part in Lord Nelson’s victory over the Danes off Copenhagen

2 April 1801 and was ultimately the last survivor of those

present; retired commander 11 March 1860. _d._ 3 July 1875 aged

86. _O’Byrne’s Naval Biog. Dict._ (1849) 579.

JEFFERSON, MARGARET C. (dau. of Mr. Lockyer). _b._ Burnham,

England 11 Sep. 1832. (_m._ 1849 Joseph Jefferson, American

comedian who was _b._ Philadelphia 20 Feb. 1829); first appeared

at Bowery theatre, New York as the Fairy queen in Cinderella

1848; came out at Niblo’s garden as Mrs. Lullaby 23 July 1859; a

pleasing actress in soubrette parts. _d._ Twelfth st. New York

25 Feb. 1861. _Brown’s American stage_ (1870) 194; _Ireland’s

New York stage_, _ii_ 501, 558 (1867); _Autobiography of J.

Jefferson_ (1890) 127–8, 229.

JEFFERY, CHARLES (son of James Reddecliff Jeffery of Liverpool).

_b._ 1839; ed. at Trin. hall, Cam., B.A. 1863; barrister I.T. 9

June 1865; judge of district court of Falmouth in Jamaica 1871

to death; joint editor of J. Chitty’s Precedents in pleading 3

ed. 2 vols. 1868. _d._ Mentone, France 4 Feb. 1875.

JEFFERY, GEORGE ERNEST (eld. son of George Augustus Jeffery,

M.D., of Trinity Home, Eastbourne). _b._ Eastbourne 9 Feb. 1853;

ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Cam.; in the Rugby Eleven, played

at Lord’s against Marlborough 28–9 June 1871; made 116 runs in

one innings in Twenty three gentlemen _v._ Eleven players of

Sussex, the last match ever played on the Old Brunswick cricket

ground, Hove, Brighton 15 Sep. 1871; played in the Cambridge

Eleven against Oxford 1873–4; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1878. _d._

Westholme, Streatham common, London 8 April 1891.

JEFFERY, HENRY MARTYN (only son of John Jeffery of Gwennap,

Cornwall 1798–1874). _b._ Lamorran rectory, Cornwall 5 Jany.

1826; ed. at Falmouth gr. sch. 1833–40 and Sedbergh gr. sch.

1841–5; of St. John’s coll. Camb. Oct. 1845, of St. Catherine’s

coll. 1846; 6 wrangler and B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; lecturer in

coll. of civil engineers, Putney 1850; second master Cheltenham

gram. sch. June 1852 and head master June 1868 to 1882 when

retired on pension; F.R.S. 3 June 1880; wrote on mathematics in

Rep. British Assoc., Quarterly Journal of mathematics and other

scientific journals; one of the ablest exponents of abstract

mathematical science; edited E. R. Humphrey’s Exercitationes

Iambicæ 2 ed. 1854 and Lyra Hellenica 1854 and contributed

additional matter; Two sets of letters of rev. Henry Martyn

1883; Extracts from the religious diary of Miss Lydia Grenfell

1890. _d._ 9 Dunstanville ter. Falmouth 3 Nov. 1891. _Boase and

Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ (1882) 1245–6; _Biograph_, _vi_ 515–17

(1881); _Journal of royal institution of Cornwall_, _xi_ 208–13

(1892).

JEFFERY, JAMES REDDECLIFF. _b._ Devonport 25 Nov. 1809; went to

Liverpool, Feb. 1832 and in partnership with Walden and Bright

commenced business, partnership dissolved July 1832, associated

himself with James Morrish and opened Compton house Nov. 1832,

his brother Wm. Sam. Jeffery being also in the firm, in 1860 the

house covered a space of 16,200 square feet, was three stories

high and employed 300 hands and was one of the four largest

silk and drapery establishments in United Kingdom; Compton

house burnt down 1865 and rebuilt at cost of £250,000; James

Jeffrey had a share in Howell & James 5, 7, 9 Regent st. London,

which share he sold to concentrate his energies in Compton

house; bankrupt 15 March 1871. _d._ Ilkley, Yorkshire 4 July

1871. _bur._ the necropolis, Liverpool. _Puseley’s Commercial

Companion_ (_2 ed._ 1860) 107–8; _The Draper 7 July 1871 p._ 317.

JEFFERYS, CHARLES. _b._ 11 Jany. 1807; music publisher 31

Frith st. Soho, London 1837–40, then at 21A Soho sq. 1840 to

death; had a great legal action with Thomas Boosey respecting

copyright in Italian operas, which he gained on appeal to House

of Lords 1854; author of Esmeralda, an English version of Hugo’s

Ermelinda 1856; Louisa Miller, in English 1860; The Gipsy’s

Vengeance, an English version of Il Trovatore 1856; wrote the

words of The rose of Allandale 1850; Mary of Argyle 1850;

Jeannette’s farewell to Jeannot 1850; composer of Rose Atherton,

Erin, my own native home 1857; published A book of beauty for

the Queen’s boudoir. Musical Annual 1853, 1854; Jeffery’s

Musical journal 1864, seven numbers. _d._ London 9 June 1865.

_C. Clark’s House of Lord’s Cases_, _iv_ 815–996 (1855).

JEFFREY, ALEXANDER. _b._ Lilliesleaf, Roxburghshire 1806; a

solicitor’s clerk at Melrose, then in Edinburgh; assistant

in town clerk’s office, Jedburgh; advocate in the sheriff’s

court, Roxburghshire 1838 to death; F.S.A. Scotland; member of

Berwickshire Naturalist club; author of An historical account of

Roxburghshire. Edinb. 1836; The history of Roxburghshire 4 vols.

1857–64; The age we live in, a lecture 1874. _d._ Jedburgh 29

Nov. 1874. _The Scotsman 30 Nov. 1874 p._ 4.

JEFFREY, ALLEN RONALD MACDONALD. _b._ 1823 or 1824; wrote for

sporting journals in London from about 1850 to death; wrote an

article every week in the Sporting Times signed, the Member for

Tattersall’s 1875 to death; one of the oldest members of the

Victoria club 18 Wellington st. Strand. _d._ 75 Sandmere road,

Clapham 26 March 1891. _bur._ Norwood cemetery 30 March.

JEFFREY, ANDREW. _b._ Foulden, Berwickshire 17 Feb. 1800;

emigrated to Canada 1819 and resided at Cobourg, Canada West

1820 to his death; proprietor of an extensive hardware business;

member for Newcastle division in legislative council of Canada

1860. _d._ Cobourg 29 July 1863. _American Annual Cyclop. for

1863 p._ 725.

JEFFREY, REV. GEORGE. _b._ Leitholm, Berwickshire 1 Oct. 1815;

ed. Edinb. univ. 1830 and at Theological hall of the United

secession presbytery 1833; minister of London road ch. Mile End,

Glasgow 1838 to death; clerk to the presbytery of Glasgow, and

moderator 1879; a very popular preacher and lecturer; author

of The present war, a discourse. Glasgow 1854. _d._ Glasgow 23

May 1887. _bur._ Sighthill cemet. 27 May. _G. Jeffrey’s The

believer’s privilege._ _Sermons Edin._ 1888, _with biographical

sketch by A. Thomson pp._ 1–54, _portrait_; _John Smith’s Our

Scottish Clergy_ (1848) 223–30.

JEFFREYS, EDMUND RICHARD (4 son of rev. John Jeffreys _d._ 1840

aged 69, R. of Barnes 1795–1839). _b._ 29 Aug. 1808; ed. at

Westminster and Sandhurst; ensign 88 foot 16 June 1825, major

12 May 1843 to 16 March 1855; lieut. col. depot battalion 23

March 1855 to 6 March 1868; col. 1 battalion Manchester regiment

1 July 1881 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list

29 Aug. 1878; hon. general 1 July 1881; C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._

Seafield house, Ryde, Isle of Wight 3 April 1889. _Welsh’s

Alumni Westmonasterienses_ (1852) 425.

JEFFREYS, JOHN GWYN (eld. son of John Jeffreys of Fynone,

Swansea, _d._ 1815). _b._ Swansea 18 Jany. 1809; ed. at Swansea

gram. sch.; solicitor Swansea; deputy steward for duke of

Beaufort’s, Glamorganshire manor; barrister L.I. 30 April

1856, retired from practice 1866; F.L.S. 1829; F.R.S. 2 April

1840; LLD. of St. Andrew’s univ.; treasurer Geological Soc.

1869–82 and V.P. 1882; sheriff of Hertfordshire 1877; president

biological section of British Assoc. 1877; went on many deep

sea dredging expeditions 1860–70 and discovered a large number

of new species of shells; wrote upwards of 100 papers on

scientific subjects; his collection of European mollusca was

purchased by United States government 1883; author of British

conchology 5 vols. 1862–69. _d._ 1 The Terrace, Kensington 24

Jany. 1885. _Proc. Royal Soc. xxxviii_ 14–17 (1885); _Quart.

Journ. Geol. Soc. xli_ 41–2 (1885); _I.L.N. lxxxvi_ 136 (1885),

_portrait_; _Biograph_, _vi_ 373 (1881).

JEFFREYS, JULIUS (4 son of rev. Richard Jeffreys, R. of

Throcking, Herts.) _b._ Hall place, Kent 1801; studied in

Edinb. and London; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1821; assistant surgeon Bengal

medical establishment 28 Sep. 1822, advocated establishment

of health stations in India, staff surgeon 1824; invented the

thermantidote for cooling houses; established a manufactory of

soda water and made the stone bottles for containing it; the

first to send citrate of limes to England for forming citric

acid; returned to England 1835; invented the respirator for

persons suffering from pulmonary attacks 1835, obtained patents

for it 1836, 1844 and 1850; Member Med. Chir. Soc. 1838; F.R.S.

7 Jany. 1841; F.G.S. 1846; author of Observations upon the

construction and use of the respirator 1836; A few remarks upon

an atmospheric treatment of the lungs and upon the use of the

respirator 1845, 2 ed. 1847; A word on climate and affections

of the throat and chest 1850; The British army in India, its

preservation by appropriate clothing 1858. _d._ 9 Park villas

west, Queen’s road, Richmond, Surrey 13 May 1877. _E. Jeffrey’s

Confutative biographical notice_ (1855); _Proc. Med. Chir. Soc.

viii_ 294–7 (1877).

JEJEEBHOY, BYRAMJEE (son of a merchant at Bombay). _b._ 1823;

Parsee merchant Bombay; first to introduce cotton-spinning

mills into India; instrumental in introducing fire insurance;

member of legislative council of Bombay 1868; settled in trust

for his family 30 lakhs of rupees 1872; founded medical schools

in Ahmedabad and Poona and a high school at Poona called after

himself; gave 4 lakhs of rupees for a school for poor Parsees in

Bombay 1890; C.S.I. 31 Dec. 1875. _d._ Bombay 12 Sep. 1890.

JEJEEBHOY, SIR JAMSETJEE, 1 Baronet (son of Jejeebhoy a native

of Nowsaree a town in Baroda). _b._ Nowsaree 15 July 1783;

made five voyages to China 1799 to 1807; a Parsee merchant

in Bombay 1807; released the poor debtors, confined by the

court of requests, from the Bombay gaol by paying their debts

1822; founded Jejeebhoy hospital in Bombay 1843 cost 2 lakhs

of rupees, and endowed many schools; completed the causeway

connecting Mahim with Bandora 1845; founded Parsee benevolent

institution, Bombay 1849; gave away about £250,000; knighted

by letters patent 2 March 1842; baronet of United Kingdom by

letters patent 6 Aug. 1857; the first native of India who

received title and arms from British authority; voted freedom

of City of London 14 April 1855. _d._ Bombay 14 April 1859.

_bur._ in the Tower of Silence at Chowpatty 14 April. _J.

J. Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known_ (1874) 218–9;

_Drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages 2 series_

(1859), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxix_ 579, 580 (1856), _portrait_;

_Cooverjee Sorabjee Nazir’s The first Parsee baronet. Bombay_

(1866).

JEJEEBHOY, SIR JAMSETJEE, 2 Baronet (son of preceding). _b._ 9

Oct. 1811; Parsee merchant Bombay; relinquished his original

names Cursetjee Jamsetjee, on succeeding to the baronetcy,

by act of legislative council of India, No. XX, 1 May 1860

ordaining that successive holders of the baronetcy should take

name of Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy; distributed large sums in charity;

J.P. for Bombay; F.R.S. 27 May 1841; fellow of Bombay univ.

1862; C.S.I. 20 May 1871. _d._ Fountain hall, Poona 11 July

1877. _I.L.N. 20 Aug. 1859 p._ 194, _portrait_.

JELF, REV. RICHARD WILLIAM (2 son of sir James Jelf of Oaklands,

Gloucester, _d._ 1842). _b._ 25 Jany. 1798; ed. at Eton and

Ch. Ch. Oxf., fellow of Oriel 1820–6, tutor 1823, B.A. 1820,

M.A. 1823, B.D. 1831, D.D. 1839; tutor to prince George of

Cumberland, afterwards king of Hanover, 1826–39; canon of Ch.

Ch. Oxf. 15 March 1830 to death; Newman and Pusey addressed to

him their respective letters on the Thirty nine articles 1841;

Bampton lecturer 1844; one of the six doctors who suspended

Pusey from preaching 1847; principal of King’s coll. London

1844–68; sub-almoner to queen Victoria 1846 to death; condemned

F. D. Maurice’s Theological essays 1853; author of Sermons 1835;

Via Media or the church of England our providential path between

Romanism and dissent 1842, 4 ed. 1842; The thirty nine articles

explained 1873; edited Bishop Jewel’s Work 8 vols. 1848. _d._ in

his residence Ch. Ch. Oxford 19 Sep. 1871. _The Eton portrait

gallery_ (1876) 197–8; _The Graphic_, _iv_ 375, 381 (1871),

_portrait_.

JELF, REV. WILLIAM EDWARD (brother of the preceding). _b._

Gloucester 3 April 1811; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A.

1833, M.A. 1836, B.D. 1844; tutor of Ch. Ch. 1836–49, censor

1841–9, junior proctor 1843–4, his strictness caused an uproar

at the Commeration of 1843 which was never excelled in Oxford;

master of the schools 1839; Whitehall preacher 1846–8; Bampton

lecturer 1857; V. of Carleton, Skipton, Yorkshire 1849–54; built

a ch. on his own property at Caerdeon near Barmouth, Wales where

he officiated 1854, ch. consecrated 1875; author of A grammar

of the Greek language 2 vols. 1842–5, 3 ed. 1861; Christianity

comprehensive and definite 1857, several editions; Supremacy

of Scripture. In a letter to Dr. Frederick Temple 1861, 2 ed.

1862; Quousque? Considerations on ritualism. By a High churchman

of the old school 1875. _d._ Hastings’ lodge, Hastings 18 Oct.

1875. _Guardian 27 Oct. 1875 p._ 1367 _and 3 Nov. p._ 1394.

JELLETT, REV. JOHN HEWITT. _b._ Cashel, Tipperary 25 Dec. 1817;

ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, fellow 1840–70; B.A. 1838, M.A. 1843,

B.D. 1866, D.D. 1881; professor of natural philosophy Trin.

coll. 1847–70; commissioner of Irish national education 1868;

president R. Irish Acad. 1869; member of board of Trin. coll.

1870 and provost 2 April 1881 to death; gave annual prizes to

Trin. coll. called Prizes for general answering 24 Nov. 1883

to death; author of An elementary treatise of the calculus of

variations 1850; A treatise on the theory of friction 1872; The

efficacy of prayer 1878; An examination of some of the moral

difficulties of the Old Testament 1867. _d._ the provost’s

house, Trin. coll. Dublin 19 Feb. 1888. _Times 21 Feb. 1888 p._

10, _24 Feb. p._ 5; _I.L.N. lxxviii_ 453 (1881), _portrait_;

_The Graphic 10 March 1888 p._ 240, _portrait_.

JELLICOE, MRS. ANNE W. (dau. of Mr. Mullin). _b._ 1823; a

Friend, joined the Ch. of England; lady superintendent of

Alexandra college, 2 Earlsfort terrace, Dublin (founded for

education of ladies) 1866 to death. _d._ at the residence of her

brother John W. Mullin 13 South road, Birmingham 18 Oct. 1880.

_bur._ Friends’ ground at Rosenallis near Mountmellick 21 Oct.

_Freeman’s Journal 19 Oct. 1880 p._ 1, _22 Oct. p._ 2.

JELLICOE, CHARLES. _b._ 1804 or 1805; clerk Royal Exchange

assurance co. 1825, sec. of life committee 1827; actuary and

sec. Protector life association 1835 with which Eagle co.

amalgamated 1847, sec. of joint companies 1847–70, director and

deputy chairman 1870 to death; president Institute of actuaries

1860–67; edited Assurance Mag. to 1866; F.R.G.S.; F.S.S. _d._

Brighton 13 Nov. 1882. _Journal of Institute of Actuaries_

(_April 1883_) 17–19.

JEMMETT, WILLIAM THOMAS (eld. son of Edward Jemmett of Lincoln’s

inn, barrister). _b._ 1799; ed. at Winchester; barrister M.T. 10

Nov. 1820; recorder of Kingston on Thames 1831 to death; comr.

of bankrupts for Manchester district 21 Oct. 1842 to 31 Dec.

1869 when granted sum of £1800 on abolition of office; author of

The acts relating to the administration of law in the courts of

equity 1830, 2 ed. 1836. _d._ Langhorn gardens, Folkestone 17

May 1875.

JENCKEN, FERDINAND EDWARD. _b._ blind 1823; operated on for

cataract and obtained use of one eye 1841; ed. at King’s

coll. Lond.; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1853; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1853;

M.R.C.S. Eng. 1869; L.K.Q.C.P. Irel. and L.M. 1870; practised

at Londonderry; wrote many papers; author of The cholera, its

origin and treatment 1867; Vaccination impartially reviewed

1868; Essay on Beethoven’s Sonatas with Introductory sketch of

music 1871. _d._ of pyæmia, 22 Anglesey place, Kingston, Ireland

12 Jany. 1881. _Medical Times_, _i_ 112, 335 (1881).

JENCKEN, HENRY DIEDRICH (son of Johann Ferdinand Jencken, who

came to England as physician to Queen Adelaide). _b._ London

1828; barrister L.I. 30 April 1861; practised at Cape Town;

frequently retained in commercial cases; sec. to Association

for reform and codification of the law of nations, July or Aug.

1874 to death; the subject of a correspondence between Foreign

office and Spanish government in regard to outrages on him by

people of Lorca in Spain 20 July 1869, cause of outrages was

a superstition that he was a “tio del sain” or fat-monger who

butchered children to use the fat of their entrails to repair

telegraph wires; translated and wrote prefaces to Treatises

on Light, Colour, Electricity and Magnetism by his father

1869; author of The laws on negotiable securities 1880; A

compendium of the laws of bills of exchange and other negotiable

instruments 1880; author with Frederick Tomkins of A compendium

of modern Roman law 1870. _d._ 16 St. James’s st. Notting Hill,

London 26 Nov. 1881.

JENINGS, ELIZABETH JANET (2 dau. of rev. William Plues of

Ripon, Yorks.) _b._ 1818; (_m._ Edmund John Jenings of Fir

Trees, Hawkhurst, Kent); author of My Good-for-Nothing brother:

a novel. By Wyckliffe Lane [1862], new ed. 1863, which was a

success; Thyra Gascoigne 3 vols. 1863, 3 ed. 1863. Fourth ed.

was under title of John Douglas’s Vow 1867. _d._ Hawkhurst 23

Aug. 1863.

JENKIN, HENRIETTA CAMILLA (only dau. of Robert Jackson, custos

rotulorum of Kingston, Jamaica). _b._ Jamaica 8 Feb. 1807.

(_m._ 1832 Charles Jenkin who entered R.N. 1814, commander 9

Nov. 1846, _d._ 5 Feb. 1885); lived in Paris 1847–8, Genoa

1848–51 and Edinburgh 1868 to death; author of Violet Bank and

its inmates 3 vols. 1856; Cousin Stella 3 vols. 1859, another

ed. 1862; Who breaks pays 2 vols. 1861; Skirmishing 1862; Once

and again 1865; A Psyche of to-day 1868; Madame de Beaufrés

1869, the above are all anonymous; Two French marriages 3 vols.

1868; Within an ace 1869; Jupiter’s daughters 1874, and of Une

vieille fille, in the Revue des deux mondes; was paralysed for

last ten years of her life. _d._ Edinburgh 8 Feb. 1885. _R. L.

Stevenson’s Memoir of F. Jenkin_, _i pp. xxiii etc._, _cliii

etc._, _portrait_; _O’Byrne’s Naval Biog. Dict._ (1849) 580;

_Times 17 Feb. 1885 p._ 10.

JENKIN, HENRY CHARLES FLEEMING (son of preceding). _b._

Stowting court near Dungeness 25 March 1833; ed. at Jedburgh

gram. sch. and Edinburgh academy; studied at Genoa univ. 1849,

M.A.; apprenticed to sir W. Fairbairn, mechanical engineer,

Manchester 1851; engineer in London, in partnership with H. C.

Forde 1861–8, afterwards an electrician; fitted out submarine

telegraph cables 1858–73; professor of engineering in Univ.

coll. London 1865–8, in Univ. of Edin. 1868 to death; F.R.S.

1 June 1865; M.I.C.E. 18 Feb. 1868; invented telpherage or

the automatic transport of heavy goods by electricity 1882,

a telpher line was opened at Glynde near Lewes 17 Nov. 1885;

patented 35 inventions; author of Bridges. A treatise on their

construction and history 1876; Electricity and magnetism 3 ed.

1870; Healthy houses 1878; Scenes from the Agamemnon. Arranged

by F. Jenkin 1880. _d._ 3 Great Stuart st. Edinburgh 12 June

1885. _H. C. F. Jenkin’s Papers literary and scientific 2 vols._

(1887), _Memoir in i pp. xi–clxx_, _portrait_; _W. Hole’s Quasi

Cursores_ (1884) 105–11, _portrait_; _Min. of proc. of Instit.

of C.E. lxxxii_ 365–77 (1885); _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxix_ 1–3

(1886).

JENKINS, DAVID JAMES (3 son of John Jenkins of Haverfordwest).

_b._ 1824; ed. Teignmouth gram. sch.; served in mercantile

marine; commanded a troopship in the Baltic 1854–5; merchant

and shipowner of firm of Jenkins & Co. 17 Lime st. London; M.P.

Penryn and Falmouth 1874–86; contested Harwich 17 Nov. 1868.

_d._ Torquay 26 Feb. 1891.

JENKINS, FRANCIS (2 son of rev. Francis Jenkins 1756–1839, V. of

St. Clement, Cornwall). _b._ St. Clement 4 Aug. 1793; entered

Bengal army 1809; comr. at Assam 28 Jany. 1834 to 1861; retired

M.G. 31 Dec. 1861; wrote many papers in scientific journals.

_d._ Gowhatty, Assam 28 Aug. 1866. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl.

Cornub._ (1874–82) 273, 1247.

JENKINS, GEORGE THOMAS (youngest son of William Kinnaird Jenkins

of Abbotts Langley, Herts.) _b._ 1819; barrister M.T. 8 Nov.

1844; counsel to the governors of queen Anne’s bounty 1869–78;

principal sec. to sir G. Jessel master of the rolls 1873–8; a

clerk of records and writs chancery division 1878–9; a master of

supreme court of judicature 1879–89; author of Are our bishops

to be stipendiary? A few observations on the ecclesiastical

commission 1859. _d._ Franklands, Burgess hill, Sussex 10 March

1890.

JENKINS, HENRY (son of rev. Henry Jenkins of Midhurst, Sussex).

_b._ Midhurst 1786 or 1787; ed. at Magd. hall, Oxf., B.A. 1806,

M.A. 1809, B.D. 1827; demy of Magd. coll. 1803–27; master of

his college school 22 Jany. 1810 to 25 March 1828; probationary

fellow of Magd. coll. 1827–31, vice pres. 1829, dean of divinity

1830; R. of Stanway, Essex 27 March 1830 to death, redeemed

the land tax of the rectory at his own expense for benefit of

his successors; instituted the Magdalen cricket club, for many

years only society of the kind in the Univ. except the old

Bullingdon club; presented his large and valuable collection of

books to the Colchester museum 1869; author of Colchester Castle

built by a colony of Romans 1853, Appendix 1853; translated The

history of Eudo Dapifer, with an introduction and notes 1860.

_d._ 3 Aug. 1874. _J. R. Bloxam’s Register of Magdalen college,

Oxford_, _iii_ 262–8 (1863), _vii_ 153–4 (1881).

JENKINS, HENRY. _b._ 1832; H. Jenkins having expressed his

disbelief in the personality of the devil was refused the Holy

Communion by the rev. Flavell Smith Cook vicar of Ch. Ch.

Clifton 1875, this led to the case of Jenkins _v._ Cook which

was ultimately settled by the judicial committee of the privy

council 16 Feb. 1876 in favor of plaintiff’s right to demand

the communion in his own parish church, Cook then resigned his

living; author of Scraps in prose and verse 1864; Prayers for

a week 1865; Selections from the Old and New Testament 1865;

Selections from the works of Jeremy Taylor 1876. _d._ 3 Vyvyan

terrace, Clifton park, Clifton 16 May 1881. _J. Latimer’s Annals

of Bristol_ (1887) 482–3; _The Times 26 May 1881 p._ 12; _Law

Reports: 4 Admiralty and Ecclesiastical_ (1875) 463–99 _and 1

Probate Division_ (1876) 80–107.

JENKINS, HENRY MICHAEL (eld. child of John Jenkin of Ely Mills,

Llandaff, miller). _b._ Fairwater cottage, Ely Mills 30 June

1840; ed. at Mr. Browning’s sch. near Bath 1850–4; assistant

in library and museum of Geol. Soc. Somerset house, London,

assistant sec., librarian and curator 1862 to 31 Dec. 1868;

sec. of Royal Agricultural Soc. and editor of its Journal 1

Jany. 1869 to death, wrote 26 papers in the Journal 1869–86;

assist. comr. on agricultural interests 1881, wrote reports on

agriculture of North of France, Belgium, Holland and Denmark

1882; assistant comr. on technical education 1882, wrote report

on Agricultural education in North of Europe 1882. _d._ The

Limes, New Barnet 24 Dec. 1886. _Journal of Royal Agricultural

Soc. April 1887 pp._ 168–213; _The Field_, _lxix_ 27, 293, 329,

506 (1887).

JENKINS, REV. JOHN DAVID (1 son of Wm. David Jenkin of Merthyr

Tydvil _d._ 1834). _b._ Merthyr Tydvil 30 Jany. 1828; ed. Jesus

coll. Oxf., B.A. 1850, M.A. 1852, B.D. 1859, D.D. 1871; fellow

of Jesus 1849 to death; minister at Pieter-Maritzburg 1853, and

canon of cathedral ch. there 1856–60; chaplain to the forces in

Natal 1853–9; dean of Jesus coll. 1865, junior bursar 1866; V.

of Aberdare 1870 to death; chairman South Wales choral union;

president of the Amalgamated Soc. of railway servants 1873;

author of The age of the martyrs, or the first three centuries

of the work of the church 1869, new ed. 1884; Passages in church

history selected from the MSS. of J. D. J.: with a brief memoir

of the author 2 vols. 1879. _d._ Aberdare 9 Nov. 1876.

JENKINS, JOSEPH JOHN (son of an engraver). _b._ London 1811;

engraved many portraits and plates; drew illustrations for the

annuals; associate of New Water-colour Soc. 1842, member 1843–7,

exhibited 57 drawings at their exhibitions; associate of Old

Water-colour Soc. of painters in 1847, member 10 June 1850 to

1884, sec. 1854–64, exhibited 271 drawings at their exhibitions,

collected materials for history of the Society from 1852,

completed and published by J. L. Roget 1891; instituted press

private views of exhibitions of pictures 1863; F.S.A. 3 June

1875. _d._ 67 Hamilton terrace, St. John’s Wood, London 9 March

1885. _J. L. Roget’s History of Old water-colour Soc. ii_ 328–35

(1891); _I.L.N. lxxxvi_ 327 (1885), _portrait_.

JENKINS, PHILIP. _b._ Dale, Pembrokeshire 1854; ed. at

International sch. of architecture; held an appointment in

Lloyd’s, London to 1886; professor of naval architecture and

marine engineering, Glasgow univ. 1886 to death. _d._ Llawrenny

Kelvinside, Glasgow 13 June 1891.

JENKINS, SIR RICHARD (eld. son of Richard Jenkins of Bicton

hall, Salop 1760–97). _b._ Cruckton near Shrewsbury 18 Feb.

1785; a writer on Bombay establishment 1798, went to India

1800; first assistant at court of Dowlut Rao Scindia 1804,

acting resident Nov. 1804; a scholar in many languages; acting

resident and resident at Nagpore 1807–27, present in the battle

of Sitabaldi 26–27 Nov. 1817; Appa Saheb was deposed 1818 and

Jenkins governed Nagpore 1818–27, retired on the annuity fund

1 May 1828; a director of H.E.I.C. 27 June 1832 to April 1851,

deputy chairman 1838, chairman 1839; G.C.B. 20 July 1838 the

first time conferred on anyone in Indian C.S. below rank of a

governor; M.P. Shrewsbury 1830–3, 1837–41; D.C.L. Oxf. 1834;

author of A report on the territories of the rajah of Nagpore

1827. _d._ Gothic cottage, Blackheath, Kent 30 Dec. 1853.

_bur._ Bicton. _G.M. Feb. 1854 pp._ 197–9; _Colebrooke’s Life

of Mountstuart Elphinstone_ (1884) _i_ 131 _etc._, 151 _etc._;

_Extracts from documents referring to services of Mr. Jenkins_

(1827).

JENKINS, RICHARD (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ 1 July 1828;

cornet 5 Bengal cavalry 6 April 1846; major 5 Bengal European

cavalry 25 Oct. 1866; commander of 1 Bengal cavalry 1 April 1876

to death. _d._ Rawul Pindee, Punjaub 9 Sep. 1880.

JENKINS, WILLIAM (eld. son of Wm. Jenkins of the treasury,

Dublin castle). _b._ 1805; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1826,

M.A. 1832, LL.B. and LL.D. 1856; student of Inner Temple; called

to Irish bar 1829; Q.C. 11 Feb. 1860; retired from practice

1863. _d._ Clifton court near Bristol 22 Jany. 1874.

JENKINSON, SIR CHARLES, 10 Baronet (eld. son of col. John

Jenkinson, M.P., _d._ 1805). _b._ 23 Feb. 1779; M.P. for Dover 6

Nov. 1806 to 10 June 1818; succeeded to baronetcy 3 Sep. 1851 on

death of his cousin Charles Jenkinson 3 earl of Liverpool. _d._

Paris 6 March 1855.

JENKINSON, SIR GEORGE SAMUEL, 11 Baronet (son of John Banks

Jenkinson 1781–1840, bishop of St. David’s). _b._ Worcester 27

Sep. 1817; ed. at Winchester; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 31 Jany.

1834; lieut. 68 foot 1841; capt. 8 hussars 1843, sold out 27

March 1846; succeeded his uncle sir C. Jenkinson 1855; sheriff

of Gloucestershire 1862; contested North Wilts. 1865, Nottingham

1866; M.P. North Wilts. 21 Nov. 1868 to 24 March 1880. _d._

Eastwood park, Gloucs. 19 Jany. 1892.

JENKINSON, HENRY (eld. son of lieut. general John Jenkinson).

_b._ 1790; entered navy Oct. 1806; captain 7 June 1814, retired

1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 16 June 1862. _d._ Weymouth 7 Jany.

1868.

JENKINSON, JOHN SIMON (2 son of John Jenkinson of Kensington,

London). _b._ 1798; ed. at Magd. hall, Oxf., B.A. 1827, M.A.

1829; R. of Sudbourne, Suffolk 1831–4; P.C. of St. Mary in the

Castle, Hastings 1834–47; V. of Battersea, Surrey with Ch. Ch.

coll. Winchester 29 May 1847 to death; author of A collection

of psalms and hymns 1837; Confirmation, an address 1837, 2 ed.

1860; Marriage with a deceased wife’s sister not forbidden by

the word of God 1849. _d._ 24 Spencer road, Battersea rise,

London 17 Oct. 1871.

JENKS, GEORGE SAMUEL. _b._ 1789; studied at St. George’s

hospital; surgeon in the army; M.D. Edin. 1821; F.R.C.P. Lond.

1845; in practice at Brighton; president Brighton and Sussex

Medico-Chirur. Soc. 1849; in practice at Bath from 1856; author

of Medical observations on the factitious German mineral waters

at Brighton 1840. _d._ 18 Circus, Bath 7 Feb. 1882. _Proc. Med.

Chir. soc. ix_ 134 (1882).

JENKYNS, HENRY (son of rev. John Jenkyns, Vicar of Evercreech,

Somerset, _d._ 1824). _b._ 1796; ed. at Eton and C.C. coll.

Oxf., scholar 1813–18, double 1st class 1816; fellow of Oriel

coll. 1818–35, treasurer 1831; B.A. 1817, M.A. 1819, B.D. and

D.D. 1841; professor of Greek, Durham univ. 1833–41 and of

divinity 1841–65; canon residentiary of Durham 21 Oct. 1839 to

death; editor of The Remains of T. Cranmer collected 4 vols.

1833; author of A lecture on the advantages of classical studies

1834. _d._ Botley hill, Southampton 2 April 1878. _Academy_, _i_

322 (1878); _Times 11 April 1878 p._ 5.

JENKYNS, RICHARD (brother of rev. Henry Jenkyns 1796–1878).

_b._ Evercreech, Somerset 1783; ed. at Balliol coll. Oxf.,

fellow 1802–19, tutor 1813–19, bursar 1814, master 23 April

1819 to death, Balliol scholarships were thrown open in 1828;

B.A. 1804, M.A. 1806, B.D. and D.D. 1819, master of the schools

1809, public examiner 1811–12, vice chancellor 1824–28; V. of

Evercreech, Somerset 1822–40; preb. of Wells cath. 1824–45;

R. of Dinder, Somerset 1824–46; dean of Wells 4 June 1845 to

death; one of the 6 doctors who condemned Pusey’s sermon in

1843; founder of the modern greatness of Balliol college. _d._

Balliol college, Oxford 6 March 1854. _bur._ Wells 13 March; by

his will founded 2 exhibitions of £100 at Balliol. _G.M. xli_

425–6 (1854); _G. V. Cox’s Recollections of Oxford 2 ed._ (1870)

209–11; _The Month_, _Jany. 1866 pp._ 50–9.

JENKYNS, WILLIAM (son of Mr. Jenkyns, inspector of buildings,

Aberdeen). _b._ Aberdeen 23 Aug. 1847; ed. Aberdeen univ., B.A.

1868, M.A.; assist. commissioner Multan 1871; learnt the Pushto,

Baluchi and Persian languages; interpreter and sec. to sir L.

Pelly in his conference with Amir of Afghanistan 1876; political

officer with sir S. Browne’s division in Afghan war 1878; rode

120 miles in 13 hours with despatches from Gandamuk to Peshawar,

May 1878, returning on third day to Gandamuk; C.I.E.; first

assist. political officer with sir L. Cavagnari; _murdered_ at

Cabul 3 Sep. 1878. _Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign. Biog. Div._

(1882) 112–4, _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxv_ 256 (1879), _portrait_.

JENNER, EDWARD. _b._ 13 March 1803; traveller for Messrs.

Baxter, printers, Lewes, and owners of the Sussex Express; made

collections of fresh water algæ and of moths, beetles and other

insects; A.L.S. 1838; author of A Flora of Tunbridge Wells 1845;

furnished the drawings to The British desmidieæ. By J. Ralfs

1848. _d._ Lewes 13 March 1872. _The Gardeners’ Chronicle_

(1872) 398; _Proc. Linnean Soc._ (1871–2) 69.

JENNER, ROBERT FITZHARDINGE (2 son of Edward Jenner, M.D., the

introducer of vaccination 1749–1823). _b._ 1797; vaccinated by

his father 12 April 1798; ed. at Ex. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1819, M.A.

1822; lieut. col. royal south Gloucester militia 29 Sep. 1842 to

death. _d._ Berkeley, Gloucs. 16 March 1854 aged 56. _J. Baron’s

Life of Edward Jenner_, _i_ 147, _ii_ 44–9 (1827–38).

JENNER, STEPHEN. _b._ Kent; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cambridge,

B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; C. of Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex 1835–42;

C. of Camden ch. Camberwell 1850–7; C. in charge of Bekesbourne,

Canterbury 1874 to death; author of The doctrine of the holy

eucharist. By Theophilus Secundus 1854; Truth’s conflicts and

truth’s triumphs, essays 1854; The Holy Child, poems 1867;

Quicksands or fallacies in belief and worship 1875; The three

witnesses, or scepticism met by fact 1879. _d._ Walmer 7 Nov.

1880.

JENNER-FUST, SIR HERBERT (2 son of Robert Jenner of Doctors’

Commons, proctor 1743–1810). _b._ near St. Paul’s, London 4 Feb.

1778; ed. at Reading and Trin. hall, Camb., LL.B. 1798, LL.D.

1803; barrister G.I. 27 Nov. 1800; advocate in ecclesiastical

and admiralty courts, and a fellow of college of Doctors of

Law 8 July 1803; king’s advocate general 28 Feb. 1828 to 21

Oct. 1834; knighted at St. James’s palace 28 June 1828; vicar

general to abp. of Canterbury 1832 to 21 Oct. 1834; official

principal of the arches, and judge of prerogative court of

Canterbury 21 Oct. 1834 to death; P.C. 29 Oct. 1834; assumed

additional name of Fust 14 Jany. 1842 on succeeding to property

of his cousin sir John Fust; master of Trinity hall, Camb., Feb.

1843 to death, but never resided there; tried the Gorham case,

his decree of 2 Aug. 1849 led to the publication of more than

80 pamphlets. _d._ 1 Chesterfield st. Mayfair, London 20 Feb.

1852. _bur._ St. Nicholas, Chislehurst, Kent 26 Feb. _Christian

Observer_, _Dec. 1849 pp._ 809–56, _Oct. 1850 pp._ 698–713.

JENNINGS, GEORGE (eld. son of Joseph Jennings _d._ 1824). _b._

in a village on the borders of the New Forest 10 Nov. 1810;

in employment of Burton, plumbers, Newcastle st. London 1831,

in business Parliament st. 1834, in Charlotte st. Blackfriars

road 1838; introduced indiarubber tube taps 1847; conducted

the sanitary works in Great exhibition of 1851, in Crystal

palace, Sydenham 1852–4, in Great exhibition 1862, and in

Dublin exhibition 1865; invented improved shutter fastener;

put up sanitary fittings in hospitals at Varna and Scutari

1854; purchased clay beds at Parkstone, Dorset where he erected

pottery works and made stoneware and terra-cotta goods; removed

to Holland st. Blackfriars 1857, afterwards to Palace wharf,

Stangate, his works burnt down 22 March 1865; constructed water

works for Wilton; used india rubber for valves, endless elastic

bands and for hermetically sealing capsules; conducted sanitary

works in Paris exhibition 1867, drainage works, etc. in Vienna

exhibition 1873, and Centennial exhibition, Philadelphia 1876;

heated and ventilated buildings on a new principle; thrown

out of a gig 13 April and _d._ from his injuries Ferndale,

Nightingale lane, Clapham 17 April 1882. _The Builder_, _xlii_

497, 530 (1882).

JENNINGS, HARGRAVE. _b._ about 1817; sec. to James Henry

Mapleson manager of the royal Italian opera, many years; said

to be the original of Ezra Jennings in Wilkie Collins’s novel

The Moonstone 1868; author of My marine memorandum book 3 vols.

1845; The ship of glass or the mysterious island 3 vols. 1846;

St. George, a romance 1853; Curious things of the outside world

2 vols. 1861; The Rosicrucians, their rites and mysteries 1870,

3 ed. 2 vols. 1887; One of the Thirty 1873, a story of Judas and

the 30 pieces of silver; The Indian religions 1858, 2 ed. 1890;

Phallicism, celestial and terrestrial 2 vols. 1884. _d._ at

residence of his brother Edward Lawrence Jennings, Ambassador’s

Court, St. James’s palace, London 11 March 1890. _Times 14 March

1890 p._ 9.

JENNINGS, JOHN. _b._ 14 Sep. 1789; hon. secretary of the Star

club, London 1831–39; R. of St. John the Evangelist, Westminster

1832 to death; canon residentiary of Westminster 9 Jany. 1837 to

death; archdeacon of Westminster, Jany. 1869 to death, sub-dean

1881 to death; the sole surviving priest who officiated at

coronation of Victoria 1838. _d._ Dean’s yard, Westminster 26

March 1883. _bur._ Lyne church near Chertsey 3 April. _I.L.N.

xxvi_ 268 (1855) _portrait_, _lxxxii_ 332 (1883), _portrait_.

JENNISON, JOHN. _b._ 1789; a handloom weaver, Stockport;

established Jennison’s Gardens, Stockport 1829; originated the

Belle Vue gardens, Manchester 1836, which became the favourite

resort of pleasure seekers of Lancashire and surrounding

counties; his first great picture The siege of Algiers produced

1852. _d._ at his residence, Bellevue gardens, Manchester 20

Sep. 1869. _The Manchester Guardian 21 Sep. 1869 p._ 5.

JENOUR, ALFRED. R. of Pilton, Northants. 1836–45; P.C. of Regent

sq. chapel, St. Pancras, London 1845–51; R. of Kittisford,

Somerset 1851–4; P.C. of Blackpool, Lancs. 1854 to death; author

of The book of the prophet Isaiah translated from the Hebrew,

with a commentary 2 vols. 1832; A treatise on languages 1832;

Job translated from the Hebrew, with critical notes 1841;

The christian mother, a memoir of Ann Jenour 1840; Rationale

Apocalypticum or exposition of the Apocalypse 2 vols. 1852. _d._

1868.

JENOUR, JOSHUA (eld. son of Joshua Jenour, master of stationers’

co., _d._ 1774). _b._ Serjeants’ inn, Fleet st. London 31 July

1755; liveryman of stationers’ co. 1776; published The Park,

a poem 1778; The wife chase, a monitory poem; Marriage, a

precautionary tale; The horrible revenge 1830; Observations on

the taxation of property 1795, five editions, all his works were

anonymous; John Bull a weekly paper of essays. _d._ Gravesend 23

Jany. 1853. _G.M. xxxix_ 325 (1853).

JENYNS, SOAME GAMBIER. _b._ 1826; cornet 13 hussars 30 Dec.

1845; major 18 hussars 19 Feb. 1858; lieut. col. 13 hussars 24

May 1861 to 4 Feb. 1871 when placed on half pay as colonel; C.B.

5 July 1855; author of System of non-pivot drill as adapted

to the present English cavalry drill book, in G. T. Denison’s

Modern Cavalry (1868) pp. 341–50. _d._ Much Wenlock 26 Nov. 1873.

JEPHSON, HENRY. _b._ near Mansfield, Notts. 4 Oct. 1798; studied

in St. George’s hospital; went to Leamington as assistant to Mr.

Chambers 1818, a partner 1819, sole proprietor of the practice;

M.D. Glasgow 1827; patients from all parts of Great Britain and

from the Continent came to Leamington to be under his care;

had a specially contrived travelling carriage made in which to

attend patients at a distance from Leamington; his income for

many years was over £20,000 a year; became totally blind 1848;

made his patients eat moderately and abstain from stimulants and

prescribed the Leamington waters internally and externally; a

public statue of him erected at Leamington 1848 and the public

gardens called after his name. _d._ Beech Lawn, Leamington 14

May 1878. _Medical Times 25 May 1878 pp._ 575–6; _Leamington

Chronicle 1 June 1878 p._ 8.

JEPHSON, JOHN MOUNTENEY (youngest son of rev. John Jephson

1764–1826, preb. of Armagh). _b._ 16 Dec. 1819; ed. at Trin.

coll. Dublin, B.A. 1843; C. of Monewden, Suffolk 1853–6; C. of

Hutton near Brentwood, Essex 1856–64; V. of Childerditch near

Brentwood 1864; F.S.A. 24 May 1855; author of Narrative of a

walking tour in Brittany 1859; Shakespere, his birthplace, home

and grave 1864; edited the Literary Gazette early in 1858. _d._

Childerditch vicarage 1 Jany. 1865.

JEPHSON-NORREYS, SIR CHARLES DENHAM ORLANDO, 1 Baronet (son

of lieut. col. Wm. Jephson of Egham, Surrey). _b._ Englefield

Green, Surrey 1799; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1827, M.A.

1828; M.P. for Mallow 1826–59, contested Mallow 1859; assumed

additional surname of Norreys by r.l. 18 July 1838; cr. baronet

6 Aug. 1838. _d._ Queenstown 11 July 1888.

JERDAN, WILLIAM (son of John Jerdan, farmer _d._ 1796). _b._

Kelso, Roxburghshire 16 April 1782; clerk to C. Elliott writer

to the signet, Edinb. 1802–5; editor of the Aurora, the

hotelkeepers’ paper, London 1806 and of other papers 1806–13;

while a reporter witnessed murder of Spencer Percival and was

the first to seize Bellingham 11 May 1812; editor of the Sun

11 May 1813 to May 1817; editor of the Literary Gazette from

No. 26 July 1817 to 28 Dec. 1850; chief founder of Royal Soc.

of literature 1823; F.S.A. 1826; lost his money on failure of

Whitehead’s bank 1808 and in the panic of 1826; granted civil

list pension of £100, 23 March 1853; author of Six weeks in

Paris or a cure for the Gallomania by a late Visitant 3 vols.

1817, 2 ed. 1818; National portrait gallery of illustrations and

eminent personages of the nineteenth century 5 vols. 1830–4;

The Autobiography of W. Jerdan 4 vols. 1852–3; Men I have known

1866; a contributor to Notes and Queries under name of Bushey

Heath. _d._ Bushey Heath, Herts. 11 July 1869. _Fraser’s Mag.

i_ 605–6 (1830), _portrait_; _Reg. and Mag. of Biog. ii_ 94–5

(1869); _Maclise Portrait gallery_ (1883) 1–4, _portrait_; _Lord

W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities 2 Ser. ii_ 35–52 (1876).

JERDAN, WILLIAM FREELING (2 son of the preceding). _b._

1818; sec. to Great Northern railway of France; a principal

shareholder in and administrator of the Literary Gazette; a

clerk in secretary’s office, general post office, London to

death. _d._ 6 Feb. 1859.

JERDON, ARCHIBALD (son of Archibald Jerdon). _b._ Bonjedward,

Roxburghshire 21 Sep. 1819; ed. Edin. univ.; communicated facts

respecting birds to Zoologist 1841; acquired much knowledge

about the phanerogamous local flora and cryptogamic botany;

published lists of border fungi in Proc. of Berwickshire

Naturalists’ club; two species of fungi bear his name; F.

Botanical soc. Edin. 1871. _d._ Allerton near Jedburgh, Feb.

1874. _Trans. Botanical Soc. Edin. xii_ 201–2 (1876); _Proc.

Linnean Soc._ (1872–73) 32.

JERDON, THOMAS CAVERHILL (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1811;

ed. Edinb. univ.; assistant surgeon Madras army 11 Sep. 1835,

surgeon 4 light cavalry 12 July 1852 to 1861, surgeon 11 Madras

N.I. 23 March 1861 to 1862; the botanical genus Jerdonia was

called after him; author of Illustrations of Indian ornithology,

Madras 1847; The birds of India, Calcutta 2 vols. 1862–4; The

mammals of India 1867, 2 ed. 1874. _d._ Upper Norwood, Surrey 12

June 1872. _Medical Times and Gazette_, _i_ 745 (1872).

JEREMIE, JAMES AMIRAUX (son of James Jeremie, merchant). _b._

St. Peter’s port, Guernsey 12 April 1802; ed. Blundell’s sch.

Tiverton and Trin. coll. Camb.; B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827, B.D. 1850,

D.D. 1850, D.C.L. 1862; fellow of his coll. 1826–50; professor

of classical and general literature Haileybury 7 April 1830–50,

dean 1838–50; christian advocate in univ. of Camb. 1833–34;

exam. chap. to Dr. Kaye, bp. of Lincoln 1830; preb. of Lincoln

20 Dec. 1834 to 1845; R. of Winwick, Northants. 1843–8; subdean

and canon of Lincoln 1 July 1848 to July 1864; regius prof. of

divinity univ. of Camb. 16 Feb. 1850 to 30 Sep. 1870; R. of

Somersham, Hunts. 1850–70; dean of Lincoln 4 July 1864 to death;

author of The office and mission of St. John the Baptist 1823;

The doctrines of our Saviour in the four gospels in harmony with

St. Paul’s Epistles 1825; The last discourse of our Saviour in

reference to the divine origin of christianity 1833; a writer

in the Encyclopædia Metropolitana. _d._ the Deanery, Lincoln 11

June 1872. _bur._ Guernsey. _I.L.N. xxi_ 341 (1852) _portrait_,

_xxii_ 356 (1853) _portrait_, _lx_ 611, 625, 630 (1872)

_portrait_.

NOTE.--He gave to the University of Cambridge in 1870 the sum of £1000

to found two annual prizes for the encouragement of a critical study

of the lxx version of the Old Testament and such other Hellenistic

literature as may serve to illustrate the New Testament.

JERMYN, GEORGE BITTON (eld. son of Peter Jermyn of Halesworth,

Suffolk, solicitor 1767–97). _b._ Halesworth 2 Nov. 1789; ed.

at Ipswich gr. sch., at Norwich and Caius coll. Camb., removed

to Trinity hall 1813; LLB. 1814, LLD. 1826; C. of Hawkedon,

Suffolk 1814–17; C. of Littleport, Isle of Ely 1817–20; C. of

Swaffham Prior near Newmarket 1820; compiled a history of his

own family, 700 pages folio; made collections for a genealogical

history of Suffolk, now in the museum Bury St. Edmunds. _d._

island of Maddelena, Sardinia 2 March 1857. _Nichols’s Herald

and Genealogist_, _v_ 441–3 (1870).

JERMYN, JAMES (3 son of Robert Jermyn, collector of customs

at Southwold, Suffolk). Barrister; collector of pier dues at

Southwold; author of The Halesworth Review from 14 Sep. to

14 Oct. 1808. Halesworth 1808, anon., and 6 other anonymous

works; also of Prospectus and specimen of an English gradus and

dictionary of ideas 1848, he left 128 MS. volumes of materials

for this work, the labour of 30 years, which were acquired by

Wm. Aldis Wright about 1867; Book of English epithets, literal

and figurative 1849. _d._ Reydon, Southwold, Suffolk 1852.

_Notes and Queries 7 Ser. ii_ 368, 475 (1886), _iii_ 55 (1887).

JERNINGHAM, ARTHUR WILLIAM (2 son of Wm. Charles Jerningham

1770–1820, officer in Austrian army). _b._ 22 Feb. 1807; ed.

Stonyhurst 1818–23; entered R.N. 13 June 1823; engaged training

the coast guard in gunnery 1847–52; commander R. naval coast

volunteers, Ireland 1854–7; commander Plymouth gunnery ship

1857–62; captain 18 Sep. 1851, retired 1 July 1864; retired

admiral 26 Sep. 1878; author of Remarks on the means of

conveying the fire of ships’ broadsides 1851. _d._ 11 Heather

bank, Bournemouth 24 Nov. 1889. _Times 27 Nov. 1889 p._ 7;

_Gillow’s English Catholics_, _iii_ 623–4 (1887).

JERNINGHAM, CHARLES WILLIAM EDWARD (eld. son of Edward

Jerningham 1774–1822, barrister). _b._ 27 Nov. 1805; ed.

Stonyhurst; barrister I.T. 12 Feb. 1830; a frequent contributor

to Dolman’s Magazine; author of A letter to the vicar apostolic

of Great Britain upon the regulations by the holy see, with

respect to mixed marriages 1843. _d._ 26 Feb. 1854. _Gillow’s

English Catholics_, _iii_ 624–5 (1887).

JERNINGHAM, GEORGE SULYARDE STAFFORD (3 son of 8 baron Stafford

1771–1851). _b._ Haughley park, Norfolk 17 Feb. 1806; entered

foreign office 1825; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to king

of Wurtemberg 20 May 1854, to king of Sweden and Norway 11 Nov.

1859 to 11 Sep. 1872 when retired on a pension; C.B. 13 July

1872. _d._ 18 Nov. 1874.

JERNINGHAM, WILLIAM GEORGE STAFFORD (brother of preceding). _b._

Cossey hall, Norwich 15 July 1812; attached to mission at Munich

20 Jany. 1834; chargé d’ affaires and consul general Peru 1 Dec.

1857, minister resident and consul general there 12 Dec. 1872 to

death. _d._ Southampton 16 July 1874.

JERRAM, CHARLES (son of Charles Jerram, farmer, _d._ 1807).

_b._ Blidworth in Sherwood forest 17 Jany. 1770; assistant at

a unitarian school at Highgate 1790; entered Magd. coll. Camb.

1793; B.A. 1797, M.A. 1800; C. of Long Sutton, Lincs. 1797–1805;

C. of Chobham, Surrey 1805–10; V. of Chobham 1810–34; took

private pupils 1797–1822; P.C. of St. John’s, Bedford row,

London 1824–6; R. of Witney, Oxfordshire 3 April 1834 to death;

a very well known member of the evangelical sch.; author of

Letters on the atonement 1804; Conversations on infant baptism

1819, 3 ed. 1838; A treatise on the atonement 1828; Secession

from the church of England considered in a letter 1836. _d._

Witney 20 June 1853. _J. Jerram’s Memoirs of rev. C. Jerram_

(1855), _portrait_.

JERRAM, JANE E. (dau. of Mr. Holme). (_m._ William Jerram of

Derby, then of Bannell’s farm, Etwall, Derby); managed the dairy

and other farm affairs; known by the name of The Pale Star;

author of My three aunts 1838; My father’s house; The pearly

gates; Simple stories 1841; The children’s own story book, 3

ed. 1843; living near Derby 1873. _S. T. Hall’s Biog. sketches_

(1873) 296–7.

JERRARD, GEORGE BIRCH (son of Joseph Jerrard, major general,

_d._ 23 Nov. 1858 aged 85). Published Mathematical researches.

Bristol 1832–5; An essay on the resolution of equations 1858.

_d._ Long Stratton rectory, Norfolk 23 Nov. 1863.

JERROLD, DOUGLAS WILLIAM (only son of Samuel Jerrold, manager

of Sheerness theatre, _d._ Jany. 1820). _b._ Greek st. Soho,

London 3 Jany. 1803; ed. at Sheerness; served on board H.M.S.

Namur guardship 1813–15; apprenticed to Gabriel Sidney of

Northumberland st. Strand, printer 1816; produced More

frightened than hurt, at Sadler’s Wells theatre 30 April 1821;

wrote pieces for the Coburg theatre 1825; wrote Black-eyed

Susan or all in the Downs, best nautical drama ever written,

produced at Surrey theatre 8 June 1829 for which he received

£70 from Elliston, it ran 300 nights; wrote The mutiny at the

Nore, played at Pavilion, Coburg and Queen’s theatres 1830;

joint manager with W. J. Hammond of Strand theatre 1 May 1836

to 17 Sep. 1836; wrote the Bubbles of the day, Covent Garden 25

Feb. 1842; The prisoner of war, Drury Lane 8 Feb. 1842; started

the Illuminated Mag. 1843; wrote Time works wonders, which ran

at the Haymarket from 26 April 1845 for about 90 nights; edited

Douglas Jerrold’s Shilling Magazine 7 vols. 1845–8; editor and

chief proprietor of Douglas Jerrold’s Weekly newspaper 1846, it

became the Weekly News; contributed to Punch from No. 2, 24 July

1841 to death; edited Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper 1852 to death;

founded The Mulberries 1824, The Whittington at 37 Arundel st.

Strand 1846, it ceased 1873, The Museum 1847 and other literary

clubs; author of Men of character 3 vols. 1838; Punch’s Letters

to his son 1843; The story of a feather 1844; Punch’s Complete

letter writer 1845; Mrs. Caudle’s curtain lectures 1846; The

chronicles of Clovernook 1845; A man made of money 1849; Heads

of the people 1852; The writings of D. Jerrold 8 vols. 1854 and

4 vols. 1863–4. _d._ Kilburn priory, St. John’s Wood, London

8 June 1857. _bur._ Norwood cemetery 15 June, portrait by Sir

Daniel Macnee in National portrait gallery. _W. B. Jerrold’s

Life of D. Jerrold_ (1859), _portrait_; _G. Hodder’s Memories of

my time_ (1870) 4–58, 108–20, 126–39; _Illust. Rev. iii_ 673–81

(1872), _portrait_; _R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age_, _i_

291–304 (1844); _Quarterly Mag. of Oddfellows_, _i_ 198–208

(1858); _E. Yates’ Recollections_, _i_ 291–4, _ii_ 351 (1884).

NOTE.--There is a portrait of him by John Leech in his two-page

cartoon, called “Mr. Punch’s fancy ball” in Punch 9 Jany. 1847, where

he is represented as playing the drum in the orchestra. His first

contribution to Punch entitled Punch and Peel appeared in No. 2, 24

July 1841, he first used the signature of Q. on 13 Sep. In Alfred

Bunn’s A word with Punch 1847 Jerrold is spoken of as Wronghead and is

stated to have been hissed off the stage.

JERROLD, EVELYN DOUGLAS (son of the succeeding). _b._ about

1850; correspondent in Paris of a London daily paper; translated

From Paris to Cayenne. By C. Delescluze 1872; edited with S.

Jerrold At home in Paris. By W. B. Jerrold 1884. _d._ St. John’s

road, Highgate hill 16 May 1885.

JERROLD, WILLIAM BLANCHARD (eld. son of Douglas W. Jerrold

1803–57). _b._ London 23 Dec. 1826; ed. at Brompton gr. sch.

and at Boulogne; wrote in Douglas Jerrold’s Weekly Newspaper

1846; wrote papers on The literature of the poor, in Daily News

1846; described the Paris exhibition of 1855 for Daily News,

Illustrated London News and Athenæum; spent half of each year

in Paris 1855 to death; edited Lloyd’s Weekly London News 8

June 1857 to death; wrote Cool as a cucumber, farce produced at

Lyceum theatre 24 March 1851, Beau Brummell the king of Calais,

Lyceum 11 April 1859, Chatterbox drama, St. James’s 30 Nov. 1859

and Cupid in waiting, comedy, Royalty 17 July 1871; founded

English branch of the International literary association; edited

under name of Fin-Bec, Knife and Fork 8 numbers 1871 and new

series 7 numbers 1872; author of Two lives, a novel 2 vols.

1862; A book for the beach 2 vols. 1863; At home in Paris 1864,

several editions; The children of Lutetia 2 vols. 1864; London

a pilgrimage, illustrated by Gustave Doré 1872; The life of

Napoleon III. 4 vols. 1874–82; The life of G. Cruikshank 2 vols.

1882. _d._ 27 Victoria st. Westminster 10 March 1884. _bur._

Norwood cemetery 13 March. _G. Hodder’s Memories of my time_

(1870) 394–418; _J. Hatton’s Journalistic London_ (1882) 196

_portrait_; _Illustrated Review_, _v_ 267–73 (1873), _portrait_;

_Graphic_, _xxix_ 368 (1884), _portrait_.

JERSEY, GEORGE CHILD-VILLIERS, 5 Earl of (elder son of 4 Earl of

Jersey 1735–1805). _b._ Middleton park near Bicester 19 Aug.

1773; styled viscount Villiers 1773 to 1805 when he succeeded;

ed. at Harrow and St. John’s coll. Camb., M.A. 1794, D.C.L.

Oxf. 1810; took name of Child before Villiers 1 Dec. 1819;

lord chamberlain of the household 15 July to 22 Nov. 1830 and

15 Dec. 1834 to 18 April 1835; P.C. 19 July 1830; G.C.H. 1834;

master of the horse 1841–6 and 1 March to 28 Dec. 1852; won the

One thousand guineas and the Oaks with Cobweb 1824, the Derby

with Middleton 1825, with Mameluke 1827 and with Bay Middleton

1836. _d._ 38 Berkeley sq. London 3 Oct. 1859. _bur._ Middleton

Stoney. _Waagen’s Galleries of art_ (1857) 269–74; _New Sporting

Mag._, _x_ 302 (1836), _portrait; Sporting Times 21 Feb. 1885

pp._ 5–6; _J. E. Doyle’s Official baronage_, _ii_ 261 (1886),

_portrait_.

NOTE.--One of the best riders of his time; his name is recorded in

a song called The Billesden Copley Hunt, an account of a run in

Leicestershire 24 Feb. 1800.

JERSEY, GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK CHILD-VILLIERS, 6 Earl of

(eld. son of the preceding). _b._ 38 Berkeley sq. London 4 April

1808; styled viscount Villiers 1808–59 when he succeeded; ed. at

Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1837; lieut. Oxfordshire

yeomanry 16 June 1829, major 5 May 1855 to death; M.P. Rochester

1830–1, Minehead 1831–2, Honiton 1832–5, Weymouth 1837–41,

Cirencester 1844–52; contested Cirencester 1852. _d._ Royal

Crescent hotel, Brighton 24 Oct. 1859. _bur._ Middleton Stoney.

JERSEY, SARAH SOPHIA CHILD-VILLIERS, Countess of (eld. dau.

of 10 earl of Westmoreland 1759–1841). _b._ 4 March 1785;

heiress of Robert Child of Osterley park _d._ 1819; a ruler of

society from 1815 to 1855; one of the leading lady patronesses

of Almacks many years, and a professional beauty; popularly

known as Queen Sarah; the head of Childs’s bank, London 1819

to death; had a scene with lord Durham at the drawing room 24

Feb. 1831; (_m._ at Gretna Green 23 May 1804 George Villiers 5

earl of Jersey 1773–1859). _d._ 38 Berkeley sq. London 26 Jany.

1867. _bur._ in family vault in church of Middleton Stoney 2

Feb., personalty sworn under £300,000, 1 June 1867. _C. C.

F. Greville’s Memoirs_, _i_ 12–13, _ii_ 64, 119, 126 (1874);

_Burke’s Portrait gallery_, _ii_ 45 (1833), _portrait_.

JERVIS, GEORGE F. _b._ England 1784; appeared at Park theatre,

New York as Vanderdecken in The Flying Dutchman 1825; appeared

at Arch st. theatre, Philadelphia 1 Sep. 1826 as Marshal

Beaumont in The French Spy. _d._ Philadelphia 25 March 1851.

JERVIS, GEORGE RITSO. _b._ Madras 8 Oct. 1794; ed. at Marlow,

Woolwich and Addiscombe; ensign Bombay engineers 8 June 1811,

col. 16 Aug. 1843 to death; founded the Engineers’ Institution

in India 1823; held chief command of engineer corps 9 years;

active coadjutor of Mountstuart Elphinstone in spreading

education in India; A.I.C.E. 1841; edited The works of Hāfiz

1828; translated into Maratha, Lord Brougham’s Preliminary

treatise on the objects, advantages and pleasures of science

1829. _d._ Boulogne 14 Oct. 1851. _Min. of proc. of instit. of

C.E._, _xi_ 106–109 (1852).

JERVIS, HENRY. _b._ 1797; ensign 84 foot 19 Dec. 1811; captain

72 foot 1826, major 27 Sep. 1842 to 8 March 1850; lieut. col.

provisional battalion at Chatham 8 March 1850 to 17 May 1864;

col. 94 foot 8 March 1872 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 11

Bloomsbury sq. London 5 Feb. 1879.

JERVIS, SIR JOHN (2 son of Thomas Jervis, chief justice of

Chester, _d._ 6 Aug. 1838 aged 69). _b._ 12 Jany. 1802; ed. at

Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb.; barrister M.T. 6 Feb. 1824,

bencher 1837–50; leader of North Wales and Chester circuit;

M.P. Chester 1832–50; granted a patent of precedence 1837;

solicitor general 4 July 1846; attorney general 7 July 1846 to

15 July 1850; knighted at Buckingham palace 1 Aug. 1846; the

acts 11 & 12 Vict. cc. 42, 43, 44, referring to justices of the

peace are known as Jervis’s acts; serjeant at law 16 July 1850;

chief justice of common pleas 16 July 1850 to death; P.C. 14

Aug. 1850; an originator of The Jurist weekly paper 14 Jany.

1837 and a principal contributor to it; pres. of commission for

inquiring into system of pleading in common law courts 13 May

1850; edited Archbold’s Summary of the law relative to pleading

and evidence in criminal cases, 4 ed. 1831, also the 5, 6, 7

and 8 eds.; author of A practical treatise on the office and

duties of coroners 1829, 5 ed. 1888; author with Edward Young

of Reports of cases in the courts of exchequer and exchequer

chamber 3 vols. 1828–30; with C. Crompton of Reports of cases in

the courts of exchequer and exchequer chamber 2 vols. 1832–3.

_d._ 47 Eaton sq. London 1 Nov. 1856. _Law Mag. and Review_,

_ii_ 302–7 (1857).

JERVIS, THOMAS BEST (2 son of John Jervis of H.E.I.C.S.)

_b._ Jaffnapatam, Ceylon 2 Aug. 1796; ed. Addiscombe; learnt

Hindustani and Mahratta; ensign Bombay Engineers 1 June 1813;

surveyed South Concan 1820; superintendent engineer Bombay

presidency May 1835–9 and of Northern provinces 1839–41;

retired from H.E.I.C. service 31 Dec. 1841; established

a private lithographic press for printing maps of India,

etc. 1843; produced with rapidity map of Russia for Crimean

expedition 1854; the originator of the Topographical and

statistical depot of the war office, of which he was the first

director March 1855; conducted first topographical corps and

surveyed the Euphrates valley, etc. F.R.S. 15 March 1838,

F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.A.S.; edited C. A. A. von Huegel’s Travels

in Kashmir 1845; author of Geographical and statistical memoir

of the Konkun. Calcutta 1840; India in relation to Great

Britain, its future administration 1853. _d._ 9 Adelphi ter.

Strand, London 3 April 1857. _Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc.

xiv pp. liv–lx_ (1858); _English Cyclop. Suppl._ (1872) 719.

JERVIS, WILLIAM HENLEY (2 son of Hugh Nicholas Pearson, dean

of Salisbury, _d._ 1856 aged 79). _b._ Oxford 29 June 1813;

ed. at Mitcham, Harrow and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838;

R. of St. Nicholas, Guildford 1837–56; preb. of collegiate

church of Heytesbury, Wilts. 1844 to death; lived in France

1856–62; assumed surname of Jervis in lieu of Pearson by r.l.

22 May 1865; author of The student’s France 1862, 2 ed. 1884;

The Gallican church, a history of the church of France from

the concordat of Bologna to the revolution 2 vols. 1872; The

Gallican church and the revolution 1882. _d._ 28 Holland park,

London 27 Jany. 1883. _bur._ in Sonning churchyard.

JERVIS-WHITE-JERVIS, HENRY (3 son of sir Henry Meredyth

Jervis-White-Jervis, 2 baronet 1793–1869). _b._ 15 March 1825;

ed. at Harrow and R.M. academy, Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. Dec.

1844, lieut. col. 30 Dec. 1867 to 24 Dec. 1870 when he retired;

contested Harwich 1857; M.P. for Harwich 18 March 1859 to 24

March 1880; author of History of Corfu and of the Ionian islands

1852; Manual of field operations, for officers in the army 1852;

The rifle-musket, a treatise on the Enfield-Pritchett-rifle

1854; Ireland under British rule 1868. _d._ Felixstowe, Suffolk

22 Sep. 1881.

JERVIS-WHITE-JERVIS, MARIAN (3 dau. of Wm. Campbell of

Fairfield, Ayrshire). (_m._ 16 Dec. 1818 Sir Henry Meredyth

Jervis-White-Jervis, 2 baronet, commander R.N. _b._ 1793, _d._

1869); edited Paintings and celebrated painters 2 vols. 1854;

author of Gleanings, poems. Paris 1840; Tales of the boyhood of

great painters 1853. _d._ Blackgang, Isle of Wight 8 March 1861.

_Reg. and Mag. of Biography, May 1869 p._ 390.

JERVISE, ANDREW (son of Andrew Jarvis, coachman and soldier).

_b._ Brechin, Forfarshire 28 July 1820; a compositor at Brechin

1833 and at Edinburgh 1837–41; a student in painting Edinb.

1842; a teacher of drawing at Brechin 1846; sold 20 of his

pictures at Brechin 1847 for £75; examiner of registers under

Registration act of 1854, from 1 Jany. 1856 to death at £200 a

year; author of The history and traditions of the land of the

Lindsays 1853, 2 ed. 1882; Memorials of Angus and the Mearns

1861, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1885; Epitaphs and inscriptions from burial

grounds and old buildings in the north-east of Scotland 2 vols.

1875–9. _d._ Brechin 12 April 1878. _A. Jervise’s Epitaphs_,

_vol. ii_ (1879), _Memoir pp. ix–lxx_.

JERVOIS, WILLIAM. _b._ 1784; ensign 89 foot 7 April 1804;

captain 53 foot 26 Dec. 1822 to 17 Sep. 1823 when placed on

h.p.; colonel 76 foot 10 May 1853 to death; general 3 Aug. 1860;

K.H. 1835. _d._ Portland place, Bath 5 Nov. 1862.

JERVOISE, SIR JERVOISE CLARKE CLARKE-, 2 Baronet (son of rev.

sir S. Clarke-Jervoise _d._ 1852). _b._ Kensington 28 April

1804; M.P. South Hants. 1857–68. _d._ Idsworth park, Horndean,

Hants. 1 April 1889.

JERWOOD, JAMES (son of Mr. Jerwood of Poughill, Devon,

blacksmith). Usher at Honiton gr. sch.; ed. at St. John’s coll.

Camb., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1842; barrister M.T. 10 June 1836;

assistant tithe commissioner for Devon; recorder of South Molton

7 Feb. 1860 to death; practised at Exeter to death; published

A lecture on the new planet Neptune and its discovery 1849; A

dissertation on the rights to the sea shore and to the soil and

beds of tidal harbours 1850. _d._ 1 Bedford circus, Exeter 19

Jany. 1877. _Solicitors’ Journal_, _xxi_ 282 (1877).

JESSE, EDWARD (3 son of rev. Wm. Jesse, V. of Hutton-Cranswick,

Yorkshire 1738–1814). _b._ Hutton-Cranswick parsonage 14 Jany.

1780; clerk in the San Domingo office 1798; private sec. to lord

Dartmouth president of board of control 1801; comr. of hackney

coaches 1815–31 when office abolished; gentleman of the Ewery at

Windsor castle 1821–31 when office abolished; deputy surveyor

of woods and forests 1822–31; author of Gleanings in natural

history 1 Ser. 1832, 2 Ser. 1834, 3 Ser. 1835; Scenes and tales

of country life 1844, 5 ed. 1853; Anecdotes of dogs 1846, 2

ed. 1858; Favourite haunts and rural studies 1847; Lectures

on natural history 1861, 2 ed. 1863. _d._ 16 Belgrave place,

Brighton 28 March 1868, bust placed in the Pavilion, Brighton

1865. _Sylvanus Redivivus. By M. Houstoun_ (1889) 1 _et seq._,

_portrait_; _F. Ross’s Celebrities of the Yorkshire Wolds_

(1878) 88–9.

JESSE, JOHN (elder son of John Jesse 1759–1817). _b._ Manchester

6 Jany. 1801; sheriff of co. Denbigh 1856; F.L.S. 21 Jany. 1823;

F.R.S. 5 May 1842, F.R.A.S. _d._ Llanbedr hall near Ruthin,

Denbigh 23 Sep. 1863.

JESSE, JOHN HENEAGE (only son of Edward Jesse 1780–1868). _b._

1815; ed. at Eton 1820–6; clerk in secretary’s department of the

admiralty, Whitehall, London 1830–67; published Memoirs of the

court of England during the reign of the Stuarts 4 vols. 1840,

new ed. 1855 and 1857; Memoirs of the court of England from the

revolution in 1688 to the death of George the Second 3 vols.

1843; George Selwyn and his contemporaries 4 vols. 1843–44;

Memoirs of the Pretenders and their adherents 2 vols. 1845;

Literary and historical memorials of London 2 vols. 1847; London

and its celebrities 2 vols. 1850; Memoirs of King Richard the

3rd and some of his contemporaries 1862; Memoirs of the life and

reign of king George the third 3 vols. 1867. _d._ the Albany,

Piccadilly, London 7 July 1874. _Sylvanus Redivivus. By M.

Houston_ (1889) _p._ 24 _et seq._

JESSE, WILLIAM (only son of W. Jesse, V. of Margarelting,

Essex). _b._ 27 March 1809; ensign 59 foot 9 April 1825; lieut.

46 foot 24 July 1835; captain 75 foot 26 Aug. 1837 to 6 April

1838 when placed on h.p.; sold out 1844; translator of H. de

Crignelle’s Le Morvan, its wild sports, vineyards and forests

1851; J. P. Ferrier’s Caravan journeys and wanderings in Persia

1856; J. P. Ferrier’s History of the Afghans 1858; author of

Notes of a half-pay in search of health, or Russia, Circassia

and the Crimea 2 vols. 1841; The life of George Brummell, esq. 2

vols. 1844, new ed. 1854, new ed. 2 vols. 1885; Russia and the

war 1854; resided at Maisonette, Ingatestone near Chelmsford.

_d._ 1871.

JESSEL, SIR GEORGE (youngest son of Zadok Aaron Jessel of 1

Savile row, London, diamond merchant, _d._ 1865). _b._ London 13

Feb. 1824; ed. at Kew and Univ. coll. London, fellow 1846; B.A.

London 1843, M.A. 1844, a senator 1862 to death, vice chancellor

26 May 1880 to death; barrister L.I. 4 May 1847, bencher 19

April 1865 to death, treasurer 1883; leading junior in the Rolls

court; Q.C. 30 March 1865; M.P. for Dover 1868–73; solicitor

general 10 Nov. 1871 to 30 Aug. 1873 when he made about £20,000

a year; knighted at Osborne 21 Feb. 1872; master of the Rolls 30

Aug. 1873 to 1 Nov. 1875, being the first Jewish judge; a judge

of high court of judicature, chancery division 1 Nov. 1875 to 27

Aug. 1881; member of court of appeal 1 Nov. 1875 to death; P.C.

30 Aug. 1873; a comr. of patents 1873 to death; F.R.S. 25 Nov.

1880; sat in court 16 March 1883. _d._ 10 Hyde park gardens,

London 21 March 1883. _bur._ Willesden cemet. 23 March, bust by

W. R. Ingram outside lord chief justice’s court in courts of

justice, unveiled by lord chancellor 28 Nov. 1888. _A generation

of judges_ (1886) 171–82; _Analysis and digest of the decisions

of Sir G. Jessel. By A. P. Peter_ (1883); _Times 22, 23, 24, 26,

27, 28, 30 March 1883_; _I.L.N. lix_ 483, 484 (1871) _portrait_,

_lxxxii_ 317 (1883) _portrait_.

NOTE.--He was shot at by rev. Henry John Dodwell as he was entering the

Rolls court 22 Feb. 1878, Dodwell was tried 15 March and acquitted on

the ground of insanity.

JESSOP, JOHN. _b._ 1779; ensign 44 foot 1798; captain 15 June

1804 to 1 June 1821 when placed on half pay; served through

Peninsular war; major in the army 4 June 1814; C.B. 22 June

1815. _d._ Butterley hall, Derbyshire 13 Sep. 1869 aged 90.

JESSOP, THOMAS (son of Wm. Jessop of Sheffield, steel smelter).

_b._ Sheffield 31 Jany. 1804; iron and steel manufacturer

with his father and brothers at Sheffield 1830, the business

became one of the largest in England, was left sole surviving

partner 1871; converted business into a limited liability co. at

Brightside works, Sheffield 1875, chairman of the co. 1875 to

death; works stood on 27 acres of ground; built and furnished at

cost of £30,000 the Jessop hospital for women 1878; mayor and

master cutler of Sheffield 1863; president Sheffield Birthday

club. _d._ Endcliffe grange, Sheffield 30 Nov. 1887. _bur._

Eccleshall ch. 3 Dec.; gross value of personal estate in England

sworn at £656,449. _Sheffield Independent 1 Dec. 1887 p._ 2, _5

Dec. p._ 2.

JESSOP, WILLIAM HENRY BOWLESTONE (eld. son of James Jessop of

Crayford, Kent). Ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1854, M.A.

1857; published A complete decimal system of money and measures

1855; author of Flindersland and Sturtland, or the inside and

outside of Australia 2 vols. 1862. _d._ Doreh, Papua 3 Feb.

1862. _G.M. xix_ 652 (1865).

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

JESTON, THOMAS WARD. _b._ Royal gram. sch. Henley-on-Thames

3 July 1790; studied at Guy’s hospital; assistant surgeon

second battalion of 36 foot 9 Sep. 1813 to 1814 when battalion

disbanded; served in the Peninsula and France 1813–14, medals

for 4 battles; surgeon in practice at Henley 1817, retired 1883;

invented improved method of collecting juice of opium poppy

1823; mayor of Henley 5 times 1834–81. _d._ Henley 17 July 1886.

_Midland Medical Miscellany 1 Dec. 1883 pp._ 353–5, _portrait_.

JEUNE, FRANCIS (eld. son of Francis Jeune of Jersey). _b._ St.

Brelade, Jersey 22 May 1806; ed. at St. Servan’s coll. Rennes

and Pemb. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830, B.C.L. and D.C.L.

1834; scholar of his coll. 1822, fellow 1830–7, tutor 1830–4,

master 22 Dec. 1843 to Jany. 1864, admitted master 26 Dec. 1843,

the validity of his election to the mastership was afterwards

disputed; master King Edward’s sch. Birmingham 1834–8; dean

of Jersey and R. of St. Heliers 1838–44; Victoria college,

St. Heliers, was built on a plan recommended by him; canon of

Gloucester 1843–64; V. of Taynton, Gloucs. 1843–64; comr. for

inquiring into state of univ. and colleges of Oxford 31 Aug.

1850, wrote greater part of the report; member of hebdomadal

council 1854–64; vice chancellor of univ. of Oxf. 1858–9; dean

of Lincoln 18 Jany. 1864; bishop of Peterborough 21 May 1864 to

death, consecrated 29 June; author of Was Christ crucified for

you? a sermon 1863, 3 ed. 1864. _d._ Whitby 21 Aug. 1868. _bur._

Peterborough cath. yard 28 Aug. _Guardian 26 Aug. 1868 p._ 956,

_2 Sep. p._ 979; _Times 22 Aug. 1868 p._ 7; _I.L.N. 28 May 1864

p._ 512, _portrait_.

JEVONS, WILLIAM. _b._ Staffordshire 1794; Unitarian minister;

author of Systematic morality 1827; Elements of astronomy 1828

and other books. _d._ Liverpool 1873.

JEVONS, WILLIAM STANLEY (9 child of Thomas Jevons, iron merchant

at Liverpool). _b._ 14 Alfred st. Liverpool 1 Sep. 1835; ed. at

univ. coll. London, fellow 1864; M.A. univ. of London 1862; LLD.

Edinb. 1876; assayer to the Sydney mint, N.S.W. 1854–9; tutor

at Owen’s college, Manchester 1863; professor of logic, mental

and moral philosophy and Cobden lecturer in political economy,

Owen’s coll. Manchester, May 1866 to Oct. 1876; professor of

political economy at univ. coll. London 1876–80; F.R.S. 6 June

1872; lived at 2 The Chestnuts, West Heath road, Hampstead

1876 to death; author of Remarks on the Australian gold fields

1859; Pure logic or the logic of quality apart from quantity

1864; Value of gold 1863; The coal question 1865, 2 ed. 1866;

The principles of science, a treatise on logic 2 vols. 1874, 2

ed. 1877; Money and the mechanism of exchange 1875; Primer of

political economy 1878; Investigations in currency and finance

1884; _drowned_ when bathing at Galley Hill, Belverhythe near

Hastings 13 Aug. 1882. _bur._ Hampstead cemetery 18 Aug.

_Letters of W. S. Jevons ed. by his wife_ (1886), _portrait_;

_Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxv_, _pp. i–xi_ (1883); _Baines’s

Hampstead_ (1890) 369–70; _Biograph_, _v_ 426 (1881).

JEWELL, JACOB. Owner of the largest travelling bazaar; a tenant

under Wm. Holland at North Woolwich gardens about 15 years; the

only Israelite itinerant showman travelling the English and

continental fairs for over 60 years. _d._ Sep. 1884. _bur._

Jewish cemetery, West Ham.

JEWERS, RICHARD FRANCIS. Entered navy June 1803; severely

wounded in a fire ship in Aix roads, April 1809; retired

commander 7 Aug. 1861; had a grant from Patriotic soc.; naval

knight of Windsor 21 Jany. 1846, governor of the naval knights 7

May 1860 to death. _d._ Traver’s college, Windsor castle 14 Nov.

1872.

JEWISON, CHRISTOPHER. _b._ 1785; L.S.A. 1836, M.R.C.S. 1844;

coroner for liberty of honour of Pontefract 1817 to death. _d._

Rothwell, Leeds 5 March 1870.

JEWITT, ARTHUR (eld. son of Arthur Jewitt, cutler). _b._

Sheffield 7 March 1772; apprentice to his father as a cutler

1786–93; master of schools at Sheffield 1793, at Chesterfield

1794 and at Kimberworth 1814–18; resided at Duffield near Derby

1818–38; author of The history of Lincoln 1810; The history of

Buxton 1811; The Northern star, or Yorkshire magazine 3 vols.

1817–18; The Sylph, or Lady’s magazine for Yorkshire 1818; The

handbook of practical perspective 1840; Handbook of geometry

1842. _d._ Headington near Oxford 7 March 1852. _William Smith’s

Old Yorkshire_ (1883) 147–51, _portrait_.

JEWITT, LLEWELLYN FREDERICK WILLIAM (17 and youngest child of

the preceding). _b._ Kimberworth near Rotherham, Yorkshire

24 Nov. 1816; went to London as a drawer and engraver 1838;

illustrated Charles Knight’s publications, Pictorial Times,

Illustrated London News, etc.; managed illustrations of Punch

about 1848; chief librarian of Plymouth public library 1849–53;

started the Derby Telegraph at Derby 1853, editor 1853–68;

started The Reliquary 1860, editor 1860 to death; F.S.A. 27

Jany. 1853; formed a collection of china, sold 1871; granted

civil list pension of £70, 16 June 1885; author of Rifle and

volunteer rifle corps 1860; The Wedgwoods 1865; The life of

William Hutton 1869; A history of Plymouth 1873; The ceramic art

of Great Britain 2 vols. 1878, 2 ed. 1883; The life of Jacob

Thompson 1882. _d._ the Hollies, Duffield, Derby 5 June 1886.

_bur._ Winster 9 June. _W. H. Goss’ Life of Llewellyn Jewitt_

(1889), _portrait_; _Proc. Soc. of Antiq. xi_ 370–1 (1885–7);

_The Biograph_, _Feb. 1882 pp._ 115–24.

JEWITT, THOMAS ORLANDO SHELDON (brother of the preceding). _b._

Derbyshire 1799; wood engraver, illustrated with woodcuts Rev.

A. G. Jewitt’s Wanderings of Memory 1815; while at Oxford 1838

&c. illustrated J. H. Parker’s architectural publications;

employed as an artist by the Archæological Institute; had many

pupils. _d._ 20 Clifton villas, Camden sq. London 30 May 1869.

JEWSBURY, GERALDINE ENDSOR (dau. of Thomas Jewsbury of

Manchester, merchant, _d._ 1840). _b._ Measham, Derbyshire 1812;

her parents removed to Manchester 1818; great friend of Thomas

Carlyle and his wife from 1841, many of Mrs. Carlyle’s letters

are addressed to her, as are also Lady Theodore Martin’s Letters

on Shakspere’s Female characters; lived in Chelsea 1854–66, at

Sevenoaks, Kent 1866–80; granted civil list pension of £40, 19

June 1874; author of Zoe, the history of two lives 3 vols. 1845;

The half-sisters 2 vols. 1848, three editions; Marian Withers

3 vols. 1851; The history of an adopted child 1853; Constance

Herbert 3 vols. 1855; The sorrows of gentility 2 vols. 1856;

Angelo or the pine forest 1856; Right or Wrong 2 vols. 1859.

_d._ in a private hospital at Burwood place, Edgware road,

London 23 Sep. 1880. _bur._ in Lady Morgan’s vault, Brompton

cemet. _J. Evans’ Lancashire authors_ (1850) 140–4.

JEWSON, FREDERICK BOWEN. _b._ Edinburgh 26 July 1823, where he

performed in public from 1828; studied at R. Acad. of music,

London 1834, King’s scholar 1837, professor of pianoforte

1840–89; professor of music, St. Mary’s hall, Brighton; composer

of Overtures for various dramas; Six grand studies for the piano

1869; Douze etudes melodiques et brillantes; Chanson d’ Amour

for piano 1876; The mountain stream, caprice 1876. _d._ 21

Manchester st. Manchester sq. London 28 May 1891. _Cazalet’s

Royal academy of music_ (1854) 298.

JEX, JOHNSON (son of Wm. Jex, blacksmith). _b._ Billingford,

Norfolk about 1778, a blacksmith there and at Letheringsett near

Holt to 1822 when he commenced employing workmen; made a gold

chronometer for sir Jacob Astley, with a detached escapement

and compensating balance before he ever heard of the detached

escapement; learnt French when about 60; invented a lathe by

which he could cut the teeth of wheels mathematically correct

into any number up to 2000 by means of a dividing plate; an

iron and brass founder, a glass blower, a maker of mathematical

instruments, barometers, thermometers, gun barrels, air guns,

&c. _d._ Letheringsett, Norfolk 5 Jany. 1852. _Norfolk News

17 Jany. 1852 p._ 4; _Athenæum 24 Jany. 1852 pp._ 123–4; _A.

Young’s General view of Norfolk_ (1804) 73–4.

JEZREEL, ESTHER, name assumed by Clarissa Rogers (dau. of Edward

Rogers, sawyer, New Brompton, Kent). _b._ 1860; a member of The

New and latter house of Israel, made preaching tours in America

1878 and 1879; (_m._ 1879 James Jershom Jezreel 1840–85);

succeeded her husband as head of the sect 1 March 1885 and was

known as queen Esther the mother of Israel; issued The messenger

of wisdom and Israel’s guide 1887, a monthly publication. _d._

the Woodlands, Gillingham, Rochester 30 June 1888.

JEZREEL, JAMES JERSHOM, name assumed by James White, _b._

1840; a private in 16 regt. at Chatham; joined The New house

of Israel or Joanna Southcottians 15 Oct. 1875, dismissed 26

Dec.; founded The New and latter house of Israel 1875; in India

with his regt. 1876, bought out, returned to England under the

name of James Jershom Jezreel, claiming to have received a

revelation contained in The Flying Scroll. (_m._ 1879 Clarissa

Rogers _i.e._ Esther Jezreel 1860–88); erected a large temple

on Chatham hill, New Brompton; had a numerous following who put

their money into a common fund; published Extracts from the

Flying Roll vol. i three parts 1879–81. _d._ the Woodlands,

Gillingham, Rochester 1 March 1885. _Pall Mall Gazette 6 March

1885 p._ 12, _2 July 1888 p._ 10; _N. and Q. 29 Jany. 1887 p._

98.

JOBBINS, JOHN RICHARD. Surveyor, mechanical draughtsman and

lithographer at 3 Warwick court, Holborn, London about 1836 to

death; invented method of etching with a brush upon stone and

zinc; illustrated Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. with his

new process many years; Assoc. B.A. Assoc. 1852; author with F.

T. Dollman of An analysis of ancient domestic architecture in

Great Britain 1860. _d._ Warwick court, Holborn, London 27 Feb.

1866.

JOBSON, REV. FREDERICK JAMES (son of John Jobson _d._ 1875

aged 88). _b._ Northwich, Cheshire 6 July 1812; Wesleyan

minister at Patrington, Yorkshire 1834, at City road, London

1837–40, 1849–52 and 1861–4, at Spitalfields, London 1840–3, at

Leeds, Manchester, Bradford and Huddersfield 1843–61; attended

Australian conference at Sydney, Jany. 1861; book steward of

W.M. organisation 1864 to death; elected pres. of the conference

5 Aug. 1869; author of Chapel and school architecture 1850;

America and American methodism 1857; Perfect love for Christian

believers 1864. _d._ 21 Highbury place, Holloway road, London

4 Jany. 1881. _Life. By Rev. B. Gregory_ (1884), _portrait_;

_Evans’s Lancashire authors_ (1850) 136–40; _I.L.N. 14 Aug. 1869

p._ 165, _portrait_.

JOBSON, ROBERT. _b._ Sheffield 1 April 1817; an ironfounder

near Dudley about 1840 to death; made a large portion of the

castings for the Great exhibition of 1851 and for the Crystal

palace at Sydenham; invented valuable improvements in mechanical

engineering, including machinery for moulding. _d._ near Dudley

1 Aug. 1872.

JOCELYN, ROBERT (eld. son of 3 earl of Roden 1788–1870). _b._

Pall Mall, London 20 Feb. 1816; styled viscount Jocelyn 29 June

1820 to death; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 24 May 1833; lieut. 15

hussars 1839 to 19 June 1841 when he sold out; military sec. on

staff of lord Saltoun in China 1842; contested Leeds 1841; M.P.

King’s Lynn 10 Feb. 1842 to death; a sec. of board of control 17

Feb. 1845 to 6 July 1846; lieut. col. commandant of East Essex

militia 25 Feb. 1853 to death; published Six months with the

Chinese expedition 2 ed. 1841. _d._ Carlton gardens, London 12

Aug. 1854. _bur._ Sawbridgeworth, Herts.

JODRELL, SIR RICHARD PAUL, 2 Baronet (eld. son of Richard Paul

Jodrell, dramatist 1745–1831). _b._ Marylebone, London 26 June

1781; ed. at Eton and Magd. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1806;

barrister L.I. 26 Nov. 1803; succeeded his maternal grand-uncle

Sir John Lombe 27 May 1817; author of Carmina Selecta 1810;

Dover, ancient and modern, a poem. Dover 1841. _d._ 64 Portland

place, London 14 Jany. 1861.

JOEL, JULIAN VON. _b._ 5 May 1785; German jödler; first appeared

in London as a siffleur or whistler of tunes on walking sticks

at the Sans Souci, Leicester place, Leicester sq. about July

1829; performed at Vauxhall gardens 1830, in the provinces, and

at the Cyder Cellars and Evans’s, Covent Garden; sold cigars at

Evans’s 1852 to death; his name is often mentioned in the first

vol. of Punch 1841, is found in Albert Smith’s The adventures

of Mr. Ledbury 1844 and in Mark Lemon’s comedy The Ladies club.

_d._ 22 July 1865. _Illustrated sporting news_, _iv_ 421, 422

(1865), _portrait_; _Era 30 July 1865 p._ 10.

JOHN, WILLIAM. _b._ Narberth, Pembrokeshire, July 1845; student

in R. sch. of naval architecture and marine engineering 1864;

draughtsman, Admiralty 1867–72; made the calculations for the

first curves of stability for a ship ever produced 1868; pointed

out the dangerous construction of the Captain 1870 and the

Atalanta 18--; assist. chief surveyor Lloyd’s Register 1872–81;

general manager Barrow ship building and engineering co. 1881–8,

when he designed and built the City of Rome 1881 known as the

Atlantic Greyhound, and La Normandie 1882 the largest French

liner; naval architect 101 Leadenhall st. London 1888–90;

contributed papers to Trans. Instit. naval architects 1874 etc.;

author of The masting of vessels. A report to the Committee of

Lloyd’s Register. _d._ Madrid 26 Dec. 1890. _D. Pollock’s Modern

ship-building_ (1884) 124–6 _portrait_.

JOHNES, ARTHUR JAMES (only son of Edward Johnes, M.D. of

Garthmyl Issa near Montgomery). _b._ 4 Feb. 1808; ed. at

Oswestry gr. sch. and London univ. 1828–9; barrister L.I. 30

Jany. 1835; judge of county courts, circuit 28 (Anglesey,

Carnarvon & Merioneth), 13 March 1847, resigned Dec. 1870; a

great supporter of the established ch. in Wales; a promoter of

Cambrian quarterly Mag. 1830 in which he wrote under signature

of Maelog; author of An essay on the causes which have produced

dissent from the established church in Wales 1831, 3 ed.

1870; Suggestions for a reform of the court of chancery 1834;

Philological proofs of the original unity and recent origin

of human race 1843; Should the law of imprisonment for debt

be abolished or amended? 1868; Is credit an evil? 1869. _d._

Garthmyl Issa 23 July 1871. _bur._ Berriew ch. _Law Times_, _li_

245, 263 (1871).

JOHNES, JOHN (only son of John Johnes of Dolancothy near

Llandilo, Carmarthenshire, _d._ 12 Sep. 1815). _b._ Dolancothy

6 Feb. 1800; ed. at Carmarthen and Lampeter gr. schs., at Bath

and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. and M.A. 1829; barrister I.T.

18 Nov. 1831; judge of county courts, circuit 31 (Carmarthen,

Cardigan and Pembroke), 13 March 1847, resigned Nov. 1861;

recorder of Carmarthen, Dec. 1851 to Oct. 1872; chairman of

Carmarthenshire quarter sessions 1853–72; _shot_ by his butler

at Caio, Carmarthenshire 19 Aug. 1876. _Law Times_, _lxi_ 368

(1876).

JOHNS, AMBROSE BOWDEN. _b._ Plymouth 1776; apprentice to

Benjamin Robert Haydon, bookseller, Plymouth; bookseller at

Plymouth; landscape painter, friend and fellow painter with J.

M. W. Turner, some of his paintings have been sold as being

by Turner; member of Plymouth soc. of artists and amateurs;

exhibited 13 pictures at R.A., 3 at B.I. and 4 at Suffolk st.

1814–46; some of his paintings are in the earl of Morley’s

collection at Saltram. _d._ Plymouth 10 Dec. 1858. _Pycroft’s

Art in Devonshire_ (1883) 77–81.

JOHNS, CHARLES ALEXANDER (son of Henry Incledon Johns, banker,

Devonport). _b._ Plymouth 31 Dec. 1811; F.L.S. 1836; ed. Trin.

coll. Dublin, B.A. 1841; chaplain National soc. training schs.

Westminster 1842–4; head master Helston gram. sch. June 1843

to Dec. 1847; C. of Porthleven 1844–7; C. of Beenham, Berks.

1848–56; kept a school at Winton house, Winchester 1856 to

death; first pres. Hampshire and Winchester scientific and lit.

soc. 1870; author of A week at the Lizard 1848, 3 ed. 1874;

Flowers of the field 2 vols. 1853; Birds’ nests. Anon. 1854,

2 ed. 1865; The governess. By A schoolmaster of twenty years

standing 1855; Rambles about Paris 1859; British birds in their

haunts 1862, 2 ed. 1879. _d._ Winton house, Winchester 28 June

1874.

JOHNS, JASPER WILSON (only son of Thomas Evan Johns of

Cardiganshire). _b._ Dublin 1824; a civil engineer to 1854;

captain commandant 3rd Montgomery rifle volunteers 14 Aug.

1860 to 11 Sep. 1865; partner in Bird & Co., iron merchants,

London 1854; took an active part in promoting railways in Wales;

contested Northallerton 1865 and 1868; M.P. North Eastern

Warwickshire 1885–6; author of The Anglican cathedral church of

St. James, Mount Zion, Jerusalem 1844. _d._ 16 Grenville place,

Cromwell road, London 26 July 1889.

JOHNS, RICHARD (son of Wm. Johns, adjutant of Cornwall militia,

_d._ 1834). _b._ Helston, Cornwall 5 Oct. 1805; 2 lieut. R.M. 1

Oct. 1825, captain 7 Aug. 1843 to death; author of Poems 1825;

Legends and romances 3 vols. 1839; The schoolfellows or a

by-way to fame 3 vols. 1841; The calendar of victory, a record

of valour by sea and land 1855; The naval and military heroes of

Great Britain 1860, another ed. of the previous work. _d._ Royal

naval hospital, Stonehouse 6 Nov. 1851. _G.M. xxxvi_ 671 (1851);

_Boase and Courtney’s Bibl Cornub._ 277, 1248.

JOHNSON, ALEXANDER BRYAN. _b._ Gosport 29 May 1786; settled in

Utica, N.Y., U.S. of America 1801; barrister; banker; author of

The nature of value, capital, etc. New York 1813; The philosophy

of human knowledge 1828; Physiology of the senses 1856; An

encyclopædia of instruction 1857; Our monetary condition 1864.

_d._ Utica 9 Sep. 1867. _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_ 436

(1887).

JOHNSON, CHARLES. _b._ about 1793; M.R.C.S. Ireland 1815,

F.R.C.S.I. 1818; F.K.Q.C.P.I. 1841; professor of midwifery in

medical sch. of college of surgeons; founded with Henry Marsh

an institution for diseases of children, in Pitt st. Dublin;

master of the Lying in hospital, Dublin 1840; retired from

practice 1864; author of Essays in Dublin hospital reports and

in Cyclopædia of practical medicine. _d._ 24 Merrion sq. south,

Dublin 19 June 1866.

JOHNSON, CHARLES. _b._ London 5 Oct. 1791; lecturer on botany

1819; professor of botany Guy’s hospital 1830–73; edited sir

J. E. Smith’s English botany 2 ed. 1832; author of British

poisonous plants 1856, 2 ed. 1861; with J. E. Sowerby The ferns

of Great Britain 1855; The fern allies 1856; The grasses of

Great Britain 1857–61. _d._ Camberwell 21 Sep. 1880. _Journal of

botany_, _xviii_ 351 (1880).

JOHNSON, CUTHBERT WILLIAM (son of Wm. Johnson of the

Coalbrookdale china works). _b._ Widmore house, Bromley, Kent

28 Sep. 1799; employed in his father’s salt works at Heybridge,

Essex; barrister G.I. 8 June 1836; F.R.S. 10 March 1842; took