Jameson, Leander Starr

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Scottish colonial administrator, born in Edinburgh, Scotland. In South Africa, early in 1896, he led the Jameson Raid from Mafeking into the Transvaal to support the non-Boer colonists there, in an attempt to overthrow the government (for which he served some months in prison). Returning to South Africa, he succeeded Cecil Rhodes as leader of the Progressive Party of Cape Colony, where he was prime minister 1904–08. He was made 1st baronet in 1911.

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