"More should I question thee, and more I must---- Enough more to know would not be more to trust---- From whence thou cam'st, how tended on. But rest Unquestioned, welcome; and undoubted, blest." George Payne Rainsford James (9 August 1799 - 9 June 1860), was an English novelist and historical writer, the son of a physician in London. He was for many years British Consul at various places in the United States and on the Continent. He held the honorary office of British Historiographer Royal during the last years of William IV's reign.