Robert Jamieson (died 1861) was a London merchant and promoter of commerce with West Africa.
Described also as a palm oil merchant of Liverpool,[1] and as of Glasgow,[2] Jamieson sought to open up major African rivers to navigation and commerce.
In 1839 he equipped the Ethiope, and its commander, Captain John Beecroft, explored several West African rivers, to higher points in some instances than had then been reached by Europeans.
[3] Jamieson opposed the Niger expedition in Appeals to the Government and People of Great Britain, where he claimed the proposed colonisers would be monopolists.
[3] In 1859 Jamieson published Commerce with Africa, emphasising the insufficiency of treaties for the suppression of the African slave trade, and urging the use of the land route from Cross River to the Niger.