Part 3

JAY, REV. WILLIAM (son of a stonecutter and mason). _b._ Tisbury, Wilts. 8 May 1769; a working mason; ed. by rev. Cornelius Winter at Marlborough to 1788; as ‘Young Jay the boy preacher’ officiated in Surrey chapel, London 1788; minister Christian Malford, Wilts. and at Hope chapel, Hotwells, Clifton; pastor of Argyle Independent chapel, Bath 30 Jany. 1791, resigned 30 Jany. 1853, voted an annuity of £200; called the Prince of Preachers; author of The mutual duties of husbands and wives 1801; Morning exercises in the closet 2 vols. 1829, 5 ed. 1866; Evening exercises for the closet 2 vols. 1831, several editions; Sermons preached at Cambridge 1837. _d._ 4 Percy place, Bath 27 Dec. 1853. _European Mag. Jany. 1819 pp._ 5–8, _portrait_; _Autobiography of W. Jay. Ed. by G. Redford and J. A. James_ (1854), _portrait_; _Recollections of W. Jay by his son Cyrus Jay_ (1859), 3 _portraits_; _W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery_, _iv_ 107–8 (1848), _portrait_.

JAY, WILLIAM CHICKALL. _b._ Suffolk 1811; came to London as a boy and entered a millinery establishment; opened a shawl warehouse at 217 Regent st. London 1841 and was proprietor of a mourning warehouse at 247 and 249 Regent st. 1842–68, it was turned into a limited company 1868; member of hon. artillery co. 1835 and capt. of the troop of horse artillery 1860–9; member of Victoria rifles 1850; a successful farmer at Tolesbury, Essex. _d._ 27 April 1888, personalty sworn over £101,000. _Henry Mayhew’s Shops of London_, _ii_ 217–20 (1865); _Warehouseman and Draper’s trade journal 4 Sep. 1886 pp._ 735–6, _portrait_, _5 May 1888 p._ 446.

JEANS, HENRY WILLIAM. _b._ Portsea 1804; articled to a solicitor; had charge of chronometers in observatory, Portsmouth dockyard 1824; assist. master R. naval coll. Portsmouth, college abolished 1837; pensioner of St. John’s coll. Camb. 1837–8; mathematical master in re-established Naval coll. Portsmouth 1839–66; mathematical master R. military acad. Woolwich for some time; examiner in nautical astronomy for Trinity board; built and endowed a chapel at Langstone near Havant; F.R.A.S. 13 March 1840; author of Plane and spherical trigonometry. Portsea 2 parts 1842–7, 6 ed. of Part i. 1873; Problems in astronomy, surveying and navigation 1849; The theory of nautical astronomy and navigation 1853; Handbook of the stars, 4 ed. 1888. _d._ Langstone house 23 March 1881. _Monthly notices R. Astronom. Soc. xlii_ 145–6 (1882).

JEBB, REV. JOHN (eld. son of Richard Jebb 1766–1834, justice of court of King’s Bench, Ireland). _b._ Dublin 1805; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1829, B.D. and D.D. 1860; R. of Dunurlin, co. Kerry 1831–32; preb. of Limerick cath. 1832–43; R. of Peterstow, Herefordshire 1843 to death; proctor diocese of Hereford 1857 and 1868–74; preb. of Hereford cath. 1858–70, prælector 1863–70, canon res. 1870 to death, and chancellor 1878 to death; one of revisers of the Old Testament for a short time; author of The divine economy of the church 1840; A literal translation of the book of Psalms 2 vols. 1846; The present state of the church, in six letters 2 ed. 1851. _d._ Peterstow rectory 8 Jany. 1886.

JEBB, SIR JOSHUA (eld. son of Joshua Jebb of Walton, Derbyshire 1769–1845). _b._ Chesterfield 8 May 1793; 2 lieut. R.E. 1 July 1812, served in Canada 1813–20; lieut. col. R.E. 16 April 1847 to 18 Jany. 1850 when placed on retired full pay; M.G. 6 July 1860; surveyor general of prisons 1837–42; inspector general of military prisons 27 Dec. 1844; a comr. for governing Pentonville prison 1 May 1849; surveyor general and chairman of directors of convict prisons 1850 to death; C.B. 27 April 1848, K.C.B. 25 March 1859; author of Modern prisons, their construction and ventilation 1844; Notes on sinking artesian wells 1844; Observations on the defence of London 1860; taken ill in an omnibus, removed to Mr. James Starkie’s, chemist, 4 Strand, London where he _d._ 26 June 1863. _I.L.N. xliii_ 19, 36 (1863), _portrait_.

JEBB, RICHARD (brother of Rev. John Jebb 1805–86). _b._ 1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1832; barrister King’s inns, Dublin 1830; barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1832; practised in London; vicar general of Isle of Man, and as such judge of the ecclesiastical court 1861 to death; the legislature of Isle of Man agreed to a bill abolishing his office the week before his death. _d._ Douglas, Isle of Man 8 Feb. 1884.

JEBB, WILLIAM FRANCIS (3 son of lieut. William Francis Jebb, R.N.). _b._ Corby, Northants. 1828; educ. for the bar; clerk to Westminster district board to 1867; clerk to Metropolitan asylums district board from its beginning 1867 to death. _d._ 3 Campden grove, Kensington 4 Oct. 1890. _bur._ Kensington cemet. Hanwell 9 Oct. _The Metropolitan 11 Oct. 1890 p._ 647; _I.L.N. 18 Oct. 1890 p._ 483, _portrait_.

JECKS, HARRIET (youngest child of Mr. Coveney, actor 1790–1881). _b._ London 1 Nov. 1827; first appeared on the stage at Adelphi theatre, Edinburgh 30 June 1834 as Zoe in Buckstone’s burletta The convent of St. Eloi; played Oliver Twist at T.R. Glasgow; pupil of Charles Leclercq the ballet master; made her début in London at Victoria theatre; played in the provinces; at the Adelphi, London 1841 and 1849–50, at Vauxhall gardens 1842; acted under Chatterton at Drury Lane 1868–79; played the Marquise in L’Œil Crevé at Opera Comique 21 Oct. 1872; created the parts of Mrs. Privett in opera of Dorothy at Gaiety 25 Sep. 1886, and of Tabitha in opera of Doris at Lyric 20 April 1889, Dorothy was played until 6 April 1889, 931 times; played upwards of 1800 parts during her career. (_m._ Charles A. Jecks, acting manager of Adelphi theatre, London). _d._ Ramsgate 24 Feb. 1892. _The Players_, _ii_ 57 (1860), _portrait_.

JEENS, CHARLES HENRY (son of Henry Jeens of Uley, Gloucs.). _b._ Uley 19 Oct. 1827; engraved postage stamps for English colonies; engraved many plates for the Art Journal and vignettes and portraits for publications of Macmillan & Co., including a series of ‘Scientific Worthies’ in Nature; exhibited 6 engravings at R.A. 1860–76; engraved Joseph and Mary, after Armitage for Art Union of London 1877; a vol. of proofs of his vignettes is in print room of British Museum. _d._ 67 St. Paul’s road, Camden sq. London 22 Oct. 1879.

JEFFCOCK, PARKIN (son of John Jeffcock of Cowley, Derbyshire). _b._ Cowley manor 27 Oct. 1829; articled to George Hunter of Durham, engineer 1850; partner with J. T. Woodhouse of Derby, mining engineer 1857; examined and reported on the Moselle coalfield near Saarbrück 1863–4; descended the Oaks Pit near Barnsley which was on fire 12 Dec. 1866 where he was killed by an explosion 13 Dec. 1866, his body was recovered 5 Oct. 1867 and buried in Ecclesfield churchyard; St. Saviour’s church, Mortomley near Sheffield was built as a memorial of him 1872. _Parkin Jeffcock: a memoir by Rev. J. T. Jeffcock_ (1867), _portrait_; _I.L.N. l_, 21 (1867), _portrait_.

JEFFCOTT, SIR WILLIAM (_son of Wm. Jeffcott of Tralee, Ireland_). _b._ 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; barrister King’s inns, Dublin 1828; practised in Dublin; judge of supreme court of New South Wales, then resident judge in Melbourne of Port Philip district, Nov. 1842 to Jany. 1845; recorder of Singapore, Malacca and Prince Edward’s Island 1849 to death; knighted by patent 29 Dec. 1849; appointed a judge at Bombay, Oct. 1855. _d._ Bombay 23 Oct. 1855.

JEFFERIES, JOHN RICHARD, but always known as Richard Jefferies (son of James Jefferies of Coate farm, Liddington near Swindon). _b._ Coate farm 6 Nov. 1848; ran away to France 11 Nov. 1864; a reporter on the North Wilts Herald, March 1866; a writer in Pall Mall Gazette from 1870; author of A memoir of the Goddards of North Wilts. 1873; The scarlet shawl 1874; Restless human hearts 3 vols. 1875; The world’s end 3 vols. 1877; The gamekeeper at home. By R. J. 1878, 2 ed. 1880; Wild life in a southern county 1879; Hodge and his master 2 vols. 1880; Wood magic 2 vols. 1881; Bevis, the story of a boy 3 vols. 1882; The story of my heart 1883, with portrait; The Dewy morn 2 vols. 1884; After London 1885 and other books. _d._ Goring, Sussex 14 Aug. 1887, _monu._ in Salisbury cath., _bust_ in Shire hall, Taunton, _bust_ by Margaret Thomas in Salisbury cath. unveiled 9 March 1892. _W. Besant’s Eulogy of R. Jefferies_ (1888), _portrait_; _National Review_, _Oct. 1887 pp._ 242–50; _Literary Opinion_, _April 1892_, _portrait_.

JEFFERINI, JOHN, stage name of John Jeffreys. Made his first appearance at the Panharmonium theatre, King’s Cross, London 1837 as Desperetta in The Dumb Maid of Genoa; a pupil of Tom Matthews the clown; tobacconist at 2 Myddelton quadrant, Spa Fields 1839–47; kept a tobacconist’s shop known as “The Little Snuff-box,” Garnault place, Clerkenwell 1847–53, it was also a gambling-house where French hazard and écarté were played; the sign portraiture which adorned the Clown Tavern, 62 St. John st. road, Clerkenwell 1842–9 was the face and form of Jefferini; played clown in E. L. Blanchard’s pantomime King Alfred the Great, at Olympic theatre 26 Dec. 1846; played clown at Sadler’s Wells, City of London and Victoria theatres; landlord of the Rose public house 2 Farringdon st. 1851–3. _d._ 1853. _Life of E. L. Blanchard_, _i_ 51–2 (1891).

JEFFERIS, CHARLES. _b._ 1789; entered navy 19 Feb. 1801; took part in Lord Nelson’s victory over the Danes off Copenhagen 2 April 1801 and was ultimately the last survivor of those present; retired commander 11 March 1860. _d._ 3 July 1875 aged 86. _O’Byrne’s Naval Biog. Dict._ (1849) 579.

JEFFERSON, MARGARET C. (dau. of Mr. Lockyer). _b._ Burnham, England 11 Sep. 1832. (_m._ 1849 Joseph Jefferson, American comedian who was _b._ Philadelphia 20 Feb. 1829); first appeared at Bowery theatre, New York as the Fairy queen in Cinderella 1848; came out at Niblo’s garden as Mrs. Lullaby 23 July 1859; a pleasing actress in soubrette parts. _d._ Twelfth st. New York 25 Feb. 1861. _Brown’s American stage_ (1870) 194; _Ireland’s New York stage_, _ii_ 501, 558 (1867); _Autobiography of J. Jefferson_ (1890) 127–8, 229.

JEFFERY, CHARLES (son of James Reddecliff Jeffery of Liverpool). _b._ 1839; ed. at Trin. hall, Cam., B.A. 1863; barrister I.T. 9 June 1865; judge of district court of Falmouth in Jamaica 1871 to death; joint editor of J. Chitty’s Precedents in pleading 3 ed. 2 vols. 1868. _d._ Mentone, France 4 Feb. 1875.

JEFFERY, GEORGE ERNEST (eld. son of George Augustus Jeffery, M.D., of Trinity Home, Eastbourne). _b._ Eastbourne 9 Feb. 1853; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Cam.; in the Rugby Eleven, played at Lord’s against Marlborough 28–9 June 1871; made 116 runs in one innings in Twenty three gentlemen _v._ Eleven players of Sussex, the last match ever played on the Old Brunswick cricket ground, Hove, Brighton 15 Sep. 1871; played in the Cambridge Eleven against Oxford 1873–4; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1878. _d._ Westholme, Streatham common, London 8 April 1891.

JEFFERY, HENRY MARTYN (only son of John Jeffery of Gwennap, Cornwall 1798–1874). _b._ Lamorran rectory, Cornwall 5 Jany. 1826; ed. at Falmouth gr. sch. 1833–40 and Sedbergh gr. sch. 1841–5; of St. John’s coll. Camb. Oct. 1845, of St. Catherine’s coll. 1846; 6 wrangler and B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; lecturer in coll. of civil engineers, Putney 1850; second master Cheltenham gram. sch. June 1852 and head master June 1868 to 1882 when retired on pension; F.R.S. 3 June 1880; wrote on mathematics in Rep. British Assoc., Quarterly Journal of mathematics and other scientific journals; one of the ablest exponents of abstract mathematical science; edited E. R. Humphrey’s Exercitationes Iambicæ 2 ed. 1854 and Lyra Hellenica 1854 and contributed additional matter; Two sets of letters of rev. Henry Martyn 1883; Extracts from the religious diary of Miss Lydia Grenfell 1890. _d._ 9 Dunstanville ter. Falmouth 3 Nov. 1891. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ (1882) 1245–6; _Biograph_, _vi_ 515–17 (1881); _Journal of royal institution of Cornwall_, _xi_ 208–13 (1892).

JEFFERY, JAMES REDDECLIFF. _b._ Devonport 25 Nov. 1809; went to Liverpool, Feb. 1832 and in partnership with Walden and Bright commenced business, partnership dissolved July 1832, associated himself with James Morrish and opened Compton house Nov. 1832, his brother Wm. Sam. Jeffery being also in the firm, in 1860 the house covered a space of 16,200 square feet, was three stories high and employed 300 hands and was one of the four largest silk and drapery establishments in United Kingdom; Compton house burnt down 1865 and rebuilt at cost of £250,000; James Jeffrey had a share in Howell & James 5, 7, 9 Regent st. London, which share he sold to concentrate his energies in Compton house; bankrupt 15 March 1871. _d._ Ilkley, Yorkshire 4 July 1871. _bur._ the necropolis, Liverpool. _Puseley’s Commercial Companion_ (_2 ed._ 1860) 107–8; _The Draper 7 July 1871 p._ 317.

JEFFERYS, CHARLES. _b._ 11 Jany. 1807; music publisher 31 Frith st. Soho, London 1837–40, then at 21A Soho sq. 1840 to death; had a great legal action with Thomas Boosey respecting copyright in Italian operas, which he gained on appeal to House of Lords 1854; author of Esmeralda, an English version of Hugo’s Ermelinda 1856; Louisa Miller, in English 1860; The Gipsy’s Vengeance, an English version of Il Trovatore 1856; wrote the words of The rose of Allandale 1850; Mary of Argyle 1850; Jeannette’s farewell to Jeannot 1850; composer of Rose Atherton, Erin, my own native home 1857; published A book of beauty for the Queen’s boudoir. Musical Annual 1853, 1854; Jeffery’s Musical journal 1864, seven numbers. _d._ London 9 June 1865. _C. Clark’s House of Lord’s Cases_, _iv_ 815–996 (1855).

JEFFREY, ALEXANDER. _b._ Lilliesleaf, Roxburghshire 1806; a solicitor’s clerk at Melrose, then in Edinburgh; assistant in town clerk’s office, Jedburgh; advocate in the sheriff’s court, Roxburghshire 1838 to death; F.S.A. Scotland; member of Berwickshire Naturalist club; author of An historical account of Roxburghshire. Edinb. 1836; The history of Roxburghshire 4 vols. 1857–64; The age we live in, a lecture 1874. _d._ Jedburgh 29 Nov. 1874. _The Scotsman 30 Nov. 1874 p._ 4.

JEFFREY, ALLEN RONALD MACDONALD. _b._ 1823 or 1824; wrote for sporting journals in London from about 1850 to death; wrote an article every week in the Sporting Times signed, the Member for Tattersall’s 1875 to death; one of the oldest members of the Victoria club 18 Wellington st. Strand. _d._ 75 Sandmere road, Clapham 26 March 1891. _bur._ Norwood cemetery 30 March.

JEFFREY, ANDREW. _b._ Foulden, Berwickshire 17 Feb. 1800; emigrated to Canada 1819 and resided at Cobourg, Canada West 1820 to his death; proprietor of an extensive hardware business; member for Newcastle division in legislative council of Canada 1860. _d._ Cobourg 29 July 1863. _American Annual Cyclop. for 1863 p._ 725.

JEFFREY, REV. GEORGE. _b._ Leitholm, Berwickshire 1 Oct. 1815; ed. Edinb. univ. 1830 and at Theological hall of the United secession presbytery 1833; minister of London road ch. Mile End, Glasgow 1838 to death; clerk to the presbytery of Glasgow, and moderator 1879; a very popular preacher and lecturer; author of The present war, a discourse. Glasgow 1854. _d._ Glasgow 23 May 1887. _bur._ Sighthill cemet. 27 May. _G. Jeffrey’s The believer’s privilege._ _Sermons Edin._ 1888, _with biographical sketch by A. Thomson pp._ 1–54, _portrait_; _John Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy_ (1848) 223–30.

JEFFREYS, EDMUND RICHARD (4 son of rev. John Jeffreys _d._ 1840 aged 69, R. of Barnes 1795–1839). _b._ 29 Aug. 1808; ed. at Westminster and Sandhurst; ensign 88 foot 16 June 1825, major 12 May 1843 to 16 March 1855; lieut. col. depot battalion 23 March 1855 to 6 March 1868; col. 1 battalion Manchester regiment 1 July 1881 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 29 Aug. 1878; hon. general 1 July 1881; C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._ Seafield house, Ryde, Isle of Wight 3 April 1889. _Welsh’s Alumni Westmonasterienses_ (1852) 425.

JEFFREYS, JOHN GWYN (eld. son of John Jeffreys of Fynone, Swansea, _d._ 1815). _b._ Swansea 18 Jany. 1809; ed. at Swansea gram. sch.; solicitor Swansea; deputy steward for duke of Beaufort’s, Glamorganshire manor; barrister L.I. 30 April 1856, retired from practice 1866; F.L.S. 1829; F.R.S. 2 April 1840; LLD. of St. Andrew’s univ.; treasurer Geological Soc. 1869–82 and V.P. 1882; sheriff of Hertfordshire 1877; president biological section of British Assoc. 1877; went on many deep sea dredging expeditions 1860–70 and discovered a large number of new species of shells; wrote upwards of 100 papers on scientific subjects; his collection of European mollusca was purchased by United States government 1883; author of British conchology 5 vols. 1862–69. _d._ 1 The Terrace, Kensington 24 Jany. 1885. _Proc. Royal Soc. xxxviii_ 14–17 (1885); _Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. xli_ 41–2 (1885); _I.L.N. lxxxvi_ 136 (1885), _portrait_; _Biograph_, _vi_ 373 (1881).

JEFFREYS, JULIUS (4 son of rev. Richard Jeffreys, R. of Throcking, Herts.) _b._ Hall place, Kent 1801; studied in Edinb. and London; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1821; assistant surgeon Bengal medical establishment 28 Sep. 1822, advocated establishment of health stations in India, staff surgeon 1824; invented the thermantidote for cooling houses; established a manufactory of soda water and made the stone bottles for containing it; the first to send citrate of limes to England for forming citric acid; returned to England 1835; invented the respirator for persons suffering from pulmonary attacks 1835, obtained patents for it 1836, 1844 and 1850; Member Med. Chir. Soc. 1838; F.R.S. 7 Jany. 1841; F.G.S. 1846; author of Observations upon the construction and use of the respirator 1836; A few remarks upon an atmospheric treatment of the lungs and upon the use of the respirator 1845, 2 ed. 1847; A word on climate and affections of the throat and chest 1850; The British army in India, its preservation by appropriate clothing 1858. _d._ 9 Park villas west, Queen’s road, Richmond, Surrey 13 May 1877. _E. Jeffrey’s Confutative biographical notice_ (1855); _Proc. Med. Chir. Soc. viii_ 294–7 (1877).

JEJEEBHOY, BYRAMJEE (son of a merchant at Bombay). _b._ 1823; Parsee merchant Bombay; first to introduce cotton-spinning mills into India; instrumental in introducing fire insurance; member of legislative council of Bombay 1868; settled in trust for his family 30 lakhs of rupees 1872; founded medical schools in Ahmedabad and Poona and a high school at Poona called after himself; gave 4 lakhs of rupees for a school for poor Parsees in Bombay 1890; C.S.I. 31 Dec. 1875. _d._ Bombay 12 Sep. 1890.

JEJEEBHOY, SIR JAMSETJEE, 1 Baronet (son of Jejeebhoy a native of Nowsaree a town in Baroda). _b._ Nowsaree 15 July 1783; made five voyages to China 1799 to 1807; a Parsee merchant in Bombay 1807; released the poor debtors, confined by the court of requests, from the Bombay gaol by paying their debts 1822; founded Jejeebhoy hospital in Bombay 1843 cost 2 lakhs of rupees, and endowed many schools; completed the causeway connecting Mahim with Bandora 1845; founded Parsee benevolent institution, Bombay 1849; gave away about £250,000; knighted by letters patent 2 March 1842; baronet of United Kingdom by letters patent 6 Aug. 1857; the first native of India who received title and arms from British authority; voted freedom of City of London 14 April 1855. _d._ Bombay 14 April 1859. _bur._ in the Tower of Silence at Chowpatty 14 April. _J. J. Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known_ (1874) 218–9; _Drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages 2 series_ (1859), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxix_ 579, 580 (1856), _portrait_; _Cooverjee Sorabjee Nazir’s The first Parsee baronet. Bombay_ (1866).

JEJEEBHOY, SIR JAMSETJEE, 2 Baronet (son of preceding). _b._ 9 Oct. 1811; Parsee merchant Bombay; relinquished his original names Cursetjee Jamsetjee, on succeeding to the baronetcy, by act of legislative council of India, No. XX, 1 May 1860 ordaining that successive holders of the baronetcy should take name of Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy; distributed large sums in charity; J.P. for Bombay; F.R.S. 27 May 1841; fellow of Bombay univ. 1862; C.S.I. 20 May 1871. _d._ Fountain hall, Poona 11 July 1877. _I.L.N. 20 Aug. 1859 p._ 194, _portrait_.

JELF, REV. RICHARD WILLIAM (2 son of sir James Jelf of Oaklands, Gloucester, _d._ 1842). _b._ 25 Jany. 1798; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., fellow of Oriel 1820–6, tutor 1823, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823, B.D. 1831, D.D. 1839; tutor to prince George of Cumberland, afterwards king of Hanover, 1826–39; canon of Ch. Ch. Oxf. 15 March 1830 to death; Newman and Pusey addressed to him their respective letters on the Thirty nine articles 1841; Bampton lecturer 1844; one of the six doctors who suspended Pusey from preaching 1847; principal of King’s coll. London 1844–68; sub-almoner to queen Victoria 1846 to death; condemned F. D. Maurice’s Theological essays 1853; author of Sermons 1835; Via Media or the church of England our providential path between Romanism and dissent 1842, 4 ed. 1842; The thirty nine articles explained 1873; edited Bishop Jewel’s Work 8 vols. 1848. _d._ in his residence Ch. Ch. Oxford 19 Sep. 1871. _The Eton portrait gallery_ (1876) 197–8; _The Graphic_, _iv_ 375, 381 (1871), _portrait_.

JELF, REV. WILLIAM EDWARD (brother of the preceding). _b._ Gloucester 3 April 1811; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836, B.D. 1844; tutor of Ch. Ch. 1836–49, censor 1841–9, junior proctor 1843–4, his strictness caused an uproar at the Commeration of 1843 which was never excelled in Oxford; master of the schools 1839; Whitehall preacher 1846–8; Bampton lecturer 1857; V. of Carleton, Skipton, Yorkshire 1849–54; built a ch. on his own property at Caerdeon near Barmouth, Wales where he officiated 1854, ch. consecrated 1875; author of A grammar of the Greek language 2 vols. 1842–5, 3 ed. 1861; Christianity comprehensive and definite 1857, several editions; Supremacy of Scripture. In a letter to Dr. Frederick Temple 1861, 2 ed. 1862; Quousque? Considerations on ritualism. By a High churchman of the old school 1875. _d._ Hastings’ lodge, Hastings 18 Oct. 1875. _Guardian 27 Oct. 1875 p._ 1367 _and 3 Nov. p._ 1394.

JELLETT, REV. JOHN HEWITT. _b._ Cashel, Tipperary 25 Dec. 1817; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, fellow 1840–70; B.A. 1838, M.A. 1843, B.D. 1866, D.D. 1881; professor of natural philosophy Trin. coll. 1847–70; commissioner of Irish national education 1868; president R. Irish Acad. 1869; member of board of Trin. coll. 1870 and provost 2 April 1881 to death; gave annual prizes to Trin. coll. called Prizes for general answering 24 Nov. 1883 to death; author of An elementary treatise of the calculus of variations 1850; A treatise on the theory of friction 1872; The efficacy of prayer 1878; An examination of some of the moral difficulties of the Old Testament 1867. _d._ the provost’s house, Trin. coll. Dublin 19 Feb. 1888. _Times 21 Feb. 1888 p._ 10, _24 Feb. p._ 5; _I.L.N. lxxviii_ 453 (1881), _portrait_; _The Graphic 10 March 1888 p._ 240, _portrait_.

JELLICOE, MRS. ANNE W. (dau. of Mr. Mullin). _b._ 1823; a Friend, joined the Ch. of England; lady superintendent of Alexandra college, 2 Earlsfort terrace, Dublin (founded for education of ladies) 1866 to death. _d._ at the residence of her brother John W. Mullin 13 South road, Birmingham 18 Oct. 1880. _bur._ Friends’ ground at Rosenallis near Mountmellick 21 Oct. _Freeman’s Journal 19 Oct. 1880 p._ 1, _22 Oct. p._ 2.

JELLICOE, CHARLES. _b._ 1804 or 1805; clerk Royal Exchange assurance co. 1825, sec. of life committee 1827; actuary and sec. Protector life association 1835 with which Eagle co. amalgamated 1847, sec. of joint companies 1847–70, director and deputy chairman 1870 to death; president Institute of actuaries 1860–67; edited Assurance Mag. to 1866; F.R.G.S.; F.S.S. _d._ Brighton 13 Nov. 1882. _Journal of Institute of Actuaries_ (_April 1883_) 17–19.

JEMMETT, WILLIAM THOMAS (eld. son of Edward Jemmett of Lincoln’s inn, barrister). _b._ 1799; ed. at Winchester; barrister M.T. 10 Nov. 1820; recorder of Kingston on Thames 1831 to death; comr. of bankrupts for Manchester district 21 Oct. 1842 to 31 Dec. 1869 when granted sum of £1800 on abolition of office; author of The acts relating to the administration of law in the courts of equity 1830, 2 ed. 1836. _d._ Langhorn gardens, Folkestone 17 May 1875.

JENCKEN, FERDINAND EDWARD. _b._ blind 1823; operated on for cataract and obtained use of one eye 1841; ed. at King’s coll. Lond.; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1853; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1853; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1869; L.K.Q.C.P. Irel. and L.M. 1870; practised at Londonderry; wrote many papers; author of The cholera, its origin and treatment 1867; Vaccination impartially reviewed 1868; Essay on Beethoven’s Sonatas with Introductory sketch of music 1871. _d._ of pyæmia, 22 Anglesey place, Kingston, Ireland 12 Jany. 1881. _Medical Times_, _i_ 112, 335 (1881).

JENCKEN, HENRY DIEDRICH (son of Johann Ferdinand Jencken, who came to England as physician to Queen Adelaide). _b._ London 1828; barrister L.I. 30 April 1861; practised at Cape Town; frequently retained in commercial cases; sec. to Association for reform and codification of the law of nations, July or Aug. 1874 to death; the subject of a correspondence between Foreign office and Spanish government in regard to outrages on him by people of Lorca in Spain 20 July 1869, cause of outrages was a superstition that he was a “tio del sain” or fat-monger who butchered children to use the fat of their entrails to repair telegraph wires; translated and wrote prefaces to Treatises on Light, Colour, Electricity and Magnetism by his father 1869; author of The laws on negotiable securities 1880; A compendium of the laws of bills of exchange and other negotiable instruments 1880; author with Frederick Tomkins of A compendium of modern Roman law 1870. _d._ 16 St. James’s st. Notting Hill, London 26 Nov. 1881.

JENINGS, ELIZABETH JANET (2 dau. of rev. William Plues of Ripon, Yorks.) _b._ 1818; (_m._ Edmund John Jenings of Fir Trees, Hawkhurst, Kent); author of My Good-for-Nothing brother: a novel. By Wyckliffe Lane [1862], new ed. 1863, which was a success; Thyra Gascoigne 3 vols. 1863, 3 ed. 1863. Fourth ed. was under title of John Douglas’s Vow 1867. _d._ Hawkhurst 23 Aug. 1863.

JENKIN, HENRIETTA CAMILLA (only dau. of Robert Jackson, custos rotulorum of Kingston, Jamaica). _b._ Jamaica 8 Feb. 1807. (_m._ 1832 Charles Jenkin who entered R.N. 1814, commander 9 Nov. 1846, _d._ 5 Feb. 1885); lived in Paris 1847–8, Genoa 1848–51 and Edinburgh 1868 to death; author of Violet Bank and its inmates 3 vols. 1856; Cousin Stella 3 vols. 1859, another ed. 1862; Who breaks pays 2 vols. 1861; Skirmishing 1862; Once and again 1865; A Psyche of to-day 1868; Madame de Beaufrés 1869, the above are all anonymous; Two French marriages 3 vols. 1868; Within an ace 1869; Jupiter’s daughters 1874, and of Une vieille fille, in the Revue des deux mondes; was paralysed for last ten years of her life. _d._ Edinburgh 8 Feb. 1885. _R. L. Stevenson’s Memoir of F. Jenkin_, _i pp. xxiii etc._, _cliii etc._, _portrait_; _O’Byrne’s Naval Biog. Dict._ (1849) 580; _Times 17 Feb. 1885 p._ 10.

JENKIN, HENRY CHARLES FLEEMING (son of preceding). _b._ Stowting court near Dungeness 25 March 1833; ed. at Jedburgh gram. sch. and Edinburgh academy; studied at Genoa univ. 1849, M.A.; apprenticed to sir W. Fairbairn, mechanical engineer, Manchester 1851; engineer in London, in partnership with H. C. Forde 1861–8, afterwards an electrician; fitted out submarine telegraph cables 1858–73; professor of engineering in Univ. coll. London 1865–8, in Univ. of Edin. 1868 to death; F.R.S. 1 June 1865; M.I.C.E. 18 Feb. 1868; invented telpherage or the automatic transport of heavy goods by electricity 1882, a telpher line was opened at Glynde near Lewes 17 Nov. 1885; patented 35 inventions; author of Bridges. A treatise on their construction and history 1876; Electricity and magnetism 3 ed. 1870; Healthy houses 1878; Scenes from the Agamemnon. Arranged by F. Jenkin 1880. _d._ 3 Great Stuart st. Edinburgh 12 June 1885. _H. C. F. Jenkin’s Papers literary and scientific 2 vols._ (1887), _Memoir in i pp. xi–clxx_, _portrait_; _W. Hole’s Quasi Cursores_ (1884) 105–11, _portrait_; _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxii_ 365–77 (1885); _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxix_ 1–3 (1886).

JENKINS, DAVID JAMES (3 son of John Jenkins of Haverfordwest). _b._ 1824; ed. Teignmouth gram. sch.; served in mercantile marine; commanded a troopship in the Baltic 1854–5; merchant and shipowner of firm of Jenkins & Co. 17 Lime st. London; M.P. Penryn and Falmouth 1874–86; contested Harwich 17 Nov. 1868. _d._ Torquay 26 Feb. 1891.

JENKINS, FRANCIS (2 son of rev. Francis Jenkins 1756–1839, V. of St. Clement, Cornwall). _b._ St. Clement 4 Aug. 1793; entered Bengal army 1809; comr. at Assam 28 Jany. 1834 to 1861; retired M.G. 31 Dec. 1861; wrote many papers in scientific journals. _d._ Gowhatty, Assam 28 Aug. 1866. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ (1874–82) 273, 1247.

JENKINS, GEORGE THOMAS (youngest son of William Kinnaird Jenkins of Abbotts Langley, Herts.) _b._ 1819; barrister M.T. 8 Nov. 1844; counsel to the governors of queen Anne’s bounty 1869–78; principal sec. to sir G. Jessel master of the rolls 1873–8; a clerk of records and writs chancery division 1878–9; a master of supreme court of judicature 1879–89; author of Are our bishops to be stipendiary? A few observations on the ecclesiastical commission 1859. _d._ Franklands, Burgess hill, Sussex 10 March 1890.

JENKINS, HENRY (son of rev. Henry Jenkins of Midhurst, Sussex). _b._ Midhurst 1786 or 1787; ed. at Magd. hall, Oxf., B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809, B.D. 1827; demy of Magd. coll. 1803–27; master of his college school 22 Jany. 1810 to 25 March 1828; probationary fellow of Magd. coll. 1827–31, vice pres. 1829, dean of divinity 1830; R. of Stanway, Essex 27 March 1830 to death, redeemed the land tax of the rectory at his own expense for benefit of his successors; instituted the Magdalen cricket club, for many years only society of the kind in the Univ. except the old Bullingdon club; presented his large and valuable collection of books to the Colchester museum 1869; author of Colchester Castle built by a colony of Romans 1853, Appendix 1853; translated The history of Eudo Dapifer, with an introduction and notes 1860. _d._ 3 Aug. 1874. _J. R. Bloxam’s Register of Magdalen college, Oxford_, _iii_ 262–8 (1863), _vii_ 153–4 (1881).

JENKINS, HENRY. _b._ 1832; H. Jenkins having expressed his disbelief in the personality of the devil was refused the Holy Communion by the rev. Flavell Smith Cook vicar of Ch. Ch. Clifton 1875, this led to the case of Jenkins _v._ Cook which was ultimately settled by the judicial committee of the privy council 16 Feb. 1876 in favor of plaintiff’s right to demand the communion in his own parish church, Cook then resigned his living; author of Scraps in prose and verse 1864; Prayers for a week 1865; Selections from the Old and New Testament 1865; Selections from the works of Jeremy Taylor 1876. _d._ 3 Vyvyan terrace, Clifton park, Clifton 16 May 1881. _J. Latimer’s Annals of Bristol_ (1887) 482–3; _The Times 26 May 1881 p._ 12; _Law Reports: 4 Admiralty and Ecclesiastical_ (1875) 463–99 _and 1 Probate Division_ (1876) 80–107.

JENKINS, HENRY MICHAEL (eld. child of John Jenkin of Ely Mills, Llandaff, miller). _b._ Fairwater cottage, Ely Mills 30 June 1840; ed. at Mr. Browning’s sch. near Bath 1850–4; assistant in library and museum of Geol. Soc. Somerset house, London, assistant sec., librarian and curator 1862 to 31 Dec. 1868; sec. of Royal Agricultural Soc. and editor of its Journal 1 Jany. 1869 to death, wrote 26 papers in the Journal 1869–86; assist. comr. on agricultural interests 1881, wrote reports on agriculture of North of France, Belgium, Holland and Denmark 1882; assistant comr. on technical education 1882, wrote report on Agricultural education in North of Europe 1882. _d._ The Limes, New Barnet 24 Dec. 1886. _Journal of Royal Agricultural Soc. April 1887 pp._ 168–213; _The Field_, _lxix_ 27, 293, 329, 506 (1887).

JENKINS, REV. JOHN DAVID (1 son of Wm. David Jenkin of Merthyr Tydvil _d._ 1834). _b._ Merthyr Tydvil 30 Jany. 1828; ed. Jesus coll. Oxf., B.A. 1850, M.A. 1852, B.D. 1859, D.D. 1871; fellow of Jesus 1849 to death; minister at Pieter-Maritzburg 1853, and canon of cathedral ch. there 1856–60; chaplain to the forces in Natal 1853–9; dean of Jesus coll. 1865, junior bursar 1866; V. of Aberdare 1870 to death; chairman South Wales choral union; president of the Amalgamated Soc. of railway servants 1873; author of The age of the martyrs, or the first three centuries of the work of the church 1869, new ed. 1884; Passages in church history selected from the MSS. of J. D. J.: with a brief memoir of the author 2 vols. 1879. _d._ Aberdare 9 Nov. 1876.

JENKINS, JOSEPH JOHN (son of an engraver). _b._ London 1811; engraved many portraits and plates; drew illustrations for the annuals; associate of New Water-colour Soc. 1842, member 1843–7, exhibited 57 drawings at their exhibitions; associate of Old Water-colour Soc. of painters in 1847, member 10 June 1850 to 1884, sec. 1854–64, exhibited 271 drawings at their exhibitions, collected materials for history of the Society from 1852, completed and published by J. L. Roget 1891; instituted press private views of exhibitions of pictures 1863; F.S.A. 3 June 1875. _d._ 67 Hamilton terrace, St. John’s Wood, London 9 March 1885. _J. L. Roget’s History of Old water-colour Soc. ii_ 328–35 (1891); _I.L.N. lxxxvi_ 327 (1885), _portrait_.

JENKINS, PHILIP. _b._ Dale, Pembrokeshire 1854; ed. at International sch. of architecture; held an appointment in Lloyd’s, London to 1886; professor of naval architecture and marine engineering, Glasgow univ. 1886 to death. _d._ Llawrenny Kelvinside, Glasgow 13 June 1891.

JENKINS, SIR RICHARD (eld. son of Richard Jenkins of Bicton hall, Salop 1760–97). _b._ Cruckton near Shrewsbury 18 Feb. 1785; a writer on Bombay establishment 1798, went to India 1800; first assistant at court of Dowlut Rao Scindia 1804, acting resident Nov. 1804; a scholar in many languages; acting resident and resident at Nagpore 1807–27, present in the battle of Sitabaldi 26–27 Nov. 1817; Appa Saheb was deposed 1818 and Jenkins governed Nagpore 1818–27, retired on the annuity fund 1 May 1828; a director of H.E.I.C. 27 June 1832 to April 1851, deputy chairman 1838, chairman 1839; G.C.B. 20 July 1838 the first time conferred on anyone in Indian C.S. below rank of a governor; M.P. Shrewsbury 1830–3, 1837–41; D.C.L. Oxf. 1834; author of A report on the territories of the rajah of Nagpore 1827. _d._ Gothic cottage, Blackheath, Kent 30 Dec. 1853. _bur._ Bicton. _G.M. Feb. 1854 pp._ 197–9; _Colebrooke’s Life of Mountstuart Elphinstone_ (1884) _i_ 131 _etc._, 151 _etc._; _Extracts from documents referring to services of Mr. Jenkins_ (1827).

JENKINS, RICHARD (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ 1 July 1828; cornet 5 Bengal cavalry 6 April 1846; major 5 Bengal European cavalry 25 Oct. 1866; commander of 1 Bengal cavalry 1 April 1876 to death. _d._ Rawul Pindee, Punjaub 9 Sep. 1880.

JENKINS, WILLIAM (eld. son of Wm. Jenkins of the treasury, Dublin castle). _b._ 1805; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1826, M.A. 1832, LL.B. and LL.D. 1856; student of Inner Temple; called to Irish bar 1829; Q.C. 11 Feb. 1860; retired from practice 1863. _d._ Clifton court near Bristol 22 Jany. 1874.

JENKINSON, SIR CHARLES, 10 Baronet (eld. son of col. John Jenkinson, M.P., _d._ 1805). _b._ 23 Feb. 1779; M.P. for Dover 6 Nov. 1806 to 10 June 1818; succeeded to baronetcy 3 Sep. 1851 on death of his cousin Charles Jenkinson 3 earl of Liverpool. _d._ Paris 6 March 1855.

JENKINSON, SIR GEORGE SAMUEL, 11 Baronet (son of John Banks Jenkinson 1781–1840, bishop of St. David’s). _b._ Worcester 27 Sep. 1817; ed. at Winchester; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 31 Jany. 1834; lieut. 68 foot 1841; capt. 8 hussars 1843, sold out 27 March 1846; succeeded his uncle sir C. Jenkinson 1855; sheriff of Gloucestershire 1862; contested North Wilts. 1865, Nottingham 1866; M.P. North Wilts. 21 Nov. 1868 to 24 March 1880. _d._ Eastwood park, Gloucs. 19 Jany. 1892.

JENKINSON, HENRY (eld. son of lieut. general John Jenkinson). _b._ 1790; entered navy Oct. 1806; captain 7 June 1814, retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 16 June 1862. _d._ Weymouth 7 Jany. 1868.

JENKINSON, JOHN SIMON (2 son of John Jenkinson of Kensington, London). _b._ 1798; ed. at Magd. hall, Oxf., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1829; R. of Sudbourne, Suffolk 1831–4; P.C. of St. Mary in the Castle, Hastings 1834–47; V. of Battersea, Surrey with Ch. Ch. coll. Winchester 29 May 1847 to death; author of A collection of psalms and hymns 1837; Confirmation, an address 1837, 2 ed. 1860; Marriage with a deceased wife’s sister not forbidden by the word of God 1849. _d._ 24 Spencer road, Battersea rise, London 17 Oct. 1871.

JENKS, GEORGE SAMUEL. _b._ 1789; studied at St. George’s hospital; surgeon in the army; M.D. Edin. 1821; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1845; in practice at Brighton; president Brighton and Sussex Medico-Chirur. Soc. 1849; in practice at Bath from 1856; author of Medical observations on the factitious German mineral waters at Brighton 1840. _d._ 18 Circus, Bath 7 Feb. 1882. _Proc. Med. Chir. soc. ix_ 134 (1882).

JENKYNS, HENRY (son of rev. John Jenkyns, Vicar of Evercreech, Somerset, _d._ 1824). _b._ 1796; ed. at Eton and C.C. coll. Oxf., scholar 1813–18, double 1st class 1816; fellow of Oriel coll. 1818–35, treasurer 1831; B.A. 1817, M.A. 1819, B.D. and D.D. 1841; professor of Greek, Durham univ. 1833–41 and of divinity 1841–65; canon residentiary of Durham 21 Oct. 1839 to death; editor of The Remains of T. Cranmer collected 4 vols. 1833; author of A lecture on the advantages of classical studies 1834. _d._ Botley hill, Southampton 2 April 1878. _Academy_, _i_ 322 (1878); _Times 11 April 1878 p._ 5.

JENKYNS, RICHARD (brother of rev. Henry Jenkyns 1796–1878). _b._ Evercreech, Somerset 1783; ed. at Balliol coll. Oxf., fellow 1802–19, tutor 1813–19, bursar 1814, master 23 April 1819 to death, Balliol scholarships were thrown open in 1828; B.A. 1804, M.A. 1806, B.D. and D.D. 1819, master of the schools 1809, public examiner 1811–12, vice chancellor 1824–28; V. of Evercreech, Somerset 1822–40; preb. of Wells cath. 1824–45; R. of Dinder, Somerset 1824–46; dean of Wells 4 June 1845 to death; one of the 6 doctors who condemned Pusey’s sermon in 1843; founder of the modern greatness of Balliol college. _d._ Balliol college, Oxford 6 March 1854. _bur._ Wells 13 March; by his will founded 2 exhibitions of £100 at Balliol. _G.M. xli_ 425–6 (1854); _G. V. Cox’s Recollections of Oxford 2 ed._ (1870) 209–11; _The Month_, _Jany. 1866 pp._ 50–9.

JENKYNS, WILLIAM (son of Mr. Jenkyns, inspector of buildings, Aberdeen). _b._ Aberdeen 23 Aug. 1847; ed. Aberdeen univ., B.A. 1868, M.A.; assist. commissioner Multan 1871; learnt the Pushto, Baluchi and Persian languages; interpreter and sec. to sir L. Pelly in his conference with Amir of Afghanistan 1876; political officer with sir S. Browne’s division in Afghan war 1878; rode 120 miles in 13 hours with despatches from Gandamuk to Peshawar, May 1878, returning on third day to Gandamuk; C.I.E.; first assist. political officer with sir L. Cavagnari; _murdered_ at Cabul 3 Sep. 1878. _Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign. Biog. Div._ (1882) 112–4, _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxv_ 256 (1879), _portrait_.

JENNER, EDWARD. _b._ 13 March 1803; traveller for Messrs. Baxter, printers, Lewes, and owners of the Sussex Express; made collections of fresh water algæ and of moths, beetles and other insects; A.L.S. 1838; author of A Flora of Tunbridge Wells 1845; furnished the drawings to The British desmidieæ. By J. Ralfs 1848. _d._ Lewes 13 March 1872. _The Gardeners’ Chronicle_ (1872) 398; _Proc. Linnean Soc._ (1871–2) 69.

JENNER, ROBERT FITZHARDINGE (2 son of Edward Jenner, M.D., the introducer of vaccination 1749–1823). _b._ 1797; vaccinated by his father 12 April 1798; ed. at Ex. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; lieut. col. royal south Gloucester militia 29 Sep. 1842 to death. _d._ Berkeley, Gloucs. 16 March 1854 aged 56. _J. Baron’s Life of Edward Jenner_, _i_ 147, _ii_ 44–9 (1827–38).

JENNER, STEPHEN. _b._ Kent; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cambridge, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; C. of Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex 1835–42; C. of Camden ch. Camberwell 1850–7; C. in charge of Bekesbourne, Canterbury 1874 to death; author of The doctrine of the holy eucharist. By Theophilus Secundus 1854; Truth’s conflicts and truth’s triumphs, essays 1854; The Holy Child, poems 1867; Quicksands or fallacies in belief and worship 1875; The three witnesses, or scepticism met by fact 1879. _d._ Walmer 7 Nov. 1880.

JENNER-FUST, SIR HERBERT (2 son of Robert Jenner of Doctors’ Commons, proctor 1743–1810). _b._ near St. Paul’s, London 4 Feb. 1778; ed. at Reading and Trin. hall, Camb., LL.B. 1798, LL.D. 1803; barrister G.I. 27 Nov. 1800; advocate in ecclesiastical and admiralty courts, and a fellow of college of Doctors of Law 8 July 1803; king’s advocate general 28 Feb. 1828 to 21 Oct. 1834; knighted at St. James’s palace 28 June 1828; vicar general to abp. of Canterbury 1832 to 21 Oct. 1834; official principal of the arches, and judge of prerogative court of Canterbury 21 Oct. 1834 to death; P.C. 29 Oct. 1834; assumed additional name of Fust 14 Jany. 1842 on succeeding to property of his cousin sir John Fust; master of Trinity hall, Camb., Feb. 1843 to death, but never resided there; tried the Gorham case, his decree of 2 Aug. 1849 led to the publication of more than 80 pamphlets. _d._ 1 Chesterfield st. Mayfair, London 20 Feb. 1852. _bur._ St. Nicholas, Chislehurst, Kent 26 Feb. _Christian Observer_, _Dec. 1849 pp._ 809–56, _Oct. 1850 pp._ 698–713.

JENNINGS, GEORGE (eld. son of Joseph Jennings _d._ 1824). _b._ in a village on the borders of the New Forest 10 Nov. 1810; in employment of Burton, plumbers, Newcastle st. London 1831, in business Parliament st. 1834, in Charlotte st. Blackfriars road 1838; introduced indiarubber tube taps 1847; conducted the sanitary works in Great exhibition of 1851, in Crystal palace, Sydenham 1852–4, in Great exhibition 1862, and in Dublin exhibition 1865; invented improved shutter fastener; put up sanitary fittings in hospitals at Varna and Scutari 1854; purchased clay beds at Parkstone, Dorset where he erected pottery works and made stoneware and terra-cotta goods; removed to Holland st. Blackfriars 1857, afterwards to Palace wharf, Stangate, his works burnt down 22 March 1865; constructed water works for Wilton; used india rubber for valves, endless elastic bands and for hermetically sealing capsules; conducted sanitary works in Paris exhibition 1867, drainage works, etc. in Vienna exhibition 1873, and Centennial exhibition, Philadelphia 1876; heated and ventilated buildings on a new principle; thrown out of a gig 13 April and _d._ from his injuries Ferndale, Nightingale lane, Clapham 17 April 1882. _The Builder_, _xlii_ 497, 530 (1882).

JENNINGS, HARGRAVE. _b._ about 1817; sec. to James Henry Mapleson manager of the royal Italian opera, many years; said to be the original of Ezra Jennings in Wilkie Collins’s novel The Moonstone 1868; author of My marine memorandum book 3 vols. 1845; The ship of glass or the mysterious island 3 vols. 1846; St. George, a romance 1853; Curious things of the outside world 2 vols. 1861; The Rosicrucians, their rites and mysteries 1870, 3 ed. 2 vols. 1887; One of the Thirty 1873, a story of Judas and the 30 pieces of silver; The Indian religions 1858, 2 ed. 1890; Phallicism, celestial and terrestrial 2 vols. 1884. _d._ at residence of his brother Edward Lawrence Jennings, Ambassador’s Court, St. James’s palace, London 11 March 1890. _Times 14 March 1890 p._ 9.

JENNINGS, JOHN. _b._ 14 Sep. 1789; hon. secretary of the Star club, London 1831–39; R. of St. John the Evangelist, Westminster 1832 to death; canon residentiary of Westminster 9 Jany. 1837 to death; archdeacon of Westminster, Jany. 1869 to death, sub-dean 1881 to death; the sole surviving priest who officiated at coronation of Victoria 1838. _d._ Dean’s yard, Westminster 26 March 1883. _bur._ Lyne church near Chertsey 3 April. _I.L.N. xxvi_ 268 (1855) _portrait_, _lxxxii_ 332 (1883), _portrait_.

JENNISON, JOHN. _b._ 1789; a handloom weaver, Stockport; established Jennison’s Gardens, Stockport 1829; originated the Belle Vue gardens, Manchester 1836, which became the favourite resort of pleasure seekers of Lancashire and surrounding counties; his first great picture The siege of Algiers produced 1852. _d._ at his residence, Bellevue gardens, Manchester 20 Sep. 1869. _The Manchester Guardian 21 Sep. 1869 p._ 5.

JENOUR, ALFRED. R. of Pilton, Northants. 1836–45; P.C. of Regent sq. chapel, St. Pancras, London 1845–51; R. of Kittisford, Somerset 1851–4; P.C. of Blackpool, Lancs. 1854 to death; author of The book of the prophet Isaiah translated from the Hebrew, with a commentary 2 vols. 1832; A treatise on languages 1832; Job translated from the Hebrew, with critical notes 1841; The christian mother, a memoir of Ann Jenour 1840; Rationale Apocalypticum or exposition of the Apocalypse 2 vols. 1852. _d._ 1868.

JENOUR, JOSHUA (eld. son of Joshua Jenour, master of stationers’ co., _d._ 1774). _b._ Serjeants’ inn, Fleet st. London 31 July 1755; liveryman of stationers’ co. 1776; published The Park, a poem 1778; The wife chase, a monitory poem; Marriage, a precautionary tale; The horrible revenge 1830; Observations on the taxation of property 1795, five editions, all his works were anonymous; John Bull a weekly paper of essays. _d._ Gravesend 23 Jany. 1853. _G.M. xxxix_ 325 (1853).

JENYNS, SOAME GAMBIER. _b._ 1826; cornet 13 hussars 30 Dec. 1845; major 18 hussars 19 Feb. 1858; lieut. col. 13 hussars 24 May 1861 to 4 Feb. 1871 when placed on half pay as colonel; C.B. 5 July 1855; author of System of non-pivot drill as adapted to the present English cavalry drill book, in G. T. Denison’s Modern Cavalry (1868) pp. 341–50. _d._ Much Wenlock 26 Nov. 1873.

JEPHSON, HENRY. _b._ near Mansfield, Notts. 4 Oct. 1798; studied in St. George’s hospital; went to Leamington as assistant to Mr. Chambers 1818, a partner 1819, sole proprietor of the practice; M.D. Glasgow 1827; patients from all parts of Great Britain and from the Continent came to Leamington to be under his care; had a specially contrived travelling carriage made in which to attend patients at a distance from Leamington; his income for many years was over £20,000 a year; became totally blind 1848; made his patients eat moderately and abstain from stimulants and prescribed the Leamington waters internally and externally; a public statue of him erected at Leamington 1848 and the public gardens called after his name. _d._ Beech Lawn, Leamington 14 May 1878. _Medical Times 25 May 1878 pp._ 575–6; _Leamington Chronicle 1 June 1878 p._ 8.

JEPHSON, JOHN MOUNTENEY (youngest son of rev. John Jephson 1764–1826, preb. of Armagh). _b._ 16 Dec. 1819; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1843; C. of Monewden, Suffolk 1853–6; C. of Hutton near Brentwood, Essex 1856–64; V. of Childerditch near Brentwood 1864; F.S.A. 24 May 1855; author of Narrative of a walking tour in Brittany 1859; Shakespere, his birthplace, home and grave 1864; edited the Literary Gazette early in 1858. _d._ Childerditch vicarage 1 Jany. 1865.

JEPHSON-NORREYS, SIR CHARLES DENHAM ORLANDO, 1 Baronet (son of lieut. col. Wm. Jephson of Egham, Surrey). _b._ Englefield Green, Surrey 1799; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1828; M.P. for Mallow 1826–59, contested Mallow 1859; assumed additional surname of Norreys by r.l. 18 July 1838; cr. baronet 6 Aug. 1838. _d._ Queenstown 11 July 1888.

JERDAN, WILLIAM (son of John Jerdan, farmer _d._ 1796). _b._ Kelso, Roxburghshire 16 April 1782; clerk to C. Elliott writer to the signet, Edinb. 1802–5; editor of the Aurora, the hotelkeepers’ paper, London 1806 and of other papers 1806–13; while a reporter witnessed murder of Spencer Percival and was the first to seize Bellingham 11 May 1812; editor of the Sun 11 May 1813 to May 1817; editor of the Literary Gazette from No. 26 July 1817 to 28 Dec. 1850; chief founder of Royal Soc. of literature 1823; F.S.A. 1826; lost his money on failure of Whitehead’s bank 1808 and in the panic of 1826; granted civil list pension of £100, 23 March 1853; author of Six weeks in Paris or a cure for the Gallomania by a late Visitant 3 vols. 1817, 2 ed. 1818; National portrait gallery of illustrations and eminent personages of the nineteenth century 5 vols. 1830–4; The Autobiography of W. Jerdan 4 vols. 1852–3; Men I have known 1866; a contributor to Notes and Queries under name of Bushey Heath. _d._ Bushey Heath, Herts. 11 July 1869. _Fraser’s Mag. i_ 605–6 (1830), _portrait_; _Reg. and Mag. of Biog. ii_ 94–5 (1869); _Maclise Portrait gallery_ (1883) 1–4, _portrait_; _Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities 2 Ser. ii_ 35–52 (1876).

JERDAN, WILLIAM FREELING (2 son of the preceding). _b._ 1818; sec. to Great Northern railway of France; a principal shareholder in and administrator of the Literary Gazette; a clerk in secretary’s office, general post office, London to death. _d._ 6 Feb. 1859.

JERDON, ARCHIBALD (son of Archibald Jerdon). _b._ Bonjedward, Roxburghshire 21 Sep. 1819; ed. Edin. univ.; communicated facts respecting birds to Zoologist 1841; acquired much knowledge about the phanerogamous local flora and cryptogamic botany; published lists of border fungi in Proc. of Berwickshire Naturalists’ club; two species of fungi bear his name; F. Botanical soc. Edin. 1871. _d._ Allerton near Jedburgh, Feb. 1874. _Trans. Botanical Soc. Edin. xii_ 201–2 (1876); _Proc. Linnean Soc._ (1872–73) 32.

JERDON, THOMAS CAVERHILL (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1811; ed. Edinb. univ.; assistant surgeon Madras army 11 Sep. 1835, surgeon 4 light cavalry 12 July 1852 to 1861, surgeon 11 Madras N.I. 23 March 1861 to 1862; the botanical genus Jerdonia was called after him; author of Illustrations of Indian ornithology, Madras 1847; The birds of India, Calcutta 2 vols. 1862–4; The mammals of India 1867, 2 ed. 1874. _d._ Upper Norwood, Surrey 12 June 1872. _Medical Times and Gazette_, _i_ 745 (1872).

JEREMIE, JAMES AMIRAUX (son of James Jeremie, merchant). _b._ St. Peter’s port, Guernsey 12 April 1802; ed. Blundell’s sch. Tiverton and Trin. coll. Camb.; B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827, B.D. 1850, D.D. 1850, D.C.L. 1862; fellow of his coll. 1826–50; professor of classical and general literature Haileybury 7 April 1830–50, dean 1838–50; christian advocate in univ. of Camb. 1833–34; exam. chap. to Dr. Kaye, bp. of Lincoln 1830; preb. of Lincoln 20 Dec. 1834 to 1845; R. of Winwick, Northants. 1843–8; subdean and canon of Lincoln 1 July 1848 to July 1864; regius prof. of divinity univ. of Camb. 16 Feb. 1850 to 30 Sep. 1870; R. of Somersham, Hunts. 1850–70; dean of Lincoln 4 July 1864 to death; author of The office and mission of St. John the Baptist 1823; The doctrines of our Saviour in the four gospels in harmony with St. Paul’s Epistles 1825; The last discourse of our Saviour in reference to the divine origin of christianity 1833; a writer in the Encyclopædia Metropolitana. _d._ the Deanery, Lincoln 11 June 1872. _bur._ Guernsey. _I.L.N. xxi_ 341 (1852) _portrait_, _xxii_ 356 (1853) _portrait_, _lx_ 611, 625, 630 (1872) _portrait_.

NOTE.--He gave to the University of Cambridge in 1870 the sum of £1000 to found two annual prizes for the encouragement of a critical study of the lxx version of the Old Testament and such other Hellenistic literature as may serve to illustrate the New Testament.

JERMYN, GEORGE BITTON (eld. son of Peter Jermyn of Halesworth, Suffolk, solicitor 1767–97). _b._ Halesworth 2 Nov. 1789; ed. at Ipswich gr. sch., at Norwich and Caius coll. Camb., removed to Trinity hall 1813; LLB. 1814, LLD. 1826; C. of Hawkedon, Suffolk 1814–17; C. of Littleport, Isle of Ely 1817–20; C. of Swaffham Prior near Newmarket 1820; compiled a history of his own family, 700 pages folio; made collections for a genealogical history of Suffolk, now in the museum Bury St. Edmunds. _d._ island of Maddelena, Sardinia 2 March 1857. _Nichols’s Herald and Genealogist_, _v_ 441–3 (1870).

JERMYN, JAMES (3 son of Robert Jermyn, collector of customs at Southwold, Suffolk). Barrister; collector of pier dues at Southwold; author of The Halesworth Review from 14 Sep. to 14 Oct. 1808. Halesworth 1808, anon., and 6 other anonymous works; also of Prospectus and specimen of an English gradus and dictionary of ideas 1848, he left 128 MS. volumes of materials for this work, the labour of 30 years, which were acquired by Wm. Aldis Wright about 1867; Book of English epithets, literal and figurative 1849. _d._ Reydon, Southwold, Suffolk 1852. _Notes and Queries 7 Ser. ii_ 368, 475 (1886), _iii_ 55 (1887).

JERNINGHAM, ARTHUR WILLIAM (2 son of Wm. Charles Jerningham 1770–1820, officer in Austrian army). _b._ 22 Feb. 1807; ed. Stonyhurst 1818–23; entered R.N. 13 June 1823; engaged training the coast guard in gunnery 1847–52; commander R. naval coast volunteers, Ireland 1854–7; commander Plymouth gunnery ship 1857–62; captain 18 Sep. 1851, retired 1 July 1864; retired admiral 26 Sep. 1878; author of Remarks on the means of conveying the fire of ships’ broadsides 1851. _d._ 11 Heather bank, Bournemouth 24 Nov. 1889. _Times 27 Nov. 1889 p._ 7; _Gillow’s English Catholics_, _iii_ 623–4 (1887).

JERNINGHAM, CHARLES WILLIAM EDWARD (eld. son of Edward Jerningham 1774–1822, barrister). _b._ 27 Nov. 1805; ed. Stonyhurst; barrister I.T. 12 Feb. 1830; a frequent contributor to Dolman’s Magazine; author of A letter to the vicar apostolic of Great Britain upon the regulations by the holy see, with respect to mixed marriages 1843. _d._ 26 Feb. 1854. _Gillow’s English Catholics_, _iii_ 624–5 (1887).

JERNINGHAM, GEORGE SULYARDE STAFFORD (3 son of 8 baron Stafford 1771–1851). _b._ Haughley park, Norfolk 17 Feb. 1806; entered foreign office 1825; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to king of Wurtemberg 20 May 1854, to king of Sweden and Norway 11 Nov. 1859 to 11 Sep. 1872 when retired on a pension; C.B. 13 July 1872. _d._ 18 Nov. 1874.

JERNINGHAM, WILLIAM GEORGE STAFFORD (brother of preceding). _b._ Cossey hall, Norwich 15 July 1812; attached to mission at Munich 20 Jany. 1834; chargé d’ affaires and consul general Peru 1 Dec. 1857, minister resident and consul general there 12 Dec. 1872 to death. _d._ Southampton 16 July 1874.

JERRAM, CHARLES (son of Charles Jerram, farmer, _d._ 1807). _b._ Blidworth in Sherwood forest 17 Jany. 1770; assistant at a unitarian school at Highgate 1790; entered Magd. coll. Camb. 1793; B.A. 1797, M.A. 1800; C. of Long Sutton, Lincs. 1797–1805; C. of Chobham, Surrey 1805–10; V. of Chobham 1810–34; took private pupils 1797–1822; P.C. of St. John’s, Bedford row, London 1824–6; R. of Witney, Oxfordshire 3 April 1834 to death; a very well known member of the evangelical sch.; author of Letters on the atonement 1804; Conversations on infant baptism 1819, 3 ed. 1838; A treatise on the atonement 1828; Secession from the church of England considered in a letter 1836. _d._ Witney 20 June 1853. _J. Jerram’s Memoirs of rev. C. Jerram_ (1855), _portrait_.

JERRAM, JANE E. (dau. of Mr. Holme). (_m._ William Jerram of Derby, then of Bannell’s farm, Etwall, Derby); managed the dairy and other farm affairs; known by the name of The Pale Star; author of My three aunts 1838; My father’s house; The pearly gates; Simple stories 1841; The children’s own story book, 3 ed. 1843; living near Derby 1873. _S. T. Hall’s Biog. sketches_ (1873) 296–7.

JERRARD, GEORGE BIRCH (son of Joseph Jerrard, major general, _d._ 23 Nov. 1858 aged 85). Published Mathematical researches. Bristol 1832–5; An essay on the resolution of equations 1858. _d._ Long Stratton rectory, Norfolk 23 Nov. 1863.

JERROLD, DOUGLAS WILLIAM (only son of Samuel Jerrold, manager of Sheerness theatre, _d._ Jany. 1820). _b._ Greek st. Soho, London 3 Jany. 1803; ed. at Sheerness; served on board H.M.S. Namur guardship 1813–15; apprenticed to Gabriel Sidney of Northumberland st. Strand, printer 1816; produced More frightened than hurt, at Sadler’s Wells theatre 30 April 1821; wrote pieces for the Coburg theatre 1825; wrote Black-eyed Susan or all in the Downs, best nautical drama ever written, produced at Surrey theatre 8 June 1829 for which he received £70 from Elliston, it ran 300 nights; wrote The mutiny at the Nore, played at Pavilion, Coburg and Queen’s theatres 1830; joint manager with W. J. Hammond of Strand theatre 1 May 1836 to 17 Sep. 1836; wrote the Bubbles of the day, Covent Garden 25 Feb. 1842; The prisoner of war, Drury Lane 8 Feb. 1842; started the Illuminated Mag. 1843; wrote Time works wonders, which ran at the Haymarket from 26 April 1845 for about 90 nights; edited Douglas Jerrold’s Shilling Magazine 7 vols. 1845–8; editor and chief proprietor of Douglas Jerrold’s Weekly newspaper 1846, it became the Weekly News; contributed to Punch from No. 2, 24 July 1841 to death; edited Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper 1852 to death; founded The Mulberries 1824, The Whittington at 37 Arundel st. Strand 1846, it ceased 1873, The Museum 1847 and other literary clubs; author of Men of character 3 vols. 1838; Punch’s Letters to his son 1843; The story of a feather 1844; Punch’s Complete letter writer 1845; Mrs. Caudle’s curtain lectures 1846; The chronicles of Clovernook 1845; A man made of money 1849; Heads of the people 1852; The writings of D. Jerrold 8 vols. 1854 and 4 vols. 1863–4. _d._ Kilburn priory, St. John’s Wood, London 8 June 1857. _bur._ Norwood cemetery 15 June, portrait by Sir Daniel Macnee in National portrait gallery. _W. B. Jerrold’s Life of D. Jerrold_ (1859), _portrait_; _G. Hodder’s Memories of my time_ (1870) 4–58, 108–20, 126–39; _Illust. Rev. iii_ 673–81 (1872), _portrait_; _R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age_, _i_ 291–304 (1844); _Quarterly Mag. of Oddfellows_, _i_ 198–208 (1858); _E. Yates’ Recollections_, _i_ 291–4, _ii_ 351 (1884).

NOTE.--There is a portrait of him by John Leech in his two-page cartoon, called “Mr. Punch’s fancy ball” in Punch 9 Jany. 1847, where he is represented as playing the drum in the orchestra. His first contribution to Punch entitled Punch and Peel appeared in No. 2, 24 July 1841, he first used the signature of Q. on 13 Sep. In Alfred Bunn’s A word with Punch 1847 Jerrold is spoken of as Wronghead and is stated to have been hissed off the stage.

JERROLD, EVELYN DOUGLAS (son of the succeeding). _b._ about 1850; correspondent in Paris of a London daily paper; translated From Paris to Cayenne. By C. Delescluze 1872; edited with S. Jerrold At home in Paris. By W. B. Jerrold 1884. _d._ St. John’s road, Highgate hill 16 May 1885.

JERROLD, WILLIAM BLANCHARD (eld. son of Douglas W. Jerrold 1803–57). _b._ London 23 Dec. 1826; ed. at Brompton gr. sch. and at Boulogne; wrote in Douglas Jerrold’s Weekly Newspaper 1846; wrote papers on The literature of the poor, in Daily News 1846; described the Paris exhibition of 1855 for Daily News, Illustrated London News and Athenæum; spent half of each year in Paris 1855 to death; edited Lloyd’s Weekly London News 8 June 1857 to death; wrote Cool as a cucumber, farce produced at Lyceum theatre 24 March 1851, Beau Brummell the king of Calais, Lyceum 11 April 1859, Chatterbox drama, St. James’s 30 Nov. 1859 and Cupid in waiting, comedy, Royalty 17 July 1871; founded English branch of the International literary association; edited under name of Fin-Bec, Knife and Fork 8 numbers 1871 and new series 7 numbers 1872; author of Two lives, a novel 2 vols. 1862; A book for the beach 2 vols. 1863; At home in Paris 1864, several editions; The children of Lutetia 2 vols. 1864; London a pilgrimage, illustrated by Gustave Doré 1872; The life of Napoleon III. 4 vols. 1874–82; The life of G. Cruikshank 2 vols. 1882. _d._ 27 Victoria st. Westminster 10 March 1884. _bur._ Norwood cemetery 13 March. _G. Hodder’s Memories of my time_ (1870) 394–418; _J. Hatton’s Journalistic London_ (1882) 196 _portrait_; _Illustrated Review_, _v_ 267–73 (1873), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxix_ 368 (1884), _portrait_.

JERSEY, GEORGE CHILD-VILLIERS, 5 Earl of (elder son of 4 Earl of Jersey 1735–1805). _b._ Middleton park near Bicester 19 Aug. 1773; styled viscount Villiers 1773 to 1805 when he succeeded; ed. at Harrow and St. John’s coll. Camb., M.A. 1794, D.C.L. Oxf. 1810; took name of Child before Villiers 1 Dec. 1819; lord chamberlain of the household 15 July to 22 Nov. 1830 and 15 Dec. 1834 to 18 April 1835; P.C. 19 July 1830; G.C.H. 1834; master of the horse 1841–6 and 1 March to 28 Dec. 1852; won the One thousand guineas and the Oaks with Cobweb 1824, the Derby with Middleton 1825, with Mameluke 1827 and with Bay Middleton 1836. _d._ 38 Berkeley sq. London 3 Oct. 1859. _bur._ Middleton Stoney. _Waagen’s Galleries of art_ (1857) 269–74; _New Sporting Mag._, _x_ 302 (1836), _portrait; Sporting Times 21 Feb. 1885 pp._ 5–6; _J. E. Doyle’s Official baronage_, _ii_ 261 (1886), _portrait_.

NOTE.--One of the best riders of his time; his name is recorded in a song called The Billesden Copley Hunt, an account of a run in Leicestershire 24 Feb. 1800.

JERSEY, GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK CHILD-VILLIERS, 6 Earl of (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ 38 Berkeley sq. London 4 April 1808; styled viscount Villiers 1808–59 when he succeeded; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1837; lieut. Oxfordshire yeomanry 16 June 1829, major 5 May 1855 to death; M.P. Rochester 1830–1, Minehead 1831–2, Honiton 1832–5, Weymouth 1837–41, Cirencester 1844–52; contested Cirencester 1852. _d._ Royal Crescent hotel, Brighton 24 Oct. 1859. _bur._ Middleton Stoney.

JERSEY, SARAH SOPHIA CHILD-VILLIERS, Countess of (eld. dau. of 10 earl of Westmoreland 1759–1841). _b._ 4 March 1785; heiress of Robert Child of Osterley park _d._ 1819; a ruler of society from 1815 to 1855; one of the leading lady patronesses of Almacks many years, and a professional beauty; popularly known as Queen Sarah; the head of Childs’s bank, London 1819 to death; had a scene with lord Durham at the drawing room 24 Feb. 1831; (_m._ at Gretna Green 23 May 1804 George Villiers 5 earl of Jersey 1773–1859). _d._ 38 Berkeley sq. London 26 Jany. 1867. _bur._ in family vault in church of Middleton Stoney 2 Feb., personalty sworn under £300,000, 1 June 1867. _C. C. F. Greville’s Memoirs_, _i_ 12–13, _ii_ 64, 119, 126 (1874); _Burke’s Portrait gallery_, _ii_ 45 (1833), _portrait_.

JERVIS, GEORGE F. _b._ England 1784; appeared at Park theatre, New York as Vanderdecken in The Flying Dutchman 1825; appeared at Arch st. theatre, Philadelphia 1 Sep. 1826 as Marshal Beaumont in The French Spy. _d._ Philadelphia 25 March 1851.

JERVIS, GEORGE RITSO. _b._ Madras 8 Oct. 1794; ed. at Marlow, Woolwich and Addiscombe; ensign Bombay engineers 8 June 1811, col. 16 Aug. 1843 to death; founded the Engineers’ Institution in India 1823; held chief command of engineer corps 9 years; active coadjutor of Mountstuart Elphinstone in spreading education in India; A.I.C.E. 1841; edited The works of Hāfiz 1828; translated into Maratha, Lord Brougham’s Preliminary treatise on the objects, advantages and pleasures of science 1829. _d._ Boulogne 14 Oct. 1851. _Min. of proc. of instit. of C.E._, _xi_ 106–109 (1852).

JERVIS, HENRY. _b._ 1797; ensign 84 foot 19 Dec. 1811; captain 72 foot 1826, major 27 Sep. 1842 to 8 March 1850; lieut. col. provisional battalion at Chatham 8 March 1850 to 17 May 1864; col. 94 foot 8 March 1872 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 11 Bloomsbury sq. London 5 Feb. 1879.

JERVIS, SIR JOHN (2 son of Thomas Jervis, chief justice of Chester, _d._ 6 Aug. 1838 aged 69). _b._ 12 Jany. 1802; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb.; barrister M.T. 6 Feb. 1824, bencher 1837–50; leader of North Wales and Chester circuit; M.P. Chester 1832–50; granted a patent of precedence 1837; solicitor general 4 July 1846; attorney general 7 July 1846 to 15 July 1850; knighted at Buckingham palace 1 Aug. 1846; the acts 11 & 12 Vict. cc. 42, 43, 44, referring to justices of the peace are known as Jervis’s acts; serjeant at law 16 July 1850; chief justice of common pleas 16 July 1850 to death; P.C. 14 Aug. 1850; an originator of The Jurist weekly paper 14 Jany. 1837 and a principal contributor to it; pres. of commission for inquiring into system of pleading in common law courts 13 May 1850; edited Archbold’s Summary of the law relative to pleading and evidence in criminal cases, 4 ed. 1831, also the 5, 6, 7 and 8 eds.; author of A practical treatise on the office and duties of coroners 1829, 5 ed. 1888; author with Edward Young of Reports of cases in the courts of exchequer and exchequer chamber 3 vols. 1828–30; with C. Crompton of Reports of cases in the courts of exchequer and exchequer chamber 2 vols. 1832–3. _d._ 47 Eaton sq. London 1 Nov. 1856. _Law Mag. and Review_, _ii_ 302–7 (1857).

JERVIS, THOMAS BEST (2 son of John Jervis of H.E.I.C.S.) _b._ Jaffnapatam, Ceylon 2 Aug. 1796; ed. Addiscombe; learnt Hindustani and Mahratta; ensign Bombay Engineers 1 June 1813; surveyed South Concan 1820; superintendent engineer Bombay presidency May 1835–9 and of Northern provinces 1839–41; retired from H.E.I.C. service 31 Dec. 1841; established a private lithographic press for printing maps of India, etc. 1843; produced with rapidity map of Russia for Crimean expedition 1854; the originator of the Topographical and statistical depot of the war office, of which he was the first director March 1855; conducted first topographical corps and surveyed the Euphrates valley, etc. F.R.S. 15 March 1838, F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.A.S.; edited C. A. A. von Huegel’s Travels in Kashmir 1845; author of Geographical and statistical memoir of the Konkun. Calcutta 1840; India in relation to Great Britain, its future administration 1853. _d._ 9 Adelphi ter. Strand, London 3 April 1857. _Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xiv pp. liv–lx_ (1858); _English Cyclop. Suppl._ (1872) 719.

JERVIS, WILLIAM HENLEY (2 son of Hugh Nicholas Pearson, dean of Salisbury, _d._ 1856 aged 79). _b._ Oxford 29 June 1813; ed. at Mitcham, Harrow and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838; R. of St. Nicholas, Guildford 1837–56; preb. of collegiate church of Heytesbury, Wilts. 1844 to death; lived in France 1856–62; assumed surname of Jervis in lieu of Pearson by r.l. 22 May 1865; author of The student’s France 1862, 2 ed. 1884; The Gallican church, a history of the church of France from the concordat of Bologna to the revolution 2 vols. 1872; The Gallican church and the revolution 1882. _d._ 28 Holland park, London 27 Jany. 1883. _bur._ in Sonning churchyard.

JERVIS-WHITE-JERVIS, HENRY (3 son of sir Henry Meredyth Jervis-White-Jervis, 2 baronet 1793–1869). _b._ 15 March 1825; ed. at Harrow and R.M. academy, Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. Dec. 1844, lieut. col. 30 Dec. 1867 to 24 Dec. 1870 when he retired; contested Harwich 1857; M.P. for Harwich 18 March 1859 to 24 March 1880; author of History of Corfu and of the Ionian islands 1852; Manual of field operations, for officers in the army 1852; The rifle-musket, a treatise on the Enfield-Pritchett-rifle 1854; Ireland under British rule 1868. _d._ Felixstowe, Suffolk 22 Sep. 1881.

JERVIS-WHITE-JERVIS, MARIAN (3 dau. of Wm. Campbell of Fairfield, Ayrshire). (_m._ 16 Dec. 1818 Sir Henry Meredyth Jervis-White-Jervis, 2 baronet, commander R.N. _b._ 1793, _d._ 1869); edited Paintings and celebrated painters 2 vols. 1854; author of Gleanings, poems. Paris 1840; Tales of the boyhood of great painters 1853. _d._ Blackgang, Isle of Wight 8 March 1861. _Reg. and Mag. of Biography, May 1869 p._ 390.

JERVISE, ANDREW (son of Andrew Jarvis, coachman and soldier). _b._ Brechin, Forfarshire 28 July 1820; a compositor at Brechin 1833 and at Edinburgh 1837–41; a student in painting Edinb. 1842; a teacher of drawing at Brechin 1846; sold 20 of his pictures at Brechin 1847 for £75; examiner of registers under Registration act of 1854, from 1 Jany. 1856 to death at £200 a year; author of The history and traditions of the land of the Lindsays 1853, 2 ed. 1882; Memorials of Angus and the Mearns 1861, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1885; Epitaphs and inscriptions from burial grounds and old buildings in the north-east of Scotland 2 vols. 1875–9. _d._ Brechin 12 April 1878. _A. Jervise’s Epitaphs_, _vol. ii_ (1879), _Memoir pp. ix–lxx_.

JERVOIS, WILLIAM. _b._ 1784; ensign 89 foot 7 April 1804; captain 53 foot 26 Dec. 1822 to 17 Sep. 1823 when placed on h.p.; colonel 76 foot 10 May 1853 to death; general 3 Aug. 1860; K.H. 1835. _d._ Portland place, Bath 5 Nov. 1862.

JERVOISE, SIR JERVOISE CLARKE CLARKE-, 2 Baronet (son of rev. sir S. Clarke-Jervoise _d._ 1852). _b._ Kensington 28 April 1804; M.P. South Hants. 1857–68. _d._ Idsworth park, Horndean, Hants. 1 April 1889.

JERWOOD, JAMES (son of Mr. Jerwood of Poughill, Devon, blacksmith). Usher at Honiton gr. sch.; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1842; barrister M.T. 10 June 1836; assistant tithe commissioner for Devon; recorder of South Molton 7 Feb. 1860 to death; practised at Exeter to death; published A lecture on the new planet Neptune and its discovery 1849; A dissertation on the rights to the sea shore and to the soil and beds of tidal harbours 1850. _d._ 1 Bedford circus, Exeter 19 Jany. 1877. _Solicitors’ Journal_, _xxi_ 282 (1877).

JESSE, EDWARD (3 son of rev. Wm. Jesse, V. of Hutton-Cranswick, Yorkshire 1738–1814). _b._ Hutton-Cranswick parsonage 14 Jany. 1780; clerk in the San Domingo office 1798; private sec. to lord Dartmouth president of board of control 1801; comr. of hackney coaches 1815–31 when office abolished; gentleman of the Ewery at Windsor castle 1821–31 when office abolished; deputy surveyor of woods and forests 1822–31; author of Gleanings in natural history 1 Ser. 1832, 2 Ser. 1834, 3 Ser. 1835; Scenes and tales of country life 1844, 5 ed. 1853; Anecdotes of dogs 1846, 2 ed. 1858; Favourite haunts and rural studies 1847; Lectures on natural history 1861, 2 ed. 1863. _d._ 16 Belgrave place, Brighton 28 March 1868, bust placed in the Pavilion, Brighton 1865. _Sylvanus Redivivus. By M. Houstoun_ (1889) 1 _et seq._, _portrait_; _F. Ross’s Celebrities of the Yorkshire Wolds_ (1878) 88–9.

JESSE, JOHN (elder son of John Jesse 1759–1817). _b._ Manchester 6 Jany. 1801; sheriff of co. Denbigh 1856; F.L.S. 21 Jany. 1823; F.R.S. 5 May 1842, F.R.A.S. _d._ Llanbedr hall near Ruthin, Denbigh 23 Sep. 1863.

JESSE, JOHN HENEAGE (only son of Edward Jesse 1780–1868). _b._ 1815; ed. at Eton 1820–6; clerk in secretary’s department of the admiralty, Whitehall, London 1830–67; published Memoirs of the court of England during the reign of the Stuarts 4 vols. 1840, new ed. 1855 and 1857; Memoirs of the court of England from the revolution in 1688 to the death of George the Second 3 vols. 1843; George Selwyn and his contemporaries 4 vols. 1843–44; Memoirs of the Pretenders and their adherents 2 vols. 1845; Literary and historical memorials of London 2 vols. 1847; London and its celebrities 2 vols. 1850; Memoirs of King Richard the 3rd and some of his contemporaries 1862; Memoirs of the life and reign of king George the third 3 vols. 1867. _d._ the Albany, Piccadilly, London 7 July 1874. _Sylvanus Redivivus. By M. Houston_ (1889) _p._ 24 _et seq._

JESSE, WILLIAM (only son of W. Jesse, V. of Margarelting, Essex). _b._ 27 March 1809; ensign 59 foot 9 April 1825; lieut. 46 foot 24 July 1835; captain 75 foot 26 Aug. 1837 to 6 April 1838 when placed on h.p.; sold out 1844; translator of H. de Crignelle’s Le Morvan, its wild sports, vineyards and forests 1851; J. P. Ferrier’s Caravan journeys and wanderings in Persia 1856; J. P. Ferrier’s History of the Afghans 1858; author of Notes of a half-pay in search of health, or Russia, Circassia and the Crimea 2 vols. 1841; The life of George Brummell, esq. 2 vols. 1844, new ed. 1854, new ed. 2 vols. 1885; Russia and the war 1854; resided at Maisonette, Ingatestone near Chelmsford. _d._ 1871.

JESSEL, SIR GEORGE (youngest son of Zadok Aaron Jessel of 1 Savile row, London, diamond merchant, _d._ 1865). _b._ London 13 Feb. 1824; ed. at Kew and Univ. coll. London, fellow 1846; B.A. London 1843, M.A. 1844, a senator 1862 to death, vice chancellor 26 May 1880 to death; barrister L.I. 4 May 1847, bencher 19 April 1865 to death, treasurer 1883; leading junior in the Rolls court; Q.C. 30 March 1865; M.P. for Dover 1868–73; solicitor general 10 Nov. 1871 to 30 Aug. 1873 when he made about £20,000 a year; knighted at Osborne 21 Feb. 1872; master of the Rolls 30 Aug. 1873 to 1 Nov. 1875, being the first Jewish judge; a judge of high court of judicature, chancery division 1 Nov. 1875 to 27 Aug. 1881; member of court of appeal 1 Nov. 1875 to death; P.C. 30 Aug. 1873; a comr. of patents 1873 to death; F.R.S. 25 Nov. 1880; sat in court 16 March 1883. _d._ 10 Hyde park gardens, London 21 March 1883. _bur._ Willesden cemet. 23 March, bust by W. R. Ingram outside lord chief justice’s court in courts of justice, unveiled by lord chancellor 28 Nov. 1888. _A generation of judges_ (1886) 171–82; _Analysis and digest of the decisions of Sir G. Jessel. By A. P. Peter_ (1883); _Times 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 30 March 1883_; _I.L.N. lix_ 483, 484 (1871) _portrait_, _lxxxii_ 317 (1883) _portrait_.

NOTE.--He was shot at by rev. Henry John Dodwell as he was entering the Rolls court 22 Feb. 1878, Dodwell was tried 15 March and acquitted on the ground of insanity.

JESSOP, JOHN. _b._ 1779; ensign 44 foot 1798; captain 15 June 1804 to 1 June 1821 when placed on half pay; served through Peninsular war; major in the army 4 June 1814; C.B. 22 June 1815. _d._ Butterley hall, Derbyshire 13 Sep. 1869 aged 90.

JESSOP, THOMAS (son of Wm. Jessop of Sheffield, steel smelter). _b._ Sheffield 31 Jany. 1804; iron and steel manufacturer with his father and brothers at Sheffield 1830, the business became one of the largest in England, was left sole surviving partner 1871; converted business into a limited liability co. at Brightside works, Sheffield 1875, chairman of the co. 1875 to death; works stood on 27 acres of ground; built and furnished at cost of £30,000 the Jessop hospital for women 1878; mayor and master cutler of Sheffield 1863; president Sheffield Birthday club. _d._ Endcliffe grange, Sheffield 30 Nov. 1887. _bur._ Eccleshall ch. 3 Dec.; gross value of personal estate in England sworn at £656,449. _Sheffield Independent 1 Dec. 1887 p._ 2, _5 Dec. p._ 2.

JESSOP, WILLIAM HENRY BOWLESTONE (eld. son of James Jessop of Crayford, Kent). Ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857; published A complete decimal system of money and measures 1855; author of Flindersland and Sturtland, or the inside and outside of Australia 2 vols. 1862. _d._ Doreh, Papua 3 Feb. 1862. _G.M. xix_ 652 (1865).

NOTE.--His death was not announced in the Times until 26 Aug. 1865.

JESTON, THOMAS WARD. _b._ Royal gram. sch. Henley-on-Thames 3 July 1790; studied at Guy’s hospital; assistant surgeon second battalion of 36 foot 9 Sep. 1813 to 1814 when battalion disbanded; served in the Peninsula and France 1813–14, medals for 4 battles; surgeon in practice at Henley 1817, retired 1883; invented improved method of collecting juice of opium poppy 1823; mayor of Henley 5 times 1834–81. _d._ Henley 17 July 1886. _Midland Medical Miscellany 1 Dec. 1883 pp._ 353–5, _portrait_.