Modern English biography

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.