Lieutenant-Colonel John Eustace Jameson (22 March 1853 – 22 December 1919) was an Irish soldier in the

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, distiller and politician.‘JAMESON, Lt-Col John Eustace-’, ''Who Was Who'', A & C Black 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 200
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/ref>Obituary, Lieut.-Col. J. E. Jameson, ''The Times'', 23 December 1919 Born in Ireland, the son of John Jameson of Anfield, County Dublin, he was educated at Sandhurst. He served in the

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, the

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, and the

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. In 1914, he raised the

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, and served in Dublin and Flanders. He served as HM Inspector of Factories and was managing director of William Jameson distillers, Dublin. From 1895 until 1906 he served as member of parliament for

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. Elected as a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, he took an independent line in the 1900s and in 1904 he transferred his support to the

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, which was affiliated to the

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.''The Times'', 19 July 1904 He contested the 1906 general election in

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, but was defeated by a candidate for the Labour Representation Committee. He married Mary Cabbell of Cromer, and died in 1919 at his residence in Ealing, London.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jameson, John Eustace 1853 births 1919 deaths Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Clare constituencies (1801–1922) UK MPs 1895–1900 UK MPs 1900–1906 Irish Parliamentary Party MPs Irish Unionist Party MPs Worcestershire Yeomanry officers Anti-Parnellite MPs 20th Hussars officers