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James Jardine (other)
James Jardine may refer to: * James Jardine (engineer) (1776–1858), Scottish civil engineer, mathematician and geologist * James Jardine (cricketer, born 1794) (1794–1872), English cricketer * James Jardine (judge) (1846–1909), English cricketer, academic, barrister and judge * James Jardine (Medal of Honor) (1837–1922), Union Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient * James Bruce Jardine (1870–1955), British soldier and diplomat * James Willoughby Jardine (1879–1945), British judge and politician {{hndis, Jardine, James ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Jardine (engineer)
James Jardine (13 November 1776–20 June 1858) was a Scottish civil engineer, mathematician and geologist. He was the first person to determine mean sea level. He built tunnels and bridges, including for the Innocent Railway, and built reservoirs including Glencorse, Threipmuir, Harlaw for Edinburgh Water Company, and Cobbinshaw for the Union Canal. Life Jardine was born in Applegarth, Dumfriesshire, on 30 November 1776, the son of a farmer. He was educated at Dumfries Academy and the University of Edinburgh. He studied mathematics under Prof John Playfair. He was a friend of Thomas Telford and they collaborated on several projects Following survey work at the Firth of Tay, he was the first person in the world to calculate mean sea level. From 1796 to 1808 he lectured in mathematics at the University of Edinburgh. From 1811 he began a series of harbour designs, beginning with Saltcoats. This was followed by Perth (1831), major extensions to Leith Docks (1835), and Eyemo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Jardine (cricketer, Born 1794)
James Jardine (29 January 1794 – 13 January 1872) was an English cricketer with Amateur status in first-class cricket#Distinction between amateurs and professionals, amateur status. He was associated with Kent county cricket teams, Kent and made his first-class cricket, first-class debut in 1827. He was a contractor by profession, his family being connected with the railways.Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), pp. 294–295.Available onlineat the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.) References 1794 births 1872 deaths English cricketers English cricketers of 1826 to 1863 Kent cricketers Married v Single cricketers {{England-cricket-bio-1790s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Jardine (judge)
James Jardine (6 June 1846 – 6 January 1909) was an English first-class cricketer, academic, barrister and judge. The son of William Jardine, he was born at Dunstable in June 1846. He was educated at Dunstable School, before going up to Caius College, Cambridge. He became a fellow at Caius in 1870. A student of the Inner Temple, he was called to the bar in January 1871. Jardine played first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club on four occasions between 1870 and 1874, scoring 53 runs with a highest score of 21. Jardine was appointed the Perry Professor of jurisprudence at Bombay University in British India in 1877, where he later served as the dean of the Faculty of Law. He was appointed a judge of the Bombay High Court in January 1886. Jardine died in Switzerland at St Moritz in January 1909, following a short illness with pneumonia Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli. Symptoms typically ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Jardine (Medal Of Honor)
James Jardine (April 16, 1837 – December 9, 1922) was a Union Army soldier during the American Civil War. He received the Medal of Honor for gallantry during the Siege of Vicksburg on May 22, 1863. Union assault On May 22, 1863, General Ulysses S. Grant ordered an assault on the Confederate heights at Vicksburg, Mississippi. The plan called for a storming party of volunteers to build a bridge across a moat and plant scaling ladders against the enemy embankment in advance of the main attack. The volunteers knew the odds were against survival and the mission was called, in nineteenth century vernacular, a "forlorn hope". Only single men were accepted as volunteers and even then, twice as many men as needed came forward and were turned away. The assault began in the early morning following a naval bombardment. The Union soldiers came under enemy fire immediately and were pinned down in the ditch they were to cross. Despite repeated attacks by the main Union body, the men of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Bruce Jardine
Brigadier General James Bruce Jardine (1870 – 17 March 1955) was a British soldier and diplomat. He earned the rank of Brigadier-General in the service of the 5th Lancers. Family life Jardine was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1870 and was educated at Charterhouse School and then the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. Jardine was the grandson of the explorer James Bruce who traced the source of the Nile River; and he was named for that maternal ancestor. In December 1908, he married Agnes Sara Hargreaves Brown.Burke, John ''et al.'' (1914). His wife was the daughter of Sir Alexander Brown, 1st Baronet.Merchant Networks (Anglo-Australian genealogy website) Career Jardine joi ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
