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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix = [[Sir]]
| birth_name    = Henry Evan Murchison James
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCIE|CSI}}
| image         = Sir Henry Evan Murchison James.jpg
| caption       = James in 1919
| office        = [[Commissioner in Sind]]
| term_start    = 1891
| term_end      = 1900
| predecessor   = [[Arthur Trevor (colonial administrator)|Arthur Charles Trevor]]
| successor     = [[Robert Giles (civil servant)|Robert Giles]]
| birth_date    = {{Birth date|1846|01|20|df=y}}
| birth_place   = [[Cumberland]], England
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|1923|08|20|1846|01|20|df=y}}
| death_place   = London, England
| occupation    = 
}}
'''Sir Henry Evan Murchison James''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCIE|CSI}} (20 January 1846 – 20 August 1923) was a British civil servant in the [[Indian Civil Service]] from 1865 to 1900.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Desmond |first1=Ray |title=Dictionary Of British And Irish Botantists And Horticulturalists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers |date=787 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=978-1-000-16286-8 |page=2020 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s2kQEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT787 |access-date=4 February 2021 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="whoswho">{{cite book |last1=Addison |first1=Henry Robert |last2=Oakes |first2=Charles Henry |last3=Lawson |first3=William John |last4=Sladen |first4=Douglas Brooke Wheelton |title=Who's Who: An Annual Biographical Dictionary |date=1906 |publisher=A. & C. Black |page=896 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7khLAAAAMAAJ&q=Sir+Henry+Evan+Murchison+James&pg=PA896 |access-date=4 February 2021 |language=en}}</ref>

He was the [[Commissioner in Sind]] from 1891 to 1900.<ref>[http://rulers.org/indprov.html Rulers<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

==Official duties==
He formally opened [[DJ Science College|Dayaram Jethmal Sind College]] on 15 October 1893 in [[Karachi]].<ref>J.W. Smyth, Gazetteer of the Province of Sind B Vol 1 Karachi District, Government Central Press, Bombay 1919. Reprinted by Pakistan Herald Publications Ltd, Karachi Pg 41</ref>

After stepping down as Commissioner, he was knighted as a Knight Commander of the [[Order of the Indian Empire]] (KCIE) in the 1901 New Year Honours List.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27261 |date=1 January 1901 |page=2}}</ref>

==Travel to China==
In 1886–1887, James used a two-year leave to travel to China. Together with two younger Britons, the officer [[Francis Younghusband]] and the diplomat [[Harry English Fulford]], he explored [[Manchuria]], travelling through the frontier areas of [[Chuang Guandong|Chinese settlement]] in the region and to the [[Changbai Mountains]]. He published his travel notes, and a solid dose of background information, in a book, ''The Long White Mountain, or, A journey in Manchuria...''.<ref>{{citation
|first=Sir Henry Evan Murchison |last=James
|publisher=Longmans, Green, and Co. |year=1888
|title=The Long White Mountain, or, A journey in Manchuria: with some account of the history, people, administration and religion of that country
|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=4bICAAAAMAAJ}}</ref> Over a century later, the factual material contained in a work still served as a major source for the historians of the region.<ref>{{citation|first=James |last=Reardon-Anderson|publisher=Stanford University Press |year=2005|isbn=0804751676
|title=Reluctant Pioneers: China's Expansion Northward, 1644-1937
|series=Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=CiqQIPESpR8C}}. See numerous citations of Henry James' work throughout this book.</ref>

==Named after==
The town of [[Jamesabad]] in Thar and Parker District of Sind was named after him.{{cn|date=September 2018}}

==Works==
* {{cite book
|url=https://archive.org/details/longwhitemountai00jame/
|year=1888
|title=The Long White Mountain or A Journey in Manchuria
|author=H. E. M. James
|publisher=[[Longman|Longmans, Green, and Co.]]}}

==References==
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