Recent Syndics: P. R. Jameson

Percy Richard Jameson
(April 1886-August 1962)

He was born in London, England and died while pruining roses in his backyard at 1515 Highland Avenue, Rochester, NY, during August 1962.

He had an 8th grade education, yet he developed the blood pressure gage, and worked with and was an advisor to former President Theodore Roosevelt, Wilbur & Orville Wright (installing various gauges in their early planes), Charles Stewart Rolls (1877-1910)and Frederick Henry Royce (1863-1933), as well as Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, and many others. He was a world traveler, having explored India, Africa, China, Japan, and the South Pacific, including living in a Maori village and being made a tribal member.

Jameson was the first to promote weather forecasting, wrote some of the earliest books of this subject (copies archived at Firestone Library, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ), and helped develope the Microbarograph (recording barometer).

During World War II, he worked on the Manhattan Project as a consultant on weather. For theis, he was honored by Secretary of War, Henry Stimson.

In addition "Dick" or "PR" Jameson (as he liked to be called, was a 33 degree Mason (as was his own father, George Jameson) and wrote 5 unpublished manuscripts covering mysticism, the occult, and various related matters. These manuscripts, although read, have remained unpublished. Also, one of his loves (and with historical expertise) was vaudeville theater.

One of his great passions was "the full education of Common Mankind."