JAMES, WILLIAM HENRY (eldest son of Wm. James, railway projector 1771–1837). _b._ Henley-in-Arden, March 1796; assisted his father in survey of Liverpool and Manchester railway; an engineer in Birmingham; took out patents for locomotives, steam engines, railway carriages, diving apparatus, &c. _d._ Dulwich college almshouses 16 Dec. 1873.
JAMES, SIR WILLIAM MILBOURNE (2 son of Christopher James of Swansea). _b._ Merthyr-Tydvil, Glamorganshire 29 June 1807; ed. at univ. of Glasgow, M.A. 1828, hon. D.C.L. 1873; barrister L.I. 10 June 1831, bencher 15 April 1853 to death, treasurer 1873–4; vice chancellor of county palatine of Lancaster at Liverpool 4 Jany. 1853 to 6 Jany. 1869; Q.C. Feb. 1853; contested Derby 30 April 1859; counsel for Bishop of Natal 1864; leading counsel for plaintiff in spiritualist case of Lyon v. Home 1868; vice chancellor 11 Jany. 1869 to 2 July 1870; knighted at Osborne 4 Feb. 1869; lord justice of appeal 4 July 1870 to death; P.C. 6 July 1870; arbitrator under European Assurance society arbitration acts 1872 and 1873, 20 Jany. 1875; author of The British in India 1882. _d._ 47 Wimpole st. London 7 June 1881. _A generation of judges by their reporter_ (1886) 95–111; _Red Dragon_, _i_ 483–93 (1882), _portrait_; _I.L.N. liv_ 304 (1869), _portrait_.
JAMES, WILLIAM POWELL (1 son of rev. Wm. Henry James). _b._ 1837; ed. at Oriel coll. Oxf., scholar 1854–8; B.A. 1858, M.A. 1862; author of King Alfred surveying Oxford at the present time: Newdigate prize poem 1856; Scenes from Plautus, with notes 1879; Guesses at purpose in nature, with especial reference to plants 1882; From source to sea, or gleanings about rivers in many fields 1884. _d._ 1885.
JAMES, WILLIAM WITHALL (eld. son of John Haddy James 1788–1869). _b._ Exeter 1823; studied King’s coll. London; M.R.C.S. 1844, F.R.C.S. 1848; L.S.A. 1845; in practice at Exeter 1846 to death; surgeon Devon and Exeter hospital 1858 to death, to which he left £2000, the interest to be divided among its four surgeons; fellow Med. Chir. soc. _d._ Exmouth 17 March 1865. _Proc. Med. and Chir. Soc. iv._ 148–9, 156–9 (1865).
JAMESON, ANDREW (son of Andrew Jameson, sheriff substitute of Fifeshire). _b._ 1811; called to Scotch bar 1835; sheriff substitute of Ayrshire 1843–5; sheriff substitute of Midlothian 1845–65; sheriff of Aberdeen 6 Nov. 1865 to death; reported on the laws of Malta and framed a civil and criminal code for that island 1854. _d._ Edinburgh 30 Oct. 1870. _Journal of jurisprudence_, _xv_ 666–8 (1870); _Law magazine and review_, _xxx_ 345–47 (1871).
JAMESON, ANNA BROWNELL (eld. dau. of Dudley Brownell Murphy, miniature painter, _d._ March 1842). _b._ Dublin 19 May 1794; governess to children of marquess of Winchester 1810–14, to children of E. J. W. Littleton afterwards lord Hatherton 1821–5. (_m._ 1825 Robert Sympson Jameson, barrister of M.T. 28 Nov. 1823, vice chancellor of Upper Canada 1837, _d._ Toronto 1 Aug. 1854); resided in Germany 1833–6, 1845 etc.; lived with her husband in Canada, Sep. 1836 to March 1838; great friend of lady Byron from 1846, disagreed with her about 1853; resided in Italy 1847 etc. studying art; granted civil list pension of £100 Aug. 30, 1851; her friends gave her an annuity of £100, 1854; author of The Diary of an Ennuyée. By A Lady 1826; Companion to the private galleries of art in London 1842; Memoirs of the early Italian painters 2 vols. 1845, 4 ed. 1868; Sacred and legendary art 2 vols. 1848, 3 ed. 1857; Legends of the monastic orders as represented in the fine arts 1850, 2 ed. 1852; Legends of the Madonna 1852, 2 ed. 1857; The history of our Lord and of his life as exemplified in works of art 2 vols. 1864. _d._ 57 Conduit st. Regent st. London 17 March 1860. _G. Macpherson’s Memoirs of life of A. Jameson_ (1878), _portrait_; _Winter studies by Mrs. Jameson 3 vols._ (1838); _B. R. Parkes’ Vignettes_ (1866) 441–8; _I.L.N. xxxvi_ 300, 309 (1860), _portrait_; _Martineau’s Biog. sketches 4 ed._ (1876) 429–36; _Powell’s Pictures of living authors_ (1851) 165–77.
JAMESON, FRANCIS JAMES (2 son of Robert Francis Jameson, barrister I.T. 1815, judge at Havannah 1819). _b._ Hampstead 13 Sep. 1828; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., 6 wrangler and B.A. 1850, M.A. 1853; fellow of Caius March 1852; fellow and tutor of St. Cath. coll. June 1855–62; C. of St. Sepulchre’s, Camb. 1852–62; pro-proctor at Camb. 1858–9, select preacher 1862; R. of Coton near Camb. 1862 to death; author of The principles of the solutions of Senate-house riders, Camb. 1851; The analogy between the miracles and doctrines of scripture: Norrisian prize essay 1852. _d._ Bournemouth 6 Feb. 1869. _Correspondence between the vice chancellor and the pro-proctors G. Williams and F. J. Jameson_ (1859); _F. J. Jameson’s Heaven’s whisper in the storm_ (1869), _Memoir pp. ix–xx_.
JAMESON, SIR GEORGE INGLIS. Entered Bombay army 1819; lieut. col. 3 European regiment 17 Sep. 1855 to 29 Sep. 1860; colonel 30 Bombay N.I. 29 Sep. 1860 to 1863; col. 23 N.I. 1863–9; M.G. 15 June 1862; K.C.S.I. 20 May 1871. _d._ Heathville, 1 Vanbrugh park road east, Blackheath 24 Oct. 1871.
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).