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JONES, David. b. 1810; on staff of Morning Chronicle; manager and publisher of Saturday Review at 445 Strand, afterwards at 39 Southampton st. Strand, from date of first number 3 Nov. 1855 to his death. d. Abergele, north Wales 15 June 1884. bur. Finchley cemetery near London 23 June.
JONES, David William. One of the 300 mounted post boys in London; trained under Chifney at Newmarket; head lad to John Stevens; head groom to marquis of Westminster, to General Grosvenor and to sir John Ramsden; in the Peninsula and at Waterloo in charge of horses; served many masters in India, Spain, France and Germany, and could speak 3 languages; trained for Mr. De Burgh at Hampton; frequently walked from Hampton to Hyde park corner; a very fair jockey and a strong waster; kept a lodging house in Mayfair to 1830; became blind, his wife a pew opener kept him till her death 1854. d. Chelsea workhouse, Middlesex, June 1858. Sporting Review, xl 4–5 (1858).
JONES, Ebenezer (2 son of Robert Jones). b. Canonbury sq. Islington 20 Jany. 1820; ed. under rev. John Bickerdike at Highgate; clerk in a tea warehouse in Mincing lane, City 1837; an accountant; sec. of a railway co. 1846; wrote articles in the Oddfellow; lived in Paulton square, Chelsea 1856–60; published Studies of sensation and event, poems 1843; The land monopoly 1849. (m. 1844 Caroline niece of Edwin Atherstone the poet, they separated, she d. 184-). d. Brentwood, Essex 14 Sep. 1860. bur. in churchyard of Shenfield near there. E. Jones’s Studies of sensation, ed. by R. H. Shepherd (1879), Memoir pp. xvii–lxxxiv; Athenæum, ii 368, 401, 466 (1878).
JONES, Edwyn (eld. son of Henry Jones of Louth, Ireland). Barrister G.I. 26 Jany. 1867; member of joint board of examiners, Inns of Court 1877 to death; edited with John Shortt The county court acts, with chapters upon administration, trusts, etc. 1868; author of The law of salvage 1870. d. Woocote Dower house, Upper Wallington 3 Nov. 1890.
JONES, Elizabeth (dau. of Mr. Mandelbert, actor). b. 1834; appeared at Sadler’s Wells as Macduff’s child in Macbeth, as Arthur in King John, and as the prince of Wales in Richard III.; acted at Olympic and Surrey, and at Brighton, Plymouth, Dublin and Bristol; acted at Grecian theatre, Islington 1865–74. (m. David H. Jones, actor, d. 21 Sep. 1867). d. at res. of brother in law George Chapman, musical director, Beaufort villa, Norrisville, Bristol 5 May 1883. Era 19 May 1883 p. 9.
JONES, Ernest Charles (son of Charles Jones, major 15 hussars and aide de camp to Ernest, duke of Cumberland). b. Berlin 25 Jany. 1819; ed. St. Michael’s coll. Lüneberg; engaged in journalism in London 1841; barrister M.T. 19 April 1844; joined the chartist movement 1845, was the leader till 1858; contested Halifax 1847, 1852, Nottingham 1853, 1857 and Manchester 1868; arrested for making seditious speeches, and sentenced at Central criminal court to two years’ solitary confinement 7 July 1848; attended chartist convention of 1851; joined the northern circuit and had much practice; editor of the Northern Star and of The People’s Paper 1852; The Labourer 1847; author of The Wood spirit 2 vols. 1841; My life, a rhapsody; The maid of Warsaw 1854; Woman’s wrongs, tales 1855; The revolt of Hindostan, a poem 1857, originally written with his own blood while in prison; Democracy vindicated, a lecture 1867. d. Wellington st. Higher Broughton, Manchester 26 Jany. 1869. bur. Ardwick cemet. 31 Jany., demonstration in Trafalgar sq. London in honour of his memory 26 March 1869. C. Mackay’s Forty years’ recollections, ii 59–63 (1877); Reg. and Mag. of Biog., March 1869 pp. 223–6; Times 27, 29, 31 March 1869.
JONES, Evan (son of Evan Jones). b. Bryntynoriad near Dolgelly 5 Sep. 1820; ed. Brecon coll. 1841–5; a bard of great celebrity; independent minister, Tredegar, July 1845 to Jany. 1848; replied to rev. John Griffith’s false charges against nonconformists, charging them with ignorance, drunkenness and immorality 1847, and exposed the Blue book treachery of the Education commission; edited The Principality, a newspaper. Cardiff 1848; superintended and wrote for the Standard of Freedom, and the Pathway 1851, two of Cassell’s publications; published Y Gmraes, a magazine for women Jany. 1850 to death; Yr Adolygydd, a quarterly review March 1850 to death; known as Ieuan Gwynedd; author of The dissent and morality of Wales 1848; Facts and figures in illustration of the dissent and morality of Wales 1849 and many works in Welsh; ruptured a blood vessel in London and d. Cardiff 23 Feb. 1852. bur. Groeswen near Caerphilly, monument erected by a penny subscription. Congregational year book for 1854 p. 234–5.
JONES, George. b. 1780; 2 lieut. R.M. 19 June 1793, lieut. col. 22 July 1830, col. commandant 27 Dec. 1837 to 9 Nov. 1846; general 20 June 1855; a prisoner of war in France 1804–14. d. Woodside house, Southsea 30 Jany. 1857 aged 77.
JONES, George (only son of John Jones, mezzotint engraver 1745–97). b. 6 Jany. 1786; student at the R.A. 1801; served in the militia, joined the army of occupation in Paris after Waterloo; painted many pictures of Waterloo and the battles in the Peninsula; A.R.A. 1822, R.A. 1824, librarian 1834–40, keeper 1840–50, acted as pres. 1845–50; exhibited 221 pictures at R.A., 141 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1803–70; chief adviser of Robert Vernon in forming his collection; acted as executor for Chantrey and Turner; author of Recollections of life of sir S. Chantrey 1849. d. 8 Park sq. Regent’s park, London 19 Sep. 1869. Sandby’s History of royal academy, ii 36–9 (1862); Reg. and Mag. of Biog. ii 253, 280 (1869).
JONES, George. b. about 1795; owner of Rosherville gardens, Gravesend 1855 to death, the gardens covering a space of 17 acres were sold for £24,600, 8 Oct. 1872. d. Lansdowne house, Rosherville 26 June 1872.
JONES, George. b. London 10 March 1810; taken to America 1818; appeared at Federal st. theatre, Boston 1810, at Chestnut st. theatre, Philadelphia as Pierre in Venice preserved 7 Dec. 1831, at the Old National, Boston as Claude Melnotte 16 May 1838; manager Marshal theatre, Richmond, and Avon theatre, Norfolk, Sep. 1839; visited England and lectured on the Bible; returning to America 1857 took the title of Count Joannes; lecturer at Boston; appeared at Academy of music, New York as Hamlet 1872 and committed many eccentricities and was thenceforth guyed whenever he was seen on the stage; author of A history of ancient America, Tyrian era, 3 ed. 1843; Tecumseh, a tragedy, life of general Harrison, etc. 1844. d. West-side hotel, Sixth avenue, New York 30 Dec. 1879. The Era 25 Jany. 1880 p. 4.
JONES, George Matthew. L.R.C.S. Edin. 1826, M.R.C.S. Eng. 1855; surgeon in Jersey 1826 to death, surgeon to general hospital there; he signalised himself about 1850 by performance of several successful cases of excisions of joints especially of the knee; by his practice and writings he contributed as much as anyone to rapid spread of conservative surgery; the merit of reviving excision of the knee is due to Wm. Fergusson, but Jones adopted the operation a few weeks after Fergusson had performed it, without being aware of the fact; author of On disarticulation of the scapula from the shoulder joint 1860. d. Old st. St. Heliers, Jersey 7 Sep. 1861. The Lancet, ii 264 (1861).
JONES, Sir Harry David (5 son of John Jones, general superintendent of Landguard fort, Suffolk 1751–1806). b. Landguard fort 14 March 1792; 2 lieut. R.E. 17 Sep. 1808; served in the Peninsula 1810–14; led the forlorn hope at siege of St. Sebastian and was wounded and taken prisoner 25 July 1813; col. R.E. 7 July 1853 to 2 Aug. 1860; a brigadier general for particular service in the Baltic 1854; commanded Royal Engineers in the Crimea 10 Feb. 1855; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 28 June 1861; governor of royal military coll. Sandhurst 29 April 1856 to death; lieut. general 6 July 1860; colonel commandant of Royal Engineers 2 Aug. 1860 to death; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 4 June 1856; A.I.C.E.; contributed papers to Institution of Civil engineers, to United service journal and to Professional papers of Corps of R.E.; edited sir J. T. Jones’ Reports on the fortresses in the Netherlands 1861; compiled vol. 2 of sir H. Elphinstone’s Journal of operations to fall of Sebastopol 1859. d. Sandhurst 2 Aug. 1866. G.M. ii 420 (1866); I.L.N. lxv 374 (1874); Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. xxx 438–40 (1870).
JONES, Harry Longueville (son of Edward Jones). b. Piccadilly, London 16 April 1806; ed. at St. John’s coll. and Magd. coll. Camb., 7 wrangler and B.A. 1828, M.A. 1832; fellow of his coll., lecturer and dean; C. of Connington 1829; settled in France 1834 and is reported to have edited a reissue of Galignani’s Paris guide; opened a college in Manchester 1837 which did not succeed; resided at Beaumaris 1845–9; one of H.M.’s inspectors of schools in Wales 16 Dec. 1848 to 1864; started and edited the Archæologia Cambrensis, Jany. 1846 to 1850; chief founder of Cambrian Archæological Assoc. Sep. 1847; author of Illustrated history of Carnarvonshire; Le Keux’s Memorials of Cambridge 2 vols. 1841, with descriptive accounts by T. Wright and H. L. Jones; Essays. Reprinted from Blackwood’s Magazine 1870. d. Kensington 16 Nov. 1870. Bibl. Cornub. i 278; Archæologia Cambrensis, ii 94–6 (1871).
JONES, Henry Bence (2 son of Wm. Jones, 5 dragoon guards). b. Thorington hall, Yoxford, Suffolk 31 Dec. 1813; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840, M.B. 1845, M.D. 1849; L.R.C.P. 1842, F.R.C.P. 1849, senior censor; F.R.S. 30 April 1846; assistant phys. to St. George’s hosp. London 1845, phys. 1846–62; hon. sec. of Royal Institution of Great Britain 1860–72; author of On gravel, calculus and gout 1842; On animal chemistry, in its application to the stomach and renal diseases 1850; The life and letters of Faraday 2 vols. 1870, 2 ed. 1870; The Royal institution, its founders and its first professors 1871. d. 84 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 20 April 1873. Barker’s Photographs of Medical Men (1868) vol. ii, portrait i; Medical Times, i 505–8 (1873); I.L.N. lxii 423, 424, 499 (1873), portrait.
JONES, Henry Richmond (son of rev. Inigo Wm. Jones of Chobham place, Surrey d. 1810). b. 1808; cornet 6 dragoon guards 9 June 1825, lieut. col. 16 Sep. 1851 to 21 Oct. 1862 when placed on h.p.; col. 14 hussars 24 Feb. 1871 to 15 May 1873; col. 6 dragoon guards 15 May 1873 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 16 Nov. 1858. d. Brighton 3 Oct. 1880.
JONES, Herbert George (2 son of C. R. Jones of Heathfield, Glamorgan). b. 1805; barrister L.I. 16 May 1828; went the Oxford and Welsh circuits; attorney general in Van Diemen’s Land; serjeant at law 1842; judge of county courts (circuit 42) Clerkenwell, London 16 April 1849 and of (circuit 41) Clerkenwell 1858 to death; author of The court of exchequer and the county courts 1858. d. Somerville Navan, co. Meath 17 Feb. 1866 aged 61.
JONES, Sir Horace (son of David Jones, attorney). b. 15 Size lane, Bucklersbury, London 20 May 1819; an architect at 16 Furnival’s inn, Holborn 1843; designed and built the Surrey music hall, Cardiff town hall and other important buildings; architect and surveyor to city of London 26 Feb. 1864 to death; designed and built Central meat market, Smithfield 1868, rebuilt Billingsgate market 1877 and Leadenhall market 1882; designed Guildhall library and museum 1872 and new Council chamber 1884; designed the Temple Bar memorial Nov. 1880; A.R.I.B.A. 1842, fellow 1855, pres. 1882–3; knighted at Osborne 31 July 1886. d. 30 Devonshire place, Portland place, London 21 May 1887. bur. Norwood cemetery 27 May. Journal of proc. of R.I.B.A. iii 330, 331, 368, 370–3 (1887); Masonic Portraits. By J. G. (1876) 27–31; I.L.N. 28 May 1887 p. 586, 4 June p. 634, portrait.
JONES, Hugh Chambres (son of John Jones of Liverpool). b. 1783; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1805, M.A. 1807; private sec. to duke of Portland, afterwards his chaplain; V. of West Ham, Essex 1807–45; treasurer of St. Paul’s cath. 30 Oct. 1816 to death; R. of Aldham, Essex 1823–40; archdeacon of Essex 14 Nov. 1823 to 1861. d. Brynstedfod, Conway, Denbighshire 29 Sep. 1869.
JONES, Hugh Hyndman (son of R. M. Jones of Houston, Demerara). Ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; C. of St. James, Cheltenham 1840–2; C. of St. Bride, Fleet st. London 1842–6; C. of St. George, Hanover sq. 1847–8; assistant sec. of S.P.G. 1848–50; archdeacon of Demerara and R. of St. George, George town, Demerara, Oct. 1853 to 1873; C. of Cheddon-Fitzpaine, Somerset 1874–5; lived at Houston villa, Craven road, Reading 1875 to death. d. 1884.
JONES, Inigo William (brother of Henry Richmond Jones 1808–80). b. 1806; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1836; cornet 6 dragoon guards 8 July 1828; major 11 hussars 25 March 1836 to 24 Dec. 1852; lieut. col. 3 West India regiment 24 Dec. 1852, placed on h.p. 11 March 1853; sold out March 1857. d. 3 Oct. 1878.
Note.—His son Christopher Neeld Jones b. Aug. 1851, captain 94 foot, volunteered for service with Royal Irish regiment and was killed at battle of Tel-el-Kebir 13 Sep. 1882.
JONES, James (4 son of Michael Jones of Caton, Lancashire). b. 1782 or 1783; cornet 22 light dragoons 6 Nov. 1801; captain 87 foot 17 Aug. 1808 to 31 Aug. 1815 when placed on h.p.; served in East Indies 1802–4 and in Peninsula 1809–14; M.G. 20 June 1854; K.H. 1831; knight of the order of Charles III. of Spain. d. Jermyn st. St. James’s, London 22 Sep. 1856.
JONES, James (5 son of Samuel Jones). b. Wolverhampton; ed. Oscott coll., ordained priest there 31 May 1822; chaplain Worksop manor, Notts., Feb. 1824 to death; chaplain at Hodsock park, Notts.; a member of the chapter of Nottingham 1850, V.G. and provost of the diocese; translated The way of salvation. By B. Alphonsus Liguori 1836, and other works by the same author; Philothea or an introduction to devout life. By St. Francis of Sales 1848; published A manual of instruction on plain chant, with the chants as used in Rome 1845. d. Worksop 19 May 1861. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii 655–7 (1887).
JONES, James. b. London 6 April 1790; a copper and tin worker near London docks; resident mechanist and engineer at St. Katherine’s docks 1831–36; a manager for Ransomes & Co. at Ipswich 1842–52; engineer of Oxford waterworks at Oxford 1852 or 1853 to death; one of the 6 founders of Institution of civil engineers 2 Jany. 1818, sec. and treasurer 6 Jany. 1818. d. Radcliffe infirmary, Oxford 25 April 1864, having fallen into a vat of boiling liquid at Evans’s brewery at Cowley the day before. Min. of Proc. I.C.E. xxiv 532–33 (1865).
JONES, James. b. north of Ireland; F.R.C.S. Eng. 1846, M.D. Lond. 1851, M.R.C.P. 1859; practised in London; senior physician Metropolitan free hospital; author of On the use of perchloride of iron and other chalybeate salts in the treatment of consumption 1862; On tuberculosis, the action of local inflammation in cachectic subjects in the production of consumption 1865. d. 4 Harley st. London 6 June 1871.
JONES, James Felix. Midshipman of the Palinurus in H.E.I. Co.’s navy 14 June 1828; commander 13 Sep. 1847, captain 1 Feb. 1858–62; surveyed the Tigris and Euphrates rivers 1843–8; political agent at Bagdad and consul general in Turkish Arabia 1853; political agent at Bushire in the Persian Gulf 1855–8; F.R.G.S.; contributed to Geographical Mag.; most important of his numerous memoirs are included in Selections from the records of the Bombay government. 1857, new series No. 43. d. Fernside, Church road, Upper Norwood, Surrey 3 Sep. 1878. Geographical Mag., Oct. 1878 p. 264.
JONES, James Rhys, known as Kilsby Jones, (son of Rhys Jones, farmer and preacher). b. Penylan farm near Llandovery, Carmarthenshire 4 Feb. 1813; ed. at Blackburn coll. and Carmarthen coll.; independent minister at Kilsby, Northamptonshire 1840–50; minister at Birmingham, then at Bolton; pastor of Tonbridge congregational chapel, London; preacher at Rhayadr 1857–60, at Caebach, Llandrindod Wells 1868 to death; assumed additional name of Kilsby before 1850; the most popular lecturer in Wales; Welsh editor for William Mackenzie of Glasgow; published Welsh versions of Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s progress 1869; A Family Bible 1869; translated many books into Welsh and Welsh books into English; in M. E. Braddon’s Hostages to Fortune 1875 he is described under name of rev. Slingsby Edwards. d. 10 April 1889. bur. Llanwrtyd ch. yard where is monu. Congregational Year book (1890) 156–7.
JONES, John (2 son of Henry Jones). b. Bala, Merionethshire 10 Feb. 1792; ed. at Carmarthen gr. sch. and Jesus coll. and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1821; chaplain of Ch. Ch. 1819–43, precentor 1823; P.C. of St. Thomas, Oxf. 1823–41; V. of Nevern, Pembrokeshire 1841 to death; preb. of St. David’s cath. 1848 to death; took a leading part in the Welsh eisteddfods from 1841; known as Tegid; published The book of the prophet Isaiah, a translation 1830, 2 ed. 1842; The New Testament in Welsh 1828, in his own system of spelling, which was not generally popular; transcribed the Mabinogion and other Welsh romances for lady Charlotte Guest, who used his text in her edition 3 vols. 1838–49. d. 2 May 1852. Gwaith Barddonawl. By Tegid (1859), with a memoir.
JONES, John. b. Northamptonshire 1823; beat Edward Hill 1846 and W. Cole 1847; beaten by Joseph Rowe 1849; beat Harry Martin 1850 and G. Crockett £50 a side 15 Oct. 1850; beaten by Mike Madden £50 a side 5 March 1851; beaten by Wm. Hayes £50 a side 2 Dec. 1851 and £200 a side 15 Nov. 1853; fought Edward Donnelly £50 a side at East Tilbury when darkness came on 30 March 1853; beat Donnelly £100 a side at Brandon Heath 1 June 1853; fought Robert Brettle £100 a side at Purfleet 21 Nov. 1854 when darkness came on, a new place was appointed for 25 Nov. when stakes were given to Jones, Brettle having got himself apprehended; struck on the left side of the head by Mike Madden at Long Reach, Kent 11 Dec. 1855 in a 23 round fight for £50 a side lasting one hour and nine minutes, d. Long Reach tavern 12 Dec. bur. Westminster cemet. Brompton 19 Dec. Fistiana (1868) 69, 77; Bell’s Life in London 16 Dec. 1855 p. 7, 23 Dec. p. 7.
JONES, John (eld. child of a small farmer). b. Tanycastell, Dolyddelen, Carnarvonshire 1 March 1796; a farmer, afterwards a quarryman; began to preach about 1820, ordained 1829, one of the greatest of Welsh preachers; known as Talsarn; composed 40 tunes published in Jeduthrum, a collection of Congregational tunes, psalms and hymns, ed. by Morris Davis at Bangor. d. 17 Aug. 1857. bur. Llanllyfni.
JONES, John. b. Llanasa, Flintshire 1788; apprenticed to a cotton-spinner at Holywell 1796–1803; served in the navy 1805–15; worked as a cotton-spinner at Stalybridge, Cheshire 1820 to death; wrote a poetical version of Æsop’s and other fables; author of two poems, The Cotton Mill 1821, The Sovereign 1827; a collection of his works was published as Poems. By John Jones 1826; known as the Welsh bard. d. Stalybridge 19 June 1858.
JONES, John. d. Newborough villas, St. Paul’s road, Highbury park, London 15 Feb. 1861 aged 102. bur. Highgate cemet.
JONES, John. b. London 1796; appeared at Adelphi theatre in an operetta The Conjurer 1816; came out in New York as Mr. Dulcet in Amateurs and Actors, at Niblo’s garden 1828; at Chestnut st. theatre, Philadelphia 28 Nov. 1831 as Felix in Cinderella; sang at Park theatre, New York 1831–44; the leading tenor in La Dame Blanche, Norma and Cinderella; teacher of vocal music 1844 to death; had a pension from Dramatic fund association; composer of The Mellow horn, a popular song. d. New York 1 Nov. 1861.
JONES, John. b. 1788; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; studied at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ hospitals; M.R.C.S. 1809; founded a self supporting dispensary at Derby; contributed numerous papers to Medical Physical Journal, Provincial Medical Journal, Lancet and Association Journal; author of On self supporting dispensaries, their adaptation to the relief of the poor and working classes 1862. d. 27 Friargate, Derby 23 June 1863.
JONES, John. b. the Harp inn, Llanfairtalhaiarn near Abergele 1810; brought up as an architect; general manager to sir Joseph Paxton; a writer of Welsh words to the old Welsh airs, which are more often sung with his words than with those of any other writer; published 3 vols. of poetry in 1855, 1862 and 1869. d. Falhaiarn 13 Oct. 1869 from the effects of an attempt on his own life. Works of J. Jones in Welsh and English (1855).
JONES, John, the taken name of John Owen. b. 1832; blacksmith; murdered 7 persons, Emmanuel Marshall blacksmith of Cheapside in village of Denham near Uxbridge, his wife, sister, mother and three children at Denham 22 May 1870, tried at Aylesbury assizes before Baron Channell 22 July when sentenced to death; hanged by Calcraft in the yard of Aylesbury gaol 8 Aug. 1870. A.R. (1870) 53, 97, 191–8; Bucks. Herald 23 July 1870 p. 4, 13 Aug. p. 4.
JONES, John. b. Bath 1800; ensign 23 Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1819; captain 46 Bengal N.I. 20 April 1826; quartermaster general, Bengal; surveyed province of Assam 1826; erected a small observatory at Adsett court near Gloucester; F.R.A.S. 8 May 1835. d. Torquay 7 April 1875. Monthly notices of R. Astronom. soc. xxxvi 143 (1876).
JONES, John. b. near Wolverhampton 1835; sec. of South Staffordshire Ironmasters’ Association to 1866; sec. to Cleveland Ironmasters’ Assoc. 1866; sec. of Middlesbrough chamber of commerce; sec. of British iron trade assoc.; founded the Iron and Steel Institute 1868, sec. and editor of its journal 1868 to death; founded and edited the Iron and coal trades review Dec. 1866, and other newspapers; A.I.M.E. 1869, M.I.M.E. 1873; wrote about 20 papers on scientific subjects. d. Saltburn-by-Sea 6 June 1877. Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute (1877) p. 414, and Appendix C. p. viii.
JONES, Sir John (natural son of Horace St. Paul). b. 1811; ensign 5 foot 12 June 1828; 1 lieut. 60 rifles 4 Jany. 1833, major 20 July 1849, lieut. col. of the 1st battalion 20 June 1854 to 1 April 1861; brigadier in command of the Roorkee field force 17 April to 20 June 1858; acquired sobriquet of ‘the Avenger’; inspecting field officer at Liverpool, March 1864 to March 1868; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; granted distinguished service pension 27 May 1858; K.C.B. 16 Nov. 1858. d. Torquay 21 Feb. 1878.
JONES, John (eld. son of Roger Jones, farmer). b. Tanyrhelig near Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire about 1821; a miner at Dowlais 1838–9; a Baptist preacher 1841; studied at Baptist college, Haverfordwest 1843–6; pastor of Bethlehem church at Porthyrhyd 1846–8, at Caersalem Newydd near Swansea 1849–54, at Rhymney, Monmouthshire 1862–77 and at Salem church, Briton Ferry 1877 to death; known as Mathetes; author of Geiriadur Beiblaidd a Duwingddol 3 vols. Carmarthen 1864–69–83, a biblical and theological dictionary. d. Briton Ferry 18 Nov. 1878. bur. Pant cemetery, Dowlais.
JONES, John. b. Middlesex about 1800; army clothier at 6 Regent st. London 1827–68, opened a branch at 16 Bachelors’ Walk, Dublin 1840; lived at 95 Piccadilly 1865 to death; made a collection valued at £250,000 of pictures, furniture, books, porcelain, ivories and other objects of vertu, all of which he left by his will to the South Kensington museum on condition of their being kept separate as one collection; he left about £70,000 to the convalescent hospital at Ventnor; a Catalogue of the Jones Bequest was published 1882. d. 95 Piccadilly, London 7 Jany. 1882, personalty sworn at £359,000, 11 March 1882. Handbook of the Jones collection (1883), memoir pp. 1–7 and portrait; Athenæum 16 Dec. 1882 pp. 819, 820; Art Journal (1883) 124, 197, 233, 365, 401.
JONES, John (3 son of John Jones of Blaenos near Llandovery, Carmarthenshire). b. 11 Dec. 1815; ed. at Shrewsbury; barrister M.T. 7 June 1839; sheriff of Carmarthenshire 1854; M.P. for Ca rmarthenshire 1868–80. d. Blaenos co. Carmarthen 1 March 1886.
JONES, John. b. near Dolgelly 1804; printer and publisher at Llanidloes, mayor there 1847–8; a local Wesleyan preacher, joined Church of England 1853; C. of Llandyssul, Cardiganshire 1853–8; V. of Llandysilio Gogo, Cardiganshire 1858 to death; granted civil list pension of £50, 31 Oct. 1881; known as Idrisyn; author of A commentary on the Pentateuch and New Testament 4 vols. 1845; A critical exposition of the Old and New Testament 5 vols. 1852, six editions; translated Her Majesty’s Leaves from the journal of our life in the Highlands, into Welsh 1868; Pregethau, gan y parch John Jones (Idrisyn) 1884; Baptism by sprinkling 1885. d. New Quay near Llandysilio Gogo 17 Aug. 1887.
JONES, John (son of Rice Jones, captain in the army). b. London 5 Oct. 1791; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1820; C. of St. Mary’s, Leicester 1815; P.C. of Seaforth 1815; P.C. of St. Andrew’s ch. Liverpool, Dec. 1815 to 1850; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Waterloo, Liverpool, Dec. 1850 to death; archdeacon of Liverpool, Oct. 1855 to 1886; author of Expository lectures on portions of the Acts of the Apostles 2 vols. 1841; Lectures on the principal types of the Old Testament 1845; Hints on preaching 1861. d. 14 Esplanade, Waterloo, Liverpool 5 Dec. 1889. Guardian 11 Dec. 1889 p. 1916.
JONES, John Andrews (son of a manufacturing tobacconist). b. Bristol 10 Oct. 1779; ed. at Colston’s charity sch. Bristol 1789–94; apprenticed to a Bristol merchant; a bookbinder at Guildford 1801–13; became a Baptist 1807, baptized 3 July 1808; minister at Hartley Row, Hants. 1816–18, at Ringstead, Northamptonshire 1821–5, at Brentford 1825–31, at Jireh chapel, Brick lane, Old st. London 1831–61, and at chapel in East st. City road, London 1861 to death; edited Gill’s Body of divinity 1839; author of The history of the iniquitous schism bill of 1714, 1843; Bunhill memorials, sacred reminiscences 1849; Sacred remains, an appendix to Bunhill memorials 1852. d. 50 Murray st. New North road, London, Aug. 1868.
JONES, John Charles Hill. Ensign 54 foot 16 Dec. 1840, lieut. col. 21 Sep. 1860 to May 1866 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 14 depot battalion Sheffield 1866–9, lieut. col. 3 depot battalion Pembroke 1869 to 1 June 1870 when placed on h.p.; col. in the army 21 Sep. 1865; lieut. col. brigade depot Warrington 1 April 1873 to death. d. brigade depot Liverpool 3 Sep. 1876.
JONES, John Edward. b. 1783; 2 lieut. R.A. 14 July 1797, col. 23 Nov. 1841, colonel commandant 17 Feb. 1854 to death; M.G. 20 June 1854. d. Warwick lodge, Hampton Wick, Middlesex 29 Aug. 1854.
JONES, John Edward. b. Dublin 1806; civil engineer in London 1839–46; a sculptor in London 1846–62; exhibited 108 sculptures at R.A. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1842–62; among his sitters were queen Victoria, prince Albert, Louis Philippe and Napoleon III.; the full-length statue of sir Robert Alexander Ferguson at Londonderry 1860 is by him, but he generally executed busts only. d. Dublin 25 July 1862.
JONES, John Mather. b. Bangor 9 June 1826; went to U.S. America 1849; founded the Welsh town of New Cambria; with James A. Whittaker purchased a large tract of land in Osage county, Kansas, where he founded the town of Avonia 1869; proprietor and publisher of Y Drych (The Mirror) the oldest Welsh newspaper in America 1865 to death; author of History of the Rebellion (in Welsh). Utica 1866. d. Utica, New York 21 Dec. 1874. Appleton’s American Biog. iii 467 (1887).
JONES, John Ogwen (son of David Jones of Tyddyn, Llanllechid near Bangor). b. Tyddyn 2 June 1829; a merchant’s clerk in Liverpool 1844–9, then in London; studied at Calvinistic methodist college, Bala 1852–6; matric. at Univ. of London 1856, B.A. 1858, M.A.; Calvinistic minister at Birkenhead and Liverpool 1857–67, at Oswestry 1867–76, at Rhyl 1876 to death; practical founder of county examinations of Sunday schools in North Wales; edited Y Symbylydd 1 vol. Liverpool 1864, a monthly mag.; author of Testament y Miloedd. 1883, a commentary on the New Testament. d. Rhyl 22 Sep. 1884.
JONES, John Pike (eld. son of John Jones, tradesman). b. Chudleigh, Devon 1790; admitted sizar at Pembroke coll. Camb. 4 July 1809, B.A. 1813; C. of North Bovey, Devon 1816–31; V. of Alveton, Staffs. 12 May 1829 to death; R. of Butterleigh, Devon 12 May 1832 to death; author of Botanical tour through various parts of Devon and Cornwall 1820, 2 ed. 1821; Historical and monumental antiquities of Devonshire 1823; Guide to scenery in neighbourhood of Ashburton 1823, another ed. 1830; author with J. F. Kingston of Flora Devoniensis 1829. d. Cheadle, Staffs. 4 Feb. 1857. Davidson’s Bibliotheca Devoniensis (1852) 9, 10, 13, 36, 118, 135, 172.
JONES, John Powell (2 son of Morgan Jones). b. Llysnony, Corseinon near Swansea 4 April 1823; ed. St. David’s coll. Lampeter 1840–6, B.D. 1855; C. of Loughor ch. Glamorgan 1846 and rector 1850; V. of Llantrisant, Glamorgan 1865 to death; canon of Llandaff 1879 to death; P.C. of Talygarn chapel, Llantrisant 1870 to death; a well known Greek and Hebrew scholar; author with rev. E. Bickersteth of Y Ddyledswydd Grist’ nogol o borthi trueiniaid y praidd. Llanymddfri 1847. d. Llantrisant vicarage 21 Dec. 1883. Red Dragon, v 481–7 (1884), portrait.
JONES, John Salisbury. Ensign 84 foot 5 Jany. 1805; captain 69 foot 25 Feb. 1817 to 25 Sep. 1835 when placed on h.p. with rank of major; K.H. 1836. d. 1881 or before.
Note.—He is not in Dod’s Peerage after 1881, but is in Burke’s Peerage 1891.
JONES, John Winter (son of John Jones, editor of the Naval chronicle and European magazine). b. Lambeth 16 June 1805; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. 1813–21; travelling sec. to charity commissioners 1835–7; assistant in library of British museum, April 1837, assistant keeper of the printed books 1850 and keeper March 1856, principal librarian July 1866, resigned Aug. 1878; a Spanish and Russian scholar; much connected with removal of Br. Museum books from Montague house to the new buildings 1837; chief compiler of the famous 91 cataloguing rules 1838, and general superintendent of new MS. catalogue 1839 etc.; joined with sir A. Panizzi in planning and arranging the new circular reading room 1856–7; F.S.A. 23 March 1854 and V.P. 8 May 1862; president of Library Assoc. of U.K. 2 Oct. 1877; edited and translated books for Hakluyt soc. 1850–63, and guide books for the British museum 1858–78; author of Riddles, charades and conundrums. Anon. 1822; A translation of all the Greek, Latin, Italian and French quotations in Blackstone’s Commentaries 1823. d. Underwood, Henley on Thames 7 Sep. 1881. Cowtan’s Memoirs of Br. Museum (1872) 109–12, 245–7; I.L.N. xlix 437 (1866), portrait; Graphic xxiv 389 (1881), portrait; Fourth Annual Rep. Library Association (1882) 59–67.
JONES, John Wynne (2 son of rev. Hugh Jones). b. 1805; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1829; R. of Heneglwys, Anglesey 1844–68; canon and archdeacon of Bangor 1863–86; V. of Bodedern, Anglesey 1868 to death. d. Chester 8 Feb. 1888.
JONES, Joseph (son of rev. David Jones of Longham, Gloucester). b. 1782; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., B.A. 1803, M.A. 1807; P.C. of Repton, Derbyshire 1843 to 1856; author of Family devotions, a course of prayers 1820; Serious musings 1822; Moral hours, a poem 1823; Osborne or the country gentleman, a tale 1833; An essay on episcopacy 1839; The books of psalms, with reflections 1846; Spiritual piety, meditations of the Christian in hours of retirement 1855, and upwards of 40 other books. d. Repton, in Oct. 1856. S. A. Pear’s Sermon on late rev. J. Jones (1856).
JONES, Joseph. J.P. for West Riding of Yorkshire; resided at Severn Stoke, Worcestershire; sheriff of Worcs. 1874. d. Abberley hall, Stourport, Worcestershire 15 Oct. 1880, will proved 3 Jany. 1881, personalty under £500,000 in the United Kingdom.
JONES, Joseph. Always known as the eccentric Joey Jones; a well known attendant on race courses and at prize fights, where his sayings and doings amused all classes of society; he was often fortunate in making money on horses; a master of the ceremonies at benefits and other sporting meetings; the oldest knight of the Royal Antidiluvian order of Buffaloes. d. 19 April 1889. Sporting Life 20 April 1889 p. 7; Illust. sporting news, iii 129, 132 (1864), portrait.
JONES, Joseph David (son of a farmer and local preacher). b. Bryncrugog, parish of Llanfair-Caereinion, Montgomeryshire 1827; held singing classes at Towyn, Merionethshire 1848–57; in charge of the British school, Ruthin 1857–66; kept a private school at Ruthin 1866 to death; published Perganiedydd 1847, a collection of congregational tunes; Tonau ac Emynau 1868, a collection of hymns and tunes; composer of Riflemen form, a new song. Ruthin 1862; Llys Arthur or Arthur’s court, a cantata 1864. d. Ruthin 17 Sep. 1870.
JONES, Latimer Maurice (son of rev. Thomas William Jones, P.C. of Llanybri). b. 8 July 1833; ed. at Lampeter coll., B.D. 1864; V. of St. Peter’s, Carmarthen 1863 to death; proctor to lower house of convocation 1874; travelled in Palestine and on his return lectured on Egypt and the Holy Land 1874; author of The Welsh people and the Welsh tongue 1862. d. Carmarthen 11 Oct. 1877. The Carmarthen Journal 12 Oct. 1877 p. 5, 19 Oct. p. 5.
JONES, Lestock Boileau. Entered Bengal army 16 July 1842; captain 56 Bengal N.I. 9 March 1852; deputy judge advocate general Peshawur 27 April 1857; commandant 3 Punjab cavalry 11 Nov. 1859 to death; col. in the army 16 July 1873. d. Hampstead 5 May 1879.
JONES, Lewis. b. Penponpren, Cardiganshire 14 Feb. 1793; a master at Clitheroe gram. sch. Lancashire; P.C. of Llandevaud, Monmouthshire 1822–52; V. of Almondbury, Yorkshire 13 March 1823 to death; P.C. of Meltham, Yorkshire 1829–38; instrumental in erecting 14 churches in Almondbury 1822–66. d. Almondbury 26 Aug. 1866. Hulbert’s Annals of Almondbury (1882) 49, 64, 79, 452–4, 592.
JONES, Lloyd. b. Bandon, co. Cork, March 1811; a fustian-cutter at Manchester 1827–37; joined a co-operative society in Salford 1829; chief advocate of Robert Owen’s plan of village communities; the best public lecturer and debater of his day; had a chief part in organisation and development of co-operative movement 1837 to death; pres. of the Oldham congress 1885; established the Leeds Express 1857; an editor of the London Reader 1863; editor of Miner’s Watchman and labour sentinel 1878; author of Life, times and labours of Robert Owen 1889 and of many pamphlets; author with J. M. Ludlow of The progress of the working classes 1867. d. 23 May 1886. Notice of life of Lloyd Jones (1885); L. Jones’s Life of R. Owen (1889), memoir.
JONES, Loftus Francis. Second lieut. 95 rifles 7 Feb. 1811, lieut. 1812, placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1818; lieut. 59 foot 1822; lieut. 2 foot 1823; lieut. 96 foot 1824, captain 9 March 1834, placed on h.p. 14 Jany. 1848; major 62 foot 2 Nov. 1849 to 23 May 1851; lieut. col. 2 West India regiment 23 May 1851 to death; served in the Peninsula, June 1811 to end of the war 1814. d. St. Vincent, West Indies 13 Feb. 1853.
JONES, Margaret Charlotte (elder dau. of sir George Campbell of Edenwood, Fifeshire). b. 1825. (m. (1) 28 July 1845 at St. Margaret’s, Westminster, David Jones of Pantglos, Carmarthen, M.P. co. Carmarthen 1852–74; m. (2) 10 Feb. 1870 sir Richard George Augustus Levinge, baronet of Knockdrin castle, co. Westmeath); an exhibitor at Exhibition of Water colours; author of Scattered leaves, or twilight trifles 1853; Lottery, a tale 1858. d. Lowndes sq. London 5 Nov. 1871. The Court Album (1854), portrait.
JONES, Maria B. (dau. of Charles Jones, actor, and of Mrs. C. Jones of theatre royal, Brighton). b. 1846; first appeared on the stage at Bradford; leading lady of Prince of Wales theatre, Liverpool 3 seasons; first appeared in London at Olympic theatre as Florence Conway, in Tom Taylor’s Handsome is that handsome does 3 Sep. 1870; leading lady at Surrey theatre 1871; at Drury Lane, Sep. 1872 as the Lady of the Lake. (m. July 1871 Francis Charles Philips of 2nd foot). d. London 11 Feb. 1873. bur. Brompton cemetery 18 Feb. Era 16 Feb. 1873 p. 11, 23 Feb. p. 11.
JONES, Michael (2 son of Michael Jones of Caton, Lancashire). b. 1774; barrister L.I. 13 May 1809; collected books and MSS. and materials for pedigrees of R.C. families; claimed that the ancient barony of Scrope was vested in his family 1815. d. 1851 or 1852. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii 668–70 (1887).
JONES, Nathaniel. Entered Bengal army 1815; lieut. col. of 58 Bengal N.I. 12 Aug. 1847, of 17 N.I. 1850, of 49 N.I. 1853, of 64 N.I. 1855–46; colonel 49 Bengal N.I. 31 May 1857 to death; M.G. 30 May 1859. d. Murree 21 July 1869.
JONES, Oliver John. b. 15 March 1813; entered navy 7 Sep. 1826; captain 29 Sep. 1855, retired R.A. 25 Aug. 1873; author of Recollections of a winter campaign in India. 1859. d. Westfield house, Bramston, Northants. 11 Jany. 1878.
JONES, Owen (only son of Owen Jones, antiquary 1741–1814). b. 148 Upper Thames st. London 15 Feb. 1809; ed. Charterhouse; pupil of Louis Vulliamy 1825–31; travelled in the East and took much notice of Arabic decorations 1833 and 1837; superintendent of works of Great Exhibition 1851 and helped to decorate and arrange the building; joint director of decoration of Crystal palace 1852 and designer of Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Alhambra courts; employed in decorating private houses; decorated palace of viceroy of Egypt; architect of St. James’ hall, London 1857; exhibited 12 architectural drawings at R.A. 1831–61; gold medal of R. Instit. of B.A. 1857; author of Plans, elevations, etc. of the Alhambra 2 vols. 1842–5; The polychromatic ornaments of Italy 1846; The grammar of ornament 1856, another ed. 1865; One thousand and one initial letters 1864. d. 9 Argyll place, Regent st. London 19 April 1874. bur. Kensal green. Practical Mag. iii 400 (1874), vii 257–60 (1877), portrait; Graphic, ix 433 (1874), portrait; I.L.N. xix 487, 508 (1851) portrait, lxiv 445, 446 (1874) portrait.
JONES, Owen (son of John Thomas of Y Gaerwen Bach, in parish of Llanfihangel Ysgeifiog, Anglesea). b. 15 July 1806; a farm servant, then a schoolmaster; a lay methodist preacher about 1827; pastor successively at Llangoed, Mold 1833, Manchester 1844 and Llandudno 1866; ordained 1842; preached 12,000 times and left 6000 manuscript sermons; Welsh editor for Messrs. Blackie of Glasgow 1867 to death; author, translator or editor of 40 works in Welsh. d. Llandudno 10 Oct. 1889. Bye Gones relating to Wales for 16 Oct. 1889 p. 240.
JONES, Rice. Second lieut. R.E. 1 Feb. 1806, captain 1814, placed on h.p. 1 Feb. 1819; captain R.E. 18 Nov. 1820, col. 9 Nov. 1846 to death; present at passage of the Douro and capture of Oporto; K.H. 1834. d. Gibraltar 20 March 1854.
JONES, Richard (son of a builder). b. Birmingham 1779; ed. for an architect; acted in Lichfield, Birmingham and other towns to 1799; appeared at Crow st. theatre, Dublin 20 Nov. 1799 and remained in Ireland till 1807; made his début in London at Covent garden as Goldfinch in The road to ruin 9 Oct. 1807, the original Count Ignatio in Dibdin’s Two faces under one hood 17 Nov.; played the Copper Captain in Rule a wife and have a wife, at the Haymarket 5 June 1809; became a most popular comedian and was always known as Gentleman Jones; the best Roderigo on the stage; gave an entertainment called a Carnival, which was not successful; last appeared on stage 3 June 1833; a teacher of elocution, especially for the pulpit 1833 to death; author of The Green man, a comedy played at the Haymarket 15 Aug. 1818; Too late for dinner, a farce, Covent Garden 22 Feb. 1820; The School for gallantry, a comedy; Peter Fin’s trip to Brighton, a farce; and with Theodore Hook, of Hoaxing. d. 14 Chapel st. Belgrave sq. London 30 Aug. 1851. bur. St. Peter’s ch. Pimlico. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biog. ii 181 (1825), portrait; Monthly Mirror, Aug. 1809 pp. 67–9, portrait; Mark Boyd’s Reminiscences of 50 years (1871) 251–67.
JONES, Richard (son of Richard Jones, solicitor). b. Tunbridge Wells 1790; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819; C. of Brasted, Kent 1822–33; professor of political economy, King’s coll. London 1833–5; professor of political economy and history in Haileybury coll. 1835 to death; commissioner under tithe commutation act 183– to 1851; sec. to capitular commission 1851–3; third Charity estate commissioner 24 Oct. 1853 to death; author of An essay on the distribution of wealth and on the sources of taxation 1831; A few remarks on the proposed commutation of tithes 1833; Remarks on the government bill for the commutation of tithes 1836, 2 ed. 1836; Remarks on the manner in which tithe should be assessed to the poor’s rates 1838, to which there were 4 replies; Text book of lectures on the political economy of nations. Hertford 1852. d. East India coll. Haileybury 26 Jany. 1855. G.M. xliii 316–7 (1855); Illustrated Mag., Aug. 1855 pp. 95–104; Literary remains of R. Jones (1859), portrait.
JONES, Richard. b. 1780; 2 lieut. R.A. 12 May 1797, col. 23 Nov. 1841, col. commandant 12 Jany. 1854 to death; L.G. 28 Nov. 1854. d. Cheshunt, Herts. 18 May 1863.
JONES, Richard Lambert. b. 1783; a working man; plumber, painter and glazier at Little Moorfields, London; estate and house agent, 40 Little Moorfields 1825–53; member of court of common council of city of London for ward of Cripplegate without 1819–51, chairman of improvements committee, of committee for rebuilding London bridge 1824–31, of committee for rebuilding the Royal exchange 1838–44, retired from corporation 1851; presented with his bust in marble (placed in the council chamber Guildhall), with a gold medal, and surplus of subscriptions used in founding a Lambert Jones scholarship at city of London school 17 June 1852. d. Lowestoft 16 Aug. 1863. I.L.N. 3 July 1852 p. 12, with woodcut of medal; Reminiscences of R. L. Jones (1863); The Town, ii 811 (1839).
JONES, Robert. Ed. at St. Bees; V. of Branxton, Northumberland, Feb. 1835 to death; author of A sermon 1841; The plague spots in the church of England 18—, a tract; The Battle of Flodden, and of sermons in Church of England Mag. d. 1870.
JONES, Robert (eld. son of Robert Jones). b. Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire 6 Jany. 1810; ed. at Oswestry sch. and Jesus coll. Oxf., B.A. 1837; vicar of All Saint’s, Rotherhithe 1841 to death; Welsh tutor to Prince Lucien Bonaparte; his fine collection of Welsh books is in the Swansea free library; first editor of Y Cym mrodor 1876; author of The history of the Cymmrodorion; edited The poetical works of the rev. Goronwy Owen 2 vols. 1876. d. All Saints’ vicarage, Deptford 28 March 1879.
JONES, Robert Harries. Ed. at univ. of Gottingen, M.A. and Ph. D.; C. of Hollinwood near Manchester 1847–9; C. of Bolton 1852–7; C. of Llanfairfechnan, Bangor 1861–7; V. of Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire 1867 to death; editor of Y Cymro 1851–3; author of Lectures on The affinity of European races; Landmarks in the reign of Henry VIII.; The Inquisition; author of translations from the Russian of Marlinska, Poushkin and Lermontoff for the Bolton Chronicle; translated into Welsh, Hecuba, Schiller’s Raeuber and Cæsar Cantu’s Margareta Pusterla. d. 1878.
JONES, Robert Oliver (eld. son of major general Oliver Thomas Jones). b. 16 Dec. 1811; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 97 foot 25 June 1829, lieut. 1832–34; barrister M.T. 25 Jany. 1850; sheriff of Glamorganshire 1838; stipendiary magistrate for Cardiff 18 Feb. 1858 to death; chairman of Glamorganshire quarter sessions. d. Fonmon castle, Cowbridge 14 Nov. 1886.
JONES, Roger Lyon. d. Princes park, Liverpool 1 Jany. 1875, personalty sworn under £350,000, 13 Feb. 1875, left greater part of his estate to Liverpool charities. Times 12 Feb. 1875 p. 11.
JONES, Theobald (2 son of James Jones, R. of Urney, Derry). b. 1790; entered navy 1 June 1803, captain 25 Aug. 1828, retired admiral 12 Sep. 1865; M.P. co. Londonderry 1830–57. d. 18 Harcourt st. Marylebone road, London 7 Feb. 1868.
JONES, Thomas. b. 24 June 1775; optician at 62 Charing Cross, London 1815–50, at 4 Rupert st. 1850 to death; constructed astronomical instruments for chief observatories of Great Britain and the colonies; a founder of Astronomical Society 1820; F.R.S. 4 June 1835; invented or improved the Englefield improved side transit instrument, the Sectograph, an improved hygrometer, and a double eye-piece; author of Description and use of the sectograph 1814; A companion to the mountain barometer, consisting of tables, &c. 1817, 2 ed. 1820. d. 4 Rupert st. London 29 July 1852.
JONES, Thomas. b. 1812; a special pleader to 1846; barrister M.T. 22 May 1846, bencher Nov. 1866 to death; Q.C. 23 July 1866. d. 57 Craven hill gardens, London 17 Oct. 1869.
JONES, Thomas (3 son of Philip Jones). b. Underhill, Margam near Neath, Glamorgansh. 1810; ed. Cowbridge gr. sch. and Jesus coll. Oxf., scholar 1829–35, B.A. 1832; librarian Chetham library, Manchester, March 1845 to death, when the number of volumes grew from 19,000 to 40,000; gave evidence before public committee on libraries 1849; F.S.A. 22 Feb. 1866; a contributor to Notes and Queries under name of Bibliothecarius Chethamensis; author of Catalogue of the Neath library 1842; Catalogue of Chetham Soc. Lib. 2 vols. 1862–3; Catalogue of the collection of tracts for and against popery in Chetham Library 2 vols. 1859–62. d. Southport, Manchester 29 Nov. 1875. Manchester Courier 3 Dec. 1875 p. 5; Papers of Manchester Literary club, ii 59–65 (1876).
JONES, Thomas. b. 1791; Roman catholic bookseller, the first who settled in Paternoster row, Dec. 1823, retired 1870; lost his invested money, when a public subscription was raised for him 1877. d. Great Ormond st. London 25 May 1882. Illustrated Catholic Mag. ii 334–6 (1872); Gillow’s English Catholics, iii 674 (1887).
JONES, Thomas (son of John Jones, commercial traveller, d. 1829). b. Rhayader, Radnorshire 17 July 1819; a collier at Brynmawr 1837, then a check weigher; ordained Independent pastor of Bryn chapel near Llanelly, July 1844; pastor of Libanus church, Morriston near Swansea 1850; known in Wales for his eloquence and originality as Jones Treforris and the Welsh poet preacher; pastor of Albany chapel, Frederick st. London 1858 and of Bedford chapel near Oakley sq. 1861 to Dec. 1869; pastor of congregational church, Walter’s road, Swansea, Jany. 1870 to 1877 and 1881 to death; pastor of congregational church, Collins st. Melbourne, Australia 1877–80; chairman of Congregational Union of England and Wales 1871–2; author of The work of the christian preacher 1871; The answer of the church to the scepticism of the age 1871; a series of his sermons appeared in Words of Peace, Melbourne 1877–78, and another in the Sunday Mag. Lond. 1883. d. Swansea 19 June 1882. The Divine and other sermons by T. Jones (1884), memoir pp. v–viii, portrait; Lyric thoughts of T. Jones (1886), memoir pp. 1–27.
JONES, Thomas Rymer (son of a captain in the navy). b. 1810; studied at Guy’s hospital and in Paris; M.R.C.S. 1833, but did not practice as he was deaf; the first professor of comparative anatomy in King’s college, London 1836–74; Fullerian professor of physiology at Royal Institution 1840–2; F.R.S. 21 March 1844; granted civil list pension of £50, 7 Aug. 1873; author of A general outline of the animal kingdom and manual of comparative anatomy 1841, 4 ed. 1871; The natural history of animals 2 vols. 1845–52; The animal creation a popular introduction to zoology 1865; The natural history of birds 1867; Mammalia 1873. d. 22 Castletown road, West Kensington, London 10 Dec. 1880.
Note.—His 2 son Alexander Manson Jones b. 15 July 1845, d. 5 Oct. 1881, was a civil engineer, he invented an automatic levelling machine called the ‘Temnograph.’
JONES, Thomas Wharton (son of Richard Jones of H.M.’s customs, Scotland). b. St. Andrews 1808; ed. at univ. of Edin.; F.R.S. 30 April 1840; F.R.C.S. 1844; lecturer on physiology at Charing Cross hospital; Fullerian prof. of physiology in Royal Institution of Great Britain 1851–54; Emeritus prof. of ophthalmic medicine and surgery, Univ. coll. hospital, London; granted civil list pension of £150, 31 Oct. 1881; author of A manual of ophthalmic medicine and surgery 1847, 3 ed. 1865; The wisdom of the Almighty displayed in the sense of vision 1851; Defects of sight, their nature, cause and prevention 1856, the 2 ed. was entitled Defects of sight and hearing 1866, 3 ed. 1877; A catalogue of the medicine and surgery of the eye and ear 1857; Evolution of the human race from apes, a doctrine unsanctioned by science 1876. d. Ventnor, Isle of Wight 7 Oct. 1891.
JONES, William. b. Battersea, London 15 April 1795; clerk to an attorney; attorney at law; a superintendent of Surrey chapel Sunday sch. 1815; an itinerant preacher among the Independents 1820; on committee of Religious Tract Soc. 1820–4, and travelling secretary Sep. 1824 to death; wrote the annual reports for 31 years to 1855 and many Tracts; author of The Jubilee memorial of the Religious Tract Soc. 1850; Recollections of the late George Stokes; Memoir of the rev. Rowland Holt 1834. d. London 5 April 1855. W. H. R. Jones’s Life of Wm. Jones (1857), portrait.
JONES, William. b. 1811; studied at Middlesex and Westminster hospitals and in Paris; L.S.A. 1832, M.R.C.S. 1834, M.D. King’s coll. Aberdeen 1850; invented the syphon douche 1848; author of Practical observations on the diseases of women 1839; Gas and gas meters, an address 1843; An essay on some of the most important diseases of women 1848. d. 10 Lower Seymour st. Portman sq. London 26 Jany. 1863. Journal British Archæol Assoc. (1864) 168.
JONES, William. Ed. at Glasgow univ. and Lampeter; V. of Nevin, Carnarvonshire 1842–62; R. of Llanenddwyn, Merionethshire 1862 to death; author of A portrait of the true philosopher 1831, a lecture; The character of the Welsh as a nation at the present day. Carnarvon 1840, a prize essay in Welsh and English; The Resurrection, a poem. Ruthin 1853, and of essays, orations and sermons. d. 1873.
JONES, Sir William (only son of Wm. Jones of Glan Helen, Carnarvonshire). b. 1808; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 61 foot 10 April 1825, lieut. col. 29 Dec. 1848 to 16 Nov. 1860 when placed on h.p.; served in Punjaub campaign 1848, and Indian mutiny 1857–8, commanded 3rd infantry brigade at siege of Delhi 1 July to 11 Oct. 1857 and was in charge during six days fighting in the streets; col. of 32 foot 2 Jany. 1871 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 9 June 1849, K.C.B. 2 June 1869, G.C.B. 29 May 1886. d. Lansdown lodge, Lansdown road, Dublin 8 April 1890.
JONES, William Arthur (youngest son of Wm. Jones, corn merchant). b. Carmarthen 1 May 1818; ed. at Carmarthen college and Glasgow univ., M.A. 1841; Unitarian minister at Northampton 1842–9, at Bridgwater 1849–52, at Taunton 1852–66; hon. sec. of Taunton and Somerset archæological and natural history soc. about 1853 to death, contributed to its Proceedings many papers; established a school of science and art at Taunton; author with rev. W. P. Williams of A glossary of the Somersetshire dialect. d. Tauntfield, Taunton 23 April 1873, memorial monument erected in grounds of Taunton Castle. The Taunton Courier 30 April 1873 p. 5.
JONES, William Bence (elder son of Wm. Jones, lieut.-col. 5 dragoon guards, d. 1843). b. Beccles, Suffolk 5 Oct. 1812; ed. at Harrow and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1836; barrister I.T. 9 June 1837; farmed and made great improvements on Lisselan estate, co. Cork 1838–80, when refusing to accept Griffith’s valuation from his tenants he was boycotted although he had always shown the greatest kindness to them; author of The Irish church from the point of view of one of its laymen 1868; The life’s work in Ireland of a landlord who tried to do his duty 1880. d. 34 Elvaston place, London 22 June 1882. Agricultural Gazette 13 March 1882, portrait.
JONES, William Daniel, b. 1787; 2 lieut. R.A. 12 Sep. 1803, col. 1 Nov. 1848 to 6 Jany. 1855 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 13 Dec. 1854. d. Bournemouth 20 May 1857.
JONES, William Frank (only son of Wm. Jenkin Saer of Newport, Pembrokeshire). b. 1842; ed. at St. Mary hall, Oxf., S.C.L. and B.A. 1870, B.C.L. and M.A. 1871; barrister L.I. 30 April 1874; assumed surname of Jones in lieu of Saer; edited with H. E. Hirst, Edward Chitty’s Index to all reported cases decided in several courts of equity in England and Ireland, the Privy Council and the House of Lords, 4 ed. 9 vols. 1883–9. d. Baroda, Ventnor, Isle of Wight 27 Dec. 1890.
JONES, William Gore (son of John Gore Jones of Sligo). b. 12 March 1826; cadet R.N. 12 Feb. 1841; commanded boats of Firebrand in Black sea, destroying the Russian establishments between the Danube and the Dneister 1854; first lieut. of Firebrand in attack on Sebastopol 17 Oct. 1854; Crimean and Turkish medals; 3 class Medjidie 25 March 1870; captain 20 Aug. 1861; flag capt. on Indian and China stations; naval attaché at Washington 1873–9; granted good service pension 6 Sep. 1871; C.B. 2 June 1877; V.A. 6 May 1882; author of A scheme by which it is proposed to increase the employment of naval officers 1863. d. 26 Ashburn place, South Kensington, London 28 May 1888.
JONES, William Henry. Assistant manager at Crystal palace, Sydenham; manager of and afterwards partner in firm of C. T. Brock and Co., pyrotechnists, Nunhead, Surrey; manager of Alexander palace, Muswell Hill 1 May 1880, palace reopened 15 May 1880 by James Willing, advertisement contractor; lessee of Alexandra palace with Benjamin Barber at rent of £10,000 per annum 25 March 1881. d. Magdala, Campsbourne, Hornsey 17 March 1883 aged 39.
JONES, William Henry Rich- (eld. son of Wm. Jones 1795–1855, chief secretary of Religious tract society). b. parish of Christchurch, Blackfriars, London 31 Aug. 1817; ed. at Totteridge, Herts., King’s coll. London and Magd. hall, Oxf.; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1844; C. of St. Andrew, Holborn 1841–2; R. of St. Martin-in-the-Fields 1842–5; Inc. of St. James’s, Curtain road, Shoreditch 1845–51; V. of Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts. 1851 to death, where he restored the church; surrogate and canon of Salisbury 1872 to death; prefixed his wife’s maiden name Rich to his surname 1883; F.S.A. 6 June 1861; edited for the Rolls series, The Registers of St. Osmund 2 vols. 1863–4; author of The life and times of St. Aldhelm. 1874; An account of the Saxon church of Bradford-on-Avon 1878; Fasti ecclesiæ Sarisberiensis 1879; Salisbury, a history of the diocese 1880. d. the vicarage, Bradford-on-Avon 28 Oct. 1885.
JONES, Sir Willoughby, 3 Baronet (2 son of Sir John Thomas Jones, K.C.B., major general d. 1843). b. Woolwich 24 Nov. 1820; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., scholar 1842, 20 wrangler 1843, B.A. 1843, M.A. 1847; succeeded his brother sir Lawrence Jones 1845; M.P. for Cheltenham 29 July 1847, but unseated on petition for bribery 28 June 1848; sheriff of Norfolk 1851; chairman of quarter sessions 1856; author of Public libraries, an address 1855; Christianity and common sense 1863. d. Cranmer hall, Fakenham, Norfolk 21 Aug. 1884. Power, Rodwell and Dew’s Reports, i 179–89 (1853).
JONGHMANS, F. b. 1822; a singer and musical conductor at Evans’ Supper rooms, Covent Garden, London 1852; a singer at Canterbury music hall, London; musical conductor at Oxford music hall, London, from the opening 26 March 1861 to about 1868; vocal director at Royal Alhambra palace 1869–70; sang at Argyll rooms when re-opened as the Trocadero 30 Oct. 1882. d. 15 Hemberton road, Mayflower road, Clapham 17 Oct. 1887. bur. St. Mary’s cemet. Kensal green 21 Oct. Entr’Acte Almanac (1876) 77, portrait.
JOPE, William (2 son of rev. John Jope, V. of St. Cleer, Cornwall, d. 1844). bapt. St. Cleer 12 Feb. 1789; barrister G.I. 20 June 1820, bencher 1847 to death, treasurer 1847; mayor of Liskeard 1820, 1828; recorder of Liskeard 1835 to death; recorder of Helston 1846–52. d. Thames Ditton 1 May 1854, monument in St. Cleer church.
JOPLING, Joseph Midleton (son of Joseph Jopling, clerk in the Horse Guards, Whitehall, London). b. 1831; clerk in adjutant general’s department Horse Guards 1848–70; associate of New Soc. of Painters in water colours 1859–76; exhibited 27 pictures at R.A. and 21 at Suffolk st. 1848–76; an early member of the Arts club, Hanover sq.; director of fine art section of Philadelphia international exhibition 1876; member of 3rd Middlesex rifle corps, won the queen’s prize at Wimbledon 1861. d. 28 Beaufort st. Chelsea, Dec. 1884.
JORDAN, John. Ed. at Clare coll. Camb., B.A. 1826; C. of Little Dean 1827–30; C. of Handborough 1830–6; C. of Somerton 1836–40; V. of Church-Enstone, Oxfordshire 15 Aug. 1840 to death; author of Review of tradition as taught by the writers of tracts for the times 1840; The Holy Baptist 1843, poem in 5 cantos; Scriptural views of the Sabbath of God 1848; A parochial history of Enstone 1857, and of many pamphlets. d. 16 May 1874 aged 70.
JORDAN, Robert Jacob. M.R.C.S. Eng. 1859; L.R.C.P. Edin. 1859; practised at 19 Berner’s st. Oxford st. London 1859–60, his name struck off the Medical Register 1864; kept anatomical museum 29 George st. Hanover square 1860–9; lived at 6 Bedford sq. London; proprietor of the Cordial balm of Rakasira; author of Diseases of the skin 1860; Skin diseases and their remedies 1860; Exposure of quackery and quacks. By Protector. d. London 14 April 1874, will which is signed Lewis Jacob Jordan proved 11 July 1874, personalty under £90,000. F. B. Courtenay’s Revelations of quacks and quackery 3 ed. (1871) 19, 98–110.
JORDAN, Thomas Brown (son of Thomas Jordan). b. Bristol 24 Oct. 1807; an artist at Falmouth 1827, a mathematical instrument maker there; made improvements in the miners’ dial, and aided R. W. Fox in the construction of his dipping needle 1834; devised instrument for recording variations of barometer by photography 1838; sec. of R. Polytechnic soc. Falmouth 1835–40; first keeper of mining records, London 1840–5; invented wood carving by machinery and established works at Lambeth 1845; mechanical engineer at Manchester, then at Glasgow to 1870; mining engineer London 1871 to death. d. London 30 May 1890. Iron 20 June 1890 p. 541.
Note.—He experimented in electro-metallurgy, and in 1841 made an egg cup of electro deposited copper, plated with silver outside and gold inside. This is now in Museum of practical geology, London.
JORDEN, George (son of a labourer, his mother was a herb-doctress). b. Clee Hills, in Farlow parish, Shropshire 1783; came to Bewdley as an errand boy; servant to James Fryer, M.D. 1806–56; botanist, his Flora Bellus Locus is in the Worcester museum; he collected, mounted and named every plant he was able to find; accumulated antiquarian lore including ballads and electioneering songs, which he bequeathed to Worcester museum. d. Bewdley 1871. J. R. Burton’s Bewdley (1883) 60.
JORDON, Edward. b. Jamaica 1801; a quadroon; agitated for the free political right of the coloured population, and then for the abolition of slavery in Jamaica; edited a newspaper in Jamaica, for an article in which he was tried for high treason but acquitted; prime minister in first executive committee, Jamaica 1860, member of the committee again April 1863 to Oct. 1864; receiver general Oct. 1864 to Aug. 1865; island secretary and governor’s secretary Aug. 1865 to death; C.B. 18 May 1860, the first coloured man so honoured. d. Kingston, Jamaica 8 Feb. 1869. American Annual Cyclop. for 1869 p. 529.
JOSEPH, Felix (eld. son of Abraham Joseph of 3 Woodstock st. Oxford st. London, curiosity dealer, d. 1872). b. London 1840; ed. at Ghent; in business with his father to 1872 when he retired; made a collection of old Wedgwood ware, now in the Nottingham castle museum; a selection from his best examples was on loan at the Guelph exhibition in London; a benefactor to the museums of Nottingham, Maidstone, Norwich, Sandgate and Derby; a full length portrait of him by Knighton Warren is in Nottingham castle museum. d. Southsea 19 Aug. 1892. Daily Graphic 18 Dec. 1891 p. 9, col. 1, portrait.
JOSEPH, Henry Samuel. b. 1801; Jewish rabbi at Bedford; ordained as a literate in the ch. of England 1835; travelling sec. to society for promoting christianity among the Jews; chaplain to Chester castle 1847–56; author of Reason for embracing christianity 1834; Memoirs of convicted prisoners. Chester 1853. d. Strasburg, France 28 Jany. 1864.
JOSEPH, John Charles. b. 1810; proprietor of Northumberland hotel, Dublin; patentee and owner of Queen’s theatre, Great Brunswick st. Dublin 29 June 1844 to death; a guardian of the poor of the North Union; member of municipal council of Dublin, representing the North Dock ward 15 years. d. Northumberland buildings, Eden quay, Dublin 8 Nov. 1871. The Freeman’s Journal 9 Nov. 1871 pp. 3, 4, 14 Nov. p. 3.
JOSEPHS, Frances Adeline, known as Fanny Josephs (dau. of W. H. Josephs, manager of Sadler’s Wells theatre, London). b. 1842; first appeared in London at Sadler’s Wells as Celia in As you like it 8 Sep. 1860; a member of the Strand burlesque co. 1861; played Lord Woodbie in The Flying Scud, on opening night of Holborn theatre 6 Oct. 1866 and 200 nights afterwards; manager of the Holborn theatre April 1868 to 29 March 1869; the original Emily Mervyn in Byron’s comedy Partners for life, at Globe theatre 7 Oct. 1871; acted Bella in School, at Prince of Wales’ 20 Sep. 1873 to 1 April 1874, and Lady Sneerwell in School for Scandal 4 April to 7 Aug. 1874; the original Lady Marie Wagstaff in The Pink Dominos, Criterion theatre 31 March to Dec. 1877; lessee of the Olympic, Easter 1879; played Mary Blythe in The World, at Drury Lane 31 July 1880; lessee and manager of Prince of Wales’, Liverpool 1884–90. (m. captain George Wombwell). d. Margate 17 June 1890. bur. Brompton cemet. Illust. sport. and dram. news, i 649, 674 (1874) portrait, xiii 565, 570 (1880) portrait; Era 21 June 1890 p. 8; Pascoe’s Dramatic list (1880) 215–6; Saturday Programme 11 March 1876 pp. 7–8, portrait.
Note.—Her sister Eliza Stuart Patti Josephs, always known as Patti Josephs, was b. 1849, acted in England and America, d. Philadelphia 5 Oct. 1876, m. John Fitzpatrick, actor.
JOSSELYN, George (younger son of John Josselyn of Sproughton near Ipswich, land agent). b. 1 Jany. 1807; solicitor at Ipswich 1828–86; member of Ipswich town council 1840, mayor 1842, 1851, 1859, alderman 1846–78; a director of Eastern Union and Great Eastern railway companies. d. Sproughton near Ipswich 27 May 1888. Public men of Ipswich (1875) 110–6.
JOSSELYN, John (son of John Josselyn of Boxted, Essex, d. 1819). b. 1816; ed. C.C. coll. Camb.; sheriff of Suffolk 1855; master of Suffolk fox hounds 20 years. d. St. Edmund’s hill, Bury St. Edmunds 19 Feb. 1884.
JOULE, James Prescott (son of Benjamin Joule of Salford, brewer 1784–1858). b. New Bailey st. Salford 24 Dec. 1818; pupil of John Dalton the chemist at Manchester; member of Manchester literary and philosophical soc. 1842, librarian 1844, hon. sec. 1846, vice pres. 1851, pres. 1860; F.R.S. 6 June 1850, royal medal 1852, Copley medal 1870; LL.D. Dublin 1857, D.C.L. Oxf. 1860, LL.D. Edin. 1871; granted civil list pension of £200, 19 June 1878; received Albert medal of Society of Arts 1880; experimented on electro-magnetism with view of applying it as a motive power; discovered that the attractive force exercised by two electric magnets is proportioned to the square of the strength of the magnetising current 1840; established the relation between heat and chemical affinity 1840; established the mechanical equivalent of heat by experiments 1842–9; had a laboratory at Whalley Range 1844; wrote upwards of 100 scientific papers; author of New theory of heat 1846; Mechanical equivalent of heat 1859; The scientific papers of J. P. Joule. Published by The Physical society of London 2 vols. 1884–7, with portrait. d. 12 Wardle road, Sale near Manchester 11 Oct. 1889. Popular Science Monthly, v 103–7, portrait; Leisure Hour, Aug. 1873 pp. 549–52; Nature 26 Oct. 1882 pp. 617–20, portrait; Graphic 2 Nov. 1869 pp. 530, 532, portrait.
JOWETT, Joseph. b. 1784; ed. Queen’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1806, M.A. 1823; R. of Silk Willoughby near Sleaford 1810 to death; composer of Musæ Solitariæ. A collection of original melodies adapted to various measures of psalms and hymns 2 vols. 1823–7; Lyra Sacra. Select extracts from the cathedral music of the Church of England 1825; A manual of parochial psalmody 1832; Pocket index to the final key note in any piece of music 1842. d. Silk Willoughby 13 May 1856.
JOWETT, William (son of J. Jowett of Newington, Surrey). b. 1787; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., fellow 1811–16; twelfth wrangler 1810; B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813, Hulsean prizeman 1810; first Anglican clergyman who volunteered for foreign service of Church missionary soc. 1813; missionary of Church Missionary Soc. in Mediterranean 1815–20, in Syria and Holy Land 1823–4; clerical sec. of the C.M. Soc. 1832–40; Sunday evening lecturer at St. Mary, Aldermanbury to 1851; Inc. of St. John, Clapham Rise, London 1851 to death; author of An essay to prove that the propensity of the Jews to idolatry affords no grounds for disbelieving miracles 1811; Christian researches in the Mediterranean 1822; Christian researches in Syria and the Holy Land 1825, 2 ed. 1826; Scripture characters from the Old Testament, three series 1847–8; Scripture characters from the New Testament 1850. d. 4 The Rise, Larkhall lane, Clapham 20 Feb. 1855. bur. Lewisham churchyard.
JOY, Henry Holmes (3 son of Henry Joy of Belfast). b. the Lodge, Belfast 1805; ed. at Belfast academy and Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1841, LL.B. and LL.D. 1856; called to Irish bar 1827, Q.C. 13 Feb. 1849. d. Tunbridge Wells 28 Feb. 1875.
JOY, John Cantiloe (son of Mr. Joy, guard to mail coach between Yarmouth and Ipswich). b. Yarmouth 1806; employed by the government as draughtsman at Portsmouth about 1832; marine painter with his brother Wm. Joy at Chichester, Putney and London, the two brothers always worked together on the same pictures; exhibited 6 sea pieces at Suffolk st. London 1826–7. d. London 1866.
JOY, Thomas Musgrave (only son of Thomas Joy). b. Boughton-Monchelsea, Kent 1812; pupil of Samuel Drummond, A.R.A.; exhibited 67 pictures at R.A., 82 at B.I. and 50 at Suffolk st. 1831–67; painted subject pictures and portraits of the prince of Wales and princess Royal 1841–3, sir Charles Napier and duke of Cambridge; his best picture Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme was in R.A. 1853; painted a picture of the Meeting of the subscribers to Tattersall’s before the races 1864; his pictures were sold at Christie’s on the Ascot settling day after his death. d. of bronchitis, 32 St. George’s sq. Pimlico, London 7 April 1866. Art Journal, Aug. 1866 p. 240.
JOY, William (brother of John Cantiloe Joy 1806–66). b. Yarmouth 1803; employed by government as draughtsman at Portsmouth about 1832; always worked with his brother on the same pictures; exhibited 2 sea pieces at R.A., 2 at B.I. and 3 at Suffolk st. 1823–45. d. Chichester 1867.
JOYCE, Frank (son of Pierce Joyce of Merview, Galway, d. 1883). Agent for marquess of Clanricarde, resigned and brought an action against his employer for libel; well known sportsman in Galway; resided at Tallyho, Loughrea; upset in a jaunting car and d. at Loughrea from a wound in his head May 1890. Times 9 May 1890 p. 10.
JOYCE, James Gerald (eld. son of Harry Gandy Joyce). b. Clonmel, Ireland 1819; ed. Magd. hall, Oxf., B.A. 1846; V. of Burford with Fullbrook 1850–5; R. of Strathfieldsaye, Hants. 1855 to death; F.S.A. 1 June 1865; took much interest in the excavations at Silchester and contributed papers on the discoveries made there 1865 etc.; author of Can the liturgy be used to attach the people to the church? 1869; The Fairford windows. A monograph. Published by the Arundel society 1872, the letter press and the drawings on wood, stone and paper were all by him. d. Strathfieldsaye rectory 28 June 1878. Proc. Soc. Antiq. London, viii 106–8 (1881).
JOYCE, James Wayland (eld. son of rev. James Joyce of Henley, Oxon). b. 1812; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1828–44; B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; R. of Burford (3rd portion), Salop 1843 to death; proctor of diocese of Hereford 1852–80; preb. of Hereford 1868 to death; author of England’s sacred synods 1855; Ecclesia vindicata: a treatise on appeals in matters spiritual 1862; The civil power in its relation to the church 1869; On the courts of final appeal as proposed by the commissioners on ecclesiastical courts 1884; Acts of the church 1531. 1885; The church her own reformer 1886. d. Burford 16 Nov. 1887. The Hereford Journal 26 Nov. 1887 p. 4.
JOYCE, Robert Dwyer. b. in co. Limerick, Sep. 1836; ed. Queen’s univ. Dublin; professor of English literature in college of R.C. univ. Dublin; surgeon in Dublin to 1866; went to U.S. America and resided at Boston till his death; member of R. Irish acad.; author of Ballads, romances and songs. Dublin 1861; Legends of the war in Ireland. Boston 1868; Fireside stories of Ireland 1871; Ballads of Irish chivalry, songs and poems. Boston 1875; Deirdrè [A poem by R.D.J.] 1876; Blanid, a poem. Boston 1879; The squire of Castleton. d. Dublin 23 Oct. 1883.
JOYCE, Samuel (3 son of James Joyce of Chapel st. Pentonville, London). b. 1817; barrister G.I. and M.T. 21 Jany. 1846; Q.C. 5 Feb. 1874; bencher of G.I. 1874 to death; author of Remarks on the operations of the county courts act 9 & 10 Vict. c. 95, with suggestions for amendment of practice of superior courts in personal actions 1850. d. 12 Endsleigh st. Tavistock sq. London 6 Jany. 1876. bur. in Highgate cemetery.
JOYCE, William (2 son of James Joyce of Pentonville, London). Barrister I.T. 21 Nov. 1851 and of L.I. 14 Jany. 1860; resided 12 Endsleigh st. Tavistock sq.; author of The law and practice of injunctions in equity and at common law 2 vols. 1872; The doctrines and principles of the law of injunctions 1877; Proposals for an intellectual franchise. d. Thirlestane, Hampton hill 19 Oct. 1891.
JOYNER, Henry Batson (eld. son of Henry St. John Joyner). b. Northwick, Harrow 9 July 1839; resident engineer to Tunbridge Wells commissioners 1868–70; in service of Japanese government, constructing railways, making a trigonometrical survey and organising a department of meteorology 1870–7; engineer in chief of water supply and sewerage system of city of Sāo Paulo, Brazil 1877–84; A.I.C.E. 6 May 1879, M.I.C.E. 29 Nov. 1881; F.R.G.S.; author of The progress and ultimate results of meteorology, specially considered in reference to Japan 1876. d. England 23 Nov. 1884. Min. of Proc. I.C.E. lxxix 370–1 (1885).
JUDD, William Henry. M.R.C.S. 1815, hon. F.R.C.S. 1844; assistant surgeon 3 foot guards 25 Feb. 1819, battalion surgeon 12 July 1827, surgeon major 22 July 1845 to 17 Feb. 1854 when placed on h.p.; the first advocate to claim justice for the army surgeon; he caused the abolition of the cross belts and the substitution of the present manner of carrying the cartouch box and ammunition; surgeon in ordinary to the Prince Consort; edited Part 4 of vol. i. of Transactions of the Royal Medico-Botanical Society 1839; author of A practical treatise on urethritis and syphilis 1836. d. 41 Maddox st. Regent st. London 7 or 10 Sep. 1868 aged 73.
JUDKIN, Thomas James. b. 1788; ed. Gonville and Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; admitted ad eundem at Oxf. 1 Dec. 1842; P.C. of Somers chapel, Somers Town, London 1828–68; author of Twelve signs of the times; Church and home psalmody, being a collection of psalms from the old and new versions and original hymns 1831, 7 ed. 1851; Bygone moods, or hues of fancy and feeling from the spring to the autumn of life 1856. d. Reigate-heath 11 Sep. 1871.
JUKES, Joseph Beete (only son of John Jukes of Birmingham, manufacturer, who d. 1819). b. Summerhill near Birmingham 10 October 1811; ed. at Wolverhampton and Birmingham gr. schs. and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1836; geological surveyor of Newfoundland 1839–40; naturalist to expedition for surveying coast of Australia, Torres Strait and New Guinea 1842–6; member of the English geological survey 1 Oct. 1846 to 1850; director of the Irish survey Nov. 1850 to 1870; lecturer on geology at R. coll. of science, Dublin 1854; member of commission to enquire into the resources of the coal fields 1860; wrote upwards of 50 papers on geology in scientific journals; author of Excursions in and about Newfoundland 2 vols. 1842; Narrative of the voyage of H.M.S. Fly 2 vols. 1847; A sketch of the physical structure of Australia 1850; The student’s manual of geology 1857, 3 ed. 1872; injured his brain by a fall and d. Upper Leeson st. Dublin 29 July 1869. bur. Selley Oak near Birmingham. Letters of J. B. Jukes (1871), portrait; Quarterly Journ. Geol. Soc. xxvi 32–4 (1870).
JUKES, Robert Boswell. Ed. at C.C. coll. Camb., B.A. 1838; chaplain to Leopold I. king of the Belgians; consular chaplain at Ostend 1846–75; Raine lecturer St. Michael’s Cornhill, London 1875 to death. d. in St. Michael’s ch. a few minutes after finishing his sermon 9 July 1882. Guardian 12 July 1882 p. 964.
JULIAN, Charles Saint. Chief justice of Fiji 1871–4; author of Notes on the latent resources of Polynesia. Sydney 1851; The international status of Fiji and the political rights of British subjects residing in the Fijian archipelago 1872; with Edward Kennedy Silvester, The productions, industry and resources of New South Wales 1853. d. Vadratan, New Zealand 26 Dec. 1874.
JULIAN, William Robert (son of William Julian d. 25 Jany. 1872 aged 74). b. 1827; connected with Masks and Faces entertainment; an entertainer on the music hall stage; dramatic and musical agent at 34 Wellington st. Strand 1864–70, at 29 Bow st. Covent Garden 1870–4, at 75 Berwick st. Soho 1875 to death. d. 4 April 1886. bur. Woking cemet. 11 April. Era 10 April 1886 p. 7.
JULLIEN or JULIEN, Louis George Antoine Jules (son of M. Jullien, conductor of band of the Garde Nationale). b. Sisteron, Basses Alpes 23 Aug. 1812; a piccolo player in band of the Garde Nationale; played violin solos in concerts in Italy 1834; served in French navy and army for short periods; studied at the Conservatoire, Paris under J. H. Halevy 1833–6; founder and conductor of concerts in the Jardin Turc, Paris 1836 which for a time were a great success; director of Bals d’Opera, Paris; rented and opened the Hotel of the Duke of Parma in the Chaussée d’Antin as a casino, soon closed by the police; published a programme in which he turned the government into ridicule, fled to England to escape imprisonment 1838; conducted dance music at Drury Lane 1838 and then became chief conductor there for the first time Nov. 1838; conductor of concerts d’hiver 1841 and of concerts de societé 1842, before one shilling audiences; his winter seasons of concerts at Drury lane lasted 1842–59; much noticed in Punch where he was called The Great Mons.; opened at Drury Lane 6 Dec. 1847 with Lucia di Lammermoor; bankrupt 19 April 1848, awarded first class certificate; gave out-door promenade concerts at Surrey gardens 1849; kept a depot for sale of dance music at 214 Regent st. 1845–58 and the royal conservatory of music at 45 King st. Golden sq. 1846–58; produced his own opera Pietro il Grande at Covent Garden 17 Aug. 1852, played 4 times; in U.S. America, July 1853 to June 1854; opened New Music hall, Surrey gardens 15 July 1856, gardens closed 1857 when he lost £6000; the whole of his engraved and manuscript music burnt in Covent Garden 5 March 1856; gave his concerts d’adieu, his twentieth season at the Lyceum 1858; in prison at Clichy, France 4 months May-Aug. 1859; composer of British army quadrilles and 150 pieces of music; the first to familiarize the masses with the works of Mozart, Beethoven and Mendelssohn; placed in a lunatic asylum 10 March 1860, wounded himself with a knife. d. Neuilly, Paris 14 March 1860. Dramatic and musical review, i 5 (1842), portrait; The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages 4 series (1860), portrait; G.M. viii 632–4 (1860); I.L.N. iii 348, 413 (1843) portrait, ix 289 (1846) view of concert; You have heard of them by Q. (1854) 283–92; Reynolds’ Miscellany, xi 181 (1854), portrait, xvii 344 (1857), portrait; Belgravia, xli 285–96 (1880); Putnam’s Monthly Mag. ii 423–33 (1853).
JUNG, Sir Salar. b. 1829; dewan or prime minister of Hydrabad 1853, when he made great reform in the management of the state; remained faithful at the time of the mutiny 1857; one of the regents of Hydrabad 1866; visited England 1876, D.C.L. Oxf. 21 June 1876; presented to the queen at Windsor 29 June 1876; voted freedom of city of London 29 June 1876, admitted 25 July 1876; G.C.S.I. 31 May 1870. d. Hydrabad 8 Feb. 1883. To-day, July 1883; Times 10 Feb. 1883 p. 5, 11 Feb. p. 8, 12 Feb. p. 5.
JUNG, Sir Salar. b. 1863; prime minister of Hydrabad to 1887; visited England in the Jubilee year 1887 when he resided in the house of lord Howard, Rutland gate, London; author of two papers entitled Europe revisited in Nineteenth Century, Aug. and Oct. 1887; K.C.I.E. 15 Feb. 1887. d. Hydrabad 7 July 1889. Times 8 July 1889 p. 5, 9 July p. 5, 15 July p. 5.
JUNNER, Robert Gordon. b. Edinburgh 1841; barrister M.T. 17 Nov. 1865; went Midland circuit, attended Birmingham sessions, and lord mayor’s court, London; author of The practice before the railway commissioners 1874. d. Portobello near Edinburgh 27 Aug. 1874.
JUPP, Edward Basil (son of Richard Webb Jupp). b. 1 Jany. 1812; admitted solicitor 1836; partner with his father 1836–44, with Richard Samuel Jupp 1844–48, practised alone 1848 to death; joint clerk with his father to the Carpenters’ company 1843–52, and clerk 1852 to death; collected works of Thomas Bewick, which were sold by auction at Christie’s Feb. 1878; author of An historical account of the worshipful company of carpenters of the City of London 1848, 2 ed. 1887; Genealogical memoranda relating to R. Wyatt of Hall place, Shackleford 1870. d. 4 Paragon, Blackheath, Kent 30 May 1877.
JUPP, Henry (son of C. Jupp a cricketer). b. Dorking, Surrey 19 Nov. 1841; a brickmaker; played his first match at Lords 16–18 May 1864; played in the Surrey Eleven 1864–81; one of the best batsmen in England, also a good field; made 216 runs in one innings in match Players of the South v. Gentlemen of the South 25 Sep. 1865; scored 1557 runs in 1866; played in Australia 1874; landlord of Sun inn, Dorking about 1867–75, of Horns tavern, Lower Norwood 1875–8, of Onslow Arms, Cranleigh, Surrey 1878. d. Bermondsey, London 8 April 1889. Baily’s Mag. xxvi 403 (1875), portrait; Grace’s Cricket (1891) 331–2; Illust. sporting and dramatic news, i 568, 570 (1874), portrait.
JUPP, Richard Webb. b. 1767; solicitor in City of London 1792–1844; clerk to the Carpenters’ company 1798 to death; member of common council for Broad st. to death. d. Carpenters’ hall, 6 London Wall, London 26 Aug. 1852.
JUST, John (eld. son of Jonathan Just, farmer). b. Natland near Kendal 3 Dec. 1797; ed. at Kendal and Kirkby Lonsdale gram. schools 1811–17; second master of Bury gr. sch. 1832 to death; lecturer on botany at Pine street (afterwards Royal Manchester) school of medicine and surgery Sep. 1833, lectured annually 1834–52; hon. professor of botany at Royal Manchester Institution, Oct. 1848, delivered 3 courses of lectures 1849–51; investigated the Roman roads in Lancashire; deciphered the Runic inscriptions in the Isle of Man; wrote numerous papers on farming, botany and philosophy. d. Bury 14 Oct. 1852. Memoirs of Literary and Philos. Soc. of Manchester, xi 91–121 (1854); Journal of British Archæological Assoc. ix 105–11 (1854).
JUSTICE, William. Entered Madras army 1818; lieut. col. of 52 Madras N.I. 29 Sep. 1842, of 15 N.I. 1844–5, of 11 N.I. 1845–8, of 4 N.I. 1848–50, of 49 N.I. 1850–1, of 34 N.I. 1851–3, of 7 N.I. 1853–4; col. of 32 Madras N.I. 1854–60, of 39 N.I. 1860–1, of 5 N.I. 1861 to death; L.G. 6 Dec. 1866. d. Bath 27 Oct. 1868.
JUSTYNE, Percy William (son of Percy Justyne). b. Rochester 1812; landscape painter; exhibited 1 picture at R.A. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1837–8; private sec. to Charles Joseph Doyle, governor of island of Grenada 1841–5, acting stipendiary magistrate in Grenada, returned to England 1848; a skilful illustrator of books; employed on the Illustrated London News 1849–50, London Journal, National Mag., Graphic, &c. d. 6 June 1883. bur. Norwood cemetery.
JUTSUM, Henry. b. London 1816; ed. in Devonshire; pupil of James Stark 1839; member of New Water-colour Soc. 1843; exhibited 68 pictures at R.A., 75 at B.I. and 19 at Suffolk st. 1836–69; the drawings chiefly of English scenery which he had collected were sold at Christie’s 17 April 1882; of his paintings ‘The Noonday walk’ is in the Royal collection, and ‘The Foot Bridge’ in South Kensington museum. d. 88 Hamilton terrace, St. John’s Wood, London 3 March 1869.
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KAHN, Joseph. b. Germany; opened a small anatomical museum at 315 Oxford st. London 1851; kept anatomical museum, 4 Coventry st. Leicester sq. 1855–7; physician at 17 Harley st. Cavendish sq. 1857–62; kept museum and gallery of science 3 Tichborne st. 1857–66, re-opened with exhibitions and lectures on oxhydrogen, microscope, dissolving views, &c., besides lectures on the laws of life and preservation of health, lecturers Dr. Kahn and Dr. Sexton 8 Dec. 1857; returned to Germany about 1866; author of Catalogue of Dr. Kahn’s Anatomical museum exhibiting at 315 Oxford st. 1851; Atlas of the formation of the human body 1852; The evangel of human nature, fourteen lectures 1856; The philosophy of marriage 1859. F. B. Courtenay’s Revelations of Quacks, 3 ed. (1871) 76–8; The Era 13 Dec. 1857 p. 13.
KALEY, James. Scotch giant nearly 8 feet high; exhibited at a cafe on the Boulevards, Paris, d. Paris, Dec. 1852 aged 27.
KALISCH, Marcus Moritz. b. Treptow, Pomerania 16 May 1825; ed. at univ. of Berlin; Ph.D. Halle; came to England as a refugee 1848; sec. to Nathan Marcus Adler, chief rabbi of the great synagogue, London 1848–53; tutor to sons of baron Lionel Rothschild and to the daughters of sir Anthony Rothschild; the liberality of the Rothschild family enabled him to publish his literary works; author of A historical and critical commentary on the Old Testament Hebrew and English 1855, with English edition of the same 1858; The life and writings of Oliver Goldsmith, two lectures 1860; A Hebrew grammar with exercises 1862–3; Bible studies 1877–8; Path and gaol. A discussion on the elements of civilisation and the conditions of happiness 1880; resided 35 Longridge road, Earl’s court, London. d. Baslow hydropathic establishment, Rowsley, Derbyshire 23 Aug. 1885. bur. Jewish cemetery, Willesden. The Jewish Chronicle 28 Aug. 1885 pp. 5, 10.
KANE, Daniel Ryan. Called to Irish bar 1825; Q.C. 15 Feb. 1847; commissioner of bankrupts 1826; assistant barrister for county of Leitrim. d. Vesey place, Kingstown 17 Jany. 1883. Law Mag. and Law Rev. Aug. 1858 pp. 261–2.
KANE, Denis. b. Ardnahue, co. Carlow 3 March 1822; ed. at Tullow monastery, Carlow diocesan sch., Carlow coll. and Maynooth; dean of the lay house 1848 and then professor of natural philosophy Carlow coll. 1851–7; curate in Leighlin-bridge 1857, administrator at Tullow 1860; in pastoral charge of Philipstown 1867 and of Baltinglas 1871; vicar general of Carlow 1878 to death; D.D. d. Carlow 2 July 1883. M. Comerford’s Collections of Kildare and Leighlin (1883) 232, 330–1.
KANE, Sir Robert John (2 son of John Kane, chemist). b. Dublin 24 Sep. 1809; ed. at Dublin univ., LL.D. 1868, member of academic council 16 Dec. 1874; clinical clerk Meath hospital, Dublin 1830; F.K. and Q.C.P. Dublin 1835; lecturer in chemistry Apothecaries’ Co. of Ireland medical sch. Dublin 1831–45; discovered an arsenide of manganese since known as Kaneite; claimed to be the discoverer of the ethyl theory 183-; experimented on the compounds of ammonia; member R. Irish Acad. 1832, sec. 1842–9, Cunningham medal 1843, president 1877–82; royal medal of Royal Soc. 1841 for paper on archil and litmus; F.R.S. 7 June 1849; professor of natural philosophy Royal Dublin soc. 1834–47; originator and first director of Museum of Irish industry, Dublin 1845–9; established Royal coll. of science, Ireland; knighted by lord Heytesbury, Feb. 1846; president Queen’s coll. Cork 1849, resigned May 1873; commissioner of national education in Ireland 1873; president R. Geol. soc. of Ireland; commissioner of national education Aug. 1875; vice chancellor R. University of Ireland 1880. (m. 1838 Katharine dau. of Henry Baily of London, she was author of The Irish Flora, and d. 1886); originated Dublin Journal of Medical science 1832, one of the editors to 1834; an editor of Philosophical mag. 1840; author of Elements of practical pharmacy 1831; Industrial resources of Ireland 1844, 2 ed. 1845; The large and small farm question considered 1844; The elements of chemistry 1846, 2 ed. 1849. d. 2 Wellington road, Dublin 16 Feb. 1890. Proc. of Royal Soc. xlvii pp. xii–xvii (1890); Muspratt’s Chemistry, vol. i (1853), portrait; Dublin Univ. Mag. May 1849 pp. 626–37, portrait.
KARKEEK, William Floyd (son of George Karkeek). b. Truro 9 Sep. 1802; passed as a veterinary surgeon 31 Jany. 1825; sec. Cornwall agricultural assoc.; encouraged scientific farming in Cornwall; one of the editors of The Veterinarian 1833–41; author of An essay on artificial and other manures 1844; An essay on fat and muscle 1844; On the farming of Cornwall 1845; Diseases of cattle and sheep 1851. d. Pentreve, Truro 25 June 1858. The Veterinarian, xxxi 478–80 (1858).
KARSLAKE, Edward Kent (eld. son of Henry Karslake of 4 Regent st. London, solicitor, who d. 3 Aug. 1857 aged 72). b. 1820; ed. at Harrow; student of Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1838–41, Ireland scholar 1840, B.A. 1841, M.A. 1846; fellow of Balliol coll. 1841–50; barrister L.I. 6 May 1846, bencher 11 Jany. 1867 to death, treasurer 1892 to death; Q.C. 15 Dec. 1866; M.P. Colchester 15 Feb. 1867 to 11 Nov. 1868; contested Colchester 18 Nov. 1868; author of Oratio Latino aureo numismate Roberti Peel dignata et in auditorio recitata scholæ Harroviensis 1836; Concio apud scholæ Hergensis Gubernatores habita iii 1837. d. Turvey, Beds. 31 May 1892. Pen and ink sketches in chancery (1867), No. 3 pp. 14–16.
KARSLAKE, Sir John Burgess (brother of the preceding). b. Bencham near Croydon 13 Dec. 1821; ed. at Harrow; solicitor; barrister M.T. 30 Jany. 1846; went western circuit, leader of it with John Duke Coleridge; Q.C. 22 Feb. 1861, bencher of his inn 7 May 1861 to death, treasurer 1873; solicitor general 29 Nov. 1866; knighted at Osborne 28 Dec. 1866; attorney general 18 July 1867 to Nov. 1868 and 27 Feb. 1874 to April 1874 when he resigned in consequence of his failing sight; M.P. Andover 11 Feb. 1867 to 11 Nov. 1868; contested Exeter 16 Nov. 1868; M.P. Huntingdon 20 Dec. 1873, accepted Chiltern hundreds Feb. 1876; P.C. 24 March 1876; member of judicature commission; revised Dr. Charles P. Collyn’s Notes on the chase of the wild red deer 1862. d. 7 Chester sq. London 4 Oct. 1881. I.L.N. xlix 648, 649 (1866), portrait; Graphic, ix 191, 196 (1874), portrait; A generation of Judges by Their Reporter (1886) 183–9.
KARSLAKE, William Heberden (1 son of William Karslake, V. of Culmstock, Devon 1811, d. 1861). b. 1809; ed. at the Charterhouse and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1830; R. of Meshaw and Creacombe, Devon 29 Oct. 1832 to death; preb. of Exeter cath. 1875 to death; R.D. of South Molton to death, chairman of quarter sessions; banquet given to him at South Molton 24 Oct. 1878 when he was presented with 300 guineas to restore Meshaw ch.; found dead in his bed at Meshaw rectory 29 Oct. 1878. Mozley’s Reminiscences, ii 123–9 (1882); The Guardian 30 Oct. 1878 p. 1506.
KATER, Edward. F.R.S. 19 Nov. 1840; M.R.I.A.; lived at 46 Sussex gardens, London. d. 1866.
KATON, James Edward (only son of James Katon, vice admiral, d. 1845). b. 18 Nov. 1810; entered navy 5 Nov. 1823; captain 1 Jany. 1856, retired 1 July 1864; retired admiral 27 March 1885. d. St. Thomas’s house, Ryde, Isle of Wight 20 Dec. 1886.
KAVANAGH, Arthur Macmorrough (3 son of Thomas Kavanagh 1767–1837, M.P. for co. Carlow). b. Borris house, co. Carlow 25 March 1831 with only the rudiments of arms and legs; became a good driver, rider, angler, shooter, draughtsman and painter; acted as a volunteer scout during Smith O’Brien’s rebellion 1848; went to India by way of Russia and Persia 1849–51; succeeded to the family estates 1854 on death of his brother Charles Kavanagh; rebuilt villages of Borris and Ballyragget 1855–6; subsidised and managed railway from Borris to Bagnalstown 1858 etc.; sheriff of Kilkenny 1856 and of Carlow 1857; M.P. for co. Wexford 1866–68; M.P. co. Carlow 1868–80; lord lieut. of co. Carlow 1880; initiated the Irish land committee 1882, founded the Land corporation 1883; P.C. Ireland 1886; author of The cruise of the R.Y.S. Eva. Dublin 1865. d. 19 Tedworth sq. Chelsea, London 25 Dec. 1889. bur. in ruined church on Ballycopigan, Borris. Sarah L. Steele’s A. M. Kavanagh (1891), portrait; Blackwood’s Mag. March 1891 pp. 429–44; The Lancet 14 March 1891 p. 608.
KAVANAGH, Julia (only child of the succeeding). b. Thurles 1824; lived with her parents in Paris to 1844; wrote tales and essays for periodicals; author of The three paths 1847; Women in France during the eighteenth century 2 vols. 1850; Women of christianity 1852; A summer and winter in the Two Sicilies 2 vols. 1858; English women of letters 1862; French women of letters 2 vols. 1862; Queen Mab 3 vols. 1863; Dora 3 vols. 1868; Bessie 3 vols. 1872; Two lilies 3 vols. 1877. d. Nice 28 Oct. 1877, portrait by Chanet placed in national gallery of Ireland 1884. Irish Monthly, vi 96–100 (1878).
KAVANAGH, Morgan Peter. Author of The wanderings of Lucan and Dinah, a romance. By M.P.K. 1824; The reign of Lockrin, a poem. By M. P. K. 1839; The discovery of the science of languages 2 vols. 1844; Aristobulus, the last of the Maccabees 3 vols. 1855; Myths traced to their primary source through language 2 vols. 1856; Origin of language and myths 2 vols. 1871; The Hobbies, a novel 3 vols. 1857, edited by Julia Kavanagh his dau. who repudiated having anything to do with this work. d. from an accident March 1874. Athenæum (1857) 43, 761, 792, 822, 854, 909.
KAVANAGH, Thomas Henry (son of band master of 3 regt. of foot). b. Mullinger, Ireland 1821; entered uncovenanted service of H.E.I. Co. Dec. 1834; assistant comr. in Oudh and stationed at Lucknow; went disguised through Lucknow to the Alum Bagh to communicate with sir C. Campbell 8 Nov. 1857 and to act as his guide to Lucknow; V.C. 6 July 1859; requested to retire from the service, he being at that time in debt 22 Oct. 1875; granted his full pension of 5000 rupees per annum; author of Guilty or not guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. Lucknow 1876. d. Gibraltar, Nov. 1882. I.L.N. xxxiv 108, 109 (1859), portrait; How I won the Victoria cross (1860). By T. H. Kavanagh, portrait; The Verdict. By T. H. Kavanagh. Lucknow (1877).
KAY, Alexander. b. 1816; member of faculty of procurators, Glasgow; member of Glasgow Shakspeare club, instituted 1838; director of the Glasgow Athenæum; a contributor to Tait’s Mag., London Journal, Glasgow Tales of the borders, West of Scotland Mag., and Dramatic Rev.; dramatised Dickens’ Christmas Carol; wrote poetical introduction to Tam O’Shanter, a pantomime at Adelphi theatre, Glasgow, which ran 82 nights; author of Florine, a dramatic poem in ten scenes 1858. d. 1860. monu. to his memory in Sighthill cemet. Inglis’ Dramatic writers (1868) 69.
KAY, Joseph (3 son of Robert Kay 1768–1834). b. Ordsall cottage, Salford, Manchester 27 Feb. 1821; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.; travelling bachelor of the Univ. 1845; B.A. 1845, M.A. 1849; wrote in the Manchester Examiner on Free trade in land; barrister I.T. 5 May 1848, bencher 31 May 1870 to death; judge of Salford Hundred court of record, June 1862 to death; Q.C. 22 June 1869; solicitor general of county palatine of Durham 15 Feb. 1872 to death; contested Salford 1874 and 1877; author of The education of the poor in England and Europe 1846; The social condition of the people in England and Europe 2 vols. 1850; The condition and education of poor children in English and in German towns 1853; The law relating to shipmasters and seamen 2 vols. 1875. d. Fredley near Dorking, Surrey 9 Oct. 1878. Joseph Kay’s Free trade in land (1879); J. S. Bright’s History of Dorking (1884) 371–3.
KAY, Joseph Henry. b. 1814; midshipman R.N. Dec. 1827, commander 23 Aug. 1849, retired captain 1 Jany. 1865; director of royal magnetic observatory, Hobart Town to 1853; private sec. to sir Charles Hotham, governor of Victoria 1854–5; clerk of executive council, Melbourne to 1 July 1875; F.R.S. 26 Feb. 1846; member of Tasmanian Philos. soc.; contributed papers to Tasmanian Journal of science; author of Observations made at the observatory at Hobarton 1850. d. South Yarra, Melbourne 17 July 1875. The Argus 19 July 1875 p. 5.
KAY, William (youngest child of Thomas Kay of Knaresborough). b. Pickering, North Yorkshire 8 April 1820; ed. at Giggleswick sch. 1834–6; scholar of Lincoln coll. Oxf. 1836, fellow 1840, tutor 1842; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842, B.D. 1849, D.D. 1854; Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew scholar 1842; principal of Bishop’s college, Calcutta 1849–64; select preacher at Oxf. 1865; R. of Great Leghs, Essex 1866 to death; Grinfield lecturer on the Septuagint 1869; one of the Old Testament revisers 1870–85; hon. canon of St. Alban’s 1877 to death; contributed to the Speaker’s Bible, Commentaries on Isaiah (1875) and on the Epistle to the Hebrews (1881); author of The influence of christianity on the position and character of women. Calcutta 1859; The Psalms with notes 1863, 5 ed. 1877; Crisis Hupfeldiana, an examination of Hupfeld’s Criticism on Genesis 1865; A commentary on the two Epistles of St. Paul to the Corinthians 1887. d. Great Leghs 16 Jany. 1886. Burgon’s Lives of twelve good men (1891) pp. ix–xi 150, 167, 172.
KAY-SHUTTLEWORTH, Sir James Phillips, 1 Baronet (brother of Joseph Kay 1821–78). b. Rochdale 20 July 1804; educ. Edinb. univ., M.D. 1827; senior president Royal Medical soc. 1826; physician Manchester 1827; sec. Manchester board of health; assistant poor law commissioner 1835; first sec. of committee of privy council on education 1839–49; with E. Carleton Tufnell established first training coll. for teachers at Battersea 1839, existing methods of public education founded on his system; assumed by r.l. name of Shuttleworth 14 Feb. 1842; cr. baronet 9 Jany. 1850; vice chairman of central relief committee, Manchester, during cotton famine 1861–5; sheriff of Lancashire 1863; D.C.L. Oxf. 22 June 1870; contested N.E. Lancashire 13 Feb. 1874; author of The moral and physical condition of the working classes employed in the cotton manufacture 1832; Public education as affected by the minutes of the committee of privy council 1853; Scarsdale, or life on the Lancashire and Yorkshire border 3 vols. 1860; Thoughts and suggestions on social problems 1873; Ribblesdale, or Lancashire sixty years ago 3 vols. 1874. d. 68 Cromwell road, Kensington, London 26 May 1877. Graphic, xv 549 (1877), portrait.
KAYE, John (son of Abraham Kaye, linen draper, Angel row, Hammersmith). b. Hammersmith 27 Dec. 1783; ed. at Ch. coll. Camb., scholar, fellow 1804, foundation fellow 1811, tutor 1808–14, master 5 Sep. 1814 to Nov. 1830; senior wrangler, chancellor’s medallist and B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807, B.D. 1814, D.D. 1815; vice chancellor 1815; regius professor of divinity July 1816 to Nov. 1830, revived public lectures which had been suspended for more than a century; nominated bishop of Bristol 1 July 1820, consecrated at Lambeth 30 July, translated to Lincoln 12 Feb. 1827; visitor of Balliol coll. Oxf. 1848 to death; contributed papers to British Mag. under signature of Philalethes Cantabrigiensis; F.R.S.; author of The ecclesiastical history of the second and third centuries 1826; Some account of the writings and opinions of Justin Martyr 1829; A charge to the clergy of the diocese of Lincoln 1843, 3 ed. 1843; Some account of the council of Nicæa, in connexion with the life of Athanasius 1853; Some account of the government of the church of Christ during the first three centuries 1855; The works of John Kaye 8 vols. 1888. d. Riseholme palace near Lincoln 18 Feb. 1853. G.M. xxxix 428–31, 570 (1853).