Alexander Jamieson

[3] He was born at Rothesay, Bute, to William Jamieson, a wheelwright, and Margaret Stewart.

From 1826 to 1838 it was at Wyke House Academy in Middlesex, which was advertised as a preparation for the Army, Navy, civil engineers, architects and surveyors.

Towards the end of his life he suffered a stroke, then moved to Bruges in Belgium with his wife Frances (née Thurtle), known as a writer, whom he had married in 1820.

[1] All these Scottish authors, along with Alexander Bain, were widely used in 19th-century American colleges for rhetoric texts;[14] and the Grammar of Jamieson went through 24 editions by 1844.

[15] It quoted freely from Joseph Addison and Mark Akenside, as well as sources such as Shakespeare and John Milton,[16] and was a typical text of the female education of the period.