A work he finally finished with six volumes in 1898. He returned to Cambridge and embarked on a sustained program of research and writing, starting first with a translation and commentary on Paesanias, a Greek travel writer of the second century.
He chose to continue his preference for Philosophy and Anthropology. In 1882, James was called to the London Bar but never took up his place. He did this to please his Father, who believed that James should have a meaningful career rather than waste his talents on academic studies. He then moved to London and entered the Middle Temple to study Law. He graduated Cambridge with first-class honors in the Classics tripos in 1878, and due to a dissertation on Plato, was elected to a Title Alpha Fellowship in 1879. In 1874 James moved to Cambridge and began studying at Trinity Collage. James graduated from Glasgow University with a MA in 1874. Later in 1869 he entered Glasgow University and there studied Latin under George Gilbert Ramsey, Rhetoric under John Veitch and Physics under Lord Kelvin (Sir William Thomson) the originator of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. There he was tutored by his headmaster Alexander Mackenzie and excelled in Latin and Greek. James was first educated at Springfield Academy and then enrolled at the Larchfield Academy (now Lomond School) Helensburgh. There surrounded by mountains and forests, the loch-breeze-wind rippling his shirt and blowing through his hair, he would listen to the faintly echoing bells of the church at Helensburgh (he would later associate the Helensburgh bells with the Bells of Lake Nemi in his most famous book: The Golden Bough) James loved his new home and spent many hours after school roaming the Loch. In the mid-1860s his father Daniel purchased Glenlea, 16 East Argyle Street, Helensburgh.
His father Daniel was a wealthy partner in the long-established firm of chemists Frazer and Green, he was also a devout follower of the Free Church of Scotland into whose doctrines James was raised. Katherine’s grandfather was George Bogle who is reported to have been Warren Hasting’ envoy to Tibet in 1774. Frazer (1821-1900) and his mother Katherine Frazer, nee Bogle (d. He was the eldest of four children born by his father Daniel F. James George Frazer was, born in Blythswood Square, Glasgow on the 1st January 1854. Sir James George Frazer – Anthropologist, historian of religion and classical scholar
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