William Jameson (fl
William Jameson may refer to: * William Jameson (religious controversialist) (fl. 1689–1720), Scottish teacher and religious controversialist * William Jameson (botanist, born 1796) (1796–1873), Scottish-Ecuadorian botanist * William Jameson (botanist, born 1815) (1815–1882), Scottish botanist and doctor in India * William James Jameson (1898–1990), United States federal judge * William Jameson, member of the Jameson whiskey dynasty and manager of the Marrowbone Lane Distillery The Marrowbone Lane Distillery was an Irish whiskey distillery located on Marrowbone Lane, in Dublin, Ireland. One of the "big four" historical Dublin whiskey firms, it was run by William Jameson, a member of the Jameson whiskey dynasty. However, ...

William Jameson (religious Controversialist)
William Jameson (fl. 1689–1720) was a blind Scottish university teacher and religious controversialist. Biography Jameson was born blind, but, being educated at the university of Glasgow, he ‘atteaned to great learning, and became particularly well skilled in history both civill and ecclesiastick’ (Munimenta Univ. Glasg., Maitland Club, ii. 363). He may possibly be the William Gemisoune who was a student in December 1676 (ib.) On 30 May 1692 the senate, taking into consideration the blindness and great learning of Jameson, who had no estate to subsist by, allowed him two hundred merks Scots for two years, for which he was to give instruction ‘according to his capacity’ in civil and ecclesiastical history under the direction of the faculty (ib. ii. 363). From December 1692 he delivered a public prelection on civil history once a week in Latin (ib. ii. 364). He is sometimes designated as lecturer, sometimes loosely as professor of history. In 1696 the university increased ...
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William Jameson (botanist, Born 1796)
William ("Gulielmo") Jameson (1796–1873) was a Scottish- Ecuadorian botanist. He was born in Edinburgh and studied at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He made several voyages as a ship's surgeon, first to Baffin Bay, then to South America. In 1826 he settled in Quito, Ecuador. He was then appointed professor of chemistry and botany at Universidad Central del Ecuador. He went back to Edinburgh in 1869, returned to Quito in 1872, and died shortly thereafter. Jameson made botanical investigations and collections in Greenland, Ecuador and in other South American countries. He began writing a flora of Ecuador, ''Synopsis Plantarum Aequatoriensium'', of which Volumes 1 and 2 were published in 1865. The work was not completed. Jameson is commemorated in the name of the Andean snipe, ''Gallinago jamesoni'', and a species of Buddleja bush found in Ecuador, ''Buddleja jamesonii''. As well as ''Jamesonia'' by in the Pteridaceae family, first published in 1830, and ''Jamesoniell ...
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William Jameson (botanist, Born 1815)
William Jameson CIE FRSE (1815-1882) was a Scottish physician and botanist linked to the massive spread of tea plantations in North India in the 19th century. Life He was born in Leith in 1815 the son of Laurence Jameson or Jamieson (1783-1827), a soda manufacturer at Silverfield and his wife, Jane Watson (b.1788). His uncle was Robert Jameson FRSE. He was educated at the High School in Edinburgh then studied Medicine at Edinburgh University. In 1838 he received a position with the Indian Medical Service based in Bengal. His interest quickly drifted to botany and he was made Curator of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. In 1842 he was made Superintendent of the Saharanpur Botanical Garden. From 1860 he delegated this duty to Dr John Lindsay Stewart whilst he was absent for a year. In 1863 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being John Hutton Balfour. From 1875, he was Deputy Surgeon-General of India for which he was appointed Companion of th ...
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William James Jameson
William James Jameson (August 8, 1898 – October 8, 1990) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Montana. Education and career Born in Butte, Montana, Jameson received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from the University of Montana in 1919 and a Bachelor of Laws from the Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana in 1922. He was in private practice in Billings, Montana from 1922 to 1957, and was a member of the Montana House of Representatives from 1927 to 1930. Federal judicial service On March 5, 1957, Jameson was nominated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Montana vacated by Judge Charles Nelson Pray. Jameson was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 26, 1957, and received his commission on March 28, 1957. He served as Chief Judge from 1965 to 1968. He assumed senior status on February 27, 1969. He was a Judge of the Temporary Eme ...
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