James Jameson

James Jameson became involved with his brother William in his whiskey business in Dublin and by 1820 it was known as the William and James Jameson Whiskey Company. James took ownership of the business entirely by 1825, presumably after William had died, Eventually, by the end of that century, the William and John Jameson Whiskey companies were merged and became known as the John Jameson and Sons Whiskey Company. Was a director of the Bank of Ireland.

James Jameson lived at 19 Harcourt Street in Dublin for many years. In 1836 he built a home in Montrose, Donnybrook, a suburb of Dublin, which has since become Dublin's home of RTE. He also bought the large 3,123 acre Winfield estate, in Moylough, County Galway.

James Jameson, was elected a member of the Royal Dublin Society in 1811. His proposers were Lord Charleville and Thomas Lysaght. He remained a member until his death.

Other References

• Burke, Bernard, Sir. A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland 6th ed. London : Harrison 1879. Vol I. page 863

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GEDCOM Note

Biography ==James was born in 1781. He was the son of John Jameson and Margaret Haig.<ref>OPR Baptism indexes; JAMESON, JAMES;JOHN JAMESON/MARGARET HAIG; M; 03/09/1781; 465/ 50 122; Alloa; from www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk</ref> He inherited the Marrowbone Lane distillery Jameson and Stein from his brother William Jameson in 1802; thefirm then became James Jameson and Co. From 1828, James was a director and deputy governor of the Bank of Ireland. He passed away in 1847.

Sources

<references />* Charles Gordon Clark, Lawrence and Crabbe Family History (2016). Gordon Clark refers to Burke's Irish Family Records, 5th edition (1976), and to the genealogical tables (now with Fiona Stewart in Melbourne) that were compiled by his great-aunt Gladys Blair-Imrie.*Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Entry for John Jameson, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/58878*David Murphy. "Jameson, John". Dictionary of Irish Biography, ed. James McGuire and James Quinn (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press,2009).