About James Yeaman
Lived 1816 – 1886 (aged 69–70). James Yeaman was a politician.
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.
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.
A successful fish curer, Yeaman was the Lord Provost of Dundee from 1869 to 1872.
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Scottish Liberal Party politician (1816-1886)
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