Robert William Jameson
Robert William Jameson, WS( 1805 – 1868), was a Scottish Writer to the Signet in Edinburgh, Town Councillor, newspaper editor, poet and playwright.
He was the father of Sir Leander Starr Jameson, South African statesman and prime minister, and the nephew of Professor Robert Jameson of the University of Edinburgh.
Born in Edinburgh in 1805, Robert William was the son of Thomas Jameson, a wealthy shipowner, merchant and burgess of the city of Edinburgh, as recorded in Colvin, Vol. 1: 1- 2( 1922).
Colvin writes of Robert William's father and grandfather, both of whom were named Thomas Jameson, that:" These Jamesons came, so the tradition goes, from the Shetland Islands; and both their origin and their crest, a ship in full sail, with" Sine Metu" for motto, suggest that they once followed a seafaring life.
But they had been long settled in Leith and Edinburgh."
( Colvin, 1922, Vol. 1:1).
In 1835 Robert William Jameson married Christian Pringle, daughter of Major- General Pringle of Symington and his wife Christian Watson.
The Jamesons had eleven children, of whom Leander Starr was the youngest, born on 9 February 1853.
Having first pursued a career as a Writer to the Signet in Edinburgh, Robert William's interest in journalism was recognised by his Whig friend and patron the Earl of Stair, who in 1854 made him Editor of the" Wigtownshire Free Press", the headquarters of which was based in Stranraer, to which the family moved from Edinburgh, remaining there until 1860.
Robert William was a radical and free thinker, author of the dramatic poem" Nimrod", published in 1848 and of the play" Timolean", a tragedy in five acts, published and performed at the Adelphi Theatre in Edinburgh in 1852.
" Timolean", inspired by liberal anti-slavery views of the era, was popular with audiences and ran to a second edition within the first year of publication.
In 1854 Jameson published the novel" The Curse of Gold".
Writing for" The Scotsman" in 1922, W. Forbes Gray observed of Robert William Jameson that:" There was probably no better known man in Edinburgh in the earlier part of the last century than Robert William Jameson, W.S., the father of the South African statesman whose biography is reviewed in your columns to- day.
When the agitation for Parliamentary and municipal reform was at its height, Jameson, who was a sturdy Radical and a violent opponent of the Corn Law, ranged himself alongside of Adam Black, and was able as well as indefatigable in his advocacy of the policy of the' clean slate'.
Lord Chancellor Campbell considered Jameson the best hustings speaker he ever heard.
Jameson was prominent at most of the public meetings of that time, and when the citizens of Edinburgh gave their feelings over the rejection of the first Reform Bill by the House of Lords, Jameson was one of the speakers at a mass meeting in the King's Park, attended by about 50,000 people.
He was also an ardent municipal reformer, and was among those chosen at the first election of the reformed Town Council of Edinburgh.
In 1835 Councillor Jameson opposed a proposal that the College Committee of the Town Council should supervise the teaching given in the University."
Robert William and his family moved to Chelsea and Kensington in London in 1861, where he died in 1868.
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Robert Spear Hudson
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Etan Boritzer
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His best selling" What is?" illustrated children's book series on character education and difficult subjects for children is a popular teaching guide for parents, teachers and child- life professionals.
Boritzer gained national critical acclaim after" What is God?" was published in 1989 although the book has caused controversy from religious fundamentalists for its universalist views.
The other current books in the" What is?" series include
What is Love?,
What is Death?,
What is Beautiful?,
What is Funny?,
What is Right?,
What is Peace?,
What is Money?,
What is Dreaming?,
What is a Friend?,
What is True?,
What is a Family?,
What is a Feeling?"
The series is now also translated into 15 languages.
Boritzer was first published in 1963 at the age of 13 when he wrote an essay in his English class at Wade Junior High School in the Bronx, New York on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
His essay was included in a special anthology by New York City public school children compiled and published by the New York City Department of Education.
Boritzer now lives in Venice, California and maintains his publishing office there also.
He has helped numerous other authors to get published through" How to Get Your Book Published!" programs.
Boritzer is also a yoga teacher who teaches regular classes locally and guest- teaches nationally.
He is also recognized nationally as an erudite speaker on" The Teachings of the Buddha."
Robert William Hudson
Robert William Hudson (1856–1937) was born in West Bromwich, the eldest son of Robert Spear Hudson who had founded a soap-flake manufacturing business.
Hudson managed his father's company until it was taken over by Lever Brothers Ltd in 1908.
He built a house called 'Bidston Court' on Bidston Hill in Birkenhead in 1891 in Birkenhead.
It was designed by Edward Ould, who also designed some of the houses in Port Sunlight Village, it was inspired by 16th-century Little Moreton Hall in Cheshire.
Germany's Crown Prinz Wilhelm was so impressed with the house that in 1913 he built a similar house, the Cecilienhof in Potsdam.
The house was sold in 1921 to Sir Ernest Royden and in 1928 it was moved to its present site at Royden Park, brick by brick, finally being completed in 1931.
There it was renamed Hill Bark.
The original site of the house on Vyner Road South was given to Birkenhead Corporation and became a public park in 1969.
In 1899 he commissioned the architects W. H. Romaine-Walker and Francis Besant to build him a house at 46 Park Lane, London. '
As it was especially desired by the owner that the Gothic style should be adopted, the period selected was the late fourteenth-century, with flamboyant feeling in the tracery and mouldings.'
One of the most striking buildings on Park Lane, the building was originally called Stanhope House and it survives with its exterior largely unchanged.
Today the ground floor houses a branch of IBV International Vaults.
Hudson moved to Danesfield House in Buckinghamshire, where he became High Sheriff in 1903.
His first marriage was to Gerda Frances Marion Bushell (died 1932).
Among their offspring was Robert Spear Hudson, 1st Viscount Hudson.
He married Beatrice Sabina Gaudengio, daughter of Laurenzo Gaudengio, in 1932.
Beatrice Sabina Hudson subsequently moved to live in Monaco at the Villa Paloma on the Bvd Des Jardins Exotiques.
The Villa Paloma was subsequently sold to the Fissore family, a leading Monegasque family.
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Question: What is the date of death of Robert William Hudson's father?
Answer: 6 August 1884