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	Leander Starr Jameson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert William and Christian Jameson had twelve children, of whom Leander Starr was the youngest, born at Stranraer on the West Coast of Scotland, great-nephew of Professor Robert Jameson, Regius Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh.
		Leander Starr was educated for the medical profession at University College Hospital, London, for which he passed his entrance examinations in January, 1870.
		Leander was awarded the KCMG, the Freedom of the City of London, Freedom of the City of Manchester, and Freedom of the City of Edinburgh for services to the British Empire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leander_Starr_Jameson (1861 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Jameson, Sir Leander Starr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		JAMESON, SIR LEANDER STARR [Jameson, Sir Leander Starr] 1853-1917, British colonial administrator and statesman in South Africa.
		On Dec. 29, 1895, he led a band of volunteers on the famous Jameson Raid into the Boer colony of Transvaal in an effort to support a brewing rebellion by foreign settlers (mainly British), and to further Rhodes's ambition for a united South Africa.
		Jameson was captured within a few days and turned over by President Kruger to the British to be punished for his unauthorized venture.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/J/JamesonL1.asp (230 words)

	Robert Jameson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Robert Jameson\'s early education was spent in Edinburgh, after which he became the apprentice of a surgeon in Leith, with the aim of going to sea.
		A portrait of Robert Jameson is housed by the UK National Portrait Gallery in London, and a bust of him is in the Old College of the University of Edinburgh.
		Robert Jameson was the uncle of Robert William Jameson, Writer to the Signet and playwright of Edinburgh, and therefore also the great-uncle of Sir Leander Starr Jameson, Bt, KCMG, British colonial statesman.
	www.santacruzcaus.com /details/Robert_Jameson (1087 words)

	The Jameson Raid
		The Jameson Raid was a collaborative effort between Cecil John Rhodes (the prime minister of Cape Colony) and Sir Leander Starr Jameson to overthrow the Boer government, which was headed by President Paul Kruger.
		When Jameson did this, Joseph Chamberlain, the British Colonial secretary was appalled at Jameson’s actions and reputed them, instructing British colonists to not aid the raiders in achieving their objectives.
		In this altercation, Jameson’s forces spent a few hours exchanging fire with the Boers and lost several men, as well as a fairly substantial number of horses; however, Jameson’s force was able to overpower the Boers this time.
	www.pvhs.chico.k12.ca.us /~bsilva/projects/wars/boerwar/jameson_raid.htm (559 words)

	History Channel Search Results
		Jameson was born Feb. 9, 1853, in Edinburgh, and educated at the University of London.
		Jameson assisted Rhodes in negotiations with South African natives and induced the Matabele king Lobengula to grant mineral concessions to Great Britain in what is now part of Zimbabwe.
		The Jameson raid was a major cause of the Boer War, in which he fought.
	www.historychannel.com /thcsearch/thc_resourcedetail.do?encyc_id=213088 (261 words)

	Search Results for "Jameson"
		Jameson, Sir Leander Starr, 1853-1917, British colonial administrator and statesman in South Africa.
		A long-time writer for the Daily Express and the Sunday Times, her chief works are Jameson's Raid (1960), Victoria (1964), and Wellington (2 vol., 1969-72)....
		Although a parliamentary inquiry cleared him of complicity in the Jameson Raid (see Jameson, Sir Leander Starr), there is some evidence that he...
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col65&query=Jameson (235 words)

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		W.P. The recent death of Sir Starr Jameson reminded the public of the South African War, which was such an engrossing subject to the British public at the close of the 'nineties and the first years of the present century.
		Sir Alfred Milner arrived in Cape Town with a singularly free and unbiased mind, determined not to allow other people's opinions to influence his own, and also to use all the means at his disposal to uphold the authority of the Queen without entering into conflict with anyone.
		Sir Alfred was represented as a tyrannical, unscrupulous man, whose one aim in life was the destruction of every vestige of Dutch independence, Dutch self-government and Dutch influence in Africa.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/1/6/6/0/16600/16600-8.txt (19601 words)

	Leander Starr Jameson, Sir Biography / Biography of Leander Starr Jameson, Sir Biography
		Sir Leander Starr Jameson (1853-1917) was a British administrator and South African statesman.
		Leander Jameson was born in Edinburgh on Feb. 3, 1853, and trained as a physician at the university medical college.
		Two books on Jameson's raid into the Boer territory are Hugh Marshall Hole, The Jameson Raid (1930), a full account of all the participants, and Jean Van Der Poel, The Jameson Raid (1951), which emphasizes the significance of the raid in the context of an emerging South African union.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-leander-starr-jameson-sir/index.html (642 words)

	Jameson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jameson is a surname, and may refer to:
		Sir Leander Starr Jameson, also known as "Doctor Jim", British colonial statesman known for his involvement in the Jameson Raid
		This human name article is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that might otherwise share the same title, which is a person's or persons' name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jameson (153 words)

	Jameson Sir Leander Starr - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Jameson Sir Leander Starr - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Jameson, Sir Leander Starr (1853-1917), British physician and colonial administrator, who led the Jameson Raid into the Transvaal region of South...
		The discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand area in 1886 brought a sudden influx of immigrants, mostly British, who soon outnumbered the Boers.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Jameson_Sir_Leander_Starr.html (120 words)

	Carroll Quigley: The Anglo-American Establishment
		Abe Bailey was one of the chief plotters in the Jameson Raid in 1895.
		Leander Starr Jameson (later Sir Starr, 1853-1917) was Rhodes's doctor, roommate, and closest friend, and had more to do with the opening up of Rhodesia than any other single man. His famous raid into the Transvaal with Rhodesian police in 1895 was one of the chief events leading up to the Boer War.
		Jameson's biographical sketch in The Dictionary of National Biography was written by Dougal Malcolm of Milner's Kindergarten.
	users.cyberone.com.au /myers/quigley.html (19573 words)

	Imperialism in Africa: Britain
		Leander Starr Jameson, under the inspiration of Rhodes, invaded a Boer fort with 500 British troops.
		This conflict known as "Jameson's Raid" was another blow to British moral when it failed.
		Jameson was captured and released to the British, who arrested him for the act, which Britain did not order.
	www.cusd.chico.k12.ca.us /~bsilva/projects/imperialism/mitchel.htm (944 words)

	History Channel Search Results
		The revolt was to be backed by a British South Africa Co. force led by Sir Leander Starr Jameson, British administrator of the lands constituting present-day Zimbabwe.
		On Dec. 29, 1895, Jameson invaded Transvaal prematurely and unsuccessfully.
		Rhodes was acquitted of responsibility for the invasion, known as Jameson’s Raid, but he was censured for his role in the plot against the Transvaal government and was forced to resign his premiership the following month.
	www.historychannel.com /thcsearch/thc_resourcedetail.do?encyc_id=220619 (454 words)

	News - Sudbury Today: News, Sport, Jobs, Property, Cars, Entertainments & More
		Sir Leander Starr Jameson was also in charge of an infamous â“and disastrous â“ raid in the Boer War.
		Jameson qualified as a surgeon and, aged 25, moved to South Africa.
		It is said Jameson took all the flak for the raid, hiding the involvement of the British government.
	www.sudburytoday.co.uk /ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=850&ArticleID=1405567 (678 words)

	JAMESON, LEANDER STARR... - Online Information article about JAMESON, LEANDER STARR... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		British colonial statesman, son of R. Jameson, a writer to the signet in See also:
		Jameson's force was compelled to surrender at Doornkop, receiving a See also:
		Act in May 1896, and Dr Jameson was sentenced to fifteen months' inprisonment at See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /INV_JED/JAMESON_LEANDER_STARR_1853_.html (1090 words)

	Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Sir Almroth Wright developed anti-typhoid inoculation and in due course it has become possible to prevent pertussis, measles, German measles and other diseases.
		The story of Sir Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin at St Mary's Hospital, London, in 1928 is well known.
		The Scottish bacteriologist's culture plate was accidentally contaminated by a mould which he noticed had inhibited the growth of the colonies on the plate.
	www.rcsi.ie /library/History_of_Medicine/Prevention_and_treatment_of_disease/index.asp?id=1097&pid=1097&jid=33&jpid=1086 (1486 words)

	Jameson, Sir Leander Starr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Jameson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and educated at the University of London.
		Jameson, on December 29, 1895, led a force of about 500 men in a raid into the Transvaal.
		He was a member of the Union of South Africa Parliament from 1910 to 1912, when he was forced to retire due to ill health.
	autocww.colorado.edu /~blackmon/E64ContentFiles/AfricanHistory/Jameson,SirLeanderStarr.html (254 words)

	A Century Ago The Boer War Remembered
		After 21 men lost their lives in the takeover attempt, Jameson and his fellow raiders were captured and put on trial.
		Although it proved a fiasco, the Jameson raid convinced the Boers that the British were determined, even at the cost of human lives, to rob them of their hard-won freedom.
		Undaunted by the Jameson Raid disaster, British High Commissioner Milner, with crucial "gold bug" backing, began secretly to foment a full-scale war to drag the Boer lands into the Empire.
	www.tokencoins.com /boerj.htm (6576 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Brief service as secretary to Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere, a member of the Indian Council, took him on a tour of India as part of the Prince of Wales’s entourage.
		Grey was the link between Rhodes and Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain before and during the notorious raid on the Transvaal in 1895 by Sir Leander Starr Jameson, whom Grey replaced as administrator of Rhodesia.
		As a result, agreements were signed on boundary questions, the North Atlantic fisheries dispute, the regulation of sealing in the North Pacific and of inland fisheries in common waters, and other outstanding irritants.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=41538 (2293 words)

	Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Jameson's Raid: the prelude to the Boer War1982
		The Raid that Sir Leander Starr Jameson MD carried out on the Transvaal in 1895-6 was doomed from the start.
		Chamberlain however was the victor, and Jameson the scapegoat.
	www.foursite.somerset.gov.uk /03_Reviews/03_001_AddReview.aspx?rcn=0297781367&fr= (176 words)

	Rhodes University
		The coat of arms of Jameson House has as its principal charge a silver mace on a red field.
		This recalls that Sir Leander Starr Jameson was the Prime Minister of the house of Assembly of the Cape of Good Hope (1914 — 1908).
		The thistle recalls that Jameson was born in Scotland; and it is balanced by a fleur-de-lys taken from the coat of arms of the Cape of Good Hope.
	campus.ru.ac.za /index.php?action=category&category=335 (454 words)

	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Cecil Rhodes, by Princess Catherine Radziwill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The recent death of Sir Starr Jameson reminded the public of the South African War, which was such an engrossing subject to the British public at the close of the 'nineties and the first years of the present century.
		Sir Alfred Milner arrived in Cape Town with a singularly free and unbiased mind, determined not to allow other people's opinions to influence his own, and also to use all the means at his disposal to uphold the authority [11] of the Queen without entering into conflict with anyone.
		They had compelled him—one judged by his demeanour—to resign his office of Prime Minister at the very time when he was about to transform it into something far more important—to use it as the stepping-stone to future grandeurs of which he already dreamt, although he had so far refrained from speaking about them to others.
	pandemonium.tiscali.de /pub/gutenberg/1/6/6/0/16600/16600-h/16600-h.htm (17396 words)

	History of Father Peter Prestage :::: Bulawayo1872.com
		Acting under orders from Sir Frederick Carrington, he proceeded to Macloutsie with a party of nursing sisters.
		When Jameson asked him to Telegram his views to Cecil John Rhodes, Prestage gladly and promptly obliged.
		He said Jameson was "delighted at my readiness to back him up.
	www.bulawayo1872.com /history/prestagepeter.htm (867 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sir Leander Starr Jameson (Southern African History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Sir Leander Starr Jameson (Southern African History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Sir Leander Starr Jameson, Southern African History, Biographies
		Sir Leander Starr Jameson 1853–1917, British colonial administrator and statesman in South Africa.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/J/JamesonL.html (296 words)

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		* Sir Leander Starr Jameson, also known as "Doctor Jim", British colonial statesman known for his involvement in the Jameson Raid.
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	Cecil Rhodes Man and Empire-Maker , by Princess Catherine Radziwill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Rhodes. Unfortunately for both of them, their antagonism to each other, in their conception of what ought or ought not to be done in political matters, was further aggravated by intrigues which tended to keep Rhodes apart from the Queen’s High Commissioner in South Africa.
		Schreiner,[A] for instance, trusted him absolutely, and believed quite sincerely that in time he would be able to establish firm and friendly relations between the Cape Government and that of the Transvaal. ; Though the latter country had been, as it were, sequestrated by friends of Rhodes—much to their own profit—Mr.
		On his side, Doctor Jameson was determined that the opportunity to do so should be offered to him, and he used Rhodes’ influence in order to obtain election. He knew very well that without it his candidature would have no chance.
	www.sakoman.net /pg/html/16600.htm (2027 words)

	Getting Through Customs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Sir Leander Starr Jameson became notorious in South Africa around the turn of the century.
		Welsh buccaneer Sir Henry Morgan sacked cities in Venezuela and Panama.
		True or false: For his success against the Spanish Empire, Morgan became lieutenant governor of Jamaica.
	www.getcustoms.com /2004GTC/Quizzes/notor.html (258 words)

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