James Bonfils was a local headmaster between 1974 and 1975. He briefly stayed at Emmerdale Farm with the Sugdens. In 1974, James became friendly with Kathy Gimbel and this lead to some gossip. In March 1975, Sam Pearson was a bit sick of James lodging with them at Emmerdale so managed to find James a vacant house he may like to move in to.
Background information
Whatever happened to James after 1975 is uncertain but it appears that he had left Beckindale by 1978 as he was no longer the headmaster of the school by then.