Sir Leander Starr /stɑr/Show Spelled[stahr]Show IPA, ( "Doctor Jameson" )1853–1917, Scottish physician and statesman: colonial administrator in South Africa.
Sir Leander Starr. 1853--1917, British administrator in South Africa, who led an expedition into the Transvaal in 1895 in an unsuccessful attempt to topple its Boer regime (the Jameson Raid); prime minister of Cape Colony (1904--08)