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Engraving by John Slezer (National Library of Scotland) Buried and Born in Alloa, Scotland. Alloa – derivative from the Gaelic, meaning, ‘The way to the sea.’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6456b6ee9831c12490a37c77/1683592523009-UCC7ETDCVWB4Z60IHXG2/John-Jameson-Seal-2.png JJ's World John Jameson’s seal of 1792, reproduced by Quentin Peacock Seafaring was in JJ’s blood; the sea had led the family ‘Without Fear’ to Alloa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6456b6ee9831c12490a37c77/1683592930283-0Z5QLO4FUEHKU4Q2JC6P/4._Cemetery-2.jpg JJ's World John Jameson’s Tomb by Ciaran Murphy Today, John Jameson’s residence in Alloa remains within the whiff of the sea, half a mile inland at the Kirkyard of the old parish church of St Mungo’s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6456b6ee9831c12490a37c77/1683592930291-7AA6AZ6VRK26P5L32JPQ/5._JOHN_ERSKINE_6th_Earl-2.jpg JJ's World John Erskine Earl of Mar by Ciaran Murphy ‘Bobbing John’ JJ’s Jacobite churchyard neighbour. An architect, an urban planner, a musician, a politician, and a soldier, the 6th Earl of Mar was one of those toffs who was irritatingly good at everything. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6456b6ee9831c12490a37c77/1683578230860-EJMMWBJZB75T1GLIW7T3/6._Bonny_Prince_Charlie.jpg JJ's World Charles Edward Stewart by Alan Ramsay (Alamy) The Bonnie Prince - Fresh and rosy as a baby’s bottom. JJ would become a sentimental Jacobite by default. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6456b6ee9831c12490a37c77/1683592931083-8NYG8AXS02E5ESV57R3Y/7._KATHARINE_Bruce-2.jpg JJ's World Katharine Bruce by Ciaran Murphy “What’s wrang wi’ mah mooth, man?” Katharine Bruce, an Outspoken Jacobite who took a shine to the young JJ. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6456b6ee9831c12490a37c77/1683578231684-V99VFMEAAAXGBCVG4GJI/8._Edinburgh_Sky_Scrapers.jpg JJ's World Parliament Close, Royal Mile, Edinburgh, 18th century (Alamy) Edinburgh, with its stacked-up sandstone skyscrapers. JJ enjoyed the smelly old city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6456b6ee9831c12490a37c77/1683578275586-HBYC9OQHOJVK76VH2JJ4/9._Margaret_Jameson.jpg JJ's World Margaret Jameson by Henry Raeburn (National Gallery of Ireland) ‘Look Aboot Ye’ goes the Clackmannanshire motto and obeying the command from Robert the Bruce, JJ did just that. Margaret Haig was a tobacconist’s daughter, known affectionately by her family as ‘Peggie’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6456b6ee9831c12490a37c77/1683578275669-IRWT5Q82V7RW68NP5FEO/10._Wedding_Night.jpg JJ's World The Wedding Night by Ciaran Murphy JJ was gently snoozing in his chair. Peggie nudged him awake. “Ach! C’moan ye sleepy auld fool!” Peggie took JJ’s hand and led him off into their future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6456b6ee9831c12490a37c77/1685014671700-EU0FP5O4GTHB2KJ407VJ/10b._Whisky_drinking.jpg JJ's World Peggie’s Stein uncles were distillers. Robert Burns drank her Uncle Jim’s whisky and appreciated its rascally ways. Rabbie witnessed how ‘Dear Kilbaigie’ evaporated misery and bought jollity. For the poor, it gave relief; for the wounded, it zapped infection; for the sick, it widened the arteries; for governments, it was liquid opium for the masses and raised an increasingly indispensable source of revenue. Peggie’s uncles were on to a winner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6456b6ee9831c12490a37c77/1683578276643-IYHJU0GZBB7KXRGWFQV3/11._Canonmills_copy.jpg JJ's World Canonmills Loch and House, Edinburgh. (Alamy) Peggie chose to stay at her brother James Haig’s house at Canonmills. For the Jameson young, a visit to an uncle or relation so often had the added excitement of seeing a new distillery and its workings. Carefully, William and James Jameson made their way to the river and the distillery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6456b6ee9831c12490a37c77/1683578276631-N2UZ323E6A75LKQGVD5B/12._Thames___Tower_of_London_copy.jpg JJ's World The Thames and the Tower of London by Samuel Scott (Alamy) There was a war going on, undeclared. In February 1786, John Jameson had a unique opportunity to visit the front line in London along the river Thames. Unchallenged, Stein and Haig sloops and brigantines sailed up the river to land their cargos of rectified gin or raw spirit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6456b6ee9831c12490a37c77/1683578277859-S5EL6WN929Z03JB6QTMN/13.Map_of_J.J_s_Journey_Helen_Cann_.jpg JJ's World Map of JJ’s journey from Alloa to Dublin by Helen Cann. 1795 was timely for JJ’s first visit to Ireland. Seven years had passed since the catastrophic collapse of Scotland’s distilling, and the family had now recovered. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6456b6ee9831c12490a37c77/1683578277934-HAHA3NNGDV4YFOFKDDMU/14._Custom_House.jpg JJ's World The Custom House, in Dublin, Ireland (Alamy) Stretched out along the quays lay the Copular crowned Custom House. This was a city built for commerce and aching for its coffers to be filled. 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(Alamy) John Jameson’s association with his great-grandson in the wireless scientific revolution was unexpected. So, too, was Marconi’s link to Arthur Browne, whose philandering precipitated one of the world’s greatest inventions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6456b6ee9831c12490a37c77/1683578279793-YLEOAS2N5ETXEOBU2KEX/18._Have_you_met_JJ.jpg JJ's World 1941 U.S. Magazine John Jameson Whiskey Advert (Alamy) Slowly JJ took form from his origins in Alloa, his Sheriff Clerk role, and his unmistakable signature. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6456b6ee9831c12490a37c77/1683578280534-HU9DE0CTPADDZ1RW17VU/19.Whiskey_Mat.jpg JJ's World John Jameson and Son Irish Whiskey Dublin (Alamy) ‘Established 1780’ adorns the bottles of an extremely good whiskey. It has been there for 130 years. 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