He was born on 10 September 1875 at 52 Rankeillor Street,[1] a ground floor and basement flat in Edinburgh’s South Side, the son of Agnes Boyd and her husband, James Jamieson (1841-1905), a surgeon.
[2] From 1899 to 1955, he practiced as a dental surgeon, living at various addresses in George Square, in Edinburgh’s South Side.
His proposers were Francis Albert Eley Crew, Charles Henry O'Donoghue, Edwin Bramwell, and John Walton.
Jamieson was a keen amateur violinist[8] and often performed with his family at their summer residence, The Knowe, in Bowden.
[9] In 1956, aged 80, he moved to New Malden, Surrey, to live with his daughter Nannie Jamieson,[10]his wife having died in 1949.