page_title: James Grahme
section_title: Courtier
hierarchical_section_title: James Grahme / Courtier
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Dorothy Grahme (died 1700), wife of James Grahme.
context_page_description: James Grahme or Graham was an English army officer, courtier, politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1685 and 1727. After the Glorious Revolution he was involved for ten years in Jacobite schemes and plots.
context_section_description: Grahme's looks and manner made him a favourite at court. There he fell in love with  Dorothy Howard, one of the maids of honour to the queen, and daughter of William Howard, fourth son of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Berkshire. After overcoming her mother's opposition, through the good offices of John Evelyn, was married to her at  St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, London, by licence dated 22 November 1675. By December 1679 he was keeper of the privy purse to the Duchess of York, and soon after was acting in the same capacity to James, Duke of York, with apartments in St. James's Palace.
  Under King James II,  Grahme was made keeper of the privy purse  and Master of the Buckhounds on 4 April 1685. He was also granted a lease of a lodge in Bagshot Park. On 28 November 1685,  he became deputy-lieutenant of the castle and forest of Windsor.   At the 1685 English general election, he was returned as Member of Parliament for Carlisle  in James's only parliament,which was dissolved in 1687. In about 1687, he purchased the manor of Levens, near Kendal, Westmorland from Allan Bellingham .
caption: Dorothy Grahme, portrait by Peter Lely
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