red book, getting off the train from his home town of Haywards Heath. Although born into a Church of England family, he was a director of Catholic publishing house Burns & Oates, having been received into the church whilst a POW. He was Member of Parliament for Brighton Kemptown from 1959 to 1964, when he lost, after a record seven recounts, by just 7 votes to Labour's Dennis Hobden (the first Labour MP for a Sussex constituency). James was subsequently elected as MP for North Dorset in 1970 and he served as member for that seat until his retirement in 1979, when he was succeeded by Sir Nicholas Baker. In the 1964 election when he lost his Brighton seat, his view was that his campaign was sabotaged by extreme left wing infiltrators, in revenge for the assistance he had given to the exposure of ballot rigging in the Electrical Trades Union. Personal life On 20 May 1950, James married Jaquetta Mary Theresa (née Digby) (28 October 1928 – 22 February 2019), youngest daughter of Edward Digby, 11th Baron Digby, and sister of Pamela Harriman and Edward Digby, 12th Baron Digby. They had six children, four sons and two daughters, born between 1951 and 1962. In 1979 he changed his name to David Guthrie-James to mark the connection between Clan Guthrie and his family home Torosay Castle on the Isle of Mull. Interested in the existence of the Loch Ness Monster, he co-founded the Loch Ness Phenomena Investigation Bureau with naturalist Sir Peter Scott in 1962. His friend John Robson wrote his biography which was published under the title One Man in His Time (Spellmount Ltd. 1998). References Notes Bibliography Times Guide to the House of Commons October 1974 Further reading External links 1919 births 1986 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Members of the Order of the British Empire Recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom) UK MPs 1959–1964 UK MPs 1970–1974 UK MPs 1974 UK MPs 1974–1979 People educated at Eton College Converts to Roman Catholicism World War II prisoners of war held by Germany Escapees from German detention People from the Isle of Mull Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II