Adam Jameson
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The Honourable Dr Adam Jameson |
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| Member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia |
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In office 29 August 1900 – 23 January 1903 |
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| Preceded by | None (new creation) |
| Succeeded by | Walter Kingsmill |
| Constituency | Metropolitan-Suburban Province |
| Member of the Legislative Council of the Transvaal |
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In office January 1903 – February 1907 |
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| Constituency | None (nominated by governor) |
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5 May 1860 Pathhead, Fife, Scotland |
| Died | 12 March 1907 (aged 46) Alkmaar, Transvaal, South Africa |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
Adam Jameson (5 May 1860 – 12 March 1907) was a Scottish-born physician who was a member of parliament and government minister in both the Australian state of Western Australia and the Transvaal Colony (in present-day South Africa).
Jameson was born in Pathhead, Fife, Scotland, where his father, Charles Adam Jameson, was a Church of Scotland minister. He attended Craigmount School, Edinburgh, before going on to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh, receiving his M.D. in 1883. After a brief period at Chalmers Hospital, Banff, Jameson left for Western Australia, arriving in 1884. In 1889, he married Ethel Mary Hensman, the daughter of Alfred Hensman (a former Attorney-General of Western Australia). Jameson left for Europe in 1893, on a health trip, and lived in Rome until his wife's death in 1897, when he returned to Australia.
Jameson first attempted to enter politics at the 1890 general election, the first to be held for the Legislative Assembly. He was defeated by William Silas Pearse in the seat of North Fremantle. In 1899, Jameson was appointed chairman of a royal commission into the prisons system in Western Australia. He was elected to parliament at the 1900 Legislative Council elections, as one of three members for the newly created Metropolitan-Suburban Province. In George Leake's first government, which lasted from June to November 1901, Jameson served as a minister without portfolio. When Leake returned as premier in December 1901, he was made Minister for Lands. He remained in the position under Walter James (who became premier in July 1902 following Leake's death in office), but resigned from both parliament and the ministry in January 1903 in order to go to South Africa.
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