Modern English biography

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