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- From the Popular Guide to the House of Commons
Colonel James Robert Bain is a son of the late Sir James Bain, M.P. He is a J.P. and D.L. for Cumberland, and commanded the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the Border Regiment from 1892, becoming the Hon. Colonel in 1895. He is a director of the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway Company, and of the Cumberland Union Banking Company, and is much interested in coal and mining enterprises. He married in 1886 Lily, daughter of Sir John Burton, Chief Justice of Ontario, Canada. Bolton Hall, Gosforth, Cumberland. Conservative.
- From Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, Vol 88
Colonel James Robert Bain died at his London residence recently at the age of sixty-three. He began his career in the firm of Bain, Blair, a& Patterson, proprietors of the Harrington Ironworks and Collieries, in the early seventies, These works have since become a part of the Workington Iron and Steel Company, Ltd. Since 1880 he had taken an active part in the management of the Whitehaven Collieries. He was elected a member of the Iron and Steel Institute in 1974.
- from "Sexual Backmail: a Modern History" by Angus McLaren
One such distinguished gentleman was Colonel James Robert Bain, Conservative MP for the West Division of Cumberland for the period 1900-1906. In 1911 the court heard that thirty-three years earlier Bain, then a fresh subaltern, had met in Carlisle a young woman "with the result that in the following year she said she was 'enceinte'." He made provisions for her, which he maintained until her death in 1908. Then a woman claiming to be her sister and a male accomplice showed up demanding money for her letters. Under a barrage of phone calls, visits to the club, ad four or five postcards a day, Bain paid out over 1500. Finally, when the pair threatened to go to his constituency office, Bain informed the police. In sentencing the accused to prison terms, the judge attempted to downplay their damaging revelations by praising Bain for having acted "handsomely."
- from The Adelaide Advertiser, 15 July 1911 (trove.nla.gov.au)
CHARGE OF BLACKMAIL
GHOST OF 33 YEARS AGO
LONDON, July 14 - Henry Marlow and Martha Lyster were committed for trial yesterday for blackmailing Colonel James Bain, who was from 1900 to 1906 Conservative member for the Egremont Division of Cumberland. Colonel Bain was for three years the victim of intolerable persecution at the hands of the accused in connection with a youthful act of folly committed 33 years ago. Colonel Bain is a son of the late Sir James Bain, and is now 6 years old. He married a daughter of the lat Sir George Burton, Chief Justice of Ontario, and he was formerly colonel of the 3rd battalion of the Border Regiment (Cumberland Militia)
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1851 - 1913 (62 years)