Morrice James, Baron St Brides

John Morrice Cairns James, Baron St Brides, GCMG, CVO, MBE, PC ( * April 30, 1916, † 26 November 1989) was a British diplomat higher. He served as British High Commissioner to Pakistan, India and Australia, and was a specialist for relations with South Asia.

Life and work

James went to Bradfield College and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1939 he took a position in the Dominions Office in London and was from April to August 1940 Private Secretary to the Deputy Secretary to. In August 1940, he served in the Royal Navy as a seaman and as of February of the following year the Royal Marines, which he left at end of the war as a lieutenant colonel.

He returned in 1945 to the Dominions Office back, which was in 1947 united with the India Office for Commonwealth Relations Office, and served in South Africa, London and Pakistan, where he was head of the Deputy High Commissions in Lahore and Karachi in the 1950s. He then served as Deputy High Commissioner in New Delhi before moving up in 1965 returned in 1962 as High Commissioner to Pakistan. From 1968 to 1971 he served again as High Commissioner in New Delhi, and in 1971 the High Commissioner for Australia. In 1976 he entered upon his retirement.

James was knighted in 1962, In 1962 he came to the Privy Council and was raised in 1977 as Baron St Brides, of Hasguard in the County of Dyfed as a life peer in the peerage, and thus became a member of the House of Lords.