Andrew Jameson, Lord Ardwall (5 July 1845 – 21 November 1911) was a Scottish Advocate and Judge. He is the subject of a 1913 biography by

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Life

Born at

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on 5 July 1845, he was eldest son of Alexandra, daughter of Alexander Colquhoun Campbell of Barnhill,

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and her husband, Andrew Jameson,

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. Educated at

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, he graduated with an MA from the

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in 1865. He then attended the

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, and on 19 May 1870 he passed at the

Scottish bar The Faculty of Advocates is an independent body of lawyers who have been admitted to practise as advocates before the courts of Scotland, especially the Court of Session and the High Court of Justiciary. The Faculty of Advocates is a constitu ...

, where he gradually built up a practice. In 1882 Jameson was appointed junior counsel to the department of woods and forests. On 27 April 1886 he was made

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. Having taken part in politics as a

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, he received from

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's government in 1890 the office of

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on 28 November 1890, and became sheriff of Perthshire on 27 October 1891. On the resignation of

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, Jameson was raised to the bench, on 6 January 1905, with the title of Lord Ardwall. In the same year he was made an honorary LLD of the

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. After an illness of about six months he died, at 14 Moray Place, Edinburgh, on 21 November 1911, and was buried at

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Interests

Jameson conducted inquiries on behalf of the government, acted as an arbiter in industrial disputes, and was for some years, in succession to Lord James of Hereford, chairman of the board of conciliation, between the coalowners and

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. As a member of the Free Church of Scotland, he supported

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in promoting its union with the United Presbyterians (1900), though he had opposed Rainy during the agitation for disestablishing the

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. During the later part of his career he paid attention to agriculture.

Family

In 1875 Jameson married Christian, daughter of John Gordon Brown of Lochanhead and niece of Walter McCulloch of Ardwall in Kirkcudbrightshire, from whom she inherited the estate after which the judge took his title. They had one daughter and three sons, the eldest,

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, and youngest of whom entered the army. The second, John Gordon Jameson, advocate, unsuccessfully contested the 1912 Edinburgh East by-election, as a Unionist.

Notes

Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Jameson, Andrew 1845 births 1911 deaths People from Ayr Alumni of the University of St Andrews Alumni of the University of Edinburgh People educated at Edinburgh Academy Members of the Faculty of Advocates Ardwall Scottish sheriffs 19th-century Scottish judges 20th-century Scottish judges