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JAMESON, LEANDER STARR (1853– ) , See also:

BRITISH

British colonial statesman, son of R. W. Jameson, a writer to the signet in See also:

EDINBURGH

Edinburgh, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Edinburgh in 1853, and was educated for the medical profession at University See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College See also:

HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

Hospital, See also:

LONDON

London (M.R.C.S. 1875; M.D. 1877). After acting as See also:

house physician, house surgeon and demonstrator of See also:

anatomy, and showing promise of a successful professional career in London, his See also:

HEALTH

health See also:

broke down from overwork in 1878, and he went out to See also:

South See also:

Africa and settled down in practice at See also:

Kimberley. There he rapidly acquired a See also:

GREAT

great reputation as a medical See also:

man, and, besides numbering See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

President See also:

KRUGER, STEPHANUS JOHANNES PAULUS (1825-1904)

Kruger and the See also:

MATABELE (" vanishing " or " hidden " people, so called from their appearance in battle, hidden behind enormous oxhide shields)

Matabele See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief Lobengula among his patients, came much into contact with See also:

CECIL

Cecil See also:

Rhodes. In 1888 his See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence with Lobengula was successfully exerted to induce that chieftain to See also:

grant the concessions to the agents of Rhodes which led to the formation of the British South Africa See also:

COMPANY

Company; and when the company proceeded to open up Mashonaland, Jameson abandoned his medical practice and joined the See also:

PIONEER

pioneer expedition of 1890. From this See also:

time his fortunes were See also:

BOUND, or BOUNDARY (from O. Fr. bonde, Med. Lat. bodena or butina, a frontier line)

bound up with Rhodes's schemes in the See also:

north. Immediately after the pioneer See also:

COLUMN (Lat. columna)

column had occupied Mashonaland, Jameson, with F. C. See also:

SELOUS, FREDERICK COURTNEY (1851- )

Selous and A.

R. Colquhoun, went See also:

east to Manicaland and was instrumental in securing the greater See also:

PART

part of that See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, to which See also:

PORTUGAL

Portugal was laying claim, for the Chartered Company. In 1891 Jameson succeeded Colquhoun as See also:

ADMINISTRATOR

administrator of See also:

RHODESIA (so named after Cecil Rhodes)

Rhodesia. The events connected with his 18o8 ; 3rd ed., 182o) ; Elements of Geognosy (1809) ; Mineralogical Travels through the See also:

HEBRIDES, THE, or WESTERN ISLES

Hebrides, See also:

Orkney and See also:

SHETLAND, or ZETLAND

Shetland Islands (2 vols., 1813); and See also:

MANUAL

Manual of See also:

MINERALOGY

Mineralogy (1821); besides a number of occasional papers, of which a See also:

list will be found in the Edinburgh New Philosophical See also:

Journal for See also:

JULY

July 1854, along with a portrait and See also:

BIOGRAPHICAL

biographical See also:

SKETCH (directly adapted from Dutch schets, which was taken from Ital. schizzo, a rough draft, Lat. schedium, something hastily made, Gr. oxE&os, sudden, off-hand, axeb6v, near by; Ger. Skizze and Fr. esquisse are from the same source)

sketch of the author. vigorous See also:

ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration and the See also:

WARS

wars with the Matabele are narrated under RHODESIA. At the end of 1894 " Dr Jim " (as he was familiarly called) came to See also:

England and was feted on all sides; he was made a C.B., and returned to Africa in the See also:

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring of 1895 with enhanced See also:

PRESTIGE

prestige. On the last See also:

day of that See also:

YEAR

year the See also:

WORLD

world was startled to learn that Jameson, with a force of 600 men, had made a See also:

RAID

raid into the See also:

TRANSVAAL

Transvaal from See also:

MAFEKING

Mafeking in support of a projected rising in See also:

JOHANNESBURG

Johannesburg, which had been connived at by Rhodes at the Cape (see RHODES and TRANS-See also:

VAAL

vAAL). Jameson's force was compelled to surrender at Doornkop, receiving a See also:

GUARANTEE (sometimes spelt " guarantie " or " guaranty "; an O. Fr. form of " warrant," from the Teutonic word which appears in German as wahren, to defend or make safe and binding)

guarantee that the lives of all would be spared; he and his See also:

OFFICERS

officers were sent to See also:

PRETORIA

Pretoria, and, after a See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short delay, during which time sections of the See also:

BOER

Boer populace clamoured for the See also:

EXECUTION (from Lat. ex-sequor, exsecutus, follow or carry out)

execution of Jameson, President Kruger on the surrender of Johannesburg (See also:

JANUARY

January 7) handed them over to the British See also:

government for See also:

PUNISHMENT (from Lat. punire, to punish, from poena, punishment, Gr. 7rocvil)

punishment. They were tried in London under the See also:

FOREIGN

Foreign Enlistment See also:

ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

Act in May 1896, and Dr Jameson was sentenced to fifteen months' inprisonment at See also:

HOLLOWAY, THOMAS (1800-1883)

Holloway. He served a year in See also:

PRISON (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. prehensio, seizure)

prison, and was then released on See also:

account of See also:

ILL

ill health. He still retained the affections of the See also:

white See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population of Rhodesia, and subsequently returned there in an unofficial capacity. He was the See also:

CONSTANT, BENJAMIN (1845-1902)

constant See also:

COMPANION (through the O. Fr. compaignon or compagnon, from the Late Lat. companio,—cum, with, and panis, bread,—one who shares meals with another; the word has been wrongly derived from the Late Lat. compagnus, one of the same pages or district)

companion of Rhodes on his journeys up to the end of his See also:

LIFE

life, and when Rhodes died in May 1902 Jameson was See also:

LEFT

left one of the executors of his will.

In 1903 Jameson came forward as the See also:

LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader of the Progressive (British) party in Cape See also:

COLONY (Lat. colonia, from colonus, a cultivator)

Colony; and that party being victorious at the See also:

general See also:

election in January-See also:

FEBRUARY

February 1904, Jameson formed an administration in which he took the See also:

POST

post of See also:

PRIME, PRIMER AND PRIMING

prime See also:

MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister. He had to See also:

FACE (from Lat. fades, derived either from facere, to make, or from a root fa-, meaning " appear "; cf. Gr. cbatvstv)

face a serious economic crisis and strenuously promoted the development of the agricultural and See also:

PASTORAL (from Lat. pastor, a shepherd)

pastoral resources of the colony. He also passed a much needed Redistribution Act, and in the session of 1906 passed an See also:

AMNESTY (from the Gr. &µvrly-ria, oblivion)

Amnesty Act restoring the See also:

REBEL, JOHANN PETER (176o-1826)

rebel voters to the See also:

FRANCHISE (from 0. Fr. franchise, freedom, franc, free)

franchise. Jameson, as prime minister of Cape Colony, attended the Colonial See also:

CONFERENCE

conference held in London in 1907. In See also:

SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September of that year the Cape See also:

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament was dissolved, and as the elections for the legislative See also:

COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council went in favour of the See also:

Bond, Jameson resigned See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office, 31st of January 1908 (see CAPE COLONY: See also:

HISTORY

History). In 1908 he was chosen one of the delegates from Cape Colony to the inter-colonial See also:

convention for the closer See also:

union of the South See also:

AFRICAN

African states, and he took a prominent part in settling the terms on which union was effected in 1909. It was at Jameson's See also:

SUGGESTION

suggestion that the See also:

Orange See also:

RIVER

River Colony was renamed Orange See also:

FREE

Free See also:

State See also:

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