James Yeaman

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.^[1]

A portrait of James Yeaman (1876)

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.^[2]

A successful fish curer, Yeaman was the Lord Provost of Dundee from 1869 to 1872.