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James Bonar (27 September 1852 – 1941) was a Scottish civil servant political economist and historian of economic thought. He was born in Perth but brought up from the age of four in Glasgow where his father was a Church of Scotland Minister. This clerical background extends to two uncles both ministers who ‘came out’ in the disruption of 1843 both later serving terms as Moderator of the Free Church General Assembly.