James Yeaman

Scottish Liberal Party politician (1816-1886)

A portrait of James Yeaman (1876)

James Yeaman (1816 – 11 April 1886) was a Scottish businessman and Scottish Liberal Party, and briefly Conservative, politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1873 to 1880 for as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Dundee.^[1]

He was elected at a by-election in August 1873, and re-elected in 1874. However, at the 1880 general election he stood as a Conservative, and was defeated.^[2]

A successful fish curer, Yeaman was the Lord Provost of Dundee from 1869 to 1872.

References

1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 4)
2. Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 538. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by James Yeaman