Record ID:
61543497 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • no 89012861
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1796-10-17
  • Lairg (Scotland)
Death:
  • 1878-12-31
Associated with:
  • Scotland China
Lived/located in:
  • Guangzhou (China)
Fields of activity:
  • Commerce
Occupations:
  • Merchants
Used for:
  • Matheson, James Nicolas Sutherland, 1796-1878
Notes:
  • Boase (Matheson, Sir James, 1 baronet; b. 1796; d. 12-31-1878)
  • The present position and prospects of the British trade with China, 1836 t.p. (James Matheson, Esq., of the firm of Jardine, Matheson and Co., of Canton)
  • Wikipedia, viewed 2 June 2015 (Sir James Nicolas Sutherland Matheson, 1st Baronet (17 October 1796-31 December 1878), born in Shiness, Lairg, Sutherland, Scotland, was the son of Captain Donald Matheson, a Scottish trader in India. He attended Edinburgh's Royal High School and the University of Edinburgh. He and William Jardine went on to co-found the trading conglomerate Jardine Matheson & Co.)
Local system number:
  • (AuPaJTL)517341
Cataloguing source:
  • MdU eng rda MdU Uk