of his children in 1846 were abandoned. Annoyed by her father's treatment in Samuel Smiles's biographies of Stephenson one of James's daughters, Ellen Paine, wrote a defence of him in which, as even a sympathetic historian, L. T. C. Rolt, concludes, she "defeats her own object by overstating her case" and it was not until 2007 that a substantive biography appeared. He is commemorated by a plaque on a former residence in Henley-in-Arden and a scheme to restore a Stratford and Moreton Tramway wagon in Stratford. He also has a road named after him in the David Wilson 'Henley Point' Development in Henley in Arden, named William James Way References Bibliography External links Transport Visionary: William James William James memorial website 1771 births 1837 deaths British railway entrepreneurs British railway pioneers British surveyors People educated at Warwick School People from Henley-in-Arden People of the Industrial Revolution Warwickshire Yeomanry officers