• Name: Glenie, James
• Gender: Male
• Birth Date: October  1750
• Death Date: 23  November  1817
• Occupation: soldier
• Occupation: mathematician

Godwin entered him in the 1796 lists of first meetings under 1793. There are three entries:

24 September 1793: 'Dine at Jardine’s, with Glenie:' 4 February 1794: 'call on Perry; see Glenie:' 18 July 1800 (in Ireland): 'dine at Drennan's , w. C, Hinckes's, Holmes, Hartley, Orr, Caldwel, Glennie & another:'

The DNB is vague about his movements, and implies that he may still have been in New Brunswick during these years, where he had emigrated and been elected a representative of the house of assembly. However, the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online is more detailed:

'Whether because of difficulties in his masting business or because of his determination to undermine Carleton, in 1793 Glenie returned to England; although re-elected to the assembly after its dissolution in December 1792, he was unable to attend the 1793 or 1794 sessions.'

Glenie was then back in New Brunswick in 1795. There is no reference to another visit to Europe around 1800 but the account suggests that is plausible, as Glenie is conspiciously absent from politics in New Brunswick at this time:

'There was no assembly session in 1800 and Glenie busied himself with his duties as deputy surveyor of woods, duties that took on a new urgency as a result of the European situation .... Whether because of these activities, or perhaps because of disillusionment with his assembly colleagues, when the legislature met again in January 1801 Glenie was not present. He managed to appear for eight days at the tag-end of the thirty-two day session.'

Further evidence is given by Jane Rendall, 'The Political Reveries of Alexander Jardine, (1739?-1799)', which refers to Glenie's friendship with Jardine, at whose house Godwin meets Glenie:

'Jardine brought other friends, like James Glenie, the mathematicisn and by then New Brunswick radical, to their circle, and drew up a lost of potential members for a 'Select Club', a sociable academy for radical circles'.

• DNB
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online, www.biographi.ca
• Jane Rendall, 'The Political Reveries of Alexander Jardine, (1739?-1799)' in Malcolm Crook, William Doyle and Alan Forrest eds., Enlightenment and Revolution: Essays in Honour of Norman Hampson (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004) 91-113.

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