Robert Jameson (other)
Robert Jameson (1774–1854) was a naturalist and mineralogist. Robert Jameson may also refer to: * Robert Jameson (shipowner) (d. 1608) Scottish merchant * Bobby Jameson (1945–2015), American singer and songwriter * Robert Sympson Jameson (1796–1854), Canadian lawyer, judge and political figure * Robert William Jameson (1805–1868), politician, playwright and newspaper editor See also * Robert Jamieson (other) Robert Jamieson may refer to: * Robert Jamieson (moderator) (1802–1880), moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1872 * Bob Jamieson, American television journalist * Craig Jamieson (Robert Craig Jamieson, born 1953), Cambr ...

Robert Jameson
image:Robert Jameson.jpg, Robert Jameson Robert Jameson Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS FRSE (11 July 1774 – 19 April 1854) was a Scottish natural history, naturalist and mineralogist. As Regius Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh for fifty years, developing his predecessor John Walker (natural historian), John Walker's concepts based on mineralogy into geological theories of Neptunism which held sway into the 1830s. Jameson is notable for his advanced scholarship, and his museum collection. The minerals and fossils collection of the Museum of Edinburgh University became one of the largest in Europe during Jameson's long tenure at the university. Early life Jameson was born in Leith on 11 July 1774, the son of Catherine Paton (1750–94) and Thomas Jameson (c.1750–1802), a soap manufacturer on Rotten Row (now Water Street). They lived on Sherrif Brae. His early education was spent at Leith Grammar School, after which he became the apprentice of t ...
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Robert Jameson (shipowner)
Robert Jameson (died 1608) was a Scottish shipowner from Ayr. Jameson was a burgess of Ayr, and owner of ships including the ''James Royall''. He is described as Master of his ships, and also as "Captain Robert Jameson". His brother George (d. 1603) was also a burgess of Ayr. Career In August 1584 James VI gave Jameson a ship called the ''Pheasant'' which had been confiscated from William Gytonis for piracy on the West Seas. In 1585 the former royal favourite James Stewart, Earl of Arran embarked on Robert Jameson's boat carrying royal jewellery including 'Kingis Eitche', the Great H of Scotland, but he was forced to give his treasure up to William Stewart of Caverston, Governor of Dumbarton Castle, aboard ship in the coastal water known as the Fairlie Road. In 1588 James VI of Scotland hired a ship from Ayr, which may have belonged to Robert Jameson, to be fitted out for Sir William Stewart of Carstairs to pursue the rebel Lord Maxwell with 120 musketeers or "hagbutters". On ...
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Bobby Jameson
Robert Parker Jameson (April 20, 1945 – May 12, 2015) was an American singer-songwriter who was briefly promoted as a major star in the early 1960s and later attracted a cult following with his 1965 album '' Songs of Protest and Anti-Protest'', issued under the name Chris Lucey. The album's dark lyrics and sophisticated arrangements led its advocates to note similarities with Love's 1967 album ''Forever Changes''. For decades, little was known about Jameson or his origins, and he was more famous for engaging in public disturbances and suicide attempts than his music. Starting his career in 1963, Jameson was hyped as the next major pop event in an elaborate promotional campaign that ran in the magazines ''Billboard'' and '' Cashbox''. For the next five years, he released 11 singles across eight different American and British record labels. At one point, he was the opening live act for the Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, and Chubby Checker, and also declined an offer to join the Monkees ...
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Robert Sympson Jameson
Robert Sympson Jameson (1796 – August 1, 1854) was a lawyer and politician in Upper Canada, and later in the Province of Canada. He served as the first Speaker of the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada from 1841 to 1843. Early years He was born at Harbridge in the English county of Hampshire in 1796 and educated in Ambleside. He studied law at the Middle Temple and was called to the English bar in 1823. He practiced in London. He married Anna Murphy, a British author, in 1825. In 1829, he was appointed Puisne judge and Chief Justice of Dominica; his wife remained in England. In 1833, he returned to London after refusing the same post in Tobago. Upper Canada He was named Attorney General of Upper Canada in the same year and arrived in York (Toronto) in June. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada for Leeds in 1834, but his election was later invalidated after an appeal; it was found that Ogle Robert Gowan's Orange supporters had intim ...
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Robert William Jameson
Robert William Jameson, WS (27 September 1805 – 10 December 1868), was a Scottish Writer to the Signet in Edinburgh, Town Councillor, newspaper editor, poet and playwright. He was the father of Sir Leander Starr Jameson, South African statesman and prime minister, and the nephew of Professor Robert Jameson of the University of Edinburgh. Born in Edinburgh in 1805, Robert William was the son of Thomas Jameson, a wealthy shipowner, merchant and burgess (title), burgess of the city of Edinburgh, as recorded in Colvin, Vol. 1: 1-2 (1922). Colvin writes of Robert William's father and grandfather, both of whom were named Thomas Jameson, that: "These Jamesons came, so the tradition goes, from the Shetland Islands; and both their origin and their Crest (heraldry), crest, a ship in full sail, with ''Sine Metu'' for motto, suggest that they once followed a seafaring life. But they had been long settled in Leith and Edinburgh." (Colvin, 1922, Vol.1:1). In 1835 Robert William Jameson mar ...
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