James Chalmers

James Chalmers is the name of:

  • James Chalmers (loyalist) (c. 1730–1806), Scottish-born Loyalist officer from Maryland in the American Revolutionary War
  • James Chalmers (inventor) (1782–1853), Scottish inventor of the adhesive postage stamp
  • James Ronald Chalmers (1831–1898), American politician and Confederate brigadier general in the Civil War
  • James Chalmers (missionary) (1841–1901), Scottish-born missionary to New Guinea
  • James Chalmers McRuer (1890–1985), Canadian lawyer and author
  • James Chalmers (actor) (born 1974), British actor

Famous quotes containing the words james and/or chalmers:

    “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)

    “A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.”
    —Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (b. 1929)