St. James Infirmary Blues London's St. James Hospital, a religious foundation for the treatment of leprosy. His references list an article by Kenneth Lodewick. That article states, giving no reference or source for the idea, that the phrase "St. James Hospital" refers to a hospital of that name in London. There is some difficulty in this because the hospital in question closed in 1532 when Henry VIII acquired the land to build St James's Palace. Another possibility suggested by Higginbotham on the basis of his claim that the song "St. James Infirmary" dates at least from the early nineteenth century, is the Infirmary section
James Dunn (British politician) James Dunn (British politician) James Anthony Dunn KSG (30 January 1926 – April 1985) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. Dunn was educated at St. Theresa's School, Liverpool and the London School of Economics and became an engineer. He was a councillor on Liverpool City Council and served as secretary of Liverpool Co-operative Party. He was a counicllor for the ward of Kirkdale which was a very working class area that was moving from voting Conservative to voting for the Labour Party. Dunn was elected Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Liverpool Kirkdale in 1964. He was