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JACKSON, REV. JAMES. _b._ 1796; the first student admitted at St. Bees theol. coll. 6 Jany. 1817; P.C. of Rivington, Bolton-le-Moors 1823–56; lived at Summer Hill, Sandwith, St. Bees; was accustomed to ascend the Pillar rock, Ennerdale, Cumberland on the 1 May every year and was known as the Patriarch of the Pillarites; went up on 1 May 1878, fell down 250 yards, dead body found on 3 May 400 yards from the Pillar rock, aged 82. _Graphic 18 May 1878 pp._ 479, 480, _portrait and view of Pillar rock_; _Cumberland Pacquet, Whitehaven 7 May 1878 p._ 2.

JACKSON, JOHN (son of a farmer). _b._ Tunstall near Catterick Bridge, Feb. 1828; helped his father in buying and selling cattle and sheep; a book maker, won £27,000 on Ellington winner of the Derby 1856; purchased Tim Whiffler from Mr. O’Hara 1861 and won with him £10,000 on the Chester cup and the Queen’s vase at Ascot 1862; purchased Blair Athol for £7,500 guineas from Wm. I’Anson 1864, sold him to Wm. Blenkiron for 5000 guineas 1868; proprietor of Fairfield house and paddocks 1863 and made it a stud farm, all his horses sold 1868 producing £28,500. _d._ Fairfield 2 Feb. 1869. _Sporting Times 29 Aug. 1885 p._ 2; _Saddle and Sirloin. By the Druid. Part North_ (1870) 209–15.

JACKSON, JOHN. _b._ Crossedale Beck, Yorkshire 4 Dec. 1793; assist. schoolmaster Bristol to 1821; master of the Friends’ seminary at Academy court, Warrington 1821–53; contributed to the Gentlemen’s and Ladies’ Diary, solutions of difficult mathematical problems; made MS. collections on the dialects of Lancashire, Yorkshire, Westmoreland and Cumberland; his old pupils purchased for him an annuity 1853; author of Rational amusement for winter evenings or a collection of puzzles and paradoxes with their solutions 1821; his library of 1900 volumes purchased and presented by Mr. McMinnies to the Warrington library June 1876. _d._ Academy st. Warrington 27 Sep. 1875. _bur._ Friends’ ground, Penketh 1 Oct. _J. Kendrick’s Profiles of Warrington Worthies_ (1854), _p._ 7 _plate_ 3, _portrait_; _Warrington Examiner 2 Oct. 1875 p._ 2, _3 June 1876 p._ 2.

JACKSON, RIGHT REV. JOHN (son of Henry Jackson of St. Pancras, London, merchant). _b._ London 22 Feb. 1811; ed. at Reading gram. school and Pemb. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836, B.D. 1853, D.D. 1853; head master of proprietary gr. sch. Islington 1833–46; P.C. of St. James’s, Muswell Hill 1842–6; select preacher to univ. of Ox. 1845, 1850, 1862 and 1866; R. of St. James’s, Piccadilly 1846 to 1853; chaplain to the Queen 18 June 1847 to 1853; canon of Bristol 1852–3; Boyle lecturer 1853; bishop of Lincoln 24 March 1853, consecrated in Lambeth church 5 May 1853, translated to see of London 4 Jany. 1869; dean of her majesty’s chapels royal 29 Jany. 1869 to death; P.C. 13 May 1869; aided in establishment of diocese of St. Albans 1877 and rearrangement of dioceses of Rochester and Winchester; encouraged organisation of lay help and created a diocesan conference; wrote the Commentary and notes on the Pastoral Epistles in The Speaker’s Commentary vol. iii (1881); author of The sanctifying influence of the Holy Ghost is indispensable to human salvation, Ellerton essay 1834; Six sermons on the leading points of the christian character 1844; The sinfulness of little sins: a course of sermons 1849; The nemesis of unbelief 1866 and 25 other works. _d._ Fulham palace 6 Jany. 1885. _Church portrait Journal_, _ii_ 89 (1881), _portrait_; _Our bishops and deans, by Rev. F. Arnold_, _i_ 340–57 (1875); _I.L.N. liv_ 135, 137 (1869), _portrait_.

JACKSON, REV. JOHN EDWARD (2 son of James Jackson of Doncaster, banker). _b._ 12 Nov. 1805; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; R. of Leigh Delamere with Sevington, Wilts. 1845 to death; V. of Norton Coleparle, Wilts. 1846 to death; hon. canon of Bristol 1855 to death; librarian to marquis of Bath; F.S.A. 19 March 1857; author of The history of Grittleton, co. Wilts. 1843; Kingston House, Bradford. Devizes 1854; History of Longleat. Devizes 1857; Swindon and its neighbourhood. Devizes 1861 and 12 other books; ed. John Aubrey’s Wiltshire topographical collection 1862 and other books; ed. for Roxburgh club The Glastonbury inquisition of A.D. 1189, 1882. _d._ Leigh Delamere 6 March 1891.

JACKSON, JOHN NAPPER. _b._ 1793; lieut. 94 foot 1 Jany. 1806; major 99 foot 11 June 1829, lieut. col. 20 June 1854 to 26 Oct. 1858; M.G. 26 Aug. 1858; col. 3 West India regiment 13 Aug. 1862, col. 99 foot 8 June 1863 to death. _d._ St. Heliers, Jersey 25 Jany. 1866.

JACKSON, JOHN RICHARDSON (2 son of E. Jackson of Portsmouth, banker). _b._ Portsmouth 14 Dec. 1819; pupil of Robert Graves A.R.A.; engraved ‘The Otter and Salmon’ after sir Edwin Landseer 1847; engraved numerous portraits after George Richmond, R.A., and several after J. P. Knight, R.A.; engraved ‘St. John the Baptist’ after the picture by Murillo in the National Gallery; exhibited 27 engravings at the R.A. 1854–76; resided at Adelaide road, South Hampstead. _d._ of fever at Southsea 10 May 1877.

JACKSON, JOSEPH DEVONSHER (eld. son of Strettel Jackson of Petersborough, co. Cork, landwaiter). _b._ Cork 23 June 1783; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1806, M.A. 1832; called to Irish bar 1806; bencher of King’s Inns 1835; hon. sec. Kildare Place soc. from establishment 1811 to 1830; chairman of co. Londonderry quarter sessions 1830 to Dec. 1834; serjeant 1826, third serjeant 1835, second serjeant 23 May 1835 to 10 Nov. 1841; solicitor general for Ireland 10 Nov. 1841 to 9 Sep. 1842; judge of Irish court of common pleas 9 Sep. 1842 to death; P.O. Ireland 1842; M.P. for Bandon 1835–42; M.P. for univ. of Dublin, Feb. to Sep. 1842, he was the chief antagonist in house of commons of D. O’Connell. _d._ Sutton house, Howth near Dublin 19 Dec. 1857. _J. R. O’Flanagan’s Irish bar_ (1879) 381–3; _Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen_ (1836) _1 series_, _portrait_ 15.

JACKSON, JULIAN (son of Wm. Turner Jackson of Westminster). _b._ 30 March 1790; ed. at R.M. Acad. Woolwich; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 26 Sep. 1808, 1 lieut. 1809–13; lieut. on quartermaster’s staff of Russian imperial suite 2 June 1815, served with it in France to 1818; served in grenadier brigade of quartermaster general’s staff 1819–25; col. in Russian army 14 Aug. 1829, retired 21 Sep. 1830; comr. and correspondent in London for Russian department of manufactures 1830 to about 1847; sec. of Royal Geog. Soc. London 1841 to Feb. 1847; a clerk under council of education about 1847 to death; F.R.S. 3 April 1845; a knight of St. Stanislaus of Poland; author of Guide du Voyageur. Paris 1822, several editions, reproduced in English as What to observe, or the traveller’s remembrancer. By J. R. Jackson 1841, 3 ed. 1861. _d._ 52 Coleshill st. Eaton sq. London 16 March 1853.

JACKSON, SIR LOUIS STEWART (son of lieut. col. Henry George Jackson, R.A.). _b._ Woolwich 14 Jany. 1824; educ. at R. sch. Enniskillen, at Haileybury coll. and at Trin. coll. Dublin; entered Bengal C.S. 1843; employed under the government in the Straits settlements 1847–50; puisne judge high court, Calcutta, July 1862, acting chief justice 1878, retired June 1880; C.I.E. 1 Jany. 1878; knighted at Windsor castle 1 Dec. 1880; fellow of Calcutta univ.; F.R.G.S.; purchased Hadleigh hall, Suffolk 1883 and _d._ there 9 April 1890.

JACKSON, RALPH WARD (3 son of Wm. Ward Jackson of Normanby hall near Middlesbro on Tees, _d._ 2 Feb. 1842 aged 63). _b._ Normanby hall 7 June 1806; ed. at Rugby; solicitor at Stockton to 1854; chairman of Stockton and Hartlepool union railway; conceived idea of forming a railway from Stockton to Hartlepool by ‘way leaves,’ that is with consent of owners of land without an act of parliament, which was done and the line opened 1841; made a harbour and dock on west side of bay of Hartlepool named West Hartlepool and opened 1 June 1847; chairman of the West Hartlepool harbour and railway company 1852–62, population of West Hartlepool rose from 400 in 1840 to about 4000 in 1847 and 15,000 in 1862; A.I.C.E. 4 March 1851; contested Armagh city 15 Jany. 1835, and Hartlepool 6 Feb. 1874; M.P. for Hartlepool 1868–74. _d._ Albion st. Hyde park, London 6 Aug. 1880. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxiii_ 328–32 (1881); _I.L.N. xxvii_ 517, 518 (1855), _portrait_.

JACKSON, RICHARD HENRY (only son of rev. Richard Jackson of Abergele, Denbigh). _b._ 1812 or 1813; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1838; P.C. of Newmarket, Flintshire 1851–9; R. of Llanellian, Denbighshire 1859 to death; author of Welsh Highland agriculture: a prize essay at Rhuddlan Eisteddfod 1850; Comparaison of the working classes of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales: a prize essay at Tremadoc Eisteddfod 1851. _d._ 10 Jany. 1867.

JACKSON, ROBERT. Entered navy 20 April 1781; commander of the Bonne Citoyenne in which he captured the Spanish privateer Vives 31 Dec. 1800; gold medal 1801 for services during campaign in Egypt; captain 29 April 1802, R.A. 10 Jany. 1837, V.A. 8 March 1847. _d._ 21 Hornton st. Kensington 3 June 1852. _O’Byrne’s Naval Biog. Dict._ (1849) 573.

JACKSON, afterwards SCORESBY-JACKSON, ROBERT EDMUND (son of Thomas Jackson of Whitby, captain of a Greenland whaler). _b._ Whitby 22 Oct. 1833; ed. at St. George’s hospital, London, univ. of Edin. and Paris; L.S.A. 1855; M.R.C.S. 1855; M.D. Edin. 1857; F.R.C.S. Edin. 1859; F.R.S. Edin. 1861; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1862; lectured upon materia medica in Surgeons’ hall, Edin.; phys. to royal infirmary, Edin. 1865 to death, lecturer on clinical medicine; assumed additional name of Scoresby; author of The life of William Scoresby 1861; Medical Climatology 1862; Note-book of materia medica, pharmacology and therapeutics 1866, 4 ed. Edin. 1880. _d._ of typhus fever 32 Queen’s st. Edin. 1 Feb. 1867. _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. vi_ 197–8 (1869).

JACKSON, SAMUEL (4 child of Thomas Jackson of Sancton, East Yorkshire, farm labourer and mole-catcher, _d._ 1829 aged 83). _b._ Sancton 10 Feb. 1786; Wesleyan M. minister at Brecon 1806–7 and successively at 17 other places 1807 to death; president of Wesleyan conference at Liverpool 1847; house governor of theological institution, Richmond, Surrey 1848–55; edited The Reporter 1842; The Wesleyan vindicator 1850; author of Catechumens in the Wesleyan church 1850; The Wesleyan people or the great power and true policy of the private members of that body 1853; Ministers and children or the givers of early evangelical instruction 1853. _d._ Newcastle 4 Aug. 1861. _Sermons by S. Jackson. With a memoir by T. Jackson_ (1863) _ix–lxxxii_; _Wesleyan Methodist Mag. Sep. 1861 p._ 842.

JACKSON, SAMUEL (son of Mr. Jackson of Bristol, merchant). _b._ Bristol 31 Dec. 1794; pupil of Francis Danby, A.R.A. at Bristol; associate of Soc. of painters in water-colours 10 Feb. 1823, withdrew in 1848, after having exhibited 46 pictures; one of founders of a sketching society at Bristol 1833; his water-colours are nearly all of English scenery; sent many Swiss views in oil to Bristol annual exhibitions; exhibited 1 landscape at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1828–43. _d._ Clifton 8 Dec. 1869. _Roget’s History of the old water-colour society_, _i_ 432 _etc._, _ii_ 87, 452 (1891).

JACKSON, STEPHEN (son of Postle Jackson). _b._ Ipswich 1808; ed. at Bury St. Edmunds’ gr. sch. and Caius coll. Camb., scholar; 26 wrangler 1830, B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; succeeded his father as proprietor and editor of Ipswich journal; a student of the arts and architecture; wrote Architectural notes on church of hospital of St. Cross in Journal British Archæol. Assoc. Winchester volume 401–406. _d._ St. Lawrence, Ipswich 16 Feb. 1855.

JACKSON, THOMAS (brother of rev. Samuel Jackson 1786–1861). _b._ Sancton, Yorkshire 12 Dec. 1783; apprenticed to a carpenter 1798; became a Wesleyan Methodist 1801; Wesleyan minister Spilsby 1804–5 and at 10 other places 1805 to death; editor of Wesleyan press publications 1824–43; president of Wesleyan conferences 1838–9 and 1849–50; professor of divinity at theological college, Richmond, Surrey 1843–61; author of The life of John Goodwin 1822, new ed. 1872; The centenary of Wesleyan Methodism 1839; Life of the Rev. Charles Wesley 2 vols. 1841 and other books; edited The works of the Rev. John Wesley 14 vols. 1829–31; A library of Christian biography 12 vols. 1837–40 and other books. _d._ 29 St. Stephen’s road, Hammersmith, London 10 March 1873. _T. Jackson’s Recollections of my own life_ (1873), _portrait_; _F. Ross’s Celebrities of Yorkshire Wolds_ (1878) 84–8.

JACKSON, THOMAS. _b._ 1808; a labourer on the Birmingham canal 1816; contractor on Birmingham and Derby railway 1837 and on Chester and Crewe 1840; renovated and improved Caledonian canal 1843–7; constructed the Tyne dock near Jarrow 1854; made the Alderney breakwater one mile into the sea at a great depth 1847–72, the Alderney harbour defences and the breakwater at St. Catharine’s bay, Jersey; constructed the Harrogate water works. _d._ Eltham park, Eltham, Kent 3 Jany. 1885. _Iron 16 Jany. 1885 p._ 53; _Times 13 Jany. 1885 p._ 6.

JACKSON, THOMAS (son of rev. Thomas Jackson 1783–1873). _b._ Preston, or Richmond, Surrey 1812; ed. at St. Saviour’s sch. Southwark and St. Mary hall, Oxf., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; V. of St. Peter’s, Stepney 1838–44; principal of national society’s training college, Battersea 1844–50; preb. of St. Paul’s 1850 to death; nominated bishop of Lyttleton, New Zealand 1850, went out there but was never consecrated; R. of Stoke Newington 1852 to death, built a new parish church 1858; edited The English journal of education 1843; author with J. D. Giles of a jeu d’esprit entitled Uniomachia or the battle at the Union, an Homeric fragment, lately given to the world by Habbakukius Dunderheadius [T. Jackson], and now rendered into the English tongue by Jedediah Puzzlepate [J. D. Giles]. Oxford 1833, 3 ed. London 1875; Our dumb companions 1864; Curiosities of the pulpit 1868; The narrative of the fire of London, freely handled on the principles of modern rationalism. By P. Maritzburg 1869, and other books. _d._ the rectory, Stoke Newington 18 March 1886. _Church of England photographic portrait gallery_ (1859), _portrait xiii_.

JACKSON, THOMAS. _b._ Oldham; organist of St. Peter’s chapel, Oldham 1821; leader of Oldham musical soc.; leader of Oldham borough choral soc.; violinist; member of Philharmonic concerts, Liverpool 1856; arranged orchestral parts to Dr. Green’s God is our hope and strength. _E. Butterworth’s Oldham_ (1856) 254.

JACKSON, THOMAS CARR (son of John Jackson, surgeon, Paradise st. Rotherhithe). _b._ Yorkshire 4 Jany. 1823; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school; studied at St. Thomas’ hospital; M.R.C.S. 1845, F.R.C.S. 1857; surgeon to the Great Northern and Orthopedic hospitals; president of Harveian soc.; performed operation of lithotomy 23 times with great success; wrote Cursory observations on lithotomy, in St. Thomas’ hospital reports 1870; author of Circumscribed abscess of bone 1867. _d._ 91 Harley st. London 23 April 1878. _Medical Times_, _i_ 493 (1878); _Proc. of Royal Med. and Chir. Soc. viii_ 384 (1880).

JACKSON, THOMAS CHARLES. _b._ 1832; ed. The Medical Directory for J. and A. Churchill 11 New Burlington st. London 1860 to death. _d._ 159 Gloucester road, Regent’s park, London 15 Jany. 1890.

JACKSON, THOMAS THOMSON. _b._ 1798; amanuensis to Dugald Stewart; crown professor of biblical criticism and theology in St. Mary’s coll. St. Andrews 1836–51; ordained a presbyterian minister, preached at the settlement of Dr. Hew Scott at West Anstruther, his only sermon; professor of ecclesiastical history, Glasgow univ. 1851 to 1874, Emeritus professor 1874 to death. _d._ St. Andrews 24 Dec. 1878. _The Scotsman 26 Dec. 1878 p._ 4.

JACKSON, WILLIAM. _b._ 1822; lived at Kennieside, Cumberland; wrestled at Flatt, Cumberland 1839 when he threw Chapman, Gordon and Nelson; threw all his competitors at Liverpool, Preston, Manchester, etc. 1840; won the heavy weight prizes at Carlisle 1841–4; beat Nicol for the championship, Liverpool 1842; won 17 prizes in 1843; threw Tom Longmire at Keswick 1845; wrestled for the last time 1851 at Ulverston with Robert Atkinson for £300 when he was defeated in presence of 10,000 persons; his record is almost unsurpassed, he stood 6 feet 1 inch and weighed 14 stone. _d._ Wythop hall 21 Nov. 1856. _Bell’s Life in London 23 Nov. 1856 p._ 6.

JACKSON, WILLIAM (son of Mr. Jackson of Masham, Yorkshire, miller). _b._ Masham 9 Jany. 1816; a journeyman miller; an amateur organ builder; taught himself to play on 15 musical instruments; organist of Masham ch. 1832 at £30 a year; partner with a tallow-chandler 1839–52; a music-seller at Bradford 1852 to death; organist of St. John’s ch. Bradford 1852–6 and of Horton lane chapel 1856–66; conductor of Bradford choral union; chorus master of Bradford musical festivals 1853, 56 and 59, conductor of Festival choral soc. 1856 to death; with his choir of 210 singers performed before Queen at Buckingham palace 1858; author of A manual of singing; composer of For joy let fertile valleys sing: an anthem 1839; The sisters of the sea: glee. First prize Huddersfield glee club 1840; Deliverance of Israel from Babylon: an oratorio 3 parts 1844–5; Isaiah: an oratorio 1851; The year: a cantata 1859; The praise of music: a symphony 1866, and upwards of 20 other pieces of music. _d._ Ashgrove, Bradford 15 April 1866. _Bradford Observer 19 April 1866 p._ 4 _and 26 April p._ 5.

NOTE.--His son William Jackson _b._ 1853, organist Edinburgh, _d._ there 1877.

JACKSON, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (son of Peter Jackson of Warrington, Lancs., surgeon 1772–1811). _b._ Warrington 28 April 1805; member of firm of Hamilton, Jackson & Co., African merchants to 1841; chairman of Chester and Birkenhead railway; chief partner in Clay-cross colliery near Chesterfield; constructed with Thomas Brassey many of the chief railways in Italy and Grand trunk railway of Canada; M.P. Newcastle under Lyne 1847–65; M.P. North Derbyshire 1865–8; one of the founders of Birkenhead 1845; created baronet 4 Nov. 1869; A.I.C.E. 7 Dec. 1852. _d._ 61 Portland place, London 30 or 31 Jany. 1876, personalty sworn under £700,000, 11 March 1876. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xlv_ 252–56 (1876); _I.L.N. lxviii_ 167, 263 (1876).

JACKSON, WILLIAM (son of rev. Thomas Jackson, R. of Grasmere, Westmoreland). _b._ Grasmere 17 Dec. 1792; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815, B.D. 1828, D.D. 1832; fellow of his coll. 9 Dec. 1820–29, chaplain 1820, bursar 1826, tutor 1827; Whitehall preacher 1827; chancellor of Carlisle 1846–55, archdeacon Jany. 1855 to 1863, canon 1858–63; R. of Lowther, Westmoreland 17 April 1828 to death; R. of Cliburn, Westmoreland 1841–58; provost of Queen’s coll. 8 May 1862 to death; author of A charge to the clergy of the archdeaconry of Carlisle 1857. _d._ Askham hall, Penrith 13 Sep. 1878. _bur._ Lowther churchyard.

JACKSON, WILLIAM (2 son of Mr. Jackson of Liverpool). Matric. from Queen’s coll. Oxf. 25 Oct. 1838 aged 21; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; C. of Gillingham, Dorset 1843–8; C. of Warbleton, Sussex 1850–4; V. of Heathfield, Sussex 1858 to death; edited Stories and catechisings in illustration of the collects 3 vols. 1852–3; Stories and lessons on the catechism 3 vols. 1854–6; author of Sermons preached in village churches 1853, 2 ed. 1854; The under housemaid 1858; The history of confirmation 1877, new ed. 1881; Parochial Sermons 1881. _d._ 18 July 1885.

JACKSON, WILLIAM, professional name of William Howitt. _b._ Norwich 15 Feb. 1821; ran a mile match against J. Davies and Tom Maxfield upon the Slough road when Maxfield won, about 1844; beat William Sheppard of Birmingham at Gannick corner near Barnet £100 a side, doing 11 miles and 48 yards in one hour 6 Jany. 1845; winner of many prizes in England and North and South America; known as the American Deer. _Illust. Sporting News 2 July 1864 pp._ 228, 233, _portrait_.

JACOB, ARTHUR (2 son of John Jacob, M.D. 1754–1827). _b._ Knockfin, Maryborough, June 1790; ed. at Steevens’s hospital, Dublin and univ. of Edin., M.D. 1814; demonstrator of anatomy at Trin. coll. Dublin 1819; discovered a previously unknown membrane of the eye 1819 since known as membrana Jacobi; founded with R. J. Graves and others Park street school of medicine 1821; professor of anatomy Royal college of surgeons in Ireland 1826–69, pres. of the college 3 times, his portrait, bust and library were afterwards placed in the college; edited The Dublin Medical Press 42 vols. 1838–59; a medal bearing his likeness was struck and presented to him Dec. 1860; author of A treatise on the inflammation of the eyeball 1849; On cataract and the operation for its removal by absorption 1851. _d._ Newbarnes, Barrow-in-Furness 21 Sep. 1874. _Jacob and Glascott’s Families of Jacob_ (1875) 63 _&c._; _Medical Times 3 Oct. 1874 pp._ 405–6; _Graphic 17 Oct. 1874 pp._ 367, 372, _portrait_.

JACOB, EDWIN (son of John Jacob of Painswick, Gloucs.). _b._ Gloucs. 1794; ed. at Lincoln coll. Oxf. 1810–12, scholar of Corpus Christi 1812–21; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818, B. and D.D. 1829; R. of St. Pancras, Chichester 1827–9; vice president and professor of classics King’s coll. Frederickton, New Brunswick 1829–60; author of Sermons intended for the propagation of the gospel 1835; An oration at the 14th encænia in King’s college 1844. _d._ Cardigan, York county, New Brunswick 31 July 1868. _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_ 393 (1887).

JACOB, _Sir George Le Grand_ (5 son of John Jacob of Guernsey 1765–1840). _b._ Roath court near Cardiff 24 April 1805; ed. at Elizabeth coll. Guernsey; ensign 2 regt. Bombay N.I. 9 June 1821, major 1848–54; political agent in Cutch 1851–9; lieut. col. 8 Bombay N.I. 1854–6, 27 Bombay N.I. 1856–8; commanded a native battalion in Persian expedition 1857; put down the mutiny in Kolapore Dec. 1857; special commissioner of South Mahratta country 1858; lieut. col. of 31 Bombay N.I. 1858–60, of 5 light infantry 1860 to 31 Dec. 1861 when he retired as major-general; C.B. 21 March 1859; K.C.S.I. 4 June 1869; wrote numerous papers on Indian history, etc.; author of Report upon the general condition of Kattewar in 1842, 1845; Western India before and during the mutinies 1871. _d._ 12 Queensborough ter. Kensington gardens, London 27 Jany. 1881. _Overland Mail 6 May 1881 pp._ 17–18; _Holme’s Indian mutiny 3 ed._ (1888) 450, 454–57.

JACOB, JOHN (5 son of Stephen Long Jacob, V. of Woolavington, Somerset, _d._ 1851 aged 86). _b._ Woolavington 11 Jany. 1812; ed. at Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bombay artillery 11 Jany. 1828; raised the Sind irregular horse 1841 usually called Jacob’s horse, in command of which he continually harassed the enemy 17 Feb. 1843 to death; called by sir W. Napier the Seidlitz of the Sind army; political superintendent and commandant of frontier of Upper Sind 1847; C.B. 10 Sep. 1850; commanded the troops at Koree for service in Upper Sind 1852; the town of Kanghur was called Jacobabad in his honour 1851; acting comr. in Sind 1856 to death; A.D.C. to the Queen 20 March 1857; commanded cavalry division in Persian war 1857; invented a greatly improved rifle 1858; raised 2 regiments of infantry called Jacob’s rifles 1858; author of Rifle practice 1855, 4 ed. 1858; Tracts on the native army of India 1857; A few remarks on the Bengal army and furlough regulations. By a Bombay officer 1857. _d._ Jacobabad 5 Dec. 1858, bust placed in shire hall at Taunton. _L. Pelly’s Views and opinions of J. Jacob_, _2 ed._ (1858); _I.L.N. xxxiii_ 227 (1858), _portrait_.

JACOB, JOSHUA. _b._ Clonmel, co. Tipperary about 1805; a grocer Nicholas st. Dublin; disowned by Society of Friends 1838; formed a society of his own in Dublin commonly called White Quakers from the members wearing white garments 1838, with stations in other places; established a community at Newlands, Clondalkin, co. Dublin about 1849 which lasted but a short time; a grocer at Celbridge, co. Kildare; became a Roman catholic; author of Some account of the progress of the truth. Mountmellick 1843 and other small works. _d._ Wales 15 Feb. 1877. _bur._ Glasnevin cemetery, Dublin. _Joseph Smith’s Friends’ books_, _ii_ 4 (1867).

JACOB, PHILIP (brother of sir George Le Grand Jacob _d._ 1881). _b._ 1803; ed. at C.C. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; C. of Newport, Monmouth 1827–31; R. of Crawley with Hunton, Wilts. 31 May 1831 to death; canon residentiary of Winchester cath. 19 July 1834 to death; archdeacon of Winchester 28 June 1860 to death. _d._ The Close, Winchester 20 Dec. 1884.

JACOB, PHILIP WHITTINGTON. _b._ 1805; alderman of Guildford many years, mayor about 1866 when he stamped out the usual 5 Nov. riots; an eminent linguist in Eastern and European languages; a sub-editor of Dr. J. A. H. Murray’s A new English dictionary 1884 etc.; author of Hindoo tales: adventures of ten princes freely translated from the Sanskrit 1873. _d._ 6 Wellington place, Woodbridge road, Guildford 26 Dec. 1889.

JACOB, SARAH (3 dau. of Evan Jacob, farmer, and Hannah his wife). _b._ Llethernoyadd-ucha farm, Carmarthenshire 12 May 1857; fell ill in Feb. 1867 with attacks of convulsions and lost all her hair; reported not to have eaten anything after 10 Oct. 1867, nor drank after Dec. 1867; in Oct. 1867 people commenced visiting her as The Welsh fasting girl and gave her presents of money and clothes; was watched by 3 nurses from Guy’s hospital 9 to 17 Dec. 1869 when she died having lived, as stated, without food for two years; Evan and Hannah Jacob tried for manslaughter at Carmarthen 14–15 July 1870, Evan condemned to 12 months hard labour and Hannah to six months hard labour, the cost of this prosecution to the country was about £800. _R. Fowler’s Complete history of Welsh fasting-girl_ (1871).

JACOB, WILLIAM. _b._ 1762; South American merchant in Newgate st. London; F.R.S. 23 April 1807; M.P. Rye 1808–12; alderman for ward of Lime st. London 1810, resigned 1811; comptroller of corn returns in board of trade 1822, retired Jany. 1842; author of Travels in the south of Spain 1811; A view of the agriculture, manufacture, statistics and state of society of Germany and parts of Holland and France 1820; An historical enquiry into the production and consumption of the precious metals 2 vols. 1831. _d._ 31 Cadogan place, Sloane st. London 17 Dec. 1851.

JACOB, WILLIAM STEPHEN (brother of John Jacob 1812–58). _b._ Woolavington vicarage 19 Nov. 1813; ed. at Addiscombe and Chatham; lieut. Bombay engineers 1 July 1833 to 1848; established a private observatory at Poonah 1842; director of Madras observatory Dec. 1848 to 13 Oct. 1859; projected erection of a mountain observatory on the Mahratta hills 5000 feet above the sea for which parliament voted £1000 in 1862; made observations on double stars, on satellites of Saturn and on Jupiter; F.R.A.S. 1849; author of A few more words on the plurality of worlds 1855; Meteorological observations made at Dodabetta bungalow 1851–5, 1857. _d._ Poonah 16 Aug. 1862. _Monthly notices of Astronomical Soc. xxiii_ 128–9 (1863).

JACOBS, MR. _b._ Canterbury 1813; came out at Dover as an improvisatore, ventriloquist and conjuror 1834; first appeared in London at Horns tavern, Kennington 1835 when he introduced the Chinese ring trick; at Strand theatre 1841 when in imitation of J. H. Anderson he made a great show of expensive apparatus; brought out the trick of producing from under a shawl, bowls of water containing gold fish 1850; at Adelaide gallery 1853, in America 1854, in Australia and New Zealand 1860; opened Polygraphic hall, London 1860; his brother as a page named Sprightly was his assistant in his entertainments. _d._ 13 Oct. 1870 aged 57. _Frost’s Lives of Conjurors_ (1876) 214–20.

JACOBS, SIMEON (son of Jacob or Lewis Jacobs of London, solicitor). _b._ 1830; ed. at City of London school; licensed by I.T. to practise as special pleader Nov. 1851; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1852; advocate of supreme court, Cape of Good Hope, Dec. 1860; attorney general of British Kaffraria 4 April 1861; solicitor general Cape of Good Hope 1866, attorney general 1874–82, puisne judge 1882, member of the executive council; C.M.G. 17 Nov. 1882. _d._ 22 Holland park gardens, London 15 June 1883.

JACOBSON, William. _b._ about 1785; solicitor at Plymouth 1815–50; chief founder of the small debts court, which became the County Court 1847; chief founder and prior of The order of Blue Friars at Plymouth and known as Father Tuck 17 May 1829, wrote many articles for the Blue Box of the fraternity, which have since been printed. _d._ 5 Regent’s park, Exeter 25 April 1866. _W. H. K. Wright’s The Blue Friars_ (1889) 66–73, _portrait_, _and Pleasantries from the Blue Box_ (1891) _passim_.

JACOBSON, WILLIAM (son of Wm. Jacobson a merchant’s clerk). _b._ Great Yarmouth 18 July 1803; ed. at Homerton college and Glasgow univ.; commoner St. Edmund hall, Oxf. 1823; scholar of Lincoln college 1825; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1829, D.D. 1848; Ellerton theological prizeman 1829; fellow of Exeter college 1829–36, hon. fellow 9 Dec. 1882; vice principal of Magdalen hall 1832–48; select preacher at univ. 1833, 1842, public orator 1842–8; regius professor of divinity, canon of Ch. Ch. and R. of Ewelme, Oxf. 1 April 1848 to 1865; bishop of Chester 8 July 1865, consecrated in York minster 24 Aug. 1865, enthroned 13 Sep., resigned Feb. 1884; promoted the division of his diocese made by foundation of bishopric of Liverpool 9 April 1880; edited S. Clementis Romani S. Ignatii, S. Polycarpi quæ supersunt 2 vols. 1838, several editions; The works of Robert Sanderson 6 vols. 1854; author of Sixteen sermons preached in the church of Iffley 1840, 2 ed. 1846. _d._ the palace, Deeside 13 July 1884. _Burgon’s Lives of Twelve Good Men_ (1891) 367–401, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xlvii_ 217 (1865), _portrait_.

JACOBSON, WILLIAM BOWSTEAD RICHARDS (1 son of the preceding). _b._ St. Peter in the East, Oxford 3 Aug. 1838; scholar of Winchester 1851–9; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 13 June 1859; rowed in the Oxford boat against Cambridge 1862–4; C. of St. Mary, Golden lane, London 1864–7, and vicar 1870–7; C. of St. George, Bloomsbury, London 1867–70. _d._ 22 The Beacon, Exmouth 26 April 1880. _Treherne & Goldie’s University Boat Race_ (1884) 241–2.

JACOMB, WILLIAM (probably son of Thomas Jacomb, surgeon). _b._ 51 Upper York st. Portman sq. London 1832; pupil of I. K. Brunel 1851–9, assistant to Gainsford in construction of Paddington terminus and in supervision of building of Great Eastern steamship; under sir J. Fowler took part in construction of Metropolitan railway 1864–8; assisted Jacomb Hood in works on the South London and Suburban lines; chief resident engineer London and South Western railway 1870 to death. _d._ of apoplexy in his office at Waterloo terminus 26 May 1887. _Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. xc_ 434–5 (1887).

JACQUES, JAMES. _b._ 1792; well known jockey on the Borders and at Carlisle and Penrith; kept a public house at Penrith; trained and rode for Mr. Ferguson in Ireland; rode Fire-away for the St. Leger in Blue Bonnett’s year 1842; had a pension on the Bentinck fund. _d._ from an overdose of laudanum at West Laith gate, Doncaster 17 Feb. 1868. _Sporting Review_, _March 1868 pp._ 154–5; _Doncaster Gazette 21 Feb. 1868 p._ 5.

JAFFRAY, JOHN. Free church minister; editor of Home and foreign missionary record of the church of Scotland 1839; a writer in the Aberdeen Censor 1825 of two dramatic articles The Traveller’s Talk and The Symposium; author of Hiltown church. Statement. Dundee 1836. _d._ Edinburgh 29 Oct. 1858. _R. Inglis’ Dramatic writers of Scotland_ (1868) 57.

JAFFRAY, JOHN. _b._ Carse of Stirling 1792; presbyterian minister Dunbar, Nov. 1820 to death; an authority on agriculture, made improvements in implements and in the cultivation of the soil; printed in Transactions of Highland Soc., Account of an experiment on deep ploughing. _d._ Dunbar 13 Feb. 1862. _H. Scott’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ_, _vol. i_, _pt. i_, _p._ 370.

JAGO, CHARLES TRELAWNY-(2 son of Edward Jago by Ann Darell dau. of Edward Trelawny). _b._ 9 Nov. 1829; entered R.N. 1843, lieut. 23 Oct. 1849; 3 lieut. of the Enterprise, Capt. R. Collinson, in the Arctic expedition 1850–4 in search of sir John Franklin; in the sledge travelling in the spring of 1852 he was away from the ship 49 days; spent 3 winters on the ice; Arctic medal; captain 11 April 1866; good service pension 30 Jany. 1880; rear admiral 20 March 1883, retired 27 Dec. 1886; retired V.A. 14 July 1889. _d._ at res. of his brother, general John Jago Trelawny, Coldrenick, Menheniot, Cornwall 15 Nov. 1891.

JAMES, ABRAHAM (son of Joseph James, schoolmaster). _b._ South Wingfield, Derbyshire 22 Dec. 1799; a stocking frame weaver; taught himself to write; learnt trade of a stonemason; a writer of fugitive verses chiefly on local subjects. _d._ South Wingfield 6 June 1864. _J. B. Robinson’s Derbyshire gatherings_ (1866) 93–7.

JAMES, BENJAMIN FULLER (2 son of John Haddy James 1788–1869). Matric. from Ex. coll. Oxf. 11 Nov. 1841 aged 17, B.A. 1846, M.A. 1848; assistant master at Westminster school 1846–84 where he also kept a boarding house. _d._ 6 Hungershall park, Tunbridge Wells 29 Jany. 1892 aged 67.

JAMES, CHARLES BUTLER. Entered Bombay army 1800; lieut. col. 16 Bombay N.I. 1842–3; lieut. col. 8 Bombay N.I. 1843 to 2 March 1846; commander at Candeish 27 Dec. 1842, at Rajcote 20 March 1846, at Deesa 1 Nov. 1848 to 1 Oct. 1849, of Northern division 3 April 1850, of Southern division 21 March 1851 to 16 Oct. 1853; col. of 4 Bombay N.I. 2 March 1846 to 1869; general 6 Nov. 1866. _d._ Plymouth 21 Feb. 1870.

JAMES, CHARLES HERBERT (youngest son of Wm. James, maltster). _b._ Merthyr Tydfil 1817; took prize for law at Univ. coll. London by public competition; solicitor at Merthyr Tydfil 1838–79; M.P. for Merthyr Tydfil 1880–1888. _d._ Brynteg, Merthyr Tydfil 3 Oct. 1890.

JAMES, CHARLES JAMES (son of Mr. James, artist in glass painting). _b._ 1804; with his father made transparent views of John Martin’s pictures, the view of ‘Joshua commanding the sun to stand still’ was exhibited in London 1830 and with others was shown in America 1831–34; scene painter for Madame Vestris at Olympic 1834–6 and at Victoria theatre 1836; lessee and manager of Queen’s theatre, Tottenham court road, Sep. 1839–65; acting manager for Marie Wilton when she opened the house as the Prince of Wales’s 15 April 1865 to 4 Aug. 1876; reported to have died 8 April 1864. _d._ 244 Camden road, London 2 Oct. 1888. _E. L. Blanchard’s Life_, _i_ 28, 289, _ii_ 500, 623 (1891); _Theatrical Times_, _iii_ 161 (1848), _portrait_.

JAMES, CHARLES STANFIELD (only son of the preceding). _b._ 1832 or 1833; wrote Christmas and Easter extravaganzas for Queen’s theatre for some years; scene painter at Drury Lane theatre, at Sadler’s Wells, at Prince of Wales’s; painted the act drop for Holborn T.R. London, opened by Sefton Parry 6 Oct. 1866. _d._ Setubal near Lisbon 23 March 1868. _Era 5 April 1868 p._ 10.

JAMES, DAVID. _b._ Manor-Deify near Cardigan 6 Jany. 1803; ed. at Cardigan and Ystrad Meurig gram. schools; C. of Almondbury, Yorkshire 1829–36; V. of St. Mary, Kirkdale, Liverpool 1836–53; F.S.A. 1844; M.A. of Lambeth 1849; D. Philos. of Heidelberg 1853; warden of Welsh educational institution, Llandovery 1853–4; P.C. of Marsden 1854–6; R. of Panteg, Monmouthshire 1856 to death; author of Patriarchal religion of Britain, a manual of British Druidism 1836; The apostolic origin and scripture character of confirmation 1850; The Pope’s supremacy disproved 1854. d. Panteg 2 Aug. 1871. _Hulbert’s Annals of Almondbury_ (1882) 29, 457–61, 592.

JAMES, EDWARD (2 son of Frederick Wm. James, merchant). _b._ Manchester 1807; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; barrister L.I. 16 June 1835, bencher 1853 to death; went Northern circuit, leader of it 1860 to death; assessor of the court of passage, Liverpool 1852 to death; Q.C. Nov. 1853; attorney general and queen’s serjeant of co. palatine of Lancashire 1863 to death; M.P. for Manchester 13 July 1865 to death; author of Has Dr. Wiseman violated the law? 1851. _d._ Hotel du Louvre, Paris 3 Nov. 1867. _bur._ Highgate cemetery, London 9 Nov. _Law mag. and law review_, _Feb. 1868 pp._ 293–300.

JAMES, EDWIN JOHN (eld. son of John James 1783–1852). _b._ 1812; on the stage for a time but not successful; barrister I.T. 30 Jany. 1836; Q.C. 28 Feb. 1850 to 15 July 1862 when name removed; recorder of Brighton, Jany. 1855 to March or April 1861; M.P. Marylebone, London 25 Feb. 1859 to 10 April 1861; visited Garibaldi, present at skirmish before Capua 10 Sep. 1860; his call to bar vacated and he was disbarred 18 July 1861; his debts amounted to £100,000; went to New York, Aug. 1861, admitted to bar of state of New York 5 Nov. 1861, practised there short time; played at Winter garden theatre, New York, April 1865; returned to London 1872; lectured on subject of America, at St. George’s hall, London 17 April 1872; articled to Wm. Henry Roberts, 46 Moorgate st. solicitor, May 1873; author of The bankrupt law of the United States 1867; The political institutions of England and America 1872. _d._ 11 Bayley st. Bedford sq. London 4 March 1882. _Law magazine and law review_, _xii_ 263–86 (1882), _xiii_ 335–45; _I.L.N. xxxiv_ 429, 430 (1859), _portrait_; _A.R._ (1862) 140–43; _Law Times_, _lxxii_ 358 (1882); _Daily News 7 March 1882 p._ 5 _col._ 2.

JAMES, FRANK LINSLY (eld. son of Daniel James of Liverpool, metal merchant). _b._ Liverpool 21 April 1851; ed. at Caius and Downing colls. Cam., B.A. 1877, M.A. 1881; explored the Basé country in the Soudan winters of 1879–80 and 1880–1; explored interior of the Somali country 1885; author of The wild tribes of the Soudan 1883, 2 ed. 1884; The unknown horn of Africa, an expedition from Berbera to the Leopard river 1888, 2 ed. 1890; _killed_ by an elephant at San Benite about 100 miles north of the Gaboon river 21 April 1890. _F. L. James’s Unknown horn of Africa_ (1890), _portrait_.

JAMES, GEORGE. _b._ 30 June 1791; 2 lieut. R.A. 5 March 1810, lieut. col. 1 Nov. 1848, retired on full pay 27 May 1850; L.G. 2 Feb. 1868. _d._ Hersham, Surrey 1 Nov. 1875.

JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFORD (son of Pinkstan James 1766–1830, physician, London). _b._ 1 George st. Hanover sq. 9 Aug. 1801; encouraged to write by sir Walter Scott and Washington Irving; wrote his first novel Richelieu 1825, published 1829; historiographer royal to William iv. 20 May 1837; produced Blanche of Navarre, drama 5 acts 1839 and Camaralzaman, fairy drama 3 acts 1848; British consul in Massachusetts 12 Oct. 1852–5, Richmond, Virginia 1855–8 and for the Austrian ports in the Adriatic 24 July 1858 to death; wrote 77 novels and other works in 198 vols. including Darnley 1830; Philip Augustus 1831; Henry Masterton 1832; The Huguenot 3 vols. 1845; The Smuggler 3 vols. 1845; a collected edition of his novels 1844–9, 21 vols.; his style caricatured by Thackeray in his Barbazure by G. R. P. Jeames, Esq., in Punch July 1847, in Novels by Eminent Hands, and in The Book of Snobs, chapters 2 and 16; published Memoirs of Great commanders 3 vols. 1832; Life of the Black prince 2 vols. 1836; The Life and times of Louis xiv. 4 vols. 1838. _d._ of apoplexy at Venice 9 June 1860. _R. H. Horne’s A new spirit of the age_, _i_ 215–32 (1844); _Maunsell B. Field’s Memories of many men_ (1874) 186–210; _Bentley’s Miscellany_, _xlix_ 192–5 (1861); _Notes and Queries 8 Nov. 1862 p._ 366; _The work of G. P. R. James_ (1844) _vol. i_, _portrait_.

NOTE.--The copyright of 46 of his novels, of which 43 were stereotyped, was sold to Routledge & Co. for £2075 in March 1858. James’ widow Frances _d._ Eau Claire, Wisconsin, U.S. America 9 June 1891 in 91 year.

JAMES, SIR HENRY (5 son of John James, attorney, Truro, _d._ 1819). _b._ Rose-in-Vale near St. Agnes, Cornwall 8 June 1803; ed. at Exeter gram. sch. and Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 22 Sep. 1826, colonel 9 Feb. 1862, colonel commandant 21 Nov. 1874 to death; L.G. 21 Nov. 1874; local superintendent of geological survey, Ireland 1842–6; superintendent of dockyard construction works, Portsmouth 1846–50; superintendent of ordnance survey, Scotland 1850; director of ordnance survey of United Kingdom 21 Aug. 1854 to Aug. 1875; reduced plans from larger to smaller scale by photography 1855; director of topographical and statistical department of war office 22 Aug. 1857 to 1870; F.R.S. 9 June 1848; A.I.C.E. 1 May 1849; knighted at St. James’ palace 28 March 1860; arranged for a survey of Jerusalem 1864–5; mainly instrumental in invention of photozincography 1859, now much used in ordnance office; author of On the figure, dimensions and specific gravity of the earth 1856; Principal triangulations of the earth 2 vols. 1858; Extension of the triangulations of the survey with France and Belgium and measurement of an arc of parallel 1863. _d._ 3 Cumberland ter. Southampton 14 June 1877. _I.L.N. lxx_ 595 (1877); _Palmer’s Ordnance survey of United Kingdom_ (1873) _passim_; _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ 266–8, 1243–4; _Boase’s Collect. Cornub._ (1890) 414, 415.

JAMES, HOUGHTON. Entered Bombay army 1819; major 18 Bombay N.I. 23 March 1847, lieut. col. 17 Feb. 1852 to 1856; lieut. col. 15 N.I. 1856–7; lieut. col. 6 N.I. 1857 to 30 Sep. 1862; L.G. 14 Dec. 1871. _d._ Brighton 9 March 1875.

JAMES, JABEZ. _b._ 1810; a locksmith and bell hanger 1837, then an engineer and model maker; had large contracts in connection with the palace at Westminster, hung the bells in the clock tower 1859; established a factory 28A Broadwall, Blackfriars, London and afterwards at 40 Princes st. Commercial road where he manufactured engines and constructed special machinery for the bank of England, the royal mint, the royal arsenal and the inland revenue department; name became associated with mechanical excellence; for government small arms he made exact gauges and machines; A.I.C.E. 1852, M.I.C.E. 1878; M.I.M.E. 1856. _d._ 9 Jany. 1883. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxiii_ 358–60 (1882–3); _Proc. Instit. Mechanical engineers_ (1884) 64.

JAMES, JOHN. _b._ 1783; attorney in city of London 1806 to death; secondary of the Giltspur st. Compter, city of London 1831 to death. _d._ 11 Artillery place, Finsbury sq. 21 July 1852.

JAMES, JOHN (son of John James _d._ about 1814). _b._ West Witton, Wensleydale, Yorkshire 22 Jany. 1811; ed. at West Witton; worked at a lime kiln for 10d. a day; clerk to Ottiwell Tomlin, solicitor, Richmond, then in London; clerk to Richard Tolson, solicitor, Bradford to his decease 1847; correspondent of Leeds Times, York Herald and of Bradford Observer 1834; author of The history of Bradford 2 vols. 1841–66; The history of the worsted manufacture in England 1857; F.S.A. _d._ Netheredge, Sheffield 4 July 1867. _bur._ West Witton ch. 8 July. _William Smith’s Old Yorkshire_ (1883) 131–33.

JAMES, JOHN (eld. son of John James of St. Andrew’s, Cambridge). _b._ 1783; ed. at Rugby 1792–9; probationary fellow of St. John’s coll. Oxf. 1799; B.A. 1803, M.A. 1807, B.D. and D.D. 1834; master of Oundle gr. sch.; C. of Oundle; V. of Southwick, Northamptonshire 1828–34; canon res. of Peterborough 9 Feb. 1829 to death; V. of Maxey 1832–50; V. of St. John the Baptist, Peterborough 1833–50; R. of Peakirk with Glinton 1850–65; V. of Glinton 1865 to death, all in Northants.; author of The happy communicant 1849, 2 ed. 1883; A devotional comment on the morning and evening services in the book of common prayer 2 vols. 1851; A harmonized summary of the four gospels 1853; Spiritual life 1869. _d._ at 12.15 p.m. 15 Dec. 1868 in the Minster precincts, Peterborough. _Reg. and Mag. of Biog. Feb. 1869 pp._ 116–7.

JAMES, JOHN (2 son of John James of Redbrook Newland, Gloucs.) _b._ 1806; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; R. of Rawmarsh, Yorkshire 1831–43; V. of Pinhoe, Devon 1844; P.C. of Tor-Mohun and Cockington, Devon 1844–8; V. of Headington Quarry, Oxf. 1851–3; R. of Avington near Hungerford 1853–79; author of A comment upon the collects 1824,16 ed. 1866; Christian watchfulness in the prospect of sickness 1839, 2 ed. 1840; A harmonized summary of the four gospels 1853; The happy communicant 1849, 2 ed. 1883. _d._ Highfield, Lydney, Gloucs. 16 Dec. 1886.

JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (eld. son of John James, draper, _d._ 1812). _b._ Salisbury st. Blandford, Dorset 6 June 1785; apprentice to a draper at Poole 1798; ed. at Gosport acad. 1802; pastor Carr’s lane chapel, Birmingham 11 Jany. 1805 to death, rebuilt the chapel at cost of £11,000, 1819 and erected six other chapels as offshoots of his congregation; chairman of board of education Spring Hill coll. (now Mansfield coll. Oxf.) 1838 to death; a projector of the Evangelical alliance May 1842; presented with £500 on jubilee of his pastorate 1855 which he made nucleus of a pastors’ retiring fund; D.D. of Glasgow univ.; D.D. of Princeton coll. New Jersey; author of The Sunday school teacher’s guide 1816; Christian charity explained or the influence of religion upon the temper 1828, many editions; The anxious enquirer after salvation 1834 many editions, translated into Welsh, Gaelic and Malagasy; Collected Works 17 vols. 1860–64. _d._ 283 Hagley road, Edgbaston, Birmingham 1 Oct. 1859. _G. Redford’s True greatness, A memoir_ (1860); _R. W. Dale’s Life and letters of J. A. James 2 ed._ (1861), _portrait_; _Drawing room portrait gallery 3 ser._ (1860), _portrait_; _S. Couling’s History of temperance movement_ (1862) 312–14; _R. K. Dent’s Birmingham_ (1880) 362, _portrait_.

JAMES, JOHN HADDY (son of a merchant at Bristol). _b._ Exeter 6 July 1788; ed. at Exeter gram. sch.; apprentice to B. W. Johnson surgeon 1805, and to Mr. Patch 1806–8; studied at St. Bartholomew’s 1808–12; M.R.C.S. 1811, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; assist. surgeon first life guards 27 Oct. 1812, placed on h.p. 30 July 1816; present at Waterloo and in garrison in France; surgeon Devon and Exeter hospital, Aug. 1816 to 1858; a general practitioner in Cathedral close, Exeter 1816 to death; president Exeter meeting of Provincial medical and surgical assoc. 1842; sheriff of Exeter 1826, mayor 1828; one of the few surgeons who tied the abdominal aorta for aneurism of the internal iliac; author of Observations on some of the general principles and treatment of inflammation 1821; Chloroform versus pain and paracentisis of the bladder above the pubes 1870. _d._ Southernhay, Exeter 17 March 1869. _Register and Mag. of Biography_, _May 1869 pp._ 402–404; _Medical Times_, _i_ 369–71 (1869).

JAMES, JOHN HUTCHISON (son of John James, Wesleyan minister, _d._ 1832). _b._ Macclesfield 1 _Jany._ 1816; Wesleyan M. minister in London 1839–42, 1854–7, 1871–7, in Sheffield 1860–2 and at many other places; D.D.; assist. tutor Hoxton coll. 1838–9; governor of Wesleyan coll. Sheffield 1862–8; sec. of conference 1870 and president 1871; author of A false witness unmasked 1847; A sermon on the Russian war 1854. _d._ suddenly at res. of Bickford Smith, M.P., Trevarno, Helston 26 Sep. 1891. _I.L.N. lix_ 157, 158 (1871), _portrait_.

JAMES, SIR JOHN KINGSTON, 1 Baronet (son of Francis James). _b._ 28 April 1784; a wine and West India merchant in Dublin; sheriff of Dublin 1812, alderman 25 June 1817 to 1840, lord mayor 1821–22 and 1840–41; knighted by marquess Wellesley 29 Dec. 1821; cr. a baronet 19 March 1823; a director of bank of Ireland to death; M.R.I.A. _d._ 9 Cavendish row, Rutland sq. Dublin 28 Jany. 1869. _Reg. and mag. of biog._, _i_ 200 (1869).

JAMES, JOHN POLGLASE. _b._ 1791; entered Madras army 1806; lieut. col. 45 Madras N.I. 1833; col. 32 Madras N.I. 3 Nov. 1844 to 1853; col. 20 Madras N.I. 1853 to death; commanded Hydrabad subsidiary force 11 Jany. 1848 to 26 Jany. 1852; brigadier general northern division 16 Feb. 1852 to death. _d._ George st. Devonport 5 July 1854.

JAMES, MARIA. _b._ Wales 11 Oct. 1793; emigrated to U.S. of America 1803 when she learnt English; lived at domestic service in the Garrison family of Dutchess county, N.Y.; author of Wales and other poems. New York 1839. _d._ Rhinebeck, N.Y. 11 Sep. 1868. _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_ 399 (1887); _Griswold’s Female poets of America, Stoddard’s ed._ (1874) _pp._ 66–8.

JAMES, PAUL MOON. _b._ Exeter 1780; manager of Galton’s bank at Birmingham, afterwards a partner; manager of the Birmingham banking company 1829; managing director of Manchester and Salford bank 10 Mosley st. Manchester, Aug. 1836 to death; author of Poems 1821. _d._ Summerville, Pendleton 13 July 1854. _R. W. Procter’s Memorials of bygone Manchester_ (1880) 12–20.

JAMES, THOMAS (eld. son of rev. Thomas James, preb. of Worcester, _d._ 1804). _b._ 1781 or 1782; barrister G.I. 23 Nov. 1810, bencher 1834 to death; practised as conveyancer. _d._ 21 Burton crescent, London 5 Oct. 1853.

JAMES, THOMAS (2 son of Thomas James of Croydon). _b._ Croydon, Feb. 1809; ed. at Eton, univ. of Glasgow and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; assist. master Charterhouse 1832; chap. to Bp. of Peterborough; V. of Sibbertoft, Northamptonshire 23 May 1838 to death; V. of Theddingworth, Leics. 1842 to death; hon. canon of Peterborough, Sep. 1852 to death; rural dean Dec. 1853 to death; author of Æsop’s Fables, a new version 1848, 3 ed. 1858; The history and antiquities of Northamptonshire 1864. _d._ Theddingworth 18 Oct. 1863.

JAMES, THOMAS SMITH (son of rev. John Angell James 1785–1859). _b._ 1809; solicitor in Birmingham 1831 to death; edited a collected edition of his Father’s works 17 vols. 1860–4; author of The history of the litigation and legislation respecting Presbyterian chapels and charities in England and Ireland 1867, with an Addendum [1868]. _d._ Hagley road, Edgbaston 3 Feb. 1874.

JAMES, WILLIAM (son of William Evans James 1763–95). _b._ Liverpool 29 March 1791; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816; contested Carlisle 1820 and 1826; M.P. Carlisle 1820–26, 1831–35, the 1820 election cost him £13,000; sheriff of Cumberland 1827; M.P. East Cumberland 1836–47; opposed the grant of £50,000 for coronation of George IV. 1821. _d._ Barrock park near Carlisle 4 May 1861. _Saunders’ Portraits of reformers_ (1840) 154–6, _portrait_; _Bean’s Representation of six northern counties_ (1890) 39–45.

JAMES, WILLIAM HENRY (eldest son of Wm. James, railway projector 1771–1837). _b._ Henley-in-Arden, March 1796; assisted his father in survey of Liverpool and Manchester railway; an engineer in Birmingham; took out patents for locomotives, steam engines, railway carriages, diving apparatus, &c. _d._ Dulwich college almshouses 16 Dec. 1873.

JAMES, SIR WILLIAM MILBOURNE (2 son of Christopher James of Swansea). _b._ Merthyr-Tydvil, Glamorganshire 29 June 1807; ed. at univ. of Glasgow, M.A. 1828, hon. D.C.L. 1873; barrister L.I. 10 June 1831, bencher 15 April 1853 to death, treasurer 1873–4; vice chancellor of county palatine of Lancaster at Liverpool 4 Jany. 1853 to 6 Jany. 1869; Q.C. Feb. 1853; contested Derby 30 April 1859; counsel for Bishop of Natal 1864; leading counsel for plaintiff in spiritualist case of Lyon v. Home 1868; vice chancellor 11 Jany. 1869 to 2 July 1870; knighted at Osborne 4 Feb. 1869; lord justice of appeal 4 July 1870 to death; P.C. 6 July 1870; arbitrator under European Assurance society arbitration acts 1872 and 1873, 20 Jany. 1875; author of The British in India 1882. _d._ 47 Wimpole st. London 7 June 1881. _A generation of judges by their reporter_ (1886) 95–111; _Red Dragon_, _i_ 483–93 (1882), _portrait_; _I.L.N. liv_ 304 (1869), _portrait_.

JAMES, WILLIAM POWELL (1 son of rev. Wm. Henry James). _b._ 1837; ed. at Oriel coll. Oxf., scholar 1854–8; B.A. 1858, M.A. 1862; author of King Alfred surveying Oxford at the present time: Newdigate prize poem 1856; Scenes from Plautus, with notes 1879; Guesses at purpose in nature, with especial reference to plants 1882; From source to sea, or gleanings about rivers in many fields 1884. _d._ 1885.

JAMES, WILLIAM WITHALL (eld. son of John Haddy James 1788–1869). _b._ Exeter 1823; studied King’s coll. London; M.R.C.S. 1844, F.R.C.S. 1848; L.S.A. 1845; in practice at Exeter 1846 to death; surgeon Devon and Exeter hospital 1858 to death, to which he left £2000, the interest to be divided among its four surgeons; fellow Med. Chir. soc. _d._ Exmouth 17 March 1865. _Proc. Med. and Chir. Soc. iv._ 148–9, 156–9 (1865).

JAMESON, ANDREW (son of Andrew Jameson, sheriff substitute of Fifeshire). _b._ 1811; called to Scotch bar 1835; sheriff substitute of Ayrshire 1843–5; sheriff substitute of Midlothian 1845–65; sheriff of Aberdeen 6 Nov. 1865 to death; reported on the laws of Malta and framed a civil and criminal code for that island 1854. _d._ Edinburgh 30 Oct. 1870. _Journal of jurisprudence_, _xv_ 666–8 (1870); _Law magazine and review_, _xxx_ 345–47 (1871).

JAMESON, ANNA BROWNELL (eld. dau. of Dudley Brownell Murphy, miniature painter, _d._ March 1842). _b._ Dublin 19 May 1794; governess to children of marquess of Winchester 1810–14, to children of E. J. W. Littleton afterwards lord Hatherton 1821–5. (_m._ 1825 Robert Sympson Jameson, barrister of M.T. 28 Nov. 1823, vice chancellor of Upper Canada 1837, _d._ Toronto 1 Aug. 1854); resided in Germany 1833–6, 1845 etc.; lived with her husband in Canada, Sep. 1836 to March 1838; great friend of lady Byron from 1846, disagreed with her about 1853; resided in Italy 1847 etc. studying art; granted civil list pension of £100 Aug. 30, 1851; her friends gave her an annuity of £100, 1854; author of The Diary of an Ennuyée. By A Lady 1826; Companion to the private galleries of art in London 1842; Memoirs of the early Italian painters 2 vols. 1845, 4 ed. 1868; Sacred and legendary art 2 vols. 1848, 3 ed. 1857; Legends of the monastic orders as represented in the fine arts 1850, 2 ed. 1852; Legends of the Madonna 1852, 2 ed. 1857; The history of our Lord and of his life as exemplified in works of art 2 vols. 1864. _d._ 57 Conduit st. Regent st. London 17 March 1860. _G. Macpherson’s Memoirs of life of A. Jameson_ (1878), _portrait_; _Winter studies by Mrs. Jameson 3 vols._ (1838); _B. R. Parkes’ Vignettes_ (1866) 441–8; _I.L.N. xxxvi_ 300, 309 (1860), _portrait_; _Martineau’s Biog. sketches 4 ed._ (1876) 429–36; _Powell’s Pictures of living authors_ (1851) 165–77.

JAMESON, FRANCIS JAMES (2 son of Robert Francis Jameson, barrister I.T. 1815, judge at Havannah 1819). _b._ Hampstead 13 Sep. 1828; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., 6 wrangler and B.A. 1850, M.A. 1853; fellow of Caius March 1852; fellow and tutor of St. Cath. coll. June 1855–62; C. of St. Sepulchre’s, Camb. 1852–62; pro-proctor at Camb. 1858–9, select preacher 1862; R. of Coton near Camb. 1862 to death; author of The principles of the solutions of Senate-house riders, Camb. 1851; The analogy between the miracles and doctrines of scripture: Norrisian prize essay 1852. _d._ Bournemouth 6 Feb. 1869. _Correspondence between the vice chancellor and the pro-proctors G. Williams and F. J. Jameson_ (1859); _F. J. Jameson’s Heaven’s whisper in the storm_ (1869), _Memoir pp. ix–xx_.

JAMESON, SIR GEORGE INGLIS. Entered Bombay army 1819; lieut. col. 3 European regiment 17 Sep. 1855 to 29 Sep. 1860; colonel 30 Bombay N.I. 29 Sep. 1860 to 1863; col. 23 N.I. 1863–9; M.G. 15 June 1862; K.C.S.I. 20 May 1871. _d._ Heathville, 1 Vanbrugh park road east, Blackheath 24 Oct. 1871.

JAMESON, JAMES SLIGO (son of Andrew Jameson, land agent, sheriff clerk Clackmannanshire). _b._ Walk house, Alloa 17 Aug. 1856; ed. at International coll. Isleworth 1868–77; read for the army but in 1877 devoted himself to travel; in Borneo 1877 where he discovered the black pern, a honey buzzard; hunted big game in Africa and discovered the junction of the Umvuli and the Umnyati 1879–81; naturalist to Emin Pacha relief expedition under H. M. Stanley 1887, contributing £1000 to the expenses; second in command of rear column under major Walter Barttelot in June 1877 at Yambuya where a third of the company died; witnessed the massacre and eating of a girl and made sketches of the scenes May 1888. _d._ of fever at Bangala on the Congo 17 Aug. 1888. Some of his collections exhibited at Rowland Ward’s, 166 Piccadilly, London, Nov. 1888. _H. M. Stanley’s Darkest Africa_ (1890); _J. S. Jameson’s Story of the rear column_ (1890), _portrait_; _Times 22 Sep. 1888 p._ 6.

JAMESON, JOHN (eld. son of John Jameson of Dublin, distiller 1773–1851). _b._ 1804; distiller at 50 Bow st. and 11 and 12 Smithfield, Dublin to his death, the business was founded in 1780 and is noted for its John Jameson whisky; sheriff of Dublin 1879. _d._ St. Marnocks, Malahide, co. Dublin 19 Dec. 1881.

JAMESON, ROBERT (3 son of Thomas Jameson, soap maker). _b._ Leith 11 July 1774; ed. at Edin. univ.; assistant to John Cheyney, surgeon, Leith; studied under A. G. Werner at Freiberg, Saxony 1800–1802; regius professor of natural history and keeper of univ. museum, Edinb. 30 March 1804 to death; founded Wernerian natural history soc. 1808 and was the perpetual president; with sir D. Brewster originated Edinb. Philosophical journal 1819 and was sole editor from vol. x. to his death; F.L.S. 1797, F.R.S. 25 May 1826; hon. member of upwards of 50 societies in Europe and America; author of Mineralogy of the Scottish isles 2 vols. 1800; System of mineralogy 3 vols. 1804–8, 3 ed. 1820; A treatise on the external characters of minerals 1805, 2 ed. 1816; with Hugh Murray, Encyclopædia of geography 1834; Historical account of British India 1843, 2 ed. 1844. _d._ 21 Royal circus, Edinburgh 19 April 1854. _Quarterly Journal Geol. Soc. xi_ 38–41 (1855); _Proc. Linnean Soc. ii_ 306–9 (1855); _Jerdan’s National portrait gallery_, _iv_ (1833), _portrait_; _W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery_, _iii_ 126–27, _portrait_.

JAMESON, ROBERT WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). _b._ Leith 1805; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edin.; a writer to the signet in Edin.; an original member of reformed town council of Edin. 1832; the best hustings speaker of his time; edited Wigtownshire Free Press at Stranraer 1855–61; his tragedy Timoleon 2 ed. 1852 was produced at the T.R. Edin.; proprietor of a newspaper at Sudbury 1861, then in residence in London; author of Nimrod, a poem 1848; The curse of gold, a novel 1854. _d._ 12 Earl’s Court terrace, Kensington, London 10 Dec. 1868. _Reg. and Mag. of Biog. Feb. 1869 pp._ 124–5.

JAMESON, WILLIAM (son of Wm. Jameson, writer to the signet). _b._ Edinburgh 3 Oct. 1796; ed. at univ. of Edin.; M.R.C.S. Edin. 17 Feb. 1818; surgeon at Guayaquil, Peru 1822–6, at Quito 1826–7; professor of chemistry and botany in univ. of Quito 1827–32; assayer to the mint, Quito 1832, director 1861 to Nov. 1869; joined Church of Rome; created a caballero of Spain by Queen Isabella 1867; sent to England many new species of plants, among which species of anemone, gentian and the moss Dicranum bear his name; a genus of ferns is also called Jamesonia; author of Synopsis plantarum Æquatoriensium 2 vols. and part i. of vol. 3. Quito 1865. _d._ Quito 22 June 1873. _Trans. Botanical Soc. Edin. xii_ 19–28 (1876).

JAMESON, WILLIAM. _b._ Leith 1815; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edin.; of H.E.I.C. medical service 30 Aug. 1838; curator of museum of Asiatic Society of Bengal 1838; taken prisoner while examining the course of the Indus and imprisoned in Kohat fort 1841; superintendent of the Saharunpore botanical garden 1842 to 31 Dec. 1875; procured tea plants and distributed them in various parts of India 1843 etc., the development of tea-planting in India was entirely due to him, tea has now become a staple commodity on the lower Himalaya; surgeon major 10 April 1852, retired as deputy surgeon general 31 Dec. 1875; C.I.E. 1 Jany. 1878. _d._ Deyrah Doon a tea garden 18 March 1882. _Proc. of Botanical Soc. of Edin. xiv_ 288–95 (1882).

JAMESON, WILLIAM. _b._ Penrith 1839; apprenticed to a joiner there; a pole leaper; won the first prize for wrestling from 23 picked men at Talkin Tarn regatta 1858; wrestled Dick Wright for £25 a side at Carlisle, Dec. 1859 when he was thrown 3 times; first appeared in the London ring at Hornsey Wood House, Good Friday 1861 when he won first prize for heavy weights and divided first prize for pole leaping; won the London heavy weight prize 1862, 67 and 70, won the second prize 1863, 66 and 68; won the first prize at Carlisle 5 times; thrown by Dubois, French wrestler at Agricultural hall, London 1870; performed in the country with English and French wrestlers 1870; landlord of Griffin inn, Penrith 1871 to death; the best wrestler in North of England 1860–70, had no superior at hiping and buttocking; nearly 6 feet high and weighed 17 stone. _d._ Griffin inn, Penrith 23 Nov. 1888. _Walter Armstrong’s Wrestliana_ (1870) _passim_.

JAMIE, WILLIAM. _b._ Marykirk, Kincardineshire 25 Dec. 1818; a blacksmith; a teacher; author of The Jacobite’s son, a tale; The emigrant’s family. Glasgow 1854; The musings of a wanderer, being poems and songs in the Scottish dialect. Glasgow 1856. _d._ Pollockshaws near Glasgow 186-. _R. Inglis’ Dramatic writers_ (1868) 58.

JAMIESON, JOHN LENNOX KINCAID. _b._ Milton of Campsie near Glasgow 27 March 1826; 3 class assist. engineer R.N.; at bombardment of Bomarsund, Crimean medal; superintendent engineer for Pacific steam navigation co. at Tobago 1856–66; connected with improvement of the compound marine engine 1857 etc.; manager for Randolph, Elder & Co. Glasgow 1866 and partner 1870–79, removed the works to Fairfield; introduced the three cylinder compound marine engine in the Iberia and Liguria 1872; town councillor Glasgow 1880 to death; president of Anderson’s coll. 1879; M.I.M.E. 1870. _d._ at his sister’s res. 38 Wickham road, St. John’s, Kent 2 July 1883. _Proc. Instit. Mechanical engineers_ (1884) 65–6; _Glasgow Herald 3 July 1883 p._ 4.

JAMIESON, ROBERT. Merchant in connection with South America, Brazil, India and China, at 33 Great Winchester st. city of London 1836 to death; equipped at his own expense the Ethiope steamship, whose commander captain Beecroft explored several West African rivers 1839 and helped to rescue H.M.S. Albert and the government Niger expedition 1841; declined vice presidency of Institut d’Afrique of France 1840; sought to civilise Africa by opening up the rivers and suppressing slave trade; author of An appeal to the government against the proposed Niger expedition 1840, A further appeal 1841, and Sequel to appeals 1843; Commerce with Africa 1859. _d._ 18 Gloucester sq. Hyde park, London 5 April 1861. _Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. v_ 160 (1860–61); _Times 8 April 1861 p._ 9.

JAMIESON, REV. ROBERT (son of Mr. Jamieson of Edinburgh, baker). _b._ Edin. 3 Jany. 1802; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edin.; licensed as a preacher 1827; minister of Weststruther in presbytery of Lauder 1830–7; minister of Currie, Edin. 1837–44; minister of St. Paul’s, Glasgow 14 March 1844 to death; D.D. Glasgow 17 April 1848; moderator of general assembly 1872; author of Eastern manners illustrative of the Old Testament 1836, 4 ed. 1854; Eastern manners illustrative of the New Testament, 3 ed. 1851; Manners and trials of primitive christians 1839; with E. H. Bickersteth and Brown, The Holy Bible with a commentary 1861–5. _d._ 156 Randolph terrace, Glasgow 26 Oct. 1880. _John Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy_ (1848) 259–65.

JAMIESON, THOMAS HILL. _b._ Bonnington near Arbroath, Aug. 1843; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edin.; assistant librarian of the Advocates’ library, Edin., and librarian June 1871 to death; edited a reprint of Barclay’s translation of Brandt’s Ship of Fools 1874; author of Notice of the life and writings of Alexander Barclay 1874; over-exerted himself at time of fire in Advocates’ Lib. 3 March 1875. _d._ 7 Gillespie crescent, Edinburgh 9 Jany. 1876.

JAMRACH, _Johann Christian Carl_ (son of Johann Gottlieb Jamrach, chief of the Hamburg river police). _b._ Hamburg, March 1815; dealer in wild animals 86 Upper East Smithfield 1843, removed to an establishment in Ratcliffe Highway known as 179 & 180 St. George st.; naturalised 12 March 1856; well known among naturalists, he supplied menageries and zoological gardens with many of their animals; imported eastern curiosities and had a collection of Japanese idols; a breeder of Persian greyhounds, Japanese pugs and Madagascar cats; had encounter with a runaway tiger in 1857. _d._ Beaufort cottage, Wellington road, Bow 6 Sep. 1891. _Strand Mag. April 1891 pp._ 429–36; _Good Words_ (1879) 1865–9; _Times 8 Sep. 1891 p._ 7; _Pall Mall Budget 10 Sep. 1891_.

NOTE.--Anton Herman Jamrach junior, naturalist, eld. son of above _d._ 355 East India dock road, Poplar 14 Nov. 1855.

JANISCH, HUDSON RALPH. Entered colonial service 1838; police magistrate St. Helena 1851, acting queen’s advocate there 1856, 1857, acting colonial sec. 1861, 1868, colonial sec. and auditor general; governor of St. Helena 1 Oct. 1873 to death; author of The exhumation of the remains of Napoleon Bonaparte. St. Helena 1840. _d._ St. Helena, April 1884.

JANSON, AILSA (son of Henry Etienne Janson tutor to George V. of Hanover). _b._ Richmond, Surrey, Jany. 1844; ed. at Polytechnic sch. Hanover; under Tolmé, C.E. employed on Gellivara canals, Sweden 1865–6; resident engineer East Hungarian railway 1871 etc.; A.I.C.E. 3 Dec. 1872 and member 14 May 1878; constructor of the Soudan railway 1875, director of works in the Soudan 1878; engineer and general manager of Great Western railway, Brazil 1879 to death. _d._ of yellow fever, Pernambuco 28 April 1885. _Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. lxxxi_ 324–7 (1885).

JANSON, THOMAS CORBYN (son of Mr. Janson of Tunbridge Wells, banker). _b._ 1 July 1809; ed. at Hove near Brighton; partner in Brown, Janson & Co. bankers 32 Abchurch lane, London to death; F.L.S. March 1843. _d._ Stamford hill, Middlesex 23 June 1863.

JAQUES, RICHARD MACHELL (son of Robert Jaques founder of the Easby stud, _d._ 1842). _b._ 31 March 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.; well known agriculturalist; steward at many race meetings and the reviver of the York meetings 1843; owner of many horses, chiefly trained by John Scott, very unlucky in racing, ran second for the St. Leger with High Treason 1860; had a stud at Easby abbey, Richmond, Yorkshire, including Irish Birdcatcher, Pyrrhus the First and other famous sires; sold his yearlings at Doncaster; a breeder of cattle particularly of shorthorns; president Richmond Farmers’ club 1873. _d._ 30 June 1889. _Sporting Review_, _xv_ 7–10 (1846), _portrait_.

JARACZEWSKI, MIECISLAS, Count, great friend of Prince of Wales; a well known man in fashionable and racing circles, member of Turf club. _d._ at his lodgings 4 Bennett st. St. James’s, London 11 March 1881. _bur._ R.C. cemetery, Kensal green 17 March.

JARDINE, ALEXANDER (2 son of Sir Alexander Jardine 6 baronet, _d._ 1821). _b._ 2 Oct. 1803; ensign 75 foot 22 April 1826, lieut. col. 1 June 1849, retired on full pay 7 Oct. 1859; M.G. 7 Oct. 1859. _d._ Brighton 23 June 1869.

JARDINE, DAVID (son of rev. David B. Jardine 1766–97, unitarian minister). _b._ 1792; barrister M.T. 7 Feb. 1823, went western circuit; one of the 20 municipal corporation comrs. for England and Wales 18 July 1833 to 1835; recorder of Bath, March 1837 to death; stipendiary magistrate Bow st. London 1839 to death; author of General index to Howell’s Collection of state trials 1828; A reading on the use of torture 1837; A narrative of the gunpowder plot 1857. _d._ The Heath, Weybridge, Surrey 13 Sep. 1860.

JARDINE, SIR HENRY (son of Rev. Dr. John Jardine, dean of chapel royal in Scotland 1763–6). _b._ 1766; a writer to the signet 1790; king’s remembrancer of court of exchequer in Scotland 1820–37; knighted at Carlton house, London 20 April 1825; F.S.A. Scot. and V.P.; F.R.S. Edin. _d._ Belleville lodge, Newington, Edinburgh 11 Aug. 1851.

JARDINE, JAMES. _b._ Applegarth, Dumfriesshire 30 Nov. 1776; taught mathematics in Edin. 1796–1806; a civil engineer in Edin. 1806 to death; introduced the Crawley water into Edin. 1820; constructed the Union canal 1822; the first to determine the mean level of the sea 1809; engineer of the Dalkeith railway. _d._ 18 Queen st. Edinburgh 20 June 1858.

JARDINE, SIR WILLIAM, 7 Baronet (eld. son of sir Alexander Jardine _d._ 1820). _b._ North Hanover st. Edinburgh 23 Feb. 1806; ed. at York and univ. of Edin.; with P. J. Selby commenced Illustrations of ornithology 1825; edited the Naturalist’s Library 40 vols. 1833–45 of which he wrote 14 vols.; commenced with P. J. Selby at Edin. the Magazine of zoology and botany 1837 which became in 1838 the Annals of natural history, and in 1841 the Annals and magazine of natural history; joint editor of Edinburgh Philosophical Journal 1855; a comr. to enquire into salmon fisheries of England and Wales 30 July 1860; F.R.S. Edin. 1824; author of Contributions to ornithology 3 vols. 1848–52; The Ichnology of Annandale 1851–3; The Birds of Great Britain and Ireland 4 vols. 1876. _d._ Sandown, Isle of Wight 21 Nov. 1874. _Proc. of royal Soc. of Edin. ix_ 20–2 (1878); _Nature 26 Nov. 1874 p._ 74; _Graphic_, _xi_ 68 (1875), _portrait_.

JARMAN, FRANCES ELEANOR (eld. child of John Jarman of York, actor). _b._ Hull, Feb. 1803; made her first appearance at Bath 23 May 1815 as Edward a child in Mrs. Inchbald’s Every one has his fault; acted at Bath 1815–22, in Ireland 1824–7; first appeared in London at Covent Garden 7 Feb. 1827 as Juliet; played Imogen 10 May 1827 her best tragic part; made a great success as Amadis in Dimond’s Nymph of the Grotto 15 Jany. 1829; acted in Scotland 1829–34, in America and Canada 1834–7, at Drury Lane 1837–8, in Dublin 1843; played Paulina in The Winter’s Tale at Princess’s theatre, London, Oct. 1855; acted with Charles Dickens in Wilkie Collins’ drama The Frozen Deep, at Manchester 1857; retired about 1857–8; played at Lyceum theatre, London 23 Dec. 1865. (_m._ 21 Sep. 1834 Thomas Luke Ternan, actor and author who _d._ 17 Oct. 1846 aged 47). _d._ The Lawn, Oxford 30 Oct. 1873. _Tallis’s Drawing room table book_, _part 17_ (1851), _portrait_; _Actors by daylight_, _i_ 121 (1838), _portrait_; _J. N. Ireland’s New York stage_, _ii_ 107 (1867).

JARMAN, HENRY. _b._ 1819; solicitor in London 1847 to death; author of New practice of the court of chancery 1853, 3 ed. 1854; Forms of bills of costs in chancery 1857; Index to the bankruptcy act 1869; Index to the old and new Testaments 1883. _d._ 6 Sandmere road, Clapham, Surrey 10 Jany. 1889.

JARMAN, THOMAS. _b._ 1800; clerk in office of his uncle a solicitor at Bristol; barrister M.T. 10 Feb. 1826; conveyancing counsel to court of chancery to death; edited J. J. Powell’s An essay on devises 3rd ed. 2 vols. 1827, wrote all the 2nd vol. himself; W. M. Bythwood’s A selection of precedents forming a system of conveyancing 1827, vols, 4 to 10 were compiled by T. Jarman, 2 ed. 11 vols. 1829–36; author of A treatise on wills 2 vols. 1844, 4 ed. 2 vols. 1881; author with W. Hayes of Concise forms of wills with practical notes 1835, 9 ed. 1883. _d._ Hadley, Middlesex 26 Feb. 1860. _A brief memorial of the late Thomas Jarman, Esq. of Lincoln’s Inn._ _By Rev. Professor Charlton_, _privately printed_; _Law mag. and law review_, _x_ 251–62 (1861); _Solicitors’ Journal_, _iv_ 351–3 (1860).

JARMAN, THOMAS. Lived at Clipston, Northamptonshire; prolific composer of anthems and psalm tunes, some of which were very popular about 1840; published Devotional melodist 1828; Sacred music. The Northamptonshire harmony 1835; The church and chapel melodist 1850. _d._ Jany. 1862.

JARRETT, _Rev. Thomas_. _b._ 1805; ed. at St. Cath. coll. Camb., 34 wrangler 1827; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; fellow of his college 1828–32, classical and Hebrew lecturer to 1832; professor of Arabic at Camb. 1831–54; R. of Trunch, Norfolk 4 Feb. 1832 to death; regius professor of Hebrew at Camb., and canon of Ely, Feb. 1854 to death; lectured on Sanskrit 20 years; knew 20 languages; devised a system for transliterating oriental languages into the Roman character; author of An Essay on algebraic development. Cambridge 1831; A new lexicon of the Hebrew language, Part i. Hebrew and English, Part ii. English and Hebrew 1848; A new way of marking the sounds of English words without change of spelling 1858; The Hebrew text of the old covenant, printed in a modified Roman alphabet 1882. _d._ Trunch rectory 7 March 1882. _The Biograph_, _iv_ 231–33 (1880).

JARROLD, Thomas. _b._ Manningtree, Essex 1 Dec. 1770; ed. at univ. of Edin.; M.D. Glasgow 1802; physician at Stockport, Cheshire, then at Manchester; member of Manchester Lit. and Phil. Soc.; author of Essays in answer to professor Malthus’ work on population. Stockport 1806; Anthropologia or dissertations on the form and colour of man 1808; An enquiry into the cause of the curvature of the spine 1823. _d._ Greenhill st. Greenheys, Manchester 24 June 1853. _J. P. Earwaker’s Local Gleanings_ (1876) 137, 143.

JARVIS, SIR LEWIS WHINCOP (only son of Lewis Weston Jarvis of Lynn, solicitor). _b._ 1816; articled to his father; solicitor at Lynn 1840 to death; head of bank of Jarvis and Jarvis at Lynn to death; mayor of Lynn 1860, 61 and 62; steward of the Prince of Wales’s manors in Norfolk; knighted at Osborne 15 Jany. 1878. _d._ Middleton Towers, Lynn, Norfolk 2 Nov. 1888.

JARVIS, SIR SAMUEL RAYMOND (son of Samuel Jarvis of Fair Oak house, Hants.) _b._ about 1790; ensign 18 foot 12 April 1806; lieut. 25 foot 1807 to 1816 when placed on h.p.; captain 2 life guards 25 April 1817 to 25 Jany. 1823 when placed on h.p.; knighted at St. James’s palace 17 Sep. 1834; sheriff of Hants. 1834; lieut. col. in the army 11 Nov. 1851; captain 3 West India regiment 6 March 1863 but sold out same day. _d._ Cove cottage, Ventnor, Isle of Wight 5 Dec. 1868.

JARVIS, STEPHEN. _b._ 1834; organist; published a set of Six trios for male voices to the words of old nursery ditties; Merrily oh. Song, words by T. Moore 1877; The Inchcape bell. Scena 1879; Peter Piper. Canon for three voices 1879; Old England on the lee. Song 1880; Pensées Musicales. A set of pieces for the piano 1880. _d._ 2 Thornford ter. Lewisham, Kent 27 Nov. 1880.

JAVASU, CARABOO, Princess of, a name taken by Mary Willcocks (dau. of Thomas Willcocks a cobbler at Witheridge, North Devon). _b._ Witheridge 11 Nov. 1792; in service at Exeter 1810, then became a wandering mendicant; assumed male attire and was a footman in a family 1813; acquired the art of altering her features so that no one knew her; lost in the snow and buried during a night near Witheridge; in Magdalen hospital, London, Feb.-July 1813. (_m._ 1816 John Edward Francis Baker or Bakerstendt, who soon ran away from her, placed her child in the Foundling hospital, London, where it died Sep. 1816); camped with gipsies near Exeter and learnt some of their skill; pretended to be a Frenchwoman, then a Spaniard; announced herself to be Caraboo princess of Javasu, and at Bath at the Pack Horse inn held a reception when the ladies knelt before her; invented written characters for the Javasu language; went to America 1817, returned 1824; exhibited herself in New Bond st. London 1824; living under Pyle Hill, Bedminster, Bristol as a seller of leeches Dec. 1849. _d._ Bristol, Dec. 1864. _Full particulars of the life of Caraboo, alias Mary Baker. Bristol_ (1817); _Narrative of an imposition by Mary Willcocks alias Baker, alias Bakerstendt alias Caraboo, Princess of Javasu. Bristol_ (1817) _with 2 portraits_; _Temple Bar_, _June 1866 pp._ 420–2; _Whately’s Miscellaneous Remains_ (1864) 249–52; _Hone’s Everyday book_, _ii_ 1631–4 (1838), 2 _portraits_.

JAY, JOHN. Carpenter at 121 Bunhill Row, London 1835–8, builder at 65 London Wall 1838–49, contractor at 15 & 16 Macclesfield st. City road 1848–62, at 9 Euston road 1866–73; constructed the Great Northern railway station 1852, one of the three contractors for Metropolitan railway from Paddington to Farringdon st. 1860–2; completed the houses of parliament, including the central clock and Victoria towers; built fortifications for government, and the casemated barracks at Portland. _d._ Ashford house, Hornsey 28 Dec. 1872.