Major John Gordon Jameson (1878–1955) was Unionist Party MP for Edinburgh West. He was also an advocate, and his father was

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. He unsuccessfully contested the

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, where he had already been selected as the Unionist candidate before the MP died. (At that stage he was nominally a

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, although they merged with the Conservatives only three months later.) He was elected in Edinburgh West as a supporter of

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's coalition government in 1918, but he lost his seat to the Liberals in 1922. In 1923, Jameson was appointed

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of the

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and became a member of the Council of the

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, a position he retained until 1932.

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* 1878 births 1955 deaths Members of the Faculty of Advocates Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Edinburgh constituencies Unionist Party (Scotland) MPs UK MPs 1918–1922 Liberal Unionist Party parliamentary candidates {{Conservative-UK-MP-1870s-stub