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.
JAMIESON, REV. ROBERT (son of Mr. Jamieson of Edinburgh, baker). _b._ Edin. 3 Jany. 1802; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edin.; licensed as a preacher 1827; minister of Weststruther in presbytery of Lauder 1830–7; minister of Currie, Edin. 1837–44; minister of St. Paul’s, Glasgow 14 March 1844 to death; D.D. Glasgow 17 April 1848; moderator of general assembly 1872; author of Eastern manners illustrative of the Old Testament 1836, 4 ed. 1854; Eastern manners illustrative of the New Testament, 3 ed. 1851; Manners and trials of primitive christians 1839; with E. H. Bickersteth and Brown, The Holy Bible with a commentary 1861–5. _d._ 156 Randolph terrace, Glasgow 26 Oct. 1880. _John Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy_ (1848) 259–65.
JAMIESON, THOMAS HILL. _b._ Bonnington near Arbroath, Aug. 1843; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edin.; assistant librarian of the Advocates’ library, Edin., and librarian June 1871 to death; edited a reprint of Barclay’s translation of Brandt’s Ship of Fools 1874; author of Notice of the life and writings of Alexander Barclay 1874; over-exerted himself at time of fire in Advocates’ Lib. 3 March 1875. _d._ 7 Gillespie crescent, Edinburgh 9 Jany. 1876.
JAMRACH, _Johann Christian Carl_ (son of Johann Gottlieb Jamrach, chief of the Hamburg river police). _b._ Hamburg, March 1815; dealer in wild animals 86 Upper East Smithfield 1843, removed to an establishment in Ratcliffe Highway known as 179 & 180 St. George st.; naturalised 12 March 1856; well known among naturalists, he supplied menageries and zoological gardens with many of their animals; imported eastern curiosities and had a collection of Japanese idols; a breeder of Persian greyhounds, Japanese pugs and Madagascar cats; had encounter with a runaway tiger in 1857. _d._ Beaufort cottage, Wellington road, Bow 6 Sep. 1891. _Strand Mag. April 1891 pp._ 429–36; _Good Words_ (1879) 1865–9; _Times 8 Sep. 1891 p._ 7; _Pall Mall Budget 10 Sep. 1891_.
NOTE.--Anton Herman Jamrach junior, naturalist, eld. son of above _d._ 355 East India dock road, Poplar 14 Nov. 1855.
JANISCH, HUDSON RALPH. Entered colonial service 1838; police magistrate St. Helena 1851, acting queen’s advocate there 1856, 1857, acting colonial sec. 1861, 1868, colonial sec. and auditor general; governor of St. Helena 1 Oct. 1873 to death; author of The exhumation of the remains of Napoleon Bonaparte. St. Helena 1840. _d._ St. Helena, April 1884.
JANSON, AILSA (son of Henry Etienne Janson tutor to George V. of Hanover). _b._ Richmond, Surrey, Jany. 1844; ed. at Polytechnic sch. Hanover; under Tolmé, C.E. employed on Gellivara canals, Sweden 1865–6; resident engineer East Hungarian railway 1871 etc.; A.I.C.E. 3 Dec. 1872 and member 14 May 1878; constructor of the Soudan railway 1875, director of works in the Soudan 1878; engineer and general manager of Great Western railway, Brazil 1879 to death. _d._ of yellow fever, Pernambuco 28 April 1885. _Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. lxxxi_ 324–7 (1885).
JANSON, THOMAS CORBYN (son of Mr. Janson of Tunbridge Wells, banker). _b._ 1 July 1809; ed. at Hove near Brighton; partner in Brown, Janson & Co. bankers 32 Abchurch lane, London to death; F.L.S. March 1843. _d._ Stamford hill, Middlesex 23 June 1863.
JAQUES, RICHARD MACHELL (son of Robert Jaques founder of the Easby stud, _d._ 1842). _b._ 31 March 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.; well known agriculturalist; steward at many race meetings and the reviver of the York meetings 1843; owner of many horses, chiefly trained by John Scott, very unlucky in racing, ran second for the St. Leger with High Treason 1860; had a stud at Easby abbey, Richmond, Yorkshire, including Irish Birdcatcher, Pyrrhus the First and other famous sires; sold his yearlings at Doncaster; a breeder of cattle particularly of shorthorns; president Richmond Farmers’ club 1873. _d._ 30 June 1889. _Sporting Review_, _xv_ 7–10 (1846), _portrait_.
JARACZEWSKI, MIECISLAS, Count, great friend of Prince of Wales; a well known man in fashionable and racing circles, member of Turf club. _d._ at his lodgings 4 Bennett st. St. James’s, London 11 March 1881. _bur._ R.C. cemetery, Kensal green 17 March.
JARDINE, ALEXANDER (2 son of Sir Alexander Jardine 6 baronet, _d._ 1821). _b._ 2 Oct. 1803; ensign 75 foot 22 April 1826, lieut. col. 1 June 1849, retired on full pay 7 Oct. 1859; M.G. 7 Oct. 1859. _d._ Brighton 23 June 1869.
JARDINE, DAVID (son of rev. David B. Jardine 1766–97, unitarian minister). _b._ 1792; barrister M.T. 7 Feb. 1823, went western circuit; one of the 20 municipal corporation comrs. for England and Wales 18 July 1833 to 1835; recorder of Bath, March 1837 to death; stipendiary magistrate Bow st. London 1839 to death; author of General index to Howell’s Collection of state trials 1828; A reading on the use of torture 1837; A narrative of the gunpowder plot 1857. _d._ The Heath, Weybridge, Surrey 13 Sep. 1860.
JARDINE, SIR HENRY (son of Rev. Dr. John Jardine, dean of chapel royal in Scotland 1763–6). _b._ 1766; a writer to the signet 1790; king’s remembrancer of court of exchequer in Scotland 1820–37; knighted at Carlton house, London 20 April 1825; F.S.A. Scot. and V.P.; F.R.S. Edin. _d._ Belleville lodge, Newington, Edinburgh 11 Aug. 1851.