Mr Robert Thomas JAMISON (1829 - 1878)**

Date of Birth: 01/01/1829 Place of Birth: Penrith, New South Wales, Australia Date of Death: 27/01/1878 Place of Death: Maytown, Queensland, Australia

Parliamentary Service

Position Start End Period Notes Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly 4 Apr 1856 10 Nov 1860 4yr(s) 7mth(s) 7day(s) Member for Cook and Westmoreland 4 Apr 1856 19 Dec 1857 1yr(s) 8mth(s) 16day(s) 1st (1856 - 1857) Member for Cook and Westmoreland 20 Jan 1858 11 Apr 1859 1yr(s) 2mth(s) 23day(s) 2nd (1858 - 1859) Member for Nepean 13 Jun 1859 10 Nov 1860 1yr(s) 4mth(s) 29day(s) 3rd (1859 - 1860) Impounding Laws Committee No. 10 15 Aug 1856 18 Mar 1857 7mths 4days 1st (1856 - 1857) Church and School Lands Committee No.11 19 Aug 1856 18 Mar 1857 6mths 28days 1st (1856 - 1857) Navigation of the Murray and its Effluents Committee No.10 27 Oct 1857 18 Dec 1857 1mth 22days 1st (1856 - 1857) Seizure of Gold Dust on board the “Ethereal” Committee No.18 4 Dec 1857 18 Dec 1857 15days 1st (1856 - 1857) Governor General’s Opening Speech Committee No.1 24 Mar 1858 24 Mar 1858 1day 2nd (1858 - 1859) Elections and Qualifications Committee No.7 26 Mar 1858 26 Nov 1858 8mths 1day 2nd (1858 - 1859) Navigation of the Murray, & c. Committee No.8 13 Apr 1858 26 Nov 1858 7mths 14days 2nd (1858 - 1859) Seizure of Gold on board the ‘Ethereal’ and ‘May Nicholson’ Committee No.21 15 Jun 1858 26 Nov 1858 5mths 12days 2nd (1858 - 1859) Elections and Qualifications Committee No.4 9 Dec 1858 9 Apr 1859 4mths 1day 2nd (1858 - 1859) Railway Management Committee No.28 13 Dec 1859 4 Jul 1860 6mths 22days 3rd (1859 - 1860) Penrith Nepean Bridge Re-construction Bill Committee No.43 7 Jun 1860 4 Jul 1860 28days 3rd (1859 - 1860) Chairman

Community Activity

Commissioned as a Justice of the Peace in 1854

Qualifications, occupations and interests

Pastoralist. Educated at Hobart Town and Sydney College. Inherited as share of his fathers estate. Clerk in Legislative Council for a few months, then became a pastoralist, chiefly on Namoi River. At one time was a squatter but became a landed proprieter by mid 1850's. Active on bench. Uncle of F.J Gibbes.

Personal

Son of Sir John Jamison, physician and landowner, and Mary Griffiths.

Additional Information

Personal papers in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales: Jamison family - papers, 1803-ca.1934 (*D38/1-*D38/4)

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