JAMESON, James Sligo (son of Andrew Jameson, land agent, sheriff clerk Clackmannanshire). b. Walk house, Alloa 17 Aug. 1856; ed. at International coll. Isleworth 1868–77; read for the army but in 1877 devoted himself to travel; in Borneo 1877 where he discovered the black pern, a honey buzzard; hunted big game in Africa and discovered the junction of the Umvuli and the Umnyati 1879–81; naturalist to Emin Pacha relief expedition under H. M. Stanley 1887, contributing £1000 to the expenses; second in command of rear column under major Walter Barttelot in June 1877 at Yambuya where a third of the company died; witnessed the massacre and eating of a girl and made sketches of the scenes May 1888. d. of fever at Bangala on the Congo 17 Aug. 1888. Some of his collections exhibited at Rowland Ward’s, 166 Piccadilly, London, Nov. 1888. H. M. Stanley’s Darkest Africa (1890); J. S. Jameson’s Story of the rear column (1890), portrait; Times 22 Sep. 1888 p. 6.
JAMESON, John (eld. son of John Jameson of Dublin, distiller 1773–1851). b. 1804; distiller at 50 Bow st. and 11 and 12 Smithfield, Dublin to his death, the business was founded in 1780 and is noted for its John Jameson whisky; sheriff of Dublin 1879. d. St. Marnocks, Malahide, co. Dublin 19 Dec. 1881.
JAMESON, Robert (3 son of Thomas Jameson, soap maker). b. Leith 11 July 1774; ed. at Edin. univ.; assistant to John Cheyney, surgeon, Leith; studied under A. G. Werner at Freiberg, Saxony 1800–1802; regius professor of natural history and keeper of univ. museum, Edinb. 30 March 1804 to death; founded Wernerian natural history soc. 1808 and was the perpetual president; with sir D. Brewster originated Edinb. Philosophical journal 1819 and was sole editor from vol. x. to his death; F.L.S. 1797, F.R.S. 25 May 1826; hon. member of upwards of 50 societies in Europe and America; author of Mineralogy of the Scottish isles 2 vols. 1800; System of mineralogy 3 vols. 1804–8, 3 ed. 1820; A treatise on the external characters of minerals 1805, 2 ed. 1816; with Hugh Murray, Encyclopædia of geography 1834; Historical account of British India 1843, 2 ed. 1844. d. 21 Royal circus, Edinburgh 19 April 1854. Quarterly Journal Geol. Soc. xi 38–41 (1855); Proc. Linnean Soc. ii 306–9 (1855); Jerdan’s National portrait gallery, iv (1833), portrait; W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery, iii 126–27, portrait.
JAMESON, Robert William (brother of the preceding). b. Leith 1805; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edin.; a writer to the signet in Edin.; an original member of reformed town council of Edin. 1832; the best hustings speaker of his time; edited Wigtownshire Free Press at Stranraer 1855–61; his tragedy Timoleon 2 ed. 1852 was produced at the T.R. Edin.; proprietor of a newspaper at Sudbury 1861, then in residence in London; author of Nimrod, a poem 1848; The curse of gold, a novel 1854. d. 12 Earl’s Court terrace, Kensington, London 10 Dec. 1868. Reg. and Mag. of Biog. Feb. 1869 pp. 124–5.
JAMESON, William (son of Wm. Jameson, writer to the signet). b. Edinburgh 3 Oct. 1796; ed. at univ. of Edin.; M.R.C.S. Edin. 17 Feb. 1818; surgeon at Guayaquil, Peru 1822–6, at Quito 1826–7; professor of chemistry and botany in univ. of Quito 1827–32; assayer to the mint, Quito 1832, director 1861 to Nov. 1869; joined Church of Rome; created a caballero of Spain by Queen Isabella 1867; sent to England many new species of plants, among which species of anemone, gentian and the moss Dicranum bear his name; a genus of ferns is also called Jamesonia; author of Synopsis plantarum Æquatoriensium 2 vols. and part i. of vol. 3. Quito 1865. d. Quito 22 June 1873. Trans. Botanical Soc. Edin. xii 19–28 (1876).
JAMESON, William. b. Leith 1815; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edin.; of H.E.I.C. medical service 30 Aug. 1838; curator of museum of Asiatic Society of Bengal 1838; taken prisoner while examining the course of the Indus and imprisoned in Kohat fort 1841; superintendent of the Saharunpore botanical garden 1842 to 31 Dec. 1875; procured tea plants and distributed them in various parts of India 1843 etc., the development of tea-planting in India was entirely due to him, tea has now become a staple commodity on the lower Himalaya; surgeon major 10 April 1852, retired as deputy surgeon general 31 Dec. 1875; C.I.E. 1 Jany. 1878. d. Deyrah Doon a tea garden 18 March 1882. Proc. of Botanical Soc. of Edin. xiv 288–95 (1882).
JAMESON, William. b. Penrith 1839; apprenticed to a joiner there; a pole leaper; won the first prize for wrestling from 23 picked men at Talkin Tarn regatta 1858; wrestled Dick Wright for £25 a side at Carlisle, Dec. 1859 when he was thrown 3 times; first appeared in the London ring at Hornsey Wood House, Good Friday 1861 when he won first prize for heavy weights and divided first prize for pole leaping; won the London heavy weight prize 1862, 67 and 70, won the second prize 1863, 66 and 68; won the first prize at Carlisle 5 times; thrown by Dubois, French wrestler at Agricultural hall, London 1870; performed in the country with English and French wrestlers 1870; landlord of Griffin inn, Penrith 1871 to death; the best wrestler in North of England 1860–70, had no superior at hiping and buttocking; nearly 6 feet high and weighed 17 stone. d. Griffin inn, Penrith 23 Nov. 1888. Walter Armstrong’s Wrestliana (1870) passim.
JAMIE, William. b. Marykirk, Kincardineshire 25 Dec. 1818; a blacksmith; a teacher; author of The Jacobite’s son, a tale; The emigrant’s family. Glasgow 1854; The musings of a wanderer, being poems and songs in the Scottish dialect. Glasgow 1856. d. Pollockshaws near Glasgow 186-. R. Inglis’ Dramatic writers (1868) 58.
JAMIESON, John Lennox Kincaid. b. Milton of Campsie near Glasgow 27 March 1826; 3 class assist. engineer R.N.; at bombardment of Bomarsund, Crimean medal; superintendent engineer for Pacific steam navigation co. at Tobago 1856–66; connected with improvement of the compound marine engine 1857 etc.; manager for Randolph, Elder & Co. Glasgow 1866 and partner 1870–79, removed the works to Fairfield; introduced the three cylinder compound marine engine in the Iberia and Liguria 1872; town councillor Glasgow 1880 to death; president of Anderson’s coll. 1879; M.I.M.E. 1870. d. at his sister’s res. 38 Wickham road, St. John’s, Kent 2 July 1883. Proc. Instit. Mechanical engineers (1884) 65–6; Glasgow Herald 3 July 1883 p. 4.
JAMIESON, Robert. Merchant in connection with South America, Brazil, India and China, at 33 Great Winchester st. city of London 1836 to death; equipped at his own expense the Ethiope steamship, whose commander captain Beecroft explored several West African rivers 1839 and helped to rescue H.M.S. Albert and the government Niger expedition 1841; declined vice presidency of Institut d’Afrique of France 1840; sought to civilise Africa by opening up the rivers and suppressing slave trade; author of An appeal to the government against the proposed Niger expedition 1840, A further appeal 1841, and Sequel to appeals 1843; Commerce with Africa 1859. d. 18 Gloucester sq. Hyde park, London 5 April 1861. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. v 160 (1860–61); Times 8 April 1861 p. 9.