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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.

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.