Andrew Jamieson Explained

Andrew Jamieson
Birth Date:October 1849
Birth Place:Grange, Banffshire
Death Date:4 December 1912
Alma Mater:Aberdeen University
Mother:Jane Wallace
Father:George Jamieson DD

Prof Andrew Jamieson CE FRSE (1849–1912) was a Scottish engineer and academic author.

Life

He was born in October 1849 in Grange in Banffshire in northern Scotland the son of Rev George Jamieson DD, minister of St Machar's Cathedral, and his wife, Jane Wallace. He went to school at the Gymnasium in Old Aberdeen. He was apprenticed to Hall, Russell & Company, shipbuilders in Aberdeen, around 1864, at its foundation.[1] He then studied Mathematics and Engineering at Aberdeen University.

From 1880 to 1882 he was President of the Institute of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland (IESIS). From 1880 to 1887 he was Principal of the Glasgow College of Science and Arts. At this time he lived at 38 Bath Street in Glasgow.[2] In 1887 he accepted the role of Professor of Engineering at the West of Scotland Technical College.

In 1882 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, Fleeming Jenkin, John Gray McKendrick, and George Chrystal.[3]

In 1902 he was the consultant engineer on the electrification of Glasgow tramways.

He died at 16 Rosslyn Terrace in Glasgow on 4 December 1912.

Publications

Family

He married Isabella Anne Trail, daughter of Very Rev Prof Samuel Trail.[4]

He was the elder brother of William Jamieson (1853–1926), mine manager, and Mathew Buchan Jamieson (1860–1895), civil engineer, both closely identified with the young town of Broken Hill, New South Wales.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Aberdeen Ships | Hall, Russell & Co. Ltd.. aberdeenships.com. 2018-03-18.
  2. Glasgow Post Office directory 1882-3
  3. Book: Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002. July 2006. The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 0-902-198-84-X. 12 January 2017. 24 January 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130124115814/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf. dead.
  4. Web site: Arbuthnott Parish, Kincardineshire: records for genealogists. ancestor.abel.co.uk. 2018-03-18.