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David Jardine Jardine (4 August 1847, in Tinwald,
David Jardine Jardine (4 August 1847, in Tinwald, Dumfries
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– 23 August 1922, in Lockerbie
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) was a barrister, landowner, big-game hunter, and owner of racehorses.
After education at the Edinburgh Academy
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from 1859 to 1864, David Jardine matriculated in 1867 at Trinity College, Cambridge
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, graduating there B.A. in 1872 and M.A. in 1875. He was in 1871 admitted to the Inner Temple
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and in 1874 called to the Bar, practising law on the South Eastern Circuit. After leaving the University of Cambridge, he travelled in India, Java, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, the United States, Canada, Egypt, and South Africa. He spent four years in India shooting big game. He served as Justice of the Peace in Dumfriesshire
Dumfriesshire or the County of Dumfries or Shire of Dumfries () is a Counties of Scotland, historic county and registration county in southern Scotland. The Dumfries lieutenancy areas of Scotland, lieutenancy area covers a similar area to the hi ...
. As a racehorse owner, he won the Royal Hunt Cup at Ascot with "Refractor" in 1899 and the Northumberland Plate with "Sir Harry" in 1909.
In 1886 Jardine married Mary Angela Bright, a daughter of Sir Charles Tilston Bright
Sir Charles Tilston Bright (8 June 1832 – 3 May 1888) was a British electrical engineer who oversaw the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable in 1858, for which work he was knighted.
Life
Born on 8 June 1832 in Wanstead, Essex, ...
. The marriage produced a son and a daughter.
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