Archibald Jamieson
{{Short description|Scottish businessman and British Army soldier}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix =
| name = Sir Archibald Jamieson
| birth_name = Archibald George Auldjo Jamieson
| occupation = businessman, soldier
| birth_date = 13 May 1884
| birth_place = Edinburgh, Scotland
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1959|10|23|1884|5|13}}
| death_place = Westminster, London, England
| awards = Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Military Cross
| relations = George Auldjo Jamieson (father)
Ernest Auldjo Jamieson (brother)
David Auldjo Jamieson, VC (son)}}
Sir Archibald George Auldjo Jamieson KBE MC (13 May 1884 – 23 October 1959) was a Scottish businessman and British Army soldier. He was chairman of the British arms and aircraft company Vickers during World War II.{{cite news |title= Obituary: Sir Archibald Jamieson |work=The Times |date=24 October 1959 |page=8 }}
Early life and education
Jamieson was born in Edinburgh, one of eight children born to George Auldjo Jamieson and his second wife, Susan Helena (née Oliphant). He was the youngest of six sons; the architect Ernest Auldjo Jamieson was his elder brother.{{cite book |last1=Previts |first1=Gary J. |last2=Bricker |first2=Robert |title=Seekers of Truth: The Scottish Founders of Modern Public Accountancy |date=12 April 2006 |publisher=Emerald Group Publishing |isbn=978-0-7623-1298-6 |pages=179–182 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WV-TM0HNgeoC&dq=George+Auldjo+Jamieson&pg=PA179 |access-date=27 October 2024 |language=en}}
His father, a significant figure in Scottish accountancy, was a senior partner in the Edinburgh accountancy firm Lindsay, Jamieson, and Haldane, and a councillor in the city.{{cite news|title=Captain D. Jamieson, V.C.: Member of Edinburgh Family|newspaper=The Scotsman|date= 28 October 1944|page=3}} Several other members of his family were also accountants. His mother was the daughter of Robert Oliphant of Rossie.
Jamieson was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford.
Career
Jamieson trained as an accountant{{cite news|title=MR. A. A. Jamieson|newspaper=The Observer|date=13 March 1938|page=2}} and was apprenticed as a law clerk in 1901.1901 Scotland Census He served during the First World War, being mentioned in despatches and awarded the Military Cross.
Jamieson became a director of armaments company Vickers in 1928 and chairman in 1937;{{cite news|last=Goldstein|first=Richard|title=David Jamieson, 80, Winner Of Top British Medal for Valor|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/12/world/david-jamieson-80-winner-of-top-british-medal-for-valor.html|newspaper=New York Times|date=12 May 2001}}{{cite book|last=Davenport-Hines|first=R. P. T.|title=Dudley Docker: The Life and Times of a Trade Warrior|date=22 April 2004|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kHx7hVRhKfYC&q=Archibald+Jamieson+vickers&pg=PA176|page=176|publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521894005}} in the late 1930s, he helped integrate the main firm more closely with its subsidiaries, increasing production in the run-up to World War II.{{cite book|last=Ritchie|first=Sebastian|title=Industry and Air Power: The Expansion of British Aircraft Production, 1935-41|year=1997|publisher=Routledge|pages=85–86|isbn=9780714647241|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7zjUI_qUgfIC&q=Archibald+Jamieson+vickers&pg=PA85}}
Marriage and family
In 1917, Jamieson married Doris Pearce, daughter of Henry Pearce, RN; the couple had two sons and two daughters; their eldest son was David Auldjo Jamieson who was awarded the VC in 1944 during the Second World War.{{cite news|title=Major David Jamieson VC obituary|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1329463/Major-David-Jamieson-VC.html|accessdate=17 January 2013|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=8 May 2001}}
Their other son, Gerald James "Jerrie" (died 1992), married in 1957 to Lady Mariegold Fitzalan-Howard, daughter of the 3rd Baron Howard of Glossop and sister of the 17th Duke of Norfolk.{{cite book |title= Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor-last= Mosley | editor-first = Charles |editor-link=Charles Mosley (genealogist) |edition=107 |year= 2003 |page=3049 |isbn=0-9711966-2-1}} Their daughter Dinah Susan married the 4th Baron Tollemache in 1939 and was the mother of John Tollemache, 5th Baron Tollemache.{{sfn|Mosley|2003|p=4049 |ps=none}}
Jamieson was knighted (KBE) in 1946. Lady Jamieson died in 1947. In 1956, he remarried, to Margretta Stroup Austin. He died three years later, in 1959, at his home at 6 Smith Square, Westminster.
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Category:Businesspeople from Edinburgh
Category:People educated at Winchester College
Category:Alumni of New College, Oxford
Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire