Background
Born at Ayr on 5 July 1845, he was eldest son of Andrew Jameson, sheriff of Aberdeen and Kincardine, by his wife Alexander, daughter of Alexander Colquhoun Campbell of Barnhill, Dumbartonshire.
Born at Ayr on 5 July 1845, he was eldest son of Andrew Jameson, sheriff of Aberdeen and Kincardine, by his wife Alexander, daughter of Alexander Colquhoun Campbell of Barnhill, Dumbartonshire.
Educated at Edinburgh Academy, he graduated Master of Arts He afterwards attended Edinburgh University, and on 19 May 1870 he passed at the Scottish bar, where he gradually built up a practice.
From the University of Street Andrews in 1865. In 1882 Jameson was appointed junior counsel to the department of woods and forests. On 27 April 1886 he was made sheriff of Roxburghshire, Berwickshire, and Selkirkshire.
Having taken part in politics as a Liberal Unionist, he received from Lord Salisbury"s government the office of sheriff of the counties of Ross and Cromarty, and Sutherland on 28 November 1890, and became sheriff of Perthshire on 27 October 1891.
On the resignation of Henry Moncreiff, 2nd Baron Moncreiff, Jameson was raised to the bench, on 6 January 1905, with the title of Lord Ardwall. In the same year he was made honorary Doctor of Laws of Saint Andrews.
After an illness of about six months he died, at 14 Moray Place, Edinburgh, on 21 November 1911, and was buried at Anwoth in Kirkcudbrightshire. Jameson conducted inquiries on behalf of the government, acted as an arbiter in industrial disputes, and was for some years, in succession to Lord James of Hereford, chairman of the board of conciliation, between the coalowners and Scottish Miners" Federation.
During the later part of his career he paid attention to agriculture.
The second, John Gordon Jameson, advocate, unsuccessfully contested the Edinburgh East by-election, 1912, as a Unionist.