Jameson
Jameson names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Jameson SIR LEANDER STARR, a British administrator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR LEANDER STARR, a British administrator; born in Edinucated at burgh in 1853. He was educated at London University. Having become associated with Rhodes in the development of South Africa, he was appointed Administrator of Rhodesia in 1891, and held the position with distinction till the raid on the Transvaal in 1895, when he was defeated at Krugersdorp. He was afterward given up to the imperial authorities, tried and sentenced to 10 months' seven months, imprisonment. After however, he was released, owing to ill health. In 1897 he returned to Rhodesia and assisted in the development of the country. Was Prime Minister of Cape Colony 1904-1908, when he resigned and returned to London. Was chairman of mestown ened by Gellion of 1 the Central Prisoners of War Committee s the scene Jamestown during the World War. He died in 1917. e forces of burned rawallis in rebellion
Jameson ANNA, an Irish author and critic
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ANNA, an Irish author and critic; born (Murphy) in Dublin in shed in 188. 1794. Mrs. Jameson published in 1831 entitle her first important work, entitled igns," "Memoirs of Female Sovereigns," and this was succeeded in the following year by "Characteristics of Women." But it is as an art critic that Mrs. Jameson is best entitled to remembrance. Chief among these works were: "Lives of Early Italian Painters" (1845); "Poetry of Sacred and Legendary Art" (1848); "Legends of the Monastic Orders" (1850); "Legends of the Madonna" (1852); and a "Commonplace Book of March 19, Thoughts, Memories, and Fancies" (1845). She died in Ealing, March 19, 1860.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's wrote this in 1921, only four years after Leander Starr Jameson's death, and could still call his 1891-95 administration of Rhodesia a post "held with distinction" spoiled by one raid. Modern judgement inverts that: the failed raid on the Transvaal that ended in his surrender at Doornkop, near Krugersdorp, in January 1896 is now treated as a key step toward the South African War of 1899-1902, and it is the thing he is remembered for. The country named for Cecil Rhodes became Zimbabwe in 1980, and Jameson's name was stripped from its streets and towns; his grave remains beside Rhodes's in the Matobo Hills. Anna Jameson has fared better than the 1921 notice suggests: the art criticism it praises is still cited by students of Christian iconography, but her most read book today is one Collier's does not mention at all, the Canadian travel journal "Winter Studies and Summer Rambles" (1838), recovered along with her essays on women's work by feminist scholars from the 1970s onward.
Written for this edition, 2026.