James Jamieson (dentist)
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James Dalgleish Hamilton Jamieson FRSE FDSE (10 September 1875 – 21 September 1966) was a Scottish dentist and author.
Life
He was born on 10 September 1875 at 52 Rankeillor Street,Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1875-6 a ground floor and basement flat in Edinburgh’s South Side, the son of Agnes Boyd and her husband, James Jamieson (1841-1905), a surgeon. He was educated at George Watsons College. He then studied dentistry at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1899, gaining his licence as a dental surgeon (LDS). He received his Higher Dental Diploma (HDD) from The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1920.{{cite journal |date=29 May 1920 |title=Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh |journal=The Lancet |volume=198 |issue=5048 |page=1196}}
From 1899 to 1955, he practiced as a dental surgeon, living at various addresses in George Square, in Edinburgh’s South Side.Edinburgh, Scotland, Electoral Registers, 1832-1966 Much of George Square was demolished by the University of Edinburgh in the 1960s, however, number 58 where Jamieson lived in the 30s and 40s, and number 29, where Jamieson lived in the 1950s, and is now the home of the School of Scottish Studies Archives, are still standing. He also had a summer residence, The Knowe, at Bowden in Roxburghshire.{{cite news |date=30 August 1928 |title= St. Boswells, Musical Entertainments |work=Southern Reporter |page=5}}
From 1931 until 1951 Jamieson lectured in dental disorders at the University of Edinburgh.{{cite news |date=9 April 1931 |title= Bowden: University Appointment |work=Southern Reporter |page=2}}
In 1938 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Francis Albert Eley Crew, Charles Henry O'Donoghue, Edwin Bramwell, and John Walton.{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0 902 198 84 X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf|access-date=12 January 2017|archive-date=24 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124115814/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf|url-status=dead}}
He died at New Malden in Surrey on 21 September 1966 aged 91. He was returned to Edinburgh for burial in the family plot in the south-east section of Grange Cemetery in Edinburgh.
Family
He married Jessie Ann Fergusson Ireland, a singer, in 1903{{cite news |date=23 July 1903 |title= Marriages |work= The Scotsman |page=10}} and had two daughters, Agnes (Nannie) Jessie Hamilton and Hilda Patricia Hamilton.
Jamieson was a keen amateur violinist{{cite news |date=19 September 1929 |title= St. Boswells |work=Southern Reporter |page=5}} and often performed with his family at their summer residence, The Knowe, in Bowden.{{cite news |date=22 July 1926 |title= Border Rural Institutes: Bowden |work=Southern Reporter |page=3}}
In 1956, aged 80, he moved to New Malden, Surrey, to live with his daughter Nannie Jamieson,{{cite news |date=13 September 1956 |title=Old Instruments Are Rare Treasure |work=The Age (Melbourne, Australia) |page=8}}his wife having died in 1949.{{cite news |date=24 March 1949 |title= Deaths: Hamilton Jamieson |work= The Scotsman |page=8}}
Publications
- Aids to Operative Dentistry (1923){{cite journal |date=July 1923 |title= Announcements: New books received for the library of The Journal of The American Dental Association |journal= The Journal of the American Dental Association |volume=10 |issue=7 |page=709}}
- Ham and jam: Days, doings, diversions, drawings and doggerel ditties of a dentist (1960), memoir
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Category:20th-century British dentists
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Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
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Category:Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
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Category:People educated at George Watson's College