Sir James Nicolas Sutherland Matheson, 1st Baronet, FRS (17 November 1796 – 31 December 1878), was a Scottish opium trader and taipan. Born in Shiness...
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Matthew James Matheson (born February 7, 1982) is a Canadian chef, restaurateur, actor and internet personality. He portrays the handyman Neil Fak on the...
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Jardines (company) (redirect from Jardine Matheson Limited)
Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited (also known as Jardines) is a Hong Kong–based, Bermuda-domiciled British multinational conglomerate. It has a primary...
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Far Eastern company founded in 1832 by Scotsmen William Jardine and James Matheson as senior partners. Trafficking opium in Asia, while also trading cotton...
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firm's Canton operations. James Matheson joined him shortly afterwards with Magniac & Co. reconstituted as Jardine, Matheson & Co. in 1832. After Imperial...
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James Matheson (1796–1878) was a Scottish trader in India. James Matheson may also refer to: James Matheson (skier) (born 1995), Australian freestyle...
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Clan Matheson (Scottish Gaelic: Clann Mhathain [ˈkʰl̪ˠãũn̪ˠ ˈvãhɛn]) is a Highland Scottish clan. The surname Matheson has more than one anglicization...
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James Matheson (born 10 April 1995) is an Australian freestyle skier. He competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics. "James MATHESON". Olympics.com. Archived...
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subsidiary of Jardine Matheson. James Matheson, one of the two founders of the Hong Kong-based Jardine Matheson trading company, founded Matheson & Company in...
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James Matheson (born 1970 in Des Moines, Iowa) is an American composer. His works have been commissioned and performed by the Albany Symphony Orchestra...
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Tim Matheson (born Timothy Lewis Matthieson; December 31, 1947) is an American actor and director. Some of his best-known acting roles include the title...
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relations with Meiji-era Japan. In 1843, Matheson declined an offer from his uncle James Matheson to join Jardine Matheson in Hong Kong due to the company's...
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The segment is based on the 1970 short story of the same name by Richard Matheson; the same short story forms the basis of the 2009 film The Box. It poses...
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MacKenzies sold Stornoway, and the Isle of Lewis as a whole, to Sir James Matheson. He and his descendants built the present Lews Castle on a hill overlooking...
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Thomas Matheson (1798 – 14 February 1873) was a British Whig politician. Son of Donald Matheson and brother of James Matheson (co-founder of Jardine Matheson...
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Park is now inhabited: settlements in the south were cleared by Sir James Matheson in the nineteenth century. A famous deer raid took place here in 1887...
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Arthur James Matheson (December 12, 1845 – January 25, 1913) was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served as a Conservative Member of the Legislative...
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Nightingale, Jardine Matheson (2006-2012), Hong Kong William Jardine, Jardine Matheson (1843–1845), Hong Kong James Matheson, Jardine Matheson (1796–1878), Hong...
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James David Matheson (born March 21, 1960) is an American politician who served as a United States Representative from Utah from 2001 to 2015. He represented...
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region of Honam. The founders of then world-renowned firms including James Matheson, William Jardine, Samuel Russell and Abiel Abbot Low all had a close...
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and Hong Kong. Matheson was the nephew of Sir James Matheson, 1st Baronet, and made a partner in the family firm of Jardine Matheson, and a matrilinear...
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politician James Matheson. He was co-founder of the firm of Jardine Matheson. The title became extinct on his death in 1878. The Matheson Baronetcy, of...
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Richard Burton Matheson (February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013) was an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction...
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Scotland. It was built in the years 1844–51 as a country house for Sir James Matheson who had bought the whole island a few years previously with his fortune...
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Co. Gibb, Livingston & Co. Hugh Bold Gibb Jardine, Matheson & Co. William Jardine James Matheson John Abel Smith Magniac & Co. Daniel Beale Thomas Beale...
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James Gunn Matheson (1 March 1912 – 28 October 2007) was a Scottish minister. He served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland...
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owned by Sir James Matheson, born in Shiness, Lairg, Sutherland, Scotland, from 1844 to 1917. He was the son of Captain Donald Matheson, a Scottish trader...
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industrialist James Matheson, Scottish businessman Jim Matheson, American politician, son of Scott M. Matheson John Matheson, Canadian politician Karen Matheson, Scottish...
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design, Matheson House is surrounded by a stone garden wall. After Roderick Matheson's death in 1873, the house was inherited by Arthur James Matheson, a lawyer...
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half of the century. In 1844 Lewis was bought by Sir James Matheson, co-founder of Jardine Matheson, but subsequent famine and changing land use forced...
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