title: Denis James
text: # Denis James
  
  Denis James was Archdeacon of Barnstaple from 1946 to 1958.
  
  James was born on 3 May 1895 and educated at Cirencester Grammar School. He served in the Indian Army during World War I and was ordained after a period of study at Salisbury Theological College in 1923. He served curacies at Carisbrooke in the Isle of Wight and Portsea, Portsmouth; and held incumbencies in Gosport and Retford before his years as an Archdeacon.
  
  He died on 28 July 1965.
  
  