page_title: William James (railway promoter)
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: William James (railway promoter) / Life and career / Early life
caption_attribution_description: Català: Henley-in-Arden (Regne Unit): The Yew Trees (Els teixos) amb placa commemorativa de William James English: Henley-in-Arden (United Kingdom): The Yew Trees House with William James plaque Nederlands: Henley-in-Arden (Verenigd Koninkrijk): The Yew Trees met herdenkingsplaat William James Français&#160;: Henley-in-Arden (Royaume-Uni): The Yew Trees - avec plaque commémorative de William James Deutsch: Henley-in-Arden (Vereinigtes Königreich): The Yew Trees-Haus mit Denkmalplatte dem William James gewidmet
context_page_description: William James was an English lawyer, surveyor, land agent and pioneer promoter of rail transport. According to his obituary "He was the original projector of the Liverpool & Manchester and other railways, and may with truth be considered as the father of the railway system, as he surveyed numerous lines at his own expense at a time when such an innovation was generally ridiculed."
context_section_description: William James was born in Henley-in-Arden in Warwickshire in 1771, the second of the seven children of William James, a solicitor from Moseley near Birmingham, and his wife Mary, who came from a wealthy and well-connected family in Kings Norton. The young James was educated at The King's School, Warwick (Now Warwick School); at another school in Winson Green, Birmingham and at Lincoln’s Inn in London. After training and qualifying as a solicitor in Birmingham, he returned to Henley-in-Arden around 1797 to work in his father's practice.
  On 4 September 1793 in Wootton Wawen, a mile south of Henley-in-Arden, James married Dinah Tarleton, the daughter of local landowners. The couple settled at the Yew Trees in Henley-in-Arden High Street and enjoyed a high social standing locally, mixing socially with landowners and aristocracy from across the county.
caption: The Yew Trees in Henley-in-Arden where James lived when first married.[2]
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