Introduction

Biography

James was the son of Charles Bow­yer Ad­der­ley, 1st Bar­on Nor­ton, and Ju­lia Anne Eli­za Leigh.

He was edu­cat­ed at Ox­ford Uni­ver­si­ty (MA), and in 1907, was liv­ing in Salt­ley, Birm­ing­ham, En­gland. He be­came Pre­ben­da­ry of St. Paul’s in 1935.

Works

• Stephen Re­marx: The Sto­ry of a Ven­ture in Eth­ics, 1893
• The New Flor­eat: A Let­ter to an Eton Boy on the So­cial Ques­tion, 1894
• Monsieur Vin­cent: A Sketch of a Chris­tian So­cial Re­form­er of the Se­ven­teenth Cen­tu­ry, 1901
• Hymns for the Use of Child­ren Pre­sent at the Ce­le­bra­tion of the Ho­ly Com­mun­ion, 1904
• Order of Ser­vice for Ca­te­chism Fes­tiv­als, 1905
• Francis, the Lit­tle Poor Man of As­si­si, 1906
• A New Earth
• Behold the Days Come: A Fan­cy in Chris­tian Po­li­tics, 1907
• In Slums and So­cie­ty: Rem­in­is­cenc­es of Old Friends
• The Fight for the Dra­ma at Ox­ford
• Oxford House Pa­pers: A Ser­ies of Pa­pers for Work­ing Men
• God’s Fast: Con­sid­er­ations for the Use of a Ser­ious Chris­tian in View of So­cial Per­plex­ities
• Social Pray­ers: A Ma­nu­al of In­ter­ces­sion for the Use of Christ­ian Ci­ti­zens
• East End Idylls, with Ar­thur St. John Ad­cock