James Valentine Jelley was an English artist who was an employee of the Birmingham School of Art and a member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists and served as its president from 19321935.
Valentine was born onMay 1856 in Lincoln to John James Jelley, a grocers assistant and Mary Ann Jelley . James was married to Esther Louisa Langford onDecember 1884 at the Church of St Nicholas, Warwick. Esther Louisa died onJuly 1916 at the age of 64 and in 1917, Jelley was remarried to Edith Mary Brock, who like her husband exhibited at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. He worked at the Birmingham School of Art foryears.
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