James Baxter

James Baxter may refer to:

  • James Keir Baxter, New Zealand poet
  • James Phinney Baxter, mayor of Portland, ME and cofounder of Baxter State Park
  • James Phinney Baxter III, American historian
  • James Baxter (actor), British actor
  • James Baxter (animator), British animator
  • James Baxter (sportsman), English rugby union internationalist and Olympic silver medalist
  • Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer (1939–2004)
  • Jimmy Baxter (footballer), Scottish footballer (born 1904)
  • Jimmy Baxter, character in Amateur Crook

Famous quotes containing the words james and/or baxter:

    “When the Revolutionaries ran short of gun wadding the Rev. James Caldwell ... broke open the church doors and seized an armful of Watts’ hymnbooks. The preacher threw them to the soldiers and shouted, “Give ‘em Watts, boys—give ‘em Watts!””
    —For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “In necessary things, unity; in disputed things, liberty; in all things, charity.”
    —Variously Ascribed.

    The formulation was used as a motto by the English Nonconformist clergyman Richard Baxter (1615-1691)