Sir John Jamison (1776 - 29 June 1844) was an Australian physician, pastoralist, banker, politician, constitutional reformer and public figure. Year 1776 ( MDCCLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Events 512 - A Solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland. Year 1844 ( MDCCCXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. A physician, medical practitioner or medical doctor who practices Medicine, and is concerned with maintaining or restoring human Health Pastoralism or pastoral farming is the branch of Agriculture concerned with the raising of Livestock. A banker or bank is a Financial institution whose primary activity is to act as a payment agent for customers and to borrow and lend money A politician (from Greek " Polis " is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of Politics or a person

Thomas Jamison, his father, was an impressive person in his own right. Thomas Jamison (1752/1753 – 27 January 1811 was an Irish -born Surgeon, government official mercantile trader and land owner of New South Wales, A Northern Irishman, Thomas had arrived in New South Wales, Australia, with the First Fleet in 1788, aboard HMS Sirius, as a surgeon's mate. The First Fleet is the name given to the 11 Ships which sailed from Great Britain on 13 May 1787 to establish the first European colony in New South Wales. Seven Ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Sirius after the brightest star in the nighttime Sky. Soon afterwards, Thomas was sent to the auxiliary British colony of Norfolk Island, where he served as principal medical officer during the 1790s - while accumulating wealth on the side as a maritime trader. Norfolk Island ( Norfuk: Norfuk Ailen) is a small inhabited island in the Pacific Ocean located between Australia, New Zealand Then, in 1801, after taking leave in England, Thomas was promoted to the position of Surgeon-General of New South Wales due to his intelligence, administrative competence, driving ambition and gift for cultivating useful patrons in London. These qualities were inherited by Thomas' son John in even fuller measure.

The future John Jamison, knight of the realm, was born in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Ireland in 1776. Carrickfergus ( is a large town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. County Antrim ( Contae Aontroma or simply Aontroim in Irish) is one of six counties that form Northern Ireland, and one of nine counties Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world Like his father, he trained as a surgeon, joining the Royal Navy in 1799. The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British armed services (and is therefore known as the Senior Service) He served under Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 aboard the "Agamemnon". Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson 1st Viscount Nelson 1st Duke of Bronté, KB (29 September 1758– 21 October 1805 was a British The Battle of Trafalgar ( 21 October 1805) was a historic sea battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the In Greek mythology, Agamemnon (very resolute / ( ancient Greek:) is a hero, the son of King Atreus of Mycenae In 1806, he saw further action at the Battle of San Domingo on the same vessel which, incidentally, was Nelson's favourite warship. Saint-Domingue was a French Colony on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola from 1659 to 1804 when it became the independent nation of One year later, Jamison graduated as a physician from Edinburgh University, earning a Doctorate of Medicine. The University of Edinburgh (Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann founded in 1582 is a renowned centre for teaching and research in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. While serving with the Royal Navy's Baltic Fleet in 1807 - aboard the "Gorgon" - he was successful in treating an outbreak of scurvey in the allied Swedish Navy, and was made a knight of the Order of Gustavus Vasa by a grateful Swedish king. The Twice Red Banner Baltic Fleet - (Дважды Краснознамённый Балтийский флот was the Imperial later Soviet and is now the Russian Navy's Scurvy (NLat scorbutus is a disease resulting from a deficiency of Vitamin C, which is required for the synthesis of Collagen in humans The Royal Swedish Navy ( Swedish: Marinen) is the naval branch of the Swedish Armed Forces. He was also knighted by Britain's Prince Regent (afterwards King George IV) in 1813, and appointed Inspector of Naval Hospitals and Fleets. For the station on the Docklands Light Railway, see Prince Regent DLR station.

Meanwhile, Thomas Jamison had died in London - in 1811. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Sir John succeeded to his father's property at Jamisontown on the Nepean River, west of Sydney. Jamisontown is a Suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The Nepean River is a river in the coastal region of New South Wales, Australia. Sydney (ˈsɪdniː is the most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 4 He arrived in Sydney on 28 July 1814, per the "Broxbornebury", to take up his patrimony. Events 1540 - Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of Treason. Year 1814 ( MDCCCXIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The following year, Sir John accompanied Governor Lachlan Macquarie on his official visitation to the Bathurst Plains, and had the Jamison Valley in the Blue Mountains named in his honour by Macquarie. Major-General Lachlan Macquarie CB (31 January 1762 – 1 July 1824 Scottish Gaelic spelling Lachlan MacGuaire) British military officer Bathurst is a regional centre in the state of New South Wales, Australia approximately 200km west of Sydney and is the seat of the Bathurst Regional Council The Jamison Valley forms part of the Cox's River canyon system in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. But two and a half years later, Sir John fell out of favour with the governor, who described him in a private dispatch as being "intriguing and discontented".

Sir John was Australia's first titled gentleman and thus head of the fledgling country's social pecking order. He acquired allotments in the heart of Sydney, and accumulated vast tracts of land in the central-western and northern parts of New South Wales between 1814 and 1840. He was a founder of the Bank of New South Wales in 1817, and established himself as one of the most prominent (and wealthiest) men in Australia, enjoying a reputation for lavish entertaining and hospitality at Regentville, his magnificent rural estate near the town of Penrith. This article is about the bank For the defunct airline see Western Pacific Airlines. Regentville is a Suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Penrith is a Suburb in western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. In November 1824, he was included in the list of ten men recommended for a colonial council; but some 12 months later, Governor Brisbane withdrew the nomination on account of charges made by Sir John that female convicts had been sent to Emu Plains for immoral purposes. Major-General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane 1st Baronet, GCH, GCB ( July 23, 1773 – January 27, 1860) soldier Emu Plains is a Suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The charges were held to be baseless, and in September 1826 the new governor, Ralph Darling, was instructed that Sir John was not to be given any civil offices. General Sir Ralph Darling, GCH (1772 – 2 April 1858) was a British colonial Governor and the seventh Governor of New Sir John made various attempts to get this embargo removed; but nearly four years later, the British colonial office continued to give him no satisfaction.

Governor Darling in 1829 mentioned that Sir John was then President of the New South Wales Agricultural Society, "holding perhaps the largest stake in the country". In 1830, London's Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce awarded Sir John the large gold medal "for his successful method of extirpating the stumps of trees". Sir John also won various awards for his wine and other agricultural produce and took a keen, scientific interest in the natural history of the Sydney region. He was a committed Freemason and a founding father of the New South Wales thoroughbred racing industry. Benevolent organisations benefited from Sir John's generosity, too, and in 1830 he helped establish Sydney College - an important educational facility which gave rise to both Sydney Grammar School and the University of Sydney. Sydney Grammar School (colloquially known as Grammar) is an independent, Secular, selective, Day school for boys located in Sydney Grammar School (colloquially known as Grammar) is an independent, Secular, selective, Day school for boys located in The University of Sydney (informally Sydney Uni or USyd) is the oldest university in Australia In 1831, Sir John was restored to the magistracy, and, in 1837, he was belatedly appointed a member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales. A Legislative Council is the name given to the legislatures or one of the chambers of the legislature of many nations and colonies During the mid-1830s, Sir John held office as founder-president of the Australian Patriotic Association, which strove to liberalise the colony's political and legal institutions as Sydney evolved from a penal settlement into a thriving, mercantile port.

Sir John established a cloth mill at Regentville in 1842 to supplement the estate's earnings from its vineyard, horse stud, dairy, orchard and collection of grazing paddocks for sheep and cattle. But Sir John suffered the loss of a large proportion of his fortune around this time due to the effects of a protracted drought and an economic depression, which had sent many of the colony's farmers and businessmen broke. He was omitted from the Legislative Council nominations in 1843 on account of his infirmities and comparatively advanced years. (Without doubt, Sir John's poor state of health had been accentuated by the hedonistic lifestyle that he had led since his arrival in New South Wales. ) Sir John died at Regentville House on 29 June 1844 and was buried in St Stephen's churchyard, Penrith. Events 512 - A Solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland. Year 1844 ( MDCCCXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year His grave survives but Regentville House does not: the two-storey Georgian mansion, erected during 1823-1824, burned down in 1868.

Jamison Street in Sydney's CBD, which was once the site of Sir John's town house, commemorates him - as does the Jamison Valley, Jamison County, Jamison Creek, Jamison High School, Jamison Park and a number of other localities in New South Wales.

Sir John fathered a number of illegitimate children by several mistresses. These mistresses included Mary Griffiths - the daughter of Regentville's dairyman. Sir John married Mary a few months before his death, thus enabling her to be styled Lady Jamison. One of his children by Lady Jamison, Robert Thomas Jamison (1829-1878), was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales from 1856 to 1860. The Legislative Assembly, or lower house is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of New South Wales. Lady Jamison died at Hunters Hill, Sydney in 1874, aged 74. Hunters Hill (also spelt Hunter's Hill is a Suburb on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia She was interred in Camperdown Cemetery in the inner-Sydney suburb of Newtown. Newtown may refer to Places Australia Newtown New South Wales Newtown Queensland Newtown Queensland Her grave, like Sir John's, is extant. Another of Sir John's mistresses was Catherine Cain(e), the convict 'housekeeper' assigned to him at his Sydney residence. Catherine gave birth to a daughter by Sir John, Harriet Eliza Jamison, in 1819. Harriet grew up to be a cultivated and pious young woman. In 1837, she married into the colonial establishment. Her husband was William John Gibbes (1815-1868) - a son of the Collector of Customs for New South Wales, Colonel John George Nathaniel Gibbes. The wedding took place at St James' Anglican Church, Sydney, in the presence of the governor. Harriet died in Sydney in 1896.

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References

• Serle, Percival (1949). "Jamison, John". Dictionary of Australian Biography. The Dictionary of Australian Biography, published in 1949, is a reference work by Percival Serle containing information on notable people associated with Sydney: Angus and Robertson.  
• Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 2, edited by Douglas Pike, Melbourne University Press, 1967, pages 10-13. The Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB or AuDB is a multi-volume project published by Melbourne University Press.
• The Trafalgar Roll by Colonel Robert Holden Mackenzie, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, USA, 1989, page 270. Annapolis is the capital of the US state of Maryland, as well as the County seat of Anne Arundel County.
• Sir John Jamison in New South Wales, 1814-1844, by Dr Brian Fletcher, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Volume 65, Part 1, Sydney, June 1979. The Royal Australian Historical Society is a voluntary organisation founded in Sydney, Australia in 1901 to encourage Australians to understand more about their history

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