In a Liberal Party preselection ballot for Macarthur, held on 30 October 2009, Farmer was defeated by Russell Matheson and retired from politics at the 2010 federal election.

Matheson retired as Tai-Pan during the early 1840s and handed over to David Jardine, another nephew of Jardine.

All four of David's sons moved on to work with Jardine, Matheson & Co. in Hong Kong and South China, starting as clerks and eventually becoming partners or managing partners or taipan in the firm.

David Jardine, another nephew of Jardine, became taipan after Sir Alexander Matheson.

Subsequent events led to the cross-shareholding structure between Jardine, Matheson & Co. and Hongkong Land which was first instigated in 1980 by then taipan David Newbigging.

In 1988, instigated by Brian Powers, the first American taipan of Jardines, the entire corporate structure of Jardine, Matheson & Co., including all its allied companies, were restructured so that a holding company based in London and controlled by the Keswick family would have overall policy and strategic control of all Jardine Matheson Group companies.

Matheson returned to China in 1836 to prepare to take over the firm as Jardine was preparing to fulfill his temporarily delayed retirement.

In Hong Kong, two most well-known conglomerates are the Swire Group and Jardine Matheson, both are British-owned companies that have a history of over 100 years and have business interests that span across four continents with a focus in Asia.

In 1940 the Matheson family donated over of their land to Dade County for a public park ( Crandon Park ) in exchange for a commitment that the county would build a causeway to the island.

The segments, all written by suspense writer Richard Matheson, were named after the women involved in the plot: a plain college professor who seduces a student (" Julie "), a pair of sisters who squabble over their father's inheritance (" Millicent and Therese "), and the lonely recipient of a cursed Zuni fetish that comes to life and pursues her relentlessly (" Amelia ").

Perhaps the greatest coup of the Covenant Association was the removal of the Stone of Destiny from Westminster Abbey by four of their members ( Ian Hamilton, Kay Matheson, Gavin Vernon and Alan Stuart ) over Christmas in 1950.

In 1908 Matheson began buying up the property on Key Biscayne north of the Davis holdings, all the way to Bear Cut, over 1, 700 ( about 690 hectares ) acres.

In November 2009, during intense debates over American health care reform, Matheson voted against the Affordable Health Care for America Act. When President Obama named Matheson's brother Scott M. Matheson to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit at a time where he needed Matheson's vote for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, The Weekly Standard posted an article that said " Barack Obama will host ten House Democrats who voted against the health care bill in November at the White House ; he's obviously trying to persuade them to switch their vote to yes.

Matheson defeated State Representative John Swallow by only 1, 600 votes, largely due to a 25, 800-vote margin over John Swallow in Salt Lake County.

A concession road between Hoyle and Matheson already existed at this point, and over the next several years it was reconstructed to provincial standards.

Other notable races include the election of Bridge River-Lillooet News publisher George Matheson Murray in Lillooet over Conservative Ernest Crawford Carson.

Upon advice of members of the Utah Wilderness Commission, appointed by Utah Governor Scott Matheson, Hatch agreed to leave National Parks and National Monuments in federal hands, and he drafted a bill that would allow states to apply for control over selected parcels.

Mr. Weatherall is a member of the Keswick family which control Jardine Matheson through complex cross-shareholdings, despite holding only around 10 % of the shares in the company.

The firm of Jardine, Matheson and Co. began in Canton, China on 1 July 1832 by Scottish doctor William Jardine and Edinburgh University graduate James Matheson.

Both Jardine and Magniac also invited James Matheson to join the firm.

Contrary to the practice at the time of retiring partners removing their capital from the firm, Hollingworth left his capital with the firm in trust to Jardine and Matheson.

James Matheson joined Magniac & Co. from the firm Yrissari & Co where he was partner.

Yrissari, leaving no heir, had willed all his shares in the firm to Matheson.

James Matheson and his nephew, Alexander Matheson, joined the firm Magniac and Co. in 1827, but their association was officially advertised on 1 January 1828.

Jardine was known as the planner, the tough negotiator and strategist of the firm and Matheson was known as the organization man, who handled the firm's correspondence, and other complex articles including legal affairs.

Jardine Matheson then began its transformation from a major commercial agent of the East India Company into the largest British trading hong ( 洋行 ), or firm, in Asia.

Trade with China, especially in the illegal opium, grew, and so did the firm of Jardine, Matheson and Co, which was already known as the Princely Hong for being the largest British trading firm in East Asia.

He was also a partner along with longtime friend and business partner Hollingworth Magniac in the merchant banking firm of Magniac, Smith & Co., later renamed Magniac, Jardine & Co., the forerunner of the firm Matheson and Co.

No other member of the Matheson family became active in the firm after Percival, though another nephew, Donald Matheson, served as director.

James Matheson returned to England to fill up the Parliament seat left vacant by Jardine and to head up the firm Matheson & Co., previously known as Magniac, Jardine & Co., in London, a merchant bank and Jardines ' agent in England.

In 1912, Jardine, Matheson & Co. and the Keswicks would eventually buy out the shares of the Matheson family in the firm although the name is still retained.

On 1 July 1832, Jardine, Matheson and Company, a partnership, between William Jardine, James Matheson as senior partners, and Hollingworth Magniac, Alexander Matheson, Jardine's nephew Andrew Johnstone, Matheson's nephew Hugh Matheson, John Abel Smith, and Henry Wright, as the first partners, was formed in China, taking the Chinese name ' Ewo ' ( 怡和 ) pronounced " Yee-Wo " and meaning ' Happy Harmony '.

Aided by Matheson's nephew, Alexander Matheson ( 1805 – 1881 ) and MP John Abel Smith, Jardine met several times with Palmerston to argue the necessity for a war plan.

He was assisted by his nephew, Andrew Johnstone and later on by James Matheson in his correspondence.

On 1 July 1832, Jardine, Matheson and Company, a partnership, between William Jardine, James Matheson as senior partners, and Hollingworth Magniac, Alexander Matheson, Jardine's nephew Andrew Johnstone, Matheson's nephew Hugh Matheson, John Abel Smith, and Henry Wright, as the first partners was formed in Canton, and took the Chinese name ' Ewo ' ( 怡和 " Yee-Wo " Literally Happy Harmony.

A descendant of Sir Robert, Sir John Buchanan-Jardine, sold his family's 51 % holding in Jardine, Matheson and Co. for $ 84 million at the then prevailing exchange rate in 1959.

Notable Jardines Managing Directors or Tai-pans included Sir Alexander Matheson, 1st Baronet, David Jardine, Robert Jardine, William Keswick, James Johnstone Keswick, Ben Beith, David Landale, Sir John Buchanan-Jardine, Sir William Johnstone " Tony " Keswick, Sir Hugh Barton, Sir Michael Herries, Sir John Keswick, Sir Henry Keswick, Simon Keswick and Alasdair Morrison.

Jardine, Matheson and Co. offered its shares to the public in 1961 under the tenure of Sir Hugh Barton and was oversubscribed 56 times.

The present Chairman of Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd. is Sir Henry Keswick, who is based in the UK, was the company's tai-pan from 1970 ( aged 31 ) to 1975 and was the 6th Keswick to be tai-pan of the company.

* Jardine Matheson: Traders of the Far East by Sir Robert Blake

* a translation with Sir Richard Lodge and Percy Ewing Matheson of Bluntschli's Theory of the State ( 1885 )

On his retirement in 1898, Naorojee sold the company to The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company Limited, at that time owned by Jardine, Matheson & Co. and Sir Paul Chater.

* Commodore Sir Charles Matheson DSO RD RNR – Commodore Orient Line

* Sir Henry Keswick, chairman of Jardine Matheson Holdings.

The riot took place in 1874, and occurred as a reaction to heavy-handed evictions and treatment by the factor of Sir James Matheson, Donald Munro.

The castle was destroyed by Oliver Cromwell's forces in the aftermath of his Scottish campaign in the mid 17th century, and the ownership of Stornoway-and by extension, Lewis-passed from the MacKenzies of Kintail through the Seaforth family and Sir James Matheson ( and his descendants ) to William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme.

* Sir Alexander Matheson, 1st Baronet ( 1805 – 1886 ), Scottish businessman and Liberal politician

A 1982 BBC Radio 4 broadcast featured Alec McCowen as Orsino, Wendy Murray as Viola, Norman Rodway as Sir Toby Belch, Andrew Sachs as Sir Andrew Aguecheek and Bernard Hepton as Malvolio ; in 1993 BBC Radio 3 broadcast the play, with Michael Maloney as Orsino, Eve Matheson as Viola, Iain Cuthbertson as Malvolio and Joss Ackland as Sir Toby Belch.