Author: Jameson, Robert William
Biography:
JAMESON, Robert William (1805-68: ODNB)
Writer to the Signet (Scottish solicitor) and newspaper editor. He was born on 27 Sept. 1805 (baptised 24 Oct.) at Leith to Thomas Jameson and Mary (Hanson) Jameson and educated at the high school and university in Edinburgh. He married Christina Pringle in Edinburgh on 2 Apr. 1835 and they had eleven children. The 1841 Census shows the couple living in North Leith with three children and with Robert's mother. In 1855 they moved to Stranraer where Jameson was the editor of the Wigtown Free Press. His politics were radical and reformist, and he was renowned as a powerful speaker. The family moved to England in 1861, and he died on 10 Dec. 1868 at their home in Kensington. He was buried in the Brompton cemetery on 16 Dec. 1868. Initially he was said to have left effects of under £1000 but in 1869 this was changed to under £100. Jameson wrote three later works: Nimrod, a dramatic poem (1848), Timoleon, a tragedy (1852), and The Curse of Gold (a novel: 1854). (ODNB 21 Mar. 2019; ancestry.co.uk 21 Mar. 2019) SR
Other Names:
- Robert W. Jameson