James was the aunt of editors
Dame Anna Wintour and
Patrick Wintour. She was a friend of the philosopher
Sir Thomas Malcolm Knox. In December 1935, she wrote to Knox with news about her job, expressing sympathy for his wife's illness, and news about her classmates at school. In July 1936, she wrote a letter congratulating Knox on his appointment as
Principal of the University of St Andrews, her interview for the British
Civil Service, a review, and an enquiry as to Knox's wife's thoughts on moving to St Andrews. They had one son, Oliver Francis Wintour James. Her husband was
knighted in 1956, at which time she was entitled to the style
Lady James. In 1959, her husband was created a
life peer as Baron James of Rusholme, of
Fallowfield in the
County Palatine of
Lancashire. Upon her husband's elevation to the
peerage, she became the
Lady James of Rusholme. In the 1990s, James donated the Records of Lord James of Rusholme to the archives at the
University of York. James died on 12 March 2007 in
Thirsk. == References ==