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James Farquharson Remnant (February 13, 1862 – January 30, 1933), 1st Baron Remnant, was a British conservative politician with a long association with Holborn, having served as its MP for 28 years and representing the area on London County Council. Born in Southwold in Suffolk, he was educated at Harrow School and Magdalen College before becoming a barrister at nearby Lincoln’s Inn. In 1900, having by now married and had two children, he was elected to the House of Commons. While he never held ministerial office, he did sit on many committees, including the Royal Commission of Canals and Inland Navigation between 1906 – 1910 and the Home Office Committee on Conditions and Pay of Police in 1919. He was created a Baronet of Wenhaston in Suffolk in 1917 and following his retirement from the House of Commons in 1928, Baron Remnant of Wenhaston in Suffolk. On John Rocque’s 1746 street map of London this was part of Great Queen Street, which was cut in two unequal parts by the formation of Kingsway in 1901. It had been so named by 1952.
