William Jamieson (18 August 1852 – 8 May 1926) was an Australian surveyor, and a member of the syndicate that founded the BHP mine at Broken Hill.
[7] Jamieson fell in with the Syndicate of Seven prospectors and investors led by George McCulloch, and the discoverer Charles Rasp (who, on 5 September 1883, had pegged out a lease of some 20 acres of scrub-covered country, later known as Block 12), and named themselves the Broken Hill Mining Company (later, BHP), the other five members of which were: George Urquhart, G. A. M. Lind, Phillip Charley, David James and his mate, James Poole.
Lind was the first to bow out of the company, selling his shares to Rasp and McCulloch, and Urquhart left a year later.
Subsequently, Jamieson was approached by one Thomas Low, who had stumbled on an outcrop of silver ore some distance away from where the prospectors had been working, and offered to show him its location, if he could buy into the syndicate.
As it could take a considerable time to re-discover the outcrop in such a large area of scrubby country, Jamieson agreed.
[12] Jamieson married Helene Mathilde "Lily" Meyer (c. 1864 – 4 April 1948) of Brisbane on 17 July 1890 in London.