Archibald Jamieson

Sir Archibald Auldjo Jamieson KBE MC (1884 – 23 October 1959) was a British soldier and businessman, chairman of the British arms and aircraft company Vickers during World War II.

Family

His father George was a senior partner in the Edinburgh accountancy firm Lindsay, Jamieson, and Haldane, and a councillor in Edinburgh; his mother was George Jamieson's second wife, Susan Helena (née Oliphant). He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford. He trained as an accountant. He served during the First World War, being mentioned in despatches and awarded the Military Cross.

In 1917 he married Doris Pearce, daughter of Henry Pearce, RN; the couple had two sons and two daughters; their eldest son was David Auldjo Jamieson who was awarded the VC in 1944 during the Second World War. Their other son Gerald James "Jerrie" (died 1992) was married to Lady Mariegold Fitzalan-Howard, daughter of the 3rd Baron Howard of Glossop. Jamieson himself was knighted (KBE) in 1946. Lady Doris died in 1947. In 1956, he remarried, to Margretta Stroup Austin. He died three years later, in 1959.

Career

Jamieson became a director of armaments company Vickers in 1928 and chairman in 1937; in the late 1930s he helped integrate the main firm more closely with its subsidiaries, increasing production in the run-up to World War II.