James Sime

Born to James Sime of Airdrie, and then of Wick, Caithness and Thurso, and his wife Jane Anderson of Glasgow (died 1889).

[1] Sime returned to Britain and settled in London's Norland Square in the Notting Hill district in 1869, and went into journalism.

He was a writer for the rest of his life, in areas including social and educational topics, and European politics.

[1] From 1880 Sime lived in Bedford Park, London, at 1 Queen Anne's Grove, in a house which he had commissioned.

His daughter, Jessie Sime was a novelist who emigrated to Montreal, Canada and wrote several Canadian themed books.