and post-colonial approaches to the Roman world.
TRAC was originally established as a one-off event, but, the interest that this conference garnered led to it becoming an annual fixture. After the initial meeting in Newcastle, TRAC has been run at many of the major archaeology departments in the UK and has even been organised at institutions in Europe and America.
TRAC was joined with RAC (the Roman Archaeology Conference), organised by the Roman Society, at Reading University in 1995.

## Participants

Many of the participants in TRAC are early career scholars or postgraduates who use the conference to outline their own original research and attempt to re-define existing models about the Roman past.
Andrew Gardner, in an article in TRAC 2005, raised the issue of a gender imbalance in the history of TRAC conferences. However, in more recent article, Eleanor Scott concluded that TRAC had given an equal platform to female archaeologists working within Roman archaeology. In the 2010s, TRAC has becoming increasingly international.

## Annual Meeting Locations

| 29th | Canterbury | 11-14 April 2019 |
| 28th | University of Edinburgh | 12-14 April 2018 |
| 27th | Durham University | 28-31 March 2017 |
| 26th | Rome | 16-19 March 2016 |
| 25th | University of Leicester | 27-29 March 2015 |
| 24th | University of Reading | 28-30 March 2014 |
| 23rd | King's College London | 4-6 April 2013 |
| 22nd | Frankfurt | 29 - 1 March April 2012 |
| 21st | Newcastle | 14-17 April 2011 |
| 20th | University of Oxford | 25-28 March 2010 |
| 19th | Michigan/Southampton | 3-5 April 2009/April 17–18, 2009 |
| 18th | Amsterdam | 4-6 March 2008 |
| 17th | London | 29 - 1 March April 2007 |
| 16th | Canterbury | 24-25 March 2006 |
| 15th | Birmingham | 31-3 March April, 2005 |
| 14th | Durham University | 26-27 March 2004 |
| 13th | University of Leicester | 3-6 April 2003 |

## Publications

TRAC was previously published as a set of conference proceedings. From TRAC 2017 it moved to an online open access journal, the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal, published by the Open Library of Humanities.

## Subjects

* Romanisation
* Post-colonial archaeology
* Gender and material cultural
* Material cultural theory
# Tres Amigos

Tres Amigos (Spanish "Three Friends") may refer to:

## Places

* Tres Amigos, river in Juan Castro Blanco National Park

## Entertainment

* Los Tres Amigos, comic strip by Laerte
* Los Tres Amigos, fictional company in TV series Guiding Light (1980–89)

### Music

* Tres Amigos, album by Los Huracanes del Norte 1995
* Los Tres Amigos, album by Luis Miguel 2005
* "Tres Amigos", song by Astor Piazzolla
* "Tres Amigos", song by Los Huracanes del Norte
* "Tres Amigos", tango by Aníbal Troilo, composed by Enrique Cadícamo
* "Tres Amigos", 1999 single by French-Japanese jazz duo United Future Organization
* Los Tres Amigos, a contemporary latin jazz group formed by Steve Masakowski (guitar), with James Singleton (bass) and Hector Gallardo (bongos)

## Other uses

* Tres Amigos, brig captured in 1816 by corsair José Joaquín Almeida
# Lo Fi Hi Fives

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| Pitchfork | 7.4/10 |
Lo Fi Hi Fives... A Kind of Best Of... is a 2012 compilation by American multi-instrumentalist R. Stevie Moore. It was released in the UK on the O Genesis label.
The songs on this album are taken from 37 years of material. The album was compiled by R. Stevie along with Tim Burgess on Tim's label O Genesis Recordings - O Genesis already released a split single of him and the Vaccines and soon released a single of "Pop Music". The album features cameos by Irwin Chusid, Ariel Pink, Terry Burrows, Lane Steinberg, and friends/fellow Ethos bandmates Billy Anderson and Roger Ferguson.

## Track listing

Track sources are provided by Moore.