# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-matheson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:41:53.600Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-matheson"
name: "James Matheson"
slug: "james-matheson"
description: "Sir James Nicolas Sutherland Matheson, 1st Baronet, FRS, was a Scottish opium trader and taipan. Born in Shiness, Lairg, Sutherland, Scotland, he was the son of Captain Donald Matheson. He attended Edinburgh's Royal High School and the University of Edinburgh. He and William Jardine went on to co-found the Hong Kong-based trading conglomerate Jardine Matheson & Co. that became today's Jardine Matheson Holdings."
tagline: "British politician and merchant (1796-1878)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Matheson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1796-10-17"
deathDate: "1878-12-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             8.395904436860066
  historical:           10.52365466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "James Matheson"
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  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Matheson_(taipan)"
    title: "James Matheson (taipan)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump