Charles D. Jamieson

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Charles Dunbar Jamieson, journalist, stationer and publisher of the first Shetland-produced newspaper, The Shetland Advertiser in 1862, was born in 1824 in Lerwick.

His father Andrew Jamieson, (b. 1798, Unst) was a draper, who had married a Lerwick woman, May Stewart (b. 1796). They are recorded in the Census of 1851 as resident at 3 Albert Court, Lerwick.

Though Arthur Anderson's Shetland Journal preceded by some twenty five years, The 'Shetland Advertiser' is highly significant, as it was printed in Shetland - and also in that it gave a printer's training to Thomas Manson, a man whose influence would long outlast that of the newspaper he printed, over life in Shetland until well into World War II.

In attitude, Jamieson's paper was notoriously outspoken, and lasted only eighteen months, but the general idea of a locally printed paper hung on, and The Shetland Times emerged in 1872.

Charles D. Jamieson died on the 9th of January, 1891 in Delting. He is buried in Knab Road Cemetery, Lerwick.