# Tom Jameson

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{{Short description|Irish first-class cricketer}}
{{distinguish|Tom Jamieson}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2022}}
{{Infobox cricketer
|                name = Tom Jameson
|             country = Ireland
|            fullname = Thomas Ormsby Jameson
|               image = 
|             caption =
|          birth_date = {{Birth date|1892|4|4|df=yes}}
|         birth_place = [Clonsilla](/source/Clonsilla), [Ireland](/source/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland)
|          death_date = {{Death date and age|1965|2|6|1892|4|4|df=yes}}
|         death_place = [Dún Laoghaire](/source/D%C3%BAn_Laoghaire), [Leinster](/source/Leinster), Ireland
|             batting = Right-handed
|             bowling = [Leg spin](/source/Leg_spin)
|              family = [William Hone](/source/William_Hone_(cricketer)) (grandfather)
|               club1 = [Marylebone Cricket Club](/source/Marylebone_Cricket_Club)
|               year1 = 1919–1930
|               club2 = [Hampshire](/source/Hampshire_County_Cricket_Club)
|               year2 = 1919–1932
|               club3 = [Ireland](/source/Ireland_cricket_team)
|               year3 = 1926–1928
|             columns = 1
|             column1 = [First-class](/source/First-class_cricket)
|            matches1 = 124 
|               runs1 = 4,675
|            bat avg1 = 26.56
|           100s/50s1 = 5/27
|          top score1 = 133
|         deliveries1 = 12,559
|            wickets1 = 252
|           bowl avg1 = 24.03
|            fivefor1 = 11
|             tenfor1 = 2
|       best bowling1 = 7/92
|  catches/stumpings1 = 102/–
|                date = 15 November
|                year = 2022
|              source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/tom-jameson-24247 Cricinfo
| show-medals=yes
| medaltemplates = 
{{MedalSport | Men's [squash](/source/squash_(sport)) }}
{{MedalCompetition | [British Amateur Championships](/source/British_Amateur_Squash_Championships)}}
{{MedalGold | 1922/1923 | singles}}
{{MedalGold | 1923/1924 | singles}}
}}

'''Thomas Ormsby Jameson''' (4 April 1892 — 6 February 1965) was an Irish first-class [cricket](/source/cricket)er and a soldier in the [British Army](/source/British_Army). As a cricketer, he made 124 appearances in [first-class cricket](/source/first-class_cricket) as an [all-rounder](/source/all-rounder). He was mostly associated with the [British Army cricket team](/source/British_Army_cricket_team), [Hampshire County Cricket Club](/source/Hampshire_County_Cricket_Club), and the [Marylebone Cricket Club](/source/Marylebone_Cricket_Club), though he also represented [Ireland](/source/Ireland_cricket_team) twice. In first-class cricket, he scored nearly 4,700 runs and took over 250 wickets. In the British Army, he was an officer in the [Rifle Brigade](/source/Rifle_Brigade_(The_Prince_Consort's_Own)), with which he served in the first part of the [First World War](/source/First_World_War), before serving with the [Royal West African Frontier Force](/source/Royal_West_African_Frontier_Force). A major shareholder in [Jameson Irish Whiskey](/source/Jameson_Irish_Whiskey), he was descended from its founder John Jameson.

==Early life and education==
Jameson was descended from John Jameson, a Scotsman who founded the [Jameson Whiskey Distillery](/source/Jameson_Irish_Whiskey) in [Dublin](/source/Dublin).<ref name="LID">{{cite web|url=https://irishcricketarchives.org/HISTORY/PLAYERS/337/biography.shtml|title=Edward Liddle's International Profiles: Thomas Ormsby Jameson|website=www.irishcricketarchives.org|date=5 September 2024}}</ref> He was born to James Ormsby Jameson and Maria Hone in [Clonsilla](/source/Clonsilla) in April 1892; his grandfather was the cricketer [William Hone](/source/William_Hone_(cricketer)).<ref name="LID"/> He began his education in England at [Hazelwood School](/source/Hazelwood_School), where his affinity for sports began.<ref name="k059">{{cite book | last=Manning | first=Cian | title='I Love Me County': Waterford Sporting Stories | publisher=History Press | year=2024 | isbn=978-1-80399-256-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FvfnEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT110 | access-date=17 February 2025 | page=110}}</ref><ref name="HAZ">{{cite web|url=http://www.hambo.org/hazelwood/view_man.php?id=124|title=Captain Thomas Ormsby Jameson|website=www.hambo.org|access-date=6 September 2024}}</ref> He then proceeded to [Harrow School](/source/Harrow_School),<ref name="HAR">{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/b28987317/page/862/mode/2up?q=jameson|title=The Harrow School Register, 1800-1911|first=Reginald Courtenay|last=Welch|author-link=Reginald Courtenay Welch |publisher=[Longmans Green](/source/Longman)|location=[London](/source/London)|page=863|date=1894|language=en}}</ref> playing cricket for the school and taking part in the famous [Fowler's match](/source/Fowler's_match) (named for his fellow Irish compatriot [Robert St Leger Fowler](/source/Robert_St_Leger_Fowler)) [against Eton](/source/Eton_v_Harrow) in 1910.<ref name="WisObit">{{cite web|url=http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/234625.html|title=Wisden – Obituaries in 1965|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|date=5 September 2024}} {{dead link |date= February 2025}}</ref> An all-round sportsman, he also represented Harrow in [rackets](/source/rackets_(sport)) and [fives](/source/fives).<ref name="HAR"/>

==Military career==
After completing his education, Jameson joined the [British Army](/source/British_Army) and was commissioned into the [Rifle Brigade](/source/Rifle_Brigade_(The_Prince_Consort's_Own)) as a [second lieutenant](/source/Second_lieutenant) on probation in November 1912,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28664|date=19 November 1912|page=8464}}</ref> serving in Ireland,<ref name="HAZ"/> with him being confirmed in the rank in April 1914.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28821|date=14 April 1914|page=3170}}</ref> He served in the [First World War](/source/First_World_War) with the 3rd Battalion on the [Western Front](/source/Western_Front_(World_War_I)),<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5xsIWNd6aVYC|title=The Rifle Brigade Chronicle|publisher=Rifle Brigade Club|year=1965|page=126|language=en}}</ref> with Jameson departing for France in September 1914 on board the {{SS|Lake Michigan}} from [Southampton](/source/Southampton).<ref name="HAZ"/> Two months later, he was promoted to [lieutenant](/source/Lieutenant_(British_Army_and_Royal_Marines)),<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28980|date=17 November 1914|page=9518|supp=y}}</ref> with Jameson returning to England toward the end of 1915. The following year he was posted to the 6th Reserve Battalion, based on the [Isle of Sheppey](/source/Isle_of_Sheppey).<ref name="HAZ"/> Promoted to [captain](/source/Captain_(British_Army_and_Royal_Marines)) in March 1917,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29928|date=13 March 1917|page=2520}}</ref> he was seconded to the [Colonial Office](/source/Colonial_Office) in September 1917 and served in West Africa with the [West African Frontier Force](/source/Royal_West_African_Frontier_Force).<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30412|date=30 November 1917|page=12664|supp=y}}</ref><ref name="HAZ"/> Following the end of the war in November 1919, Jameson returned from West Africa and was restored to the Rifle Brigade February 1920.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=31774|date=10 February 1920|page=1775|supp=y}}</ref> He spent three years from 1919 to 1922 serving in Ireland, before joining the [21st (County of London) Battalion](/source/21st_(County_of_London)_Battalion) as an [adjutant](/source/Adjutant) from March 1923 to October 1924, after which he left the military and returned to Ireland to run the family farm at [Cappoquin](/source/Cappoquin).<ref name="HAZ"/>

==Sporting career==
===Cricket===
====During military service====
[[File:Cricket In Phoenix Park - Dublin (2483415443).jpg|thumb|left|alt=Colour photo showing a cricket ground|Jameson began playing [club cricket](/source/club_cricket) for [Phoenix](/source/Phoenix_Cricket_Club) based at [Phoenix Park](/source/Phoenix_Park) (pictured) in [Dublin](/source/Dublin)]]
Prior to joining the army, Jameson played [club cricket](/source/club_cricket) in Ireland for both [Phoenix](/source/Phoenix_Cricket_Club) and the nomadic Na Shuler.<ref name="LID"/> Following the First World War, he made his debut in [first-class cricket](/source/first-class_cricket) for the [Marylebone Cricket Club](/source/Marylebone_Cricket_Club) (MCC) against [Oxford University](/source/Oxford_University_Cricket_Club) at [Lord's](/source/Lord's) in June 1919.<ref name="FCM">{{cite web|url=http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/6/6944/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-class matches played by Tom Jameson|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=6 September 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref> The following month, he made his debut for [Hampshire](/source/Hampshire_County_Cricket_Club) against [Yorkshire](/source/Yorkshire_County_Cricket_Club) at [Dewsbury](/source/Dewsbury_and_Savile_Ground) in the [County Championship](/source/1919_County_Championship), with him making a further eight appearances for Hampshire that season.<ref name="FCM"/> He also played for the [South](/source/South_of_England_cricket_team) against an [Australian Imperial Forces](/source/Australian_Imperial_Force_Touring_XI) team.<ref name="FCM"/> He began playing first-class cricket for armed services teams in 1920, making two appearances for the [British Army cricket team](/source/British_Army_cricket_team) against the MCC and [Cambridge University](/source/Cambridge_University_Cricket_Club), in addition to playing for the [Combined Services cricket team](/source/Combined_Services_cricket_team) against the [Gentlemen of England](/source/Gentlemen_of_England);<ref name="FCM"/> for the Army against the MCC, he took his maiden [five wicket haul](/source/five_wicket_haul) with figures of 5 for 22 in the MCC second innings, helping guide the Army to [an innings victory](/source/Result_(cricket)).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9799.html|title=Marylebone Cricket Club v Army, Other First-Class matches in England 1920|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=7 September 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Jameson scored his maiden first-class [century](/source/century_(cricket)) in 1921, making 119 for the Army against the [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy_Cricket_Club) at Lord's.<ref name="LID"/> In the same season he played a handful of services matches, including for the Combined Services against the touring [Australians](/source/Australia_national_cricket_team), alongside two appearances for Hampshire and the MCC. Notably for Hampshire against [Surrey](/source/Surrey_County_Cricket_Club), he took figures of 6 for 81 in Surrey's first innings and scored an aggressive 84 in Hampshire's first innings.<ref name="LID"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/10/10101.html|title=Surrey v Hampshire, County Championship 1921|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=7 September 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref> At the end of the season, he played for the Gentlemen in the [Gentlemen v Players](/source/Gentlemen_v_Players) fixture at [The Oval](/source/The_Oval).<ref name="FCM"/>

Jameson's 1922 season closely matched 1921 in terms of the first-class fixtures in which he participated in.<ref name="FCM"/> He had notable all-round performance during his first match of the 1922 season, when playing for the Combined Services against [Essex](/source/Essex_County_Cricket_Club) he made two half centuries (54 and 63) and took 5 for 61.<ref name="LID"/> Having been elected a [Free Forester](/source/Free_Foresters_Cricket_Club) in 1920,<ref name="CRIC">{{cite magazine|url=https://magazine.cricketarchive.com/Magazine/1965/vol_46_no_4/20/|title=T. O. Jameson|magazine=[The Cricketer](/source/The_Cricketer)|volume=46|edition=5|year=1965|access-date=8 September 2024|language=en}}</ref> he played for them in 1922 against Oxford University.<ref name="FCM"/> At the end of the season, he once again featured in the Gentlemen v Players fixture at The Oval.<ref name="FCM"/> Jameson featured more extensively for Hampshire in 1923, making eight first-class appearances, seven of which came in the [County Championship](/source/1923_County_Championship);<ref name="FCM"/> this uptake in county fixtures coincided with his transfer from the Rifle Brigade to the 21st (County of London) Battalion. Although he had transferred regiments, he continued to play services cricket, making three appearances for the Army. He also made three appearances for the MCC, including [captaining](/source/captain_(cricket)) them in a weather-affected match against the touring [West Indians](/source/West_Indies_cricket_team).<ref name="FCM"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/10/10754.html|title=Marylebone Cricket Club v West Indians, West Indies in British Isles 1923|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=8 September 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Although he featured just once for Hampshire in 1924, Jameson made three final appearances for the Army, made a final appearance for the Combined Services against the touring [South Africans](/source/South_Africa_national_cricket_team), and played twice for the MCC.<ref name="FCM"/> For the Army, he had made fourteen appearances, scoring 715 runs at an [average](/source/batting_average_(cricket)) of 32.50;<ref name="FCBAT">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6944/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Tom Jameson|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=8 September 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref> as a bowler, he took 47 wickets at an [bowling average](/source/bowling_average) of 17.61.<ref name="FCBOWL">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6944/f_Bowling_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Bowling For Each Team by Tom Jameson|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=8 September 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

====Post-military service====
[[File:Cricket ground Trinity College Dublin.JPG|thumb|right|alt=Colour photo showing a cricket ground|Jameson played for [Ireland](/source/Ireland_cricket_team) in their famous win against the [West Indians](/source/West_Indies_cricket_team) at [College Park, Dublin](/source/College_Park%2C_Dublin) (pictured) in 1928]]
The month after his military career came to an end, Jameson was selected to [tour South Africa](/source/S._B._Joel's_cricket_team_in_South_Africa_in_1924%E2%80%9325) with [Solomon Joel](/source/Solomon_Joel)'s personal eleven, which was captained by [Lionel Tennyson](/source/Lionel_Tennyson%2C_3rd_Baron_Tennyson), Jameson's captain at Hampshire.<ref name="CRIC"/> He played in ten first-class matches on the tour, including playing three times against South Africa.<ref name="FCM"/> He had success on the tour against [Rhodesia](/source/Rhodesia_cricket_team), scoring 90 not out from [number nine](/source/Batting_order_(cricket)), and against [Orange Free State](/source/Free_State_(cricket_team)) he made 133, which was to be the highest first-class score of his career.<ref name="CRIC"/> His 430 first-class runs at an average of 39.09 were the second-best on the tour.<ref name="LID"/> Despite returning to Ireland to manage his family's farm, Jameson still made himself available to play for Hampshire. During the 1925 season, he made thirteen appearances in the [County Championship](/source/1925_County_Championship), in addition to playing for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players fixture and for Lionel Tennyson's personal team against the personal team of [Arthur Gilligan](/source/Arthur_Gilligan).<ref name="FCM"/> In terms of runs scored, the 1925 season was to be Jameson's most successful, with 599 runs at an average of 26.04.<ref name="FCBAS">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6944/f_Batting_by_Season.html|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding in Each Season by Tom Jameson|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=9 September 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref> In an innings victory over [Warwickshire](/source/Warwickshire_County_Cricket_Club), he scored 103 batting at number eight.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/11/11523.html|title=Hampshire v Warwickshire, County Championship 1925|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=9 September 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref> He also took 28 wickets during the season,<ref name="FCBOW">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6944/f_Bowling_by_Season.html|title=First-Class Bowling in Each Season by Tom Jameson|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=9 September 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref> which included his career-best figures of 7 for 92 against a strong [Lancashire](/source/Lancashire_County_Cricket_Club) batting lineup.<ref name="LID"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/11/11542.html|title=Lancashire v Hampshire, County Championship 1925|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=9 September 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

During the winter which proceeded the 1925 season, Jameson [toured the West Indies](/source/English_cricket_team_in_the_West_Indies_in_1925%E2%80%9326) with an MCC team captained by [Freddie Calthorpe](/source/Freddie_Calthorpe).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19250902/148/0003|title=The M.C.C. West Indies Tour|work=[Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer](/source/The_Yorkshire_Post)|page=3|date=2 September 1925|access-date=9 September 2024|url-access=subscription|via=[British Newspaper Archive](/source/British_Newspaper_Archive)}}</ref> He made eleven first-class appearances during the tour, including playing in three matches against the West Indies,<ref name="FCM"/> then just two years away from [Test status](/source/Test_cricket). Jameson had success on the tour, scoring 536 runs at an average of 41.23,<ref name="FCBAS"/> with one century (110) against [Jamaica](/source/Jamaica_national_cricket_team) at [Kingston](/source/Melbourne_Park%2C_Kingston). He also made 98 against the West Indies at [Bridgetown](/source/Kensington_Oval), sharing in a partnership of 218 for the sixth wicket with [Wally Hammond](/source/Wally_Hammond), which the pair made in just over two and a half hours.<ref name="CRIC"/> He played little for Hampshire the following season, making just three appearances in the [County Championship](/source/1926_County_Championship);<ref name="FCM"/> against [Somerset](/source/Somerset_County_Cricket_Club), he made an [unbeaten](/source/not_out) 105 to help Hampshire to draw a match they had seemed certain to lose.<ref name="LID"/> During the season he made his first first-class appearance for [Ireland](/source/Ireland_cricket_team) against Oxford University, scoring 71 in the only Irish [innings](/source/Innings) and taking 4 for 140 when bowling. His previous service in the British Army had complicated any prior selection for Ireland, particularly as trouble instigated by the [Irish Republican](/source/Irish_Republican_Army_(1919%E2%80%931922)) and plagued previous cricket matches in Ireland at the beginning of the 1920s.<ref name="LID"/> At the end of the season he made his final appearance for the Gentlemen against the Players.

In the winter which followed the 1926 season, Jameson was selected for the [MCC's tour of South America](/source/Marylebone_Cricket_Club_in_South_America_in_1926%E2%80%9327).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000250/19261103/168/0008|title=M.C.C. team for Argentine tour|work=[Sheffield Daily Telegraph](/source/Sheffield_Telegraph)|page=8|date=3 November 1926|access-date=11 September 2024|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref> On the tour, he made four first-class appearances against the [Argentine national team](/source/Argentina_national_cricket_team).<ref name="FCM"/> He had notable all-round success during the tour, scoring two centuries in the first two matches of the tour and heading the tour batting averages, whilst also taking 32 wickets;<ref name="CRIC"/> 19 of these came in the first-class representative matches,<ref name="FCBOW"/> with Jameson taking ten-wickets in the match at the [Belgrano Club](/source/Estadio_Belgrano_Athletic).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/12/12169.html|title=Argentina v Marylebone Cricket Club, Marylebone Cricket Club in South America 1926/27|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=11 September 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Although he did not play first-class cricket during the 1927 English season, he did return in 1928, making four appearances for Hampshire, two for the MCC against the West Indians and [Wales](/source/Wales_national_cricket_team),<ref name="FCM"/> and a second appearance for Ireland in a famous Irish victory against the West Indians.<ref name="LID"/> The following season he made seven appearances for Hampshire in the [County Championship](/source/1929_County_Championship),<ref name="FCM"/> at which point his career began to wind down. He was limited to two appearances for Hampshire in 1930, one of which came against the touring Australians, in addition to playing twice for the MCC.<ref name="FCM"/> Two years would pass before Jameson next played first-class cricket, making a final appearance for Hampshire in the [1932 County Championship](/source/1932_County_Championship) against [Middlesex](/source/Middlesex_County_Cricket_Club).<ref name="FCM"/> For Hampshire, he made 53 appearances, in which he scored 2,013 runs at an average of 24.85;<ref name="FCBAT"/> with the ball, he took 77 wickets at an average of 33.20.<ref name="FCBOWL"/> Jamesone continued to play cricket in Dublin for Na Shuler, before being chosen to [tour India with Baron Tennyson's team in 1937–38](/source/Lord_Tennyson's_cricket_team_in_India_in_1937%E2%80%9338). Aged 45 by the time of the tour, and in somewhat poor health during it,<ref name="LID"/> Jameson made six first-class appearances,<ref name="FCM"/> but struggled in making 83 runs at an average of 11.85.<ref name="FCBAS"/>

====Playing style and career statistics====
Described by ''[The Cricketer](/source/The_Cricketer)'' as "a tall, stylish batsman and a particularly fine driver"<ref name="CRIC"/> and in ''[The Times](/source/The_Times)'' as "a very good and forcing batsman",<ref name="TIMES">{{cite news|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS302606416/TTDA?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-TTDA&xid=62b8319f|title=Captain T. O. Jameson|work=[The Times](/source/The_Times)|location=[London](/source/London)|page=18|issue=56247|date=16 February 1965|access-date=11 September 2024|url-access=subscription|via=[Gale](/source/Gale_(publisher))}}</ref> in all first-class cricket Jameson scored 4,675 runs at an average of 26.56, scoring five centuries, with a top score of 133.<ref name="PRO">{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/tom-jameson-24247|title=Player profile: Tom Jameson|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=11 September 2024}}</ref> "A more than useful slow bowler",<ref name="TIMES"/> he took 252 wickets at an average of 24.03 with his [leg break](/source/leg_break) bowling, taking eleven five wicket hauls.<ref name="PRO"/> He was noted to have been prolific in dismissing [Jack Hobbs](/source/Jack_Hobbs), doing so on several occasions.<ref name="TIMES"/> As a [fielder](/source/fielding_(cricket)), he played in the [slips](/source/slip_(cricket)) and took 102 [catches](/source/catch_(cricket)) in first-class cricket.<ref name="PRO"/>

==Racquets and squash==
Jameson was also a fine [racquets](/source/Racquets_(sport)) player, winning the Army singles championship in 1922, 1923 and 1924 and the doubles championship in 1920, 1921 and 1922.<ref name="TIMES"/> He reached the final of the amateur singles championship in 1924 and won the [British Amateur Squash Championships](/source/British_Amateur_Squash_Championships) during the 1922/23<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000681/19230416/133/0007 |title=Rowing On The Lea|work=Daily Herald |date=16 April 1923 |p=7 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=28 May 2026}}</ref> and 1923/24 seasons.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001714/19231218/004/0004 |title=Squash Rackets|work=Newcastle Daily Chronicle |date=18 December 1923 |p=4 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=28 May 2026}}</ref><ref name="WisObit"/> He was described as playing racquets "freely and beautifully on his back-hand as on his fore-hand", and in 1922 ''The Times'' suggested that he was the best racquets player produced by Harrow in the last twenty–years.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS102437766/TTDA?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-TTDA&xid=5cbc826a|title=Squash Rackets|work=The Times|location=London|page=6|issue=43207|date=6 December 1922|access-date=11 September 2024|url-access=subscription|via=Gale}}</ref>

==Personal life and death==
Jameson remained a major shareholder of Jameson's throughout his life.<ref name="HAZ"/> He married the artist [Joan Musgrave](/source/Joan_Jameson) (1892–1953) on 11 June 1920, with the couple having two sons.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/jameson-joan-a4255|title=Dictionary of Irish Biography|last1=Devine|first1=Ruth|editor1-last=McGuire|editor1-first=James|editor2-last=Quinn|editor2-first=James|date=2009|publisher=[Cambridge University Press](/source/Cambridge_University_Press)|chapter=Jameson, Joan|doi=10.3318/dib.004255.v1}}</ref> In later life, he lived in [Ardmore](/source/Ardmore%2C_County_Waterford) in [County Waterford](/source/County_Waterford).<ref name="HAZ"/> Jameson died in a care home in [Dún Laoghaire](/source/D%C3%BAn_Laoghaire) near Dublin on 6 February 1965.<ref name="CRIC"/>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=24247}}

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