part in agitation on Public Health acts 1848; chairman Croydon
local board of health; published works with his bro. Geo. W.
Johnson; author of The use of crushed bones as manure 1836,
three editions; The life of sir Edward Coke 2 vols. 1837;
The laws of bills of exchange, notes, cheques, etc. 1837,
2 ed. 1839; The farmer’s encyclopædia 1842, his best work;
with W. Shaw The farmer’s almanac and calendar 1840; with J.
Hare The annual register of agricultural implements 1843–45.
_d._ Waldronhurst, Croydon 8 March 1878. _John Donaldson’s
Agricultural Biog._ (1854) 127–8; _Academy_, _i_ 233 (1878).
JOHNSON, DANIEL JAMES. _b._ 1831 or 1832; civil engineer in
London; superintendent of Kensal Green cemetery 1857–73. _d._
170 Hornington road, Burton on Trent 24 Oct. 1885.
JOHNSON, SIR EDWARD (2 son of John Johnson). _b._ Drumgavesy,
Ireland 1785; educ. Edinb. and Glasgow, M.D. Edinb. 1815;
M.R.C.S. Lond. 1807; hospital mate in army July 1807; assist.
surgeon 28 regt. Nov. 1807 and served in Sweden and the
Peninsula where he was severely wounded; surgeon 2 bat. 39 regt.
1815–16; a physician at Weymouth 1816, retired 1821; K.C.S.
1835, K.C.C.S. 1847; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 July
1838. _d._ Greenhill, Weymouth 10 Jany. 1862. _Proc. of Med. and
Chir. Soc. iv_ 84–6 (1864).
JOHNSON, EDWARD JOHN (youngest son of rev. Henry Johnson of
Bywell, Northumberland). _b._ 1795; entered R.N. 1 May 1807;
commanded the ‘Britomart’ 10 guns 4 March 1829 to 1831 when he
was paid off; surveyed the Faroe islands for the admiralty 1831
etc.; member of magnetic compass committee of the admiralty 1838
etc.; captain 27 Dec. 1838; superintendent of compass department
of R.N. 14 March 1842 to death; F.R.S. 10 May 1836; author of
Practical illustrations of the necessity of ascertaining the
deviations of the compass 1847. _d._ 13 Oxford terrace, Hyde
park, London 7 Feb. 1853.
JOHNSON, ELI (son of Mr. Johnson of George row, Northampton).
_b._ Northampton 1850; a cabinet maker, Northampton; a wood
carver; studied at South Kensington and under J. E. Boehm, R.A.;
sculptor Hugh st. Eccleston sq. London; executed for Northampton
marble bust of Charles Gilpin, M.P., and busts of J. B. Gough,
Dr. Robert Moffat and Henry Vincent; exhibited 3 pieces of
sculpture at R.A. 1878–80; author of The honest Irishman or
a tour in the British isles 1879. _d._ 45 Victoria road,
Northampton 14 Jany. 1881. _Northampton Mercury 15 Jany. 1881
p._ 8.
JOHNSON, ELLEN. Factory girl; author of The lord of the castle,
a fairy legend. London, Darton & Co. 1861, 8^o., 1/6. _d._ 1873.
JOHNSON, FRANCIS. _b._ 1796; travelled in Italy and learnt
Arabic from an Arab; professor of Sanscrit and Teloogoo at
H.E.I.C. coll. Haileybury 1824 to 1845, of Sanscrit, Teloogoo
and Bengali 1845 to Oct. 1855; author of The Sanskrit text of
the first book of Hitopadésa 1840, 4 ed. 1864; Selections from
the Mahábhárata 1842; A dictionary, Persian, Arabic and English
1852; The Gulistān of Sa’di 1863 in Persian. _d._ Hertford 29
Jany. 1876. _bur._ Great Amwell 4 Feb. _Hertfordshire Mercury 12
Feb. 1876 p._ 3.
JOHNSON, FREDERICK WILLIAM. Ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.,
rowed stroke in the Cambridge boat when she won the Grand
challenge cup at Henley 1851, also in the race against Oxford
1852; B.A. 1853, M.A. 1856; C. of St. Nicholas, Yarmouth 1854–8;
C. of St. John’s, Yarmouth 1858 to death. _d._ Yarmouth, Dec.
1859.
JOHNSON, GEORGE. One of the chief promoters of the Doncaster
races from 1847 and the chief means of largely increasing value
of the prizes; chairman of Doncaster race committee; never
betted more than a few crowns and that on St. Leger only;
superintended building new stand on Doncaster course. _d._
Doncaster 4 Nov. 1855. _Sporting Rev._ (1855) 419–21.
JOHNSON, GEORGE HENRY SACHEVERELL (son of rev. Henry Johnson).
_b._ Keswick, Cumberland 1808; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf.,
Ireland scholar 1827, mathematical scholar 1831, double first
1829, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1833; fellow of his college 1829–55, Greek
lecturer, chaplain and tutor 1842, bursar 1844, dean 1848;
public examiner in the univ. 1834–50; F.R.S. 18 Jany. 1838;
Savilian professor of astronomy 1839–42; White prof. of moral
philosophy 1842–45; Whitehall preacher, Sep. 1852 to 1854; royal
commissioner on univ. 1850 and parliamentary commissioner 1854;
dean of Wells 27 March 1854 to death; V. of Wells 1855–70;
author of Treatise on Optics 1836; Sermons preached in Wells
cathedral 1857; author with C. J. Ellicott and F. C. Cook of The
book of psalms: with a commentary 1880. _d._ Weston-super-Mare
4 Nov. 1881. _bur._ in the palm ch. yard, Wells cath. 10 Nov.
_Waagen’s Treasures of art_, _iii_ 112–20 (1854); _Times 7 Nov.
1881 p._ 9; _Guardian 9 Nov. 1881 p._ 1592.
JOHNSON, _George William_ (brother of Cuthbert W. Johnson
1799–1878). _b._ Blackheath, Kent 4 Nov. 1802; in his father’s
salt works; prepared Epsom salts from sea water; made
experiments in gardening and in the manufacture of manures;
barrister G.I. 8 June 1836; professor of moral and political
economy in Hindoo coll. Calcutta 1839–42; edited in Calcutta the
Englishman newspaper and government Gazette 1837–41; owner of
the Fairfax MSS. published as the Fairfax Correspondence 4 vols.
1848–67; edited the Gardeners’ Almanack 1844–66; The Gardener’s
Monthly Volume 12 vols. 1847; Cottage Gardener 1848, renamed
Journal of horticulture 1851 when he edited it with R. Hogg to
1881; with his brother he printed An essay on the use of salt
in agriculture 1821, 13 ed. 1838; Outlines of chemistry 1828;
Paley’s Work 1839; author of A history of English gardening
1829; Memoirs of John Selden 1835; The stranger in India 1843;
The principles of practical gardening 1845; A dictionary of
gardening 1846; The British ferns 1857, 4 ed. 1861; with rev. W.
W. Wingfield The poultry book 1853, 2 ed. 1856; with R. Hogg The
wild flowers of Great Britain 1863. _d._ Waldronhurst, Croydon
29 Oct. 1886. _Journal of horticulture_, _xiii_ 401–4, 424
(1887), _portrait_; _Bookseller 6 Nov. 1886 p._ 1181; _Times 5
Nov. 1886 p._ 6.
JOHNSON, _Harry John_. _b._ Birmingham 10 April 1826; was with
sir C. Fellowes in Lycia 1840; studied under Samuel Lines, W.
J. Müller and at the Clipstone st. acad. London; Assoc. Instit.
Painters in W.C. 1868 and member 1870; exhibited 15 landscapes
at R.A. 1859–80; some of his pictures are at South Kensington.
_d._ 12 Loudoun road, St. John’s Wood, London 31 Dec. 1884.
JOHNSON, HENRY. _b._ near London 1814; in employment of D.
Appleton & Co. publishers, New York 20 years; partner with
Robert Martin in the publication of serials, periodicals
and illustrated books 1855, firm became Johnson, Fry & Co.;
connected with Brooklyn real estate; identified with the
boulevard running to Coney island. _d._ Gravesend, Long Island
27 Nov. 1872. _American Annual Cyclop. for 1872 xii_ 634.
JOHNSON, SIR HENRY ALLEN, 2 Baronet. _b._ Shelbourne, Nova
Scotia 26 Sep. 1785; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1807, M.A. 1810;
A.D.C. to Prince of Orange during Peninsular war; knight of the
military order of Wilhelm of the Netherlands; succeeded 18 March
1835. _d._ Southland, Isle of Wight 27 June 1860.
JOHNSON, SIR HENRY FRANKS FREDERIC, 3 Baronet (eld. child
of preceding). _b._ Bath 5 Feb. 1819; ed. at Winchester and
Sandhurst; 2 lieut. 5 foot 22 Nov. 1836, major 5 Oct. 1849 to
15 Jany. 1856 when placed on h.p.; D.Q.M.G. in the Mauritius
31 Dec. 1855 to 18 July 1862; D.A.G. in Jamaica 2 Nov. 1866 to
1 April 1869; commanded forces in Windward and Leeward islands
1869–70; col. on the staff in command at Jamaica 1870–3; sold
out 1873. _d._ Avranche, Normandy 20 June 1883.
JOHNSON, HENRY ISAAC. _b._ Cambridge; ed. at Christ’s coll.
Camb., 30th wrangler 1852, B.A. 1853, M.A. 1856; assistant
master at Brighton college 1853–5; rector of Grey Institute,
Port Elizabeth, Cape of Good Hope 1863–73; incumbent of Trinity
ch. Port Elizabeth to 1873; espoused the cause of bishop
Colenso, his church was the only one in Cape Colony that did not
secede from the bishop’s rule; assistant master at Cheltenham
college 1873–4; head master of Royal Institution school,
Liverpool 1874–89. _d._ Penrhyn house, Ullet road, Liverpool 6
May 1892.
JOHNSON, JAMES A. _b._ England 1820; choir master Holy Communion
ch. New York 1846, solo tenor singer in oratorio music; compiled
A tune book 1848; composer of The Offertory sentences set to
music for four voices. New York 1862. _d._ Orange, New Jersey
1883. _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_ 444 (1889).
JOHNSON, JOHN. Ironfounder at 13 Lower Whitecross st. city of
London 1826 to death; member of ward of Cripplegate without 1841
to death; sheriff of London 1836–7, alderman of Dowgate 1839–49,
lord mayor 1845–6. _d._ Alfred terrace, Upper Holloway 12 Sep.
1858. _I.L.N. vii_ 320 (1845) _portrait_, _ix_ 125 (1846)
_portrait_.
JOHNSON, JOHN. _b._ 1801; studied in Italy 1836–40; built St.
Saviour’s ch. Walmer 1846, Water colour gallery, Pall Mall;
decorated H.M. theatre for Benjamin Lumley; built mansion
for sir John Kelk at Tedworth, Wilts. 1878; with Mr. Meeson,
Alexandra palace, which was burnt 9 June 1873; district surveyor
East Hackney; a great fisherman; in 1866 he obtained the prize
for the greatest weight of fish caught 550 lbs.; member of
Piscatorial soc.; member of Thames angling preservation soc.
and on the committee. _d._ 14 Buckingham st. Adelphi, London 28
Dec. 1878. _The Builder_ (1874) 687–9, (1879) 53, 137; _Fishing
Gazette 3 Jany. 1879 p._ 7.
JOHNSON, JOHN JAMES (3 son of William Johnson of The Pallant,
Chichester, _d._ 1823). _b._ June 1812; ed. at Winchester;
barrister M.T. 10 June 1836, bencher 5 May 1864 to death;
recorder of Chichester, Aug. 1863 to death; Q.C. 13 Feb. 1864.
_d._ 26 Gresham place, Belgrave sq. London 22 July 1890.
JOHNSON, JOHN MERCER (son of a timber merchant). _b._ Liverpool
1818; ed. Northumberland county gram. sch. New Brunswick;
barrister 1840; member of provincial legislature, postmaster
general 1847, speaker of the house, and attorney general,
solicitor general 1854; member of Quebec and London conferences
which settled the confederation act of the Dominion of Canada
1864, 1867; member for Northumberland in Dominion parliament
1867. _d._ Northumberland, Canada 9 Nov. 1868. _Appleton’s
American Biog. iii_ 445 (1889).
JOHNSON, JOHN SAMUEL WILLES (eld. son of rev. Charles Johnson,
preb. of Wells, _d._ 1841). _b._ South Stoke near Bath 3 July
1793; entered R.N. 1 Feb. 1807; commander 6 Feb. 1821, on
h.p. from Aug. 1842; captain 9 Nov. 1846; served at capture
of Algiers 1816 and in the first Chinese war 1841; M.P.
for Montgomery district 4 May 1861 to death; author of The
traveller’s guide through France, Italy and Switzerland 1828.
_d._ Hannington hall, Highworth, Wiltshire 25 July 1863.
JOHNSON, JOSEPH. _b._ 1791; a brushmaker in or near Manchester;
tried with Henry Hunt and 8 others at York assizes 16–27 March
1820 for conspiracy and unlawfully assembling in St. Peter’s
Field, Manchester 16 Aug. 1819, sentenced to be imprisoned for
one year in Lincoln castle 15 May 1820; author of A letter to
H. Hunt esq. relating to certain accounts. Manchester 1822, 2
ed. 1822; A second letter to H. Hunt 1822. d. Sep. 1872 aged 81.
_Reports of State Trials_, _i_ 171–496 (1888).
JOHNSON, MANUEL JOHN (only son of John William Johnson of Macao,
China). _b._ Macao 23 May 1835; ed. Addiscombe; lieut. H.E.I.
Co.’s artillery at St. Helena 1821–32, where he erected the St.
Helena observatory 1828; matric. from Magd. hall, Oxf. 1835,
B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; in charge of Radcliffe observatory, Oxf.
1839 to death; made observations of double stars and a catalogue
of 6,317 circumpolar stars; adopted the photographic method
of registering meteorological facts 1854; F.R.S. 5 June 1856;
F.R.A.S., president 1857–8; made a collection of engravings,
sold for £3,359 April 1860; author of A catalogue of 606
principal fixed stars in the Southern Hemisphere observed at
the magnetical and meteorological observatory, St. Helena 1835;
Astronomical observations made at the Radcliffe observatory,
Oxford 1840–58. Oxford 1842 etc. _d._ The observatory, Oxford
28 Feb. 1859; Johnson prize instituted 1862 and given once in 4
years to astronomers. _Proc. Royal Soc. x_ 21–4 (1860); _Monthly
Notices R.A. Soc. xix_ 169–70 (1859), _xx_ 123–30 (1860);
_Mozley’s Reminiscences_, _ii_ 188–99 (1882).
JOHNSON, PAUL. _b._ 1789; ed. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1811,
M.A. 1814; R. of Sidestrand, Norfolk 1834–72; R. of Overstrand
1841–72; author of The fall of the Yarmouth suspension bridge,
with reflections. Norwich 1845; The death of the prince imperial
Louis Napoleon, a poem 1879; An epitome in verse of the life of
the Prince Consort 1883. _d._ Kirmington, Ulceby, Lincs. 29 Oct.
1883.
JOHNSON, PERCIVAL NORTON (only son of John Johnson, at one time
the only commercial assayer in London). _b._ 1793; worked with
his father; assayer and metallurgist at 79 Hatton garden, London
about 1816; began and carried on manufacture of German silver,
and introduced it to general use in England; invented several
pottery colours, amongst them the rose-pink; the first person
who refined and manufactured platinum upon a commercial scale;
F.R.S. 30 April 1846; of firm of John Johnson & Sons, assayers
of bullion, metals and minerals, 18A Basinghall st. London,
assayers to the bank of England and the Mint. _d._ Stoke house
near Dartmouth 1 June 1866. _Quarterly Journal of geological
soc. xxiii_ 39–41 (1867); _Proc. of R.S. xvi_ 23–25 (1868).
NOTE.--He made and gave the Wollaston medals to geological society many
years; they were composed of palladium, a metal discovered in platinum,
which in 1867 became so scarce that it sometimes realized ten guineas
per ounce.
JOHNSON, PETER. Professional swimmer. _d._ of inflammation of
lungs in a cab whilst going to the hospital at Prague 4 Jany.
1890.
JOHNSON, ROBERT JAMES. _b._ about 1832; architect at Newcastle;
had a very large practice; A.R.I.B.A. 1861, F.R.I.B.A. 1865;
F.S.A. _d._ Rock villa, Tunbridge Wells 18 April 1892.
JOHNSON, THOMAS MARR. _b._ Appleby, Lincs. 29 June 1826; ed.
Winterton, Lincs. and at Ripon; A.I.C.E. 6 April 1852, M.I.C.E.
7 Feb. 1863; res. engineer river Nene and Norfolk estuary works;
with B. Baker (under J. Fowler’s instructions) res. engineer of
Metropolitan railway, superintended design and execution 1860–9;
member of firm of G. Smith & Co. builders and contractors, Feb.
1870 to death; with W. Mills superintended construction of
Holborn viaduct station, London. _d._ 14 Westbourne st. Hyde
park, London 20 July 1874. _Min. of Proc. I.C.E. xxxix_ 268–9
(1875).
JOHNSON, JOSEPH TOWERS, stage name of Edward Joseph Towers.
_b._ Kentish town, London 26 March 1815; clerk to Goding and
Broadwood, ale brewers; made first appearance as Claude in The
Bear hunt, Marylebone theatre 1835; at the Pavilion 1835–7, at
the Garrick 1839, at Surrey 1840–7, at Lyceum 1847, at Sadler’s
Wells; lessee Victoria theatre Nov. 1856 to 1866; stage manager
for John Coleman on the Northern circuit 7 or 8 years; the Isaac
Levi and Mr. Eden in the original cast of ‘Never too late to
mend,’ produced at Royal theatre, Leeds 1864. _d._ 37 Mitford
place, Upper Kennington lane, London 8 July 1891. _bur._ Tooting
cemetery 13 July. _Theatrical Times_, _ii_ 225, 242 (1847),
_portrait_; _The Players_, _iii_ 311 (1860), _portrait_.
JOHNSON, WILLIAM (3 son of James Johnson of Kendal, attorney,
who _d._ 1828). _b._ Kendal 1823; sub-editor of the Glasgow
Practical mechanics’ and engineers’ magazine 1845–48; started
The Practical Mechanics’ Journal, Glasgow 1848, edited it 1848
to death, 16 vols.; patent agent at Glasgow; A.I.C.E. 1850;
edited Practical draughtsman’s book of industrial design 1861;
author of The imperial cyclopædia of machinery 1852–6; with J.
H. Johnson of Abstract of the patent law amendment act 1852.
_d._ Glasgow 10 June 1864.
JOHNSON, WILLIAM. _b._ Cumberland 1784; ed. St. John’s coll.
Camb. 1810, B.D. 1827; C. of Grasmere 1811, teacher at Grasmere
sch., and a friend of Wordsworth; in charge of National
society’s sch. Holborn, taught on the Bell system 1812,
school removed to Baldwin’s gardens 1814; trainer of masters,
travelling organiser, inspector of schools, and later on cashier
and comptroller of accounts of National Soc. to 1840; called the
Patriarch of National Education; R. of St. Clement’s Eastcheap
with St. Martin’s Orgar, London 19 Oct. 1820 to death. _d._ 29
Martin’s lane, Cannon st. London 20 Sep. 1864. _G.M. xvii_ 526,
661 (1864).
JOHNSON, WILLIAM. _b._ Hindley near Wigan, Lancs. 7 March 1831;
ed. at Stonyhurst, Ampleforth and Prior park, Bath; missioner at
St. Mary’s on the Quay, Bristol 1853–6 and at Chippenham, Wilts.
1856–9; assist. priest at pro-cathedral, Liverpool 1859–62;
priest at Breck, Poulton-le-Fylde 1862–79 and at Lydiate 1879
to death; composer of Litany of B.V.M. for four voices 1872;
Hail! holy Joseph hail! for four voices 1874; Missa de Sancta
Maria 1880; Hail, thou resplendent star. Chorus with solo 1881;
The lion and the bear 1878 and his other comic song obtained
popularity. _d._ Lydiate 9 Oct. 1885. _Gillow’s English
Catholics_, _iii_ 641 (1887); _Liverpool Catholic Almanac_
(1886) _p._ 96, _portrait_.
JOHNSON, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS. _b._ 1776; ensign of a new
independent company of foot 18 Sep. 1793; captain 32 foot 7
Jany. 1795, lieut. col. 17 May 1810 to 18 Aug. 1814 when placed
on h.p.; L.G. 23 Nov. 1841; retired from the army 1855; M.P.
Boston 1820–26, M.P. Oldham 1837–47; sheriff of Lincolnshire
1830. _d._ Wytham on the hill near Stamford 26 Oct. 1863.
JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM GILLILAN (youngest son of William Johnson,
merchant). _b._ Fortfield, co. Antrim 1808; ed. Trin. coll.
Dublin, B.A. 1830, M.A. 1830; barrister King’s inns, Dublin
1838; M.P. Belfast 10 July 1841, election declared void 19 Aug.
1842; mayor of Belfast 1849 when he received the queen on her
visit there 11 Aug.; knighted at Belfast 12 Aug. 1849; a founder
of the Protestant orphan asylum, Belfast 1866, and with his wife
of the Belfast ophthalmic hospital. _d._ College sq. north,
Dublin 9 April 1886. _The Belfast news-letter 10 April 1886 p._
5.
JOHNSON, W. H. (son of an ordnance officer, H.E.I.C.S.) _b._
1831; ed. at Mussooree; in the North-west Himalayan survey
1848–52; ascended the Snoy Peak near the Néla pass 22 June 1854;
in the Kashmir survey party 1855, conducted the triangulations
of the Kishangunga valley, fixing his theodolite on some of the
highest peaks which had ever been ascended, going nearly to
20,000 feet; first European traveller who visited the plains of
Khotan 1865; in service of maharajah of Kashmir 1866 to death,
governor and joint commissioner of Ladakh; presented with gold
watch by R. Geogr. Soc. 1875. _d._ it was thought by poison at
Jummoo, Kashmir 3 March 1882. _Proc. R. Geogr. Soc. v_ 291–3,
604 (1883).
JOHNSON, WILLIAM ROBERT. _b._ 17 July 1830; ed. Putney coll.;
ensign 39 Madras N.I. 2 Oct. 1850, captain 30 Aug. 1860; engaged
in public works department, Mysore 1857; first class permanent
superintending engineer 1 Jany. 1880 to death; superintending
engineer for irrigation, when he looked after the 38,000 water
tanks in Mysore; completed the bridge over the Toonga Bhadra
river at Hurryhurh; lieut. col. Madras staff corps 20 Dec. 1875;
col. in the army 20 Dec. 1880; A.I.C.E. 4 Feb. 1868. _d._ London
7 June 1882. _Min. of Proc. I.C.E. lxxii_ 319–20 (1883).
JOHNSON, WILLIAM WARD PERCIVAL. _b._ 1790; entered navy 2 July
1803, commander 19 Sep. 1835; captain on h.p. 14 Dec. 1841;
admiral on h.p. 30 July 1875. _d._ Little Baddow near Chelmsford
26 Dec. 1880. _Graphic_, _xix_ 216 (1879), _portrait_; _I.L.N.
lxxviii_ 37 (1881), _portrait_.
JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER (son of an architect). _b._ Edinburgh 1815;
with a seal engraver 1830; student in Trustees acad. Edinb.
1831–4; at Royal acad. London 1836; exhibited 73 pictures at
R.A., 49 at B.I. and 16 at Suffolk st. 1836–80; The gentle
shepherd 1840 and Sunday morning 1841, are well known by
the engravings; his The interview of the regent Murray with
Mary, queen of Scots 1841, was purchased by Edinb. art union;
Archbishop Tillotson administering the sacrament to lord William
Russell in the tower. 1845, is in National gallery. _d._ 21
Carlingford road, Hampstead 2 Feb. 1891. _I.L.N. 14 Feb. 1891
p._ 207, _portrait_.
JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER JAMES (eld. son of James S. Johnston of
Wood Hill, Kinnellar, Aberdeenshire). _b._ Kinnellar 1820;
student Lincoln’s inn 1838; barrister M.T. 27 Jany. 1843; deputy
recorder of Leeds 1857; a puisne judge of supreme court of New
Zealand 1858 to death, acted as chief justice 1867 and 1886;
author of A lecture on the influence of art on human happiness.
Napier 1861; Reports of cases determined in the courts of appeal
of New Zealand 3 vols. 1867; The New Zealand justice of the
peace, resident magistrate, coroner and constable. Wellington
1879. _d._ London 1 June 1888.
JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER KEITH (4 son of Andrew Johnston). _b._
Kirkhill near Edinburgh 28 Dec. 1804; ed. Edin. univ., LLD.
1865; engraver with his bro. William Keith 1826; geographer in
ordinary to the Queen 8 Feb. 1840; F.R.G.S. 1843 and Victoria
medalist May 1871; F.G.S. 1845, F.R.S.E. 1850; constructed the
first globe illustrative of physical geography, medal from Great
exhibition of 1851; a founder of Scotch meteorological soc., and
hon. sec.; member Edinb. Geological soc. 1862; published The
national atlas of historical, commercial and political geography
1843; The physical atlas of natural phenomena 1848, the first
physical atlas published in England; Atlas of classical
geography 1853. _d._ Ben Rhydding, Yorkshire 9 July 1871. _bur._
Grange cemet. Edinb. 14 July. _Athenæum 15 July 1871 p._ 81;
_Proc. R. Geographical Soc. xvi_ 304–6 (1872).
JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER KEITH (eld. son of the preceding).
_b._ Edinburgh 24 Nov. 1844; ed. Edinb. instit. and Grange
house sch.; superintendent of drawing and engraving of maps
with Stanford, London 1866–7; life member R.G.S. 1868 and
map-draughtsman and assistant curator 1872–3; in charge of
geographical branch of W. and A. K. Johnston’s London business
1869–73; a founder of the Grove park rowing club; geographer to
the commission for the survey of Palestine 1873–5; geographer
in Paraguay 1873–5; published The library map of Africa 1866;
Handbook of physical geography. Edinb. 1870; Lake regions of
Central Africa 1870; The surface zones of the globe 1874; leader
of R. Geogr. Soc. expedition to the head of lake Nyassa, Nov.
1878. _d._ of dysentery, Berobero 120 miles from Dar es Salaam
28 June 1879. _Academy_, _ii_ 102, 107 (1879); _I.L.N. lxxv_ 174
(1879), _portrait_; _J. Thomson’s To the central African lakes_,
_i_, _pp. xiii–xix_ (1881), _memoir and portrait_.
JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER ROBERT CAMPBELL (3 son of sir Alexander
Johnston 1775–1849, chief justice of Ceylon). _b._ Colombo,
Ceylon 14 June 1812; in civil service of Mauritius 1828–33;
private sec. to lord Napier in China 1833–35; third commissioner
in China 1835; deputy superintendent of trade of British
subjects in China, May 1837; administered government of Hong
Kong, June 1841 to Dec. 1842; medal for services on board H.M.S.
Nemesis 1841; sec. and registrar superintending in China 1843
to 25 Sep. 1852 when office abolished; F.R.S. 5 June 1845. _d._
San Raphael Ranche, Los Angelos, California 21 Jany. 1888.
_Athenæum_, _i_ 151 (1888).
JOHNSTON, ANDREW. _b._ Cursitor st. London 1818; a civil
engineer at Nottingham in partnership with Mr. Underwood 1854–8;
assist. engineer Brighton railway 1858–65; principal assist.
engineer Midland railway 1865 and engineer 1875 to death;
M.I.C.E. 1875. _d._ 1884. _Min. of proc. I.C.E. lxxviii_ 434–5
(1884).
JOHNSTON, CHARLES. _b._ Birmingham; L.S.A. 1833, M.R.C.S. 1835;
assist. surgeon Queen’s service 1833–4, surgeon H.E.I.C.S.
1839–41; travelled in Abyssinia and was friendly with king
Theodore 1842; proprietor of Hunt’s London Journal, in which he
wrote many articles; surgeon at Natal, and member of legislative
council 1856–8; surgeon at Barnstaple, Devon; author of Travels
in Southern Abyssinia through the country of Adal to the kingdom
of Shoa 2 vols. 1844; Observations on health and disease in
Natal 1860. _d._ The square, Barnstaple 16 July 1872. _Medical
Times 17 Aug. 1872 p._ 189.
JOHNSTON, CHARLES JAMES. _b._ 1765; entered navy about 1787;
governor of naval hospital of Madras 1802; captain 5 Sep. 1806;
the Cornwallis under his command in 1807 was the first regular
man of war to pass between Australia and Van Diemen’s Land; V.A.
on half pay 6 Nov. 1850; pensioned 15 April 1854. _d._ Cowhill
near Dumfries 16 Oct. 1856.
JOHNSTON, DAVID (son of Henry Johnston of Corstorphine and
Edinburgh). _b._ Edinburgh 19 May 1801; ed. at univ. of Edinb.,
M.D. 1 Aug. 1821; translated Dante’s Inferno, Purgatorio and
Paradiso 3 vols. 1867–8; Corneille’s Polyeucte 1870; published
Hadrianus Moriens, translations of Hadrian’s Address to his soul
1870, containing 98 translations by living authors; author of A
general view of the system of public education in France. Edin.
1827; A general medical and statistical history of charity in
France 1829. _d._ 13 Marlborough buildings, Bath 17 Oct. 1879.
_The Academy 1879 ii p._ 321.
JOHNSTON, FREDERICK. _b._ 18 June 1792; cornet 6 dragoons 4
April 1810; captain 17 light dragoons 1824–6; major 67 foot 2
April 1829 to 26 Feb. 1836; general 7 Jany. 1874; placed on
retired list 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ A 10, Albany, Piccadilly, London
31 Jany. 1882.
JOHNSTON, GEORGE. _b._ Simprin, Berwickshire 20 July 1797; ed.
at Kelso, Berwick and univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1819; M.R.C.S.
Edinb. 1817, F.R.C.S. 1819; general practitioner at Berwick
1819–53, mayor 3 times; LL.D. Aberdeen; a founder of Ray soc.
1844 and of Berwickshire naturalists’ club; one of editors of
Mag. of zoology and botany; wrote 90 papers on natural history;
author of A Flora of Berwick-upon-Tweed 2 vols. 1829–31; A
history of the British zoophytes. Edinb. 1838, 2 ed. London
1847; A history of British sponges and lithophytes 1842; An
introduction to conchology 1850. _d._ Berwick on Tweed 30 July
1855. _Proc. of Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club_, _iii_ 202, 215.
JOHNSTON, GEORGE (son of Andrew Johnston, surgeon in the army).
_b._ Dublin 12 Aug. 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; M.R.C.S.E.
1837; M.D. Edin. 1845; assistant phys. of lying-in hospital,
Dublin 1848–55; master of the Rotunda hospital, and writer of
the clinical reports 1868–75; F.K.Q.C.P. Dublin 1863, pres.
1880; author with E. B. Sinclair of Practical midwifery,
comprising an account of 13,748 deliveries which took place in
the Rotunda hospital. 1878. d. 15 St. Stephen’s Green north,
Dublin 7 March 1889.
JOHNSTON, JAMES. Ensign 8 foot 7 June 1839, lieut. col. 1 July
1862 to death. _d._ Malta 29 Dec. 1865.
JOHNSTON, JAMES FINLAY WEIR. _b._ Paisley 13 Sep. 1796; ed. at
univ. of Glasgow, M.A.; kept a school at Durham 1825–30; studied
chemistry under Berzelius in Sweden 1830; professor of chemistry
and mineralogy in univ. of Durham from its foundation 1833 to
death; chemist to Agricultural society of Scotland 1843 to date
when society was dissolved; F.R.S. 15 June 1837; F.R.S. Edin.;
author of The economy of a coalfield. Durham 1838; Catechism of
agricultural chemistry and geology. Edinb. 1844, 33 editions,
translated into most European languages and taught in schools;
On the use of lime in agriculture 1849; The chemistry of common
life 2 vols. 1853–5, 3 ed. 1879, his best work; contributed to
Edinburgh review and Blackwood’s mag. _d._ Durham 18 Sep. 1855.
_Blackwood’s Edinburgh Mag._, _Nov. 1855 pp._ 548–51.
JOHNSTON, JAMES HENRY. _b._ 1787; entered navy 1803, present
at battle of Trafalgar 21 Oct. 1805, lieut. 16 Feb. 1810;
lieut. on half pay July 1815; proposed establishment of steam
communication with India viâ the Mediterranean and Red Sea 1823;
designed iron steamers which navigated the Ganges many years;
controller of the H.E.I. Company’s steamers 1833–50. _d._ on his
way home from India 5 May 1851.
JOHNSTON, _Norman_. _b._ 1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A.
1830; inc. of St. Peter, Kirkcaldy 1840 to death; presented with
200 guineas on his jubilee March 1890; domestic chaplain to
Countess of Rothes 1859; dean of united dioceses of St. Andrews,
Dunkeld and Dunblane 1880 to death. _d._ Kirkcaldy 18 Sep. 1890
aged 84.
JOHNSTON, ROBERT. Called to bar in Ireland 1829; Q.C. 9 May
1868. _d._ 1885.
JOHNSTON, THOMAS HENRY (brother of Alexander R. C. Johnston
1812–88). _b._ 1807; ensign 66 foot 21 Feb. 1822, lieut. col. 28
Dec. 1838 to 12 July 1850; served in Canadian rebellion 1837–8;
col. 87 foot 9 April 1864, col. 66 foot 10 Oct. 1870 to death;
general 5 Dec. 1871. _d._ Carnsalloch, Dumfriesshire 29 Dec.
1891.
JOHNSTON, WILLIAM (son of Thomas Boston Johnston, packman).
_b._ Biggar, Lanarkshire 18 Feb. 1800; ed. at univ. of Glasgow,
M.A. 1817, D.D. 1850; Secession minister at Limekilns near
Dunfermline 1823 to death; the Secession church became the
United Presbyterian church in 1847, convener of committee on
education 1847 to death; moderator of synod 1854; a jubilee
service held in his honor 27 Aug. 1873 when he was presented
with an epergne and 1000 guineas; author of A memoir of the rev.
Robert Brown. Dunfermline 1830. _d._ at his lodgings, Hanover
st. Edinburgh 24 May 1874. _W. Gifford’s Memorials of the life
of Dr. Johnston_ (1876), _portrait_; _J. Smith’s Our Scottish
Clergy_ (_2 Ser._ 1849) 334–9.
JOHNSTON, SIR WILLIAM (3 son of Andrew Johnston). _b._ Kirkhill
near Penicuik, Midlothian 27 Oct. 1802; ed. at high school,
Edin.; an engraver, Edin. 1 Dec. 1825; founded with his brother,
firm of W. and A. K. Johnston 1826; engraver and copperplate
printer to the Queen 2 Dec. 1837; purchased the business of
the Messrs. Lizars 1859; built the Edina works, Easter road,
Edinb. 1878; high constable of Edin. 1828; moderator to the
high constables 1831, 32 and 39; member of dean of guild court
1831, of town council 1832; a bailie of Edin. 1840, lord provost
1848–51; knighted at Holyrood palace 26 Aug. 1851; retired
from business 1867; joined with his brother in the production
of atlases and maps. _d._ Kirkhill house near Gorebridge,
Midlothian 7 Feb. 1888. _Bookseller_, _March 1888 pp._ 258–9.
JOHNSTON, WILLIAM WALKER WHITEHALL (eld. son of Thomas F.
Johnston, colonial sec. of Trinidad, West Indies). Ensign 1
West India regiment 4 Aug. 1854, lieut. col. 24 Dec. 1873 to 1
April 1880 when placed on h.p.; hon. M.G. 1 April 1880. _d._ 9
Beauclerc road, The Grove, London 21 Jany. 1886.
JOHNSTONE, CHARLES VANDEN BEMPDE (younger son of sir R. V. B.
Johnstone, 1 baronet, _d._ 1807). _b._ 24 Aug. 1800; ed. Trin.
coll. Camb., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1830; V. of Feliskirk, Yorkshire
1827–72; preb. of Wetwang in York cath. 17 Oct. 1844 to death;
canon res. of York 1845–73. _d._ Sutton hall, Thirsk 15 May 1882.
JOHNSTONE, CHRISTIAN ISOBEL. _b._ Fifeshire 1781. (_m._ Mr.
M’Leish, she obtained a divorce; _m._ (2) about 1812 John
Johnstone of Dunfermline, schoolmaster, afterwards editor of
Inverness Courier, they edited the Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle);
she edited and wrote ‘The schoolmaster and Edinburgh weekly
mag.’ 4 Aug. 1832 to 29 June 1833 when it was converted into
‘Johnstone’s Edinburgh Mag.’ published monthly 9 numbers, this
was incorporated with Tait’s Edinburgh Mag. 1834 which she
edited 1834–46; author of Clan Albin, a national tale 4 vols.
1815, anon.; The cook and housewife’s manual. By Mistress
Margaret Dods of the Cleikum inn, St. Ronans 1826, 11 ed.
1862; Nights of the round table, or stories of Aunt Jane and
her friends. 2 series Edin. 1832 and 1849; John Johnstone _d._
Edinb. 3 Nov. 1857 aged 76; she _d._ Buccleuch place, Edinburgh
26 Aug. 1857. _W. Anderson’s Scottish Nation_, _iii_ 713–15
(1863); _Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine_, _Sep. 1857 pp._ 573–5.
NOTE.--Some accounts say this lady’s names were Christina Jane
Johnstone.
JOHNSTONE, EDWARD (3 son of James Johnstone of Kidderminster
afterwards of Worcester, M.D. 1730–1802). _b._ Kidderminster
26 Sep. 1757; ed. at free gram. sch. there and at univ. of
Edinb.; B.D., M.D. 1779; one of physicians of Birmingham general
hospital 1779; pres. of Medical sch., afterward called Queen’s
college, Birmingham 1827–45; principal of Queen’s coll. 1827–45;
hon. phys. of Queen’s hosp. Birmingham to death. _d._ Edgbaston
hall near Birmingham 4 Sep. 1851. _Edgbastonia_, _iv_ 21–23
(1884).
JOHNSTONE, EDWARD (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ Ladywood
house near Birmingham 9 April 1804; ed. Trin. coll. Cam., B.A.
1825, M.A. 1828; barrister L.I. 6 May 1828, barrister I.T.
1838; a founder of the Literary association of the Friends of
Poland 1832; author of What is Poland? a question of geography,
history and public law 1836; The general orders and practice of
the courts of common law in Ireland 1854; claimed the dormant
marquisate of Annandale 1876, claim dismissed by House of
Lords as not having been proved 1881. _d._ Worcester 20 Sep.
1881. _bur._ Edgbaston. _Biograph_, _Aug. 1880 pp._ 170–3;
_Edgbastonia_, _iv_ 21–3 (1884).
JOHNSTONE, HENRY JAMES WOLFENDEN (eld. son of James Johnstone
1777–1845, physician extraordinary to William IV. 1830). _b._
1808; ed. at Westminster sch. and St. George’s hosp. where he
became house surgeon and teacher of anatomy; M.R.C.S. 1834,
F.R.C.S. 1843; edited with his father The Medico-Chirurgical
Review; had a large practice, retired through bad health 1848;
resided in France 1848–50; presumed to be author of a series
of letters in The Times beginning 20 Dec. 1851, exposing and
condemning Louis Napoleon’s imperial designs; author of Clinical
observations on diseases of the genito-urinary organs 1851. _d._
High view, St. Lawrence, Ramsgate 19 Oct. 1889.
JOHNSTONE, JAMES (brother of Edward Johnstone 1804–81). _b._
Edgbaston hall near Birmingham 12 April 1806; ed. at Trin. coll.
Camb., M.B. 1828, M.L. 1830, M.D. 1832; F.R.C.P. 1834; studied
in Edin., Paris and London; professor of materia medica and
therapeutics at Queen’s college, Birmingham 1841 to death; phys.
to the general hospital 1841 to death; pres. of British Medical
Association, Sep. 1865; author of A therapeutic arrangement and
syllabus of materia medica 1835; A discourse on the phenomena of
sensation as connected with the mental, physical and instructive
faculties of man 1841. _d._ Leamington 11 May 1869. _Langford’s
Modern Birmingham_, _ii_ 333–7, 492 (1877).
JOHNSTONE, JAMES (son of James Johnstone a messenger of court of
bankruptcy, _d._ 1865 aged 79). _b._ Charles st. Old st. London
26 June 1815; a messenger of bankruptcy court, Basinghall st.
1842–61; head of firm of Johnstone, Cooper, Wintle & Co. of 3
Coleman st. buildings, accountants 1861 to death; bought the
Morning Herald and Standard newspapers from Charles Baldwin
for £16,500 in 1857, issued the Standard as a morning paper 29
June 1857 at price of 2 pence, reduced price to 1 penny 4 Feb.
1858; started the Evening Herald 29 June 1857 which ceased 27
May 1865; the Morning Herald ceased 31 Dec. 1869; discontinued
evening issue of the Standard 29 June 1857, but revived it
11 June 1860, appeared in a new form 1 Jany. 1870, sometimes
circulated 100,000 copies; paid off all his liabilities and
became sole proprietor of Standard 1870. _d._ Hooley house,
Coulsdon, Surrey 21 Oct. 1878. _J. Hatton’s Journalistic London_
(1882) 146–54, _portrait_; _Vanity Fair 14 Feb. 1874 p._ 81,
_portrait_; _Bourne’s English Newspapers_, _ii_ 226, 239–41,
336–7 (1887).
JOHNSTONE, JAMES (eld. son of James Raymond Johnstone of Alva,
Stirlingshire). _b._ Overton, Rutland 4 July 1801; ed. at Rugby
and univ. of Edin.; admitted advocate at Scotch bar 1824; M.P.
for Clackmannan and Kinross 1851–57. _d._ 24 Feb. 1888.
JOHNSTONE, JOHN BEER. _b._ Dublin 12 March 1803; an actor in
Ireland, the provinces and London; never had more than £2 a
week up to 1882; at Princess’s theatre under Wilson Barrett
1882; presented with a testimonial and £60 by 200 actors on
his eightieth birthday 12 March 1883; author of upwards of 200
dramas for which he received on an average about £5; he sold
an extravaganza and a farce to David W. Osbaldiston for 15/-;
his chief printed dramas are The Drunkard’s children. Pavilion
theatre July 1848; The gipsy farmer or Jack and Jack’s brother.
Surrey theatre March 1849; Gale Breezely or the tale of a tar.
Surrey 1853; Ben Bolt. Surrey 28 March 1854; The sailor of
France. Surrey 28 Nov. 1854; Tufelhausen or the lawyer’s legend.
Surrey 24 March 1856; Pedrillo or a search for two fathers.
Marylebone theatre 16 Nov. 1857; Morley Ashton or a sea voyage
1866; Jack Long or a shot in the eye 1872. _d._ 25 April 1891.
_bur._ Brompton cemet. _The Era 17 March 1883 p._ 8.
JOHNSTONE, JOHN DOUGLAS. _b._ 1808; ensign 3 foot 15 Aug. 1827;
captain 33 foot 19 Oct. 1838, lieut. col. 9 March 1855 to 17
April 1860 when placed on retired full pay; M.G. 17 April 1860;
C.B. 27 July 1855. _d._ Dublin 19 Sep. 1863.
NOTE.--He and his son J. D. Johnstone were the first in the assault on
the Redan, where he lost his left arm.
JOHNSTONE, SIR JOHN VANDEN BEMPDE, 2 Baronet. _b._ Hackness hall
near Scarborough 28 Aug. 1799; ed. Rugby and Trin. coll. Camb.,
M.A. 1821; succeeded 14 July 1807; M.P. Yorkshire 1830–32; M.P.
Scarborough 1832–7 and 1841 to death; major Yorkshire hussars
22 April 1843, lieut. col. 6 April 1859 to 30 Aug. 1859; while
hunting in Northamptonshire broke a rib which entered his lungs
20 Feb., _d._ 34 Belgrave sq. London 25 Feb. 1869. _bur._ at
parish church, Hackness 3 March. _Reg. and mag. of Biog. i_ 294
(1869).
JOHNSTONE, MONTAGUE CHOLMELEY (3 son of James Raymond Johnstone
of Alva, co. Clackmannan 1768–1830). _b._ 2 March 1804; ensign
27 foot 27 Feb. 1823, lieut. col. 16 Nov. 1841 to 23 March 1849;
lieut. col. 87 foot 23 March 1849 to 26 Oct. 1858; col. 88 foot
10 Aug. 1864 to death; general 29 Dec. 1873. _d._ Baden Baden 22
Sep. 1874.
JOHNSTONE, WILLIAM (son of Mr. Johnstone, colliery manager to
Mr. Dixon of the Govan iron works, Lanarkshire). _b._ parish
of Old Monkland near Glasgow 1 July 1811; articled to David
Smith of Glasgow, C.E. 1826–33; engineer and general manager
of Glasgow and Ayr railway 1840, of Glasgow and South western
railway to 31 Dec. 1874, the former line gradually developed
into the latter; pres. of Institution of engineers in Scotland
1861–63, formed in 1857 chiefly by W. J. M. Rankine and himself;
M.I.C.E. 4 Dec. 1866. _d._ Glasgow 27 April 1877.
JOHNSTONE, WILLIAM BORTHWICK (son of John Johnstone, solicitor).
_b._ Edinb. 21 July 1804; in a lawyer’s office, Edinb.; attended
antique classes of Trustees academy 1840–2; exhibited at
Trustees academy exhibitions from 1836 to death; A.R. Scottish
Acad. 1840, member 1848, treasurer 1850; took his mother’s name
of Borthwick 1847; oil, water-colour and miniature painter;
his picture, A scene in Holyrood, 1855 is in National gallery
of Scotland; first principal curator of Nat. Gall. of Scotland
1858; his collections of arms, armour and pictures, sold by
Chapman, a 6 days’ sale; author of Catalogue of the National
gallery of Scotland 1859, 18 ed. 1868. _d._ 3 Gloucester place,
Edinb. 5 June 1868.
JOHNSTONE, SIR WILLIAM JAMES HOPE (2 son of sir Wm. Johnstone
Hope, G.C.B. 1766–1831). _b._ Haddingtonshire 28 July 1798;
entered navy 20 June 1811, captain 21 Oct. 1823, R.A. 22 April
1853, V.A. 4 Feb. 1858, admiral 24 Sep. 1863; commander in chief
on S.E. coast of America 1854–57; at Sheerness 28 June 1860 to
25 June 1863; R.A. of the United Kingdom 12 Feb. 1870, placed on
retired list April 1870; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. _d._ 24 Albany st.
Edinburgh 11 July 1878.
JOICEY, JOHN (4 son of George Joicey of Newcastle). _b._
Tynemouth 1816; apprenticed to his brother James Joicey,
colliery viewer 1838–41, partner in the firm to death; sheriff
of Durham 1878; M.P. North Durham April 1880 to death; A.I.C.E.
2 March 1875; erected and endowed Newton Hall church 1877;
gave sum of £12,000 to Museum of natural history society of
Northumberland and Durham 1881. _d._ Newton Hall, Stocksfield
on Tyne 15 Aug. 1881, personalty sworn £678,000, 28 Jany. 1882.
_Min. of Proc. of I.C.E._ _lxix_ 417–18 (1882).
JOLLIE, PATRICK. Oldest bookseller in the world. _d._ Leslie,
Fifeshire 3 Oct. 1885 aged 97.
JOLLIFFE, PETER WILLIAM. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A.
1789, M.A. 1792; P.C. of St. James, Poole, Dorset 4 May 1791
to death; the oldest incumbent in England. _d._ Parkstone near
Poole, March 1861 aged 95.
JOLLIFFE, THOMAS ROBERT (2 son of Thomas Samuel Jolliffe, M.P.)
_b._ 1780; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807;
R. of Babington near Frome 15 Feb. 1810 to death; author of
Letters from Palestine. Signed Th. R. J. 1819, 4 ed. 2 vols.
1854; Narrative of an excursion from Corfu to Smyrna 1827. _d._
Ammerdown park near Bath 15 June 1872.
JOLLIFFE, WILLIAM PETER (only son of Christopher Jolliffe of
Poole, Dorset). _b._ Poole 1812; barrister G.I. 30 June 1839,
bencher 1 March 1875 to death, treasurer 1881; standing counsel
to governors of Queen Anne’s bounty 1878 to death; member of
Council of legal education. _d._ Bournemouth 31 May 1887.
JOLLY, JOHN MARKS. _b._ 1790; travelled with Edmund Kean and
Sheridan Knowles as an actor and conductor of the orchestra;
conductor at Surrey theatre, London 1840–60; at various periods
connected with the bands of Her Majesty’s, Drury Lane and Covent
Garden; conductor and arranger of music at Oxford music hall
till June 1863; his opera Mabel produced at Covent Garden under
Madame Vestris’ management 1840; composer of the songs, Queen
of the starry night 1855, and Where are all the young men gone
1861; The Gipsy sisters, a duet 1858; Poor Jennie, solo and
quartett 1861. _d._ West sq. Southwark 1 July 1864. _Era 10 July
1864 p._ 11.
JOLY, HENRY EDWARD. Archdeacon of Killala to death; author of
Questions deducible from the Introductory lessons on the History
of religious worship of R. Whately 1849; Questions deducible
from the Introductory lessons on Christian evidences of R.
Whately 1849. _d._ Hollywood 3 June 1852.
JONAS, EDMUND JAMES. _b._ 1805; governor of Newgate 1859–74.
_d._ Turle road, Tollington park, London 30 Jany. 1879.
JONAS, ELIZABETH. _b._ St. George’s road, Southwark 1825; at
six years of age was a good musician; first appeared at Mr.
J. Field’s concert as a pianiste 1832; played in oratorios
at Drury Lane; scholar R. Academy 1836, King’s scholar 1838,
associate 1841, teacher of the piano there 1838–50; residing in
St. George’s road 1854. _Cazalet’s Hist. of R. Acad. of Music_
(1854) 299–302.
JONES, AARON. _b._ Pennsylvania near Shrewsbury 3 March 1831;
fought Harry Orme at Frimley 18 Dec. 1849 when he lost after 40
rounds in 2¾ hours; beat Bob Wade at Edenbridge 24 Sep. 1850;
fought Orme again 10 May 1852 for £100 a side at Bourne Bridge
and Newmarket, police interfered, Jones refused to renew the
contest and so lost; beaten by Tom Paddock 18 July 1854 and
26 June 1855; fought Tom Sayers £100 a side, 62 rounds in 3
hours, Banks of the Medway, darkness came on, both men much
punished 6 Jany. 1857; beaten by Sayers £100 a side, 85 rounds
in 2 hours, Banks of the Medway 10 Feb. 1857; went to U.S. of
America, where he trained and seconded J. C. Heenan for his
fight with John Morrissey at Long Point, Canada 20 Oct. 1858;
entered Confederate army during the civil war, one of general
Beauregard’s aide-de-camps; fought Mike Mc Coole for 2000
dollars and the championship at Busenburk station, Ohio, when
Mc Coole won in 34 rounds lasting 26 minutes. _d._ Leavenworth,
Indiana 16 Feb. 1869, reported to have been poisoned. _H. D.
Miles’s Pugilistica_, _iii_ 253, 262, 283, 382, 419.
JONES, ALEXANDER (youngest son of 4 Viscount Ranelagh _d._
1797). _b._ 9 March 1778; entered navy 1790; wrecked among
Japanese islands 1797; saved H.M.S. Tartarus from destruction
after she had been abandoned at Ferrol 1800; captain 1 Aug.
1811; commander of Talbot sloop making many captures 1807–11;
admiral on half pay 1 Nov. 1860. _d._ Cheltenham 8 Jany. 1862.
JONES, ANNA MARIA. Author of The Gipsey, a romantic tale.
London, Chapple 2 vols., and other works of fiction. _d._ a
pauper 25 Jany. 1854.
JONES, AVONIA STANHOPE (dau. of George Jones, actor 1810–79).
_b._ 43 Barrow st. New York 12 July 1836; first appeared on the
stage at People’s theatre, Cincinnati 18 April 1856 as Parthenia
in Ingomar; played in Australia 1860–1; first appeared in London
at Drury Lane 5 Nov. 1861 as Medea; played at the Adelphi
1862–3; acted Lady Isabel in East Lynne at the Surrey 1864 and
Theodora in Watts Phillips’s drama Theodora, actress and empress
at same house 9 April 1866; played in the provinces and in
Dublin. (_m._ 1862 Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, actor 1818–66). _d._
of rapid consumption, 2 Bond st. New York 4 Oct. 1867. _bur._
Mount Auburn cemet. Boston. _Illust. sporting news_, _v_ 145
(1866), _portrait_.
JONES, BENJAMIN ORLANDO. Ensign 36 foot 29 May 1805; captain 12
foot 19 Sep. 1822 to 6 July 1826 when placed on half pay; col.
73 foot 15 Sep. 1860 to death; L.G. 12 Nov. 1862; K.H. 1837;
K.T.S. _d._ The Hafod, Abergavenny 16 Feb. 1865.
JONES, CHARLES CHADWICKE. _b._ 1800; barrister M.T. 25 June
1830; went the home circuit; practised at the Old Bailey;
serjeant at law 10 July 1844; author of Recollections of
royalty, from the death of William Rufus in 1100 to that of the
cardinal York in 1807, 2 vols. 1828. _d._ 18 Lambeth ter. London
7 July 1852 aged 52.
JONES, CHARLES HANDFIELD (son of J. Jones, captain R.N.) _b._
Liverpool 1 Oct. 1819; ed. at Rugby and Cath. hall, Camb., B.A.
1840, M.B. 1843; studied at St. George’s hosp. London; M.R.C.P.
1845, F.R.C.P. 1849, junior censor 1863–4, senior censor 1886,
vice pres. 1888; delivered Lumleian lectures on pathology of the
nervous system 1865; F.R.S. 6 June 1850; phys. to St. Mary’s
hosp. Paddington 1851; author of Pathological and clinical
observations respecting morbid conditions of the stomach 1855;
Clinical observations on functional nervous disorders 1864; with
E. H. Sieveking of A manual of pathological anatomy 1854, 2 ed.
1875. _d._ 24 Montagu sq. London 30 Sep. 1890. _British Medical
Journal_, _ii_ 800, 874, 924, 932 (1890).
JONES, SIR CHARLES THOMAS (3 son of Charles Thomas Jones of
Frontraith, Montgomeryshire). _b._ 1778; entered navy 1791;
knighted by duke of Richmond, lord lieutenant of Ireland 1810;
captain 12 Aug. 1819, retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired R.A. 27 Aug.
1851. _d._ Montgomery 4 April 1853.
JONES, MRS. CHARLES W. _b._ 29 Nov. 1789; singing chambermaid in
the provinces; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre as
Lady Duberly in The Heir at law 18 June 1823; played old women
at Covent Garden and Drury Lane; last appeared at Drury Lane
1842; played Lady Bait in P. Palmer’s comedy Life, at Olympic
16 Nov. 1846. _d._ York town, Farnborough, Hants. 28 Feb. 1866.
_Era 18 March 1866 p._ 11.
JONES, SIR DANIEL. Colonel; resided at Brockville in district of
Johnstown, Upper Canada; knighted at St. James’s palace 16 March
1836. _d._ 1856.
JONES, DAVID (eld. son of John Jones _d._ 1843). _b._
Blaenos, Llandovery, Nov. 1810; ed. at Charterhouse; sheriff
of Carmarthenshire 1845; M.P. Carmarthenshire 1852–68. _d._
Pantglas, Carmarthenshire 1 July 1869.
NOTE.--He unsuccessfully contested Sudbury 29 June 1841, and at his own
sole expense unseated the two members then returned, which led to the
disfranchisement of the borough 1844.
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.
K
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).
KAYE, SIR JOHN WILLIAM (2 son of Charles Kaye, solicitor to bank
of England). _b._ London 1814; ed. at Eton and Addiscombe; 2
lieut. Bengal artillery 23 May 1836, resigned the service 1841;
started the Calcutta Review 1846; entered Home civil service
of H.E.I.C. 1856; sec. in political and secret department of
India office 1858 to 1874 when he retired; K.C.S.I. 20 May 1871;
F.R.S. 7 June 1866; published History of the war in Afghanistan
2 vols. 1851, 3 ed. 1874; The administration of the East India
company 1853; The life and correspondence of Charles lord
Metcalfe 1854; The life and correspondence of sir John Malcolm
2 vols. 1856; Christianity in India 1859; A history of the Sepoy
war in India 3 vols. 1864–76, revised and continued by colonel
G. B. Malleson 6 vols. 1890. _d._ Rose hill, Forest hill 24 July
1876.
KAYE, PETER M. _b._ Warrington about 1800; ed. at Ushaw coll.
Durham and at English coll. Rome; ordained priest in Rome 1829;
missioner at Rook st. Manchester 1829, at Bradford, Yorkshire
1835, at St. George’s, London 1843; R. of St. Alban’s, Blackburn
1845 to death; rural dean; reputed restorer of R.C. guilds
in England; a well known preacher; author of The laws and
constitutions of the holy guild of St. Joseph and our Blessed
Lady 1840. _d._ Blackburn 6 Aug. 1856. _Lamp 30 Aug. 1856 pp._
139–40; _Gillow’s English Catholics_, _iii_ 674–5 (1887).
KEAN, CHARLES JOHN (2 son of Edmund Kean 1787–1833). _b._
Waterford, Ireland 18 Jany. 1811; entered Eton as an Oppidan,
June 1824; made his first appearance on the stage at Drury
Lane theatre as Young Norval in Douglas 1 Oct. 1827; visited
America 1830, 1839, 1845; played Hamlet at Drury Lane 8 Jany.
1838; manager of Princess’s theatre, London with Robert Keeley
28 Sep. 1850, sole manager 17 Oct. 1851 to 29 Aug. 1859; played
in the provinces 1859–61; subscription testimonial vase value
2000 guineas presented to him at banquet in St. James’ hall,
London 22 March 1862; acted in Australia, United States and
Canada 1863–66; made his last appearance at Prince of Wales’s
theatre, Liverpool 28 May 1867 as Louis XI.; F.S.A. 18 June
1857; F.R.G.S.; his best characters were Hamlet, Richard III.
and Louis XI.; edited nine of Shakspeare’s plays with notes
1853–59; arranged Selections from the plays of Shakspeare 1860;
directed private theatricals at Windsor Castle 1849–60. _d._
Queensborough ter. Bayswater, London 23 Jany. 1868. _bur._
Catherington ch. near Horndean, Hants. 30 Jany., his personalty
sworn under £35,000, 25 March 1868. _J. W. Cole’s Life of C.
Kean 2 vols._ (1860), _portrait_; _The drawing room portrait
gallery of eminent personages_, _1 series_ (1859), _portrait_;
_E. Stirling’s Old Drury Lane_, _ii_ 153–63 (1881); _W.
Marston’s Our recent actors_, _i_ 168–215 (1888); _I.L.N. 1 Feb.
1868 p._ 117, _portrait_.
KEAN, ELLEN (dau. of Cornelius Tree of Lancaster buildings,
St. Martin’s lane, London). _b._ South of Ireland, Dec. 1805;
appeared at Covent Garden 21 May 1823 as Olivia in Twelfth
Night; played at Bath 1824–6; the original Mavilla in R. Allen’s
The Parricide 12 May 1824; acted at Drury Lane 1826–29, and
at Covent Garden 1829–36 and 1839–42; the original Mariana in
Sheridan Knowles’s The Wife 1833, and the original Clemanthe in
Talfourd’s Ion 26 May 1836; played in U.S. of America 1836–9,
1845–7. (_m._ 29 Jany. 1842 Charles J. Kean 1811–68); acted
many Shakespearean parts at Haymarket 1842; the original of
Lady Eveline Amyott in The Wife’s Secret, at Haymarket 20 June
1849; played many original parts at Princess’ theatre 1850–59;
retired from the stage 1868; a perfect Gertrude in Hamlet
and very effective as Mrs. Beverley. _d._ 47 Queensborough
terrace, Bayswater, London 20 Aug. 1880. _Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s
Our Actresses_, _ii_ 129–39 (1844), _portrait_; _Cole’s Life of
C. Kean 2 vols._ (1860), _portrait_; _W. Marston’s Our recent
actors_, _i_ 216–32 (1888); _C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic List_
(1880) 217–25.
KEANE, DAVID DEADY. _b._ 1810 or 1811; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.
and univ. of Gottingen; Ph.D. Gottingen 1831; a parliamentary
reporter; barrister M.T. 12 June 1835; revising barrister on
Norfolk circuit 1856–63; recorder of Bedford, July 1861 to
death; Q.C. 13 Feb. 1864; bencher of his inn 1864 to death;
published Courts of requests, their jurisdiction and powers 3
ed. 1845; A collection of all the statutes now in force relating
to gaols and houses of correction in England and Wales 1850;
The nuisances removal acts for England and Wales 1855, 6 ed.
1870; Reports of cases in the common pleas on appeals from the
revising barristers from 1854 to 1862. 1863. _d._ 20 June 1870.
KEANE, GEORGE DISNEY (3 son of 1 baron Keane 1781–1844). _b._
26 Sep. 1817; entered R.N. 8 Oct. 1831, captain 9 July 1855,
R.A. 30 April 1873, retired 27 Sep. 1877; admiral 30 Oct. 1884;
served in Syrian war 1840, Kaffir war 1851–2, and at rout of
imperial camp at Shanghai 1854; C.B. 20 May 1871. _d._ Mere
hall, Knutsford 19 Oct. 1891.
KEANE, SIR JOHN HENRY, 3 Baronet. _b._ Cappoquin house,
Waterford 12 Jany. 1816; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.C.L. 1841; rowed No. 6 in Cambridge boat against Oxford 17
June 1836 and No. 4 in first match against Leander club 9 June
1837; succeeded 16 Feb. 1855; sheriff of Waterford 1856; author
of An address to the young men of Ireland 1835; Lady Alice, the
flower of Ossorye 1836; The substance of three lectures on the
history of Ireland 1839; The Old Jewry, a tragedy 1860. _d._
Cappoquin house, Waterford 26 Nov. 1881.
KEANE, JOSEPH B. Educ. as an architect in office of works at
Dublin; F.R.I.A. Ireland, F.S.C.E.; designed R.C. churches of
St. Francis Xavier, Dublin 1832 and of St. Lorcan Ua Tuathal,
Dublin 1858; Queen’s college, Galway, was built from his designs
1846–50; exhibited a drawing at R.A. London 1842. _d._ Dublin 7
Oct. 1859.
KEANE, SIR RICHARD, 2 Baronet. _b._ Lismore, co. Waterford,
March 1780; lieut. col. Waterford militia 30 July 1804 to death;
succeeded 18 April 1829; M.P. Waterford 1832–5. _d._ Waterford
16 Feb. 1855.
KEANE, WILLIAM (8 son of Robert Keane of Beech park, co. Clare).
_b._ 1818; ed. at Charterhouse and Emm. coll. Camb., B.A. 1840,
M.A. 1843; C. of Fenstanton, Hunts. 1843–6; canon of St. Paul’s
cath. Calcutta 1846; association sec. to Church missionary
soc. 1852; P.C. of Whitby 1853, R. of Whitby 1861 to death;
F.R.A.S.; author of A letter to the late J. E. D. Bethune on
the government public instruction in Bengal 1851, 2 ed. 1852;
Romanism and Hindooism. Madras 1851, and pamphlets on India
education and temperance. _d._ 1873. _Rev. G. Smales’s Whitby
authors_ (1867) 189–92; _I.L.N. xxii_ 277 (1853).
KEANE, WILLIAM. Vice rector of Irish college in Paris 14
years; parish priest of Midleton; bishop of Ross 19 Nov. 1850,
consecrated 2 Feb. 1851, translated to Cloyne 27 April 1857.
_d._ 15 Jany. 1874. _Brady’s Episcopal succession_, _ii_ 103–105
(1876).
KEARNEY, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ 1800 or 1801; an original member
of Institute of painters in water-colours 1831, vice pres.;
exhibited 9 pictures at R.A. and 6 at Suffolk st. 1823–58;
his picture Ruins of the sallyport Framlingham, is in the
Irish National Gallery; published Illustrations of the Surrey
zoological gardens, drawn on stone with descriptive notices
1832, three parts. _d._ 114 High Holborn, London 25 June 1858.
KEARY, ANNIE (2 dau. of rev. Wm. Keary, R. of Bilton, Yorkshire,
_d._ 1856). _b._ Bilton 3 March 1825; lived at Addison road,
Kensington 1854–71; travelled in Egypt 1858; often resided at
Pegomas near Cannes, where she wrote some of her books; joined
Church of Rome; author of Early Egyptian history. Anon. 1861;
Little Wanderlin and other fairy tales 1865; Oldburg 3 vols.
1869; The nations around Palestine 1870; A York and a Lancaster
rose 1876; Castle Daly, the story of an Irish home 3 vols. 1875;
A doubting heart 3 vols. 1879; Sidney Grey, or a year from home
1883. _d._ Eastbourne 3 March 1879. _Memoir of Annie Keary by
her sister_ (1882), _portrait_; _Macmillan’s Mag. xlii_ 259–67
(1880).
KEATE, JOHN (son of Wm. Keate, prebendary of Wells, _d._ 1795).
_b._ Wells, Somerset 1773; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Camb.,
carried off 4 of sir Wm. Browne’s medals 1793–5, B.A. 1796, M.A.
1799, D.D. 1810; assistant master Eton 1795–1802, lower master
1802–9, head master 1809 to 1834; on 30 June 1832 he flogged
more than 80 boys, his success as a teacher was considerable,
although a severe disciplinarian he was popular, and on his
resignation he left in the college 570 boys; canon of Windsor
14 March 1820 to death; V. of Nether Stowey, Somerset 1820–24;
R. of Hartley Westpall, Hants. 1824–49; edited T. Lucretii Cari
de rerum natura libri sex 1813, and in Fasciculus Carminum.
Etonæ 1839 wrote Immortalitas Animæ pp. 17–21. _d._ Hartley
Westpall rectory 5 March 1852. _H. C. Maxwell Lyte’s History of
Eton college_ (1875) 358–404, 2 _portraits_; _C. A. Wilkinson’s
Reminiscences of Eton in Keate’s times_ (1887).
KEATE, ROBERT (brother of the preceding). _b._ Laverton 14 March
1777; ed. at Bath gr. sch. to 1792; studied at St. George’s
hospital, London 1793; hospital mate at Chelsea hospital 1794;
member of Surgeons’ Corporation 1798; staff surgeon in the army
1798; inspector general 21 Jany. 1807, placed on h.p. 25 March
1810; assistant surgeon at St. George’s hospital 1800, surgeon
1813–53; examiner of college of surgeons 1827–55, pres. 1830,
31 and 39; surgeon extraordinary to Wm. IV. 1830–2 and surgeon
1832–7; sergeant surgeon to Victoria 1841 to death; a firstrate
operator. _d._ 11 Hertford st. Mayfair, London 2 Oct. 1857.
_J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections_ (1874) 378–85,
510–19; _Proc. Med. and Chir. Soc. ii_ 51 (1858).
NOTE.--He is reported to have said, I have attended four sovereigns and
have been badly paid for my services; one of them now deceased owed me
nine thousand guineas. No doubt George IV. is alluded to.
KEATE, ROBERT WILLIAM (younger son of the preceding). _b._ 15
Albemarle st. Piccadilly, London 16 June 1814; ed. at Eton and
Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1842; played with Marylebone
cricket club several seasons, was in Oxford eleven 1833, 34,
35, member of the I. Zingari; barrister L.I. 7 May 1844; civil
commissioner of the Seychelles 1849; governor of Grenada 1853–6;
governor of Trinidad, Nov. 1856 to April 1864; governor of Natal
20 Feb. 1867 to 1872; governor in chief of West Coast settlement
30 Nov. 1872 to death, _d._ Cape Coast Castle 17 March 1873.
_Cricket Scores_, _ii_ 192 (1862), _v p. xv_ (1876).
KEATING, SIR HENRY SINGER (3 son of sir Henry Sheehy Keating,
K.C.B., _d._ 1846). _b._ Dublin 13 Jany. 1804; barrister I.T.
4 May 1832, bencher 27 April 1849 to 1859 and 1877 to death;
Q.C. Feb. 1849; M.P. for Reading 1852–9, introduced and passed
The Bills of Exchange act 1854; solicitor general 2 June 1857
to March 1858 and 18 June to 14 Dec. 1859; knighted at St.
James’s palace 18 June 1857; serjeant-at-law Dec. 1859; judge of
court of common pleas 14 Dec. 1859 to 5 Feb. 1875 when retired
on pension; P.C. 4 Feb. 1875; edited with J. S. Willes, J. W.
Smith’s A selection of leading cases on various branches of the
law, with notes, 3 ed. 2 vols. 1849 and 4 ed. 2 vols. 1856. _d._
St. Leonards 1 Oct. 1888. _Drawing room portrait gallery_, _3rd
series_ (1860), _portrait_; _The Statesmen of England_ (1862),
_portrait_ 34; _I.L.N. lxvi_ 181, 182 (1875), _portrait_.
KEATINGE, RICHARD (2 son of Maurice Keatinge of Dublin,
barrister). _b._ Dublin 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called
to Irish bar 1813; K.C. 1835; queen’s serjeant Nov. 1842;
bencher of King’s inns, Dublin 1843; judge of the prerogative
court Aug. 1843; judge of the probate court Jany. 1858 to Oct.
1868; P.C. Ireland, Sep. 1843. _d._ 21 Merrion sq. Dublin 9 Feb.
1876. _O. J. Burke’s Anecdotes of Connaught circuit_ (1885)
306–9; _I.L.N. lxviii_ 190, 213 (1876), _portrait_.
KEATS, WILLIAM. _b._ 1794 or 1795; entered navy 30 Sep. 1805;
captain 27 March 1826; admiral on half pay 11 Jany. 1864. _d._
Porthill near Bideford 2 May 1874.
KEAYS, ROBERT YOUNG (son of Robert Y. Keays of Walworth,
Surrey). _b._ 1799; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A.
1823; chaplain of H.E.I.C. 1823; archdeacon and commissary of
Bombay 1852 to death. _d._ on board the Africa, on his voyage to
England 11 March 1855.
KEBBEL, HENRY, _b._ 1772; ed. Sidney Sussex coll. Camb., LL.B.
1810; V. of Wistow with C. of Newton Harcourt, and also P.C. of
Kilby, Leicestershire, July 1813 to death; originator of the
system of allotment grounds for agricultural labourers; author
of A sermon recommending the establishment of a society for
bettering the condition of the poor 1838. _d._ Kilby 13 July
1867.
KEBLE, JOHN (elder son of John Keble 1745–1835, V. of Coln, St.
Aldwyn’s, Gloucs.) _b._ Fairford, Gloucs. 25 April 1792; ed. by
his father and at C.C. coll. Oxf., scholar 12 Dec. 1806; B.A.
double first 1810, M.A. 1813; fellow of Oriel coll. Oct. 1812
to May 1823, tutor 1818–23, public examiner in the univ. 1813,
1814–16 and 1821–23, master of the schools 1816 to May 1823; C.
of East Leach and Burthorpe, Gloucs. 1815–28; C. of Southrop
1823–5; C. of Hursley near Winchester 1825–6; professor of
poetry, Oxf. 1831–41; took part in originating the Tractarian
movement 1832 etc.; preached assize sermon at St. Mary’s, Oxf.
on the national apostasy 14 July 1833; contributed to Tracts for
the Times 1833, seven numbers; V. of Hursley with Otterbourne
and Ampfield, Hants. Jany. 1836 to death, instituted 9 March;
author of The Christian year. Anon. 2 vols. 23 June 1827, of
which 109 editions were printed; Lyra innocentium, thoughts in
verse on christian children, their ways and their privileges.
Anon. 1846, the profits of these two works were applied to the
restoration of Hursley ch.; Sermons, academical and occasional
1847; edited The works of R. Hooker 1836; with E. B. Pusey
and others, A library of Fathers 1838. _d._ Bournemouth 29
March 1866. _bur._ Hursley 6 April. _Sir J. T. Coleridge’s
Memoir of J. Keble_ (1870); _J. F. Moor’s The Birthplace of
the author of The Christian year_ (1867), _memoir pp._ 9–54,
_portrait_; _Illustrated Review_, _v_ 371–81 (1873), _portrait_;
_R. H. Haweis’ Poets in the pulpit_ (1880), _memoir_ 145–93,
_portrait_; _I.L.N. xlviii_ 365, 366 (1866), _portrait_.
NOTE.--From the first publication of the ‘Christian year’ in 1827 to
expiry of the copyright in 1873, there were sold no less than 379.000
copies; the selling price of these was £56,000, and the sum paid to him
by his publisher John Henry Parker was £14,000.
KEBLE, THOMAS (brother of the preceding). _b._ Fairford 29
Oct. 1793; ed. by his father; Gloucestershire scholar of C.C.
coll. Oxf. 1809–20, tutor 1819, fellow 1820–5, junior dean
1822; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1815, B.D. 1824; C. of Cirencester 1824;
V. of Bisley, Gloucs. 1827–73; one of the first revivers of
daily church services; wrote 4 of the Tracts for the Times,
No. 12, 22, 43 and 84, and forty eight of the Plain Sermons;
translated the Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle
to the Hebrews, for the Library of the Fathers; author of
Considerations on the value of the Athanasian Creed 1872. _d._
Bisley 5 Sep. 1875. _Richard Nelson’s Conversations with T.
Keble_ (1870); _The Guardian 15 Sep. 1875 p._ 1172.
KEDDIE, WILLIAM, _b._ Peebles 22 March 1809; in a printing
establishment, Glasgow 1822–9; sub-editor Scottish Guardian
1832, principal editor to 1859; lecturer in natural history
in Free Church coll. 1860; his geological and zoological
collections were given to the college; sec. of Glasgow
Philosophical soc. and editor of its Transactions; edited
The Glasgow Sabbath school union magazine 1856; author of
Moffat, its walks and wells 1845; Staffa and Iona described
and illustrated 1850; Maclure and Macdonald’s Series of guides
to the Highlands of Scotland. By W. Keddie 4 numbers 1859;
Cyclopædia of literary and scientific anecdote 1854, another ed.
1873. _d._ Oban 26 July 1877. _Proc. Royal Soc. of Edinb. ix_
520 (1878).
KEELEY, LOUISA MARY (youngest dau. of the succeeding). _b._
1835; played in the provinces; first appeared at Drury Lane 12
July 1856 as Gertrude in the Loan of a Lover; a pleasing singer;
acted at Princess’s 1859–60; played Ixion in Burnand’s burlesque
Venus and Adonis, at Haymarket 29 March 1864; played Eurydice in
Planche’s Orpheus in the Haymarket, at Haymarket 29 Dec. 1865.
(_m._ 12 Aug. 1858 Montagu Stephen Williams _b._ 1834, barrister
I.T. 1862, police magistrate). _d._ 44 Upper Brook st. London
24 Jany. 1877. _The Players 29 Dec. 1860 p._ 199, _portrait_;
_Planche’s Extravaganzas_, _v_ 193 (1879), _portrait_.
KEELEY, ROBERT (son of a watch maker). _b._ 3 Grange court,
Carey st. Chancery lane, London 1793; apprenticed to Hansard the
printer 3 years; acted in the Norwich circuit 4 years 1814–18;
the original Leporello in Giovanni in London, at the Olympic
1818, and Jemmy Green in Tom and Jerry, at the Adelphi 26 Nov.
1821; played Jerry in Pierce Egan’s Life in London, at Sadler’s
Wells 8 April 1822; acted at Covent Garden 1822, Victoria 1833,
in U.S. of America 1836–7, at Olympic 1838–41, at Drury Lane
1841–2, at Covent Garden 1843; manager with Strutt of the Lyceum
1844–7; manager with Charles Kean of the Princess’s 1850–1;
played the Carrier, in Henry IV. at Windsor castle 1850; acted
at Haymarket, Adelphi, Olympic and Drury Lane 1852–7; his last
appearance was as Euclid Facile in Twice killed, Drury Lane 27
March 1862; a genuine comedian in much favour with the public.
(_m._ 1825 Mary Anne Goward, she was _b._ Ipswich 1806, a well
known actress). He _d._ 10 Pelham crescent, Brompton, London
3 Feb. 1869; will proved 24 March, personalty under £18,000.
_Oxberry’s Dramatic Biog. v_ 145 (1826), _portrait_; _Register
and Mag. of Biog. i_ 229–31, 523 (1869); _T. Marshall’s Lives of
most celebrated actors_ (1847) 91–108, _portrait_; _Actors by
Daylight 2 June 1838 pp._ 105–7, _portrait on horseback_; _W.
Marston’s Our recent actors_, _ii_ 19–107 (1888).
KEELING, ISAAC. _b._ Newcastle-under-Lyne 12 Feb. 1789;
Wesleyan Methodist minister 1811, at Macclesfield 1823–6, at
Leeds 1826–8, 1852–8, London 1839–42, 1855–8, Bristol 1844–7,
Bath 1858–61 and at 17 other places; governor of Wesley coll.
Sheffield 1842–4; president of the conference 1855; a popular
and well known preacher; author of Sermons and some small works
1820–63. _d._ Ripon 11 Aug. 1869.
KEELING, WILLIAM KNIGHT. _b._ Cooper st. Manchester 1807;
assistant to Wm. Bradley, portrait painter in London; portrait
painter and drawing master at Manchester about 1835; a founder
of Manchester academy of fine arts, president 1864–77;
associate of New Soc. of painters in water-colour 1840, member
1841; exhibited at Royal Manchester institution from 1831, at
Manchester academy of fine arts, and at New Soc. of Painters;
his best known pictures are The Betrothed; Gurth and Wamba; and
Touchstone, Audrey and William. _d._ Barton-upon-Irwell near
Manchester 21 Feb. 1886.
KEENAN, STEPHEN. _b._ Fermanagh, Jany. 1805; ed. at Glasgow, the
R.C. coll. Aberdeen and at Rome; missioner in Edinburgh 1830;
assistant priest Dundee 1839; minister of St. Andrew’s chapel,
Nethergate, Dundee 1847 to death; a public controversialist in
the interest of the R.C. ch.; the pope gave him a D.D. degree
1857; erected churches and schools in Dundee, where he was
a popular preacher among the Irish; author of Controversial
catechism or protestantism refuted and catholicism established
1846, 4 ed. 1874; Catechism of the Christian religion, being
with some changes a compendium of the Catechism of Montpellier
1851. _d._ Dundee 28 Feb. 1862. _Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_
(1873) 208–11.
KEENE, ALEXANDER, assumed name of Alexander Findlay). _b._
London 1821; a pugilist; beaten by the Young Greek near Twyford
30 April 1844; beat Wm. Cain £25 a side at Horley 17 Dec. 1846;
beat Joseph Phelps £100 a side, 119 rounds in 2 hours and 45
minutes at Woking Common 9 Sep. 1847; beat Young Sambo (Welsh)
£100 a side at Eight Mile Bottom, Newmarket 20 June 1848; beaten
by Jack Grant £100 a side at Fleetpond 16 Oct. 1849; beat Wm.
Hayes £100 a side 20 Aug. 1850; landlord of the Victoria inn,
Willesden lane near London 1867. _d._ Prince of Wales’ hotel,
Molesey, Surrey 30 Jany. 1881. _Illust. sporting news_, _iii_
497, 504 (1864), 2 _portraits_.
KEENE, CHARLES SAMUEL (son of Samuel Browne Keene, solicitor,
_d._ 1838). _b._ Duval’s lane, Hornsey 10 Aug. 1823; ed.
at Ipswich gr. sch.; apprenticed to Messrs. Whymper, wood
engravers, London 1842–7; worked for the Illustrated London
News and other periodicals from 1847; drew for Punch 1851–90,
also for Punch’s Almanac and Pocket Book; illustrated stories
in Once a Week 1859 and Douglas Jerrold’s Caudle Lectures in
Punch; a most perfect artist in black and white; awarded gold
medal at Paris exhibition 1889; published Our People, from the
collection of Mr. Punch 1881; a large collection of his later
drawings exhibited at Fine Art Society’s rooms, New Bond st.
March 1891; illustrated many books 1860–85. _d._ 112 Hammersmith
road 4 Jany. 1891, portrait by sir George Reid exhibited at
Victoria exhibition 1892. _The Mask_ (1868) 65, _portrait_;
_I.L.N. 10 Jany. 1891 p._ 38, _portrait_, _21 March 1891 p._
375, _portrait_; _Black and White 21 March 1891 pp._ 205, 206,
_portrait_; _Mag. of Art_, _March 1891 pp._ 145–6, _portrait_.
KEENE, EDWIN (youngest son of John Keene). _b._ 1826; wrote
Frances, a tale of Bath, printed in Keane’s Bath Journal, and
contributed to many periodicals in London and Edinburgh; author
of Sydney Fielding, the domestic history of a gentleman who
served under their late majesties George IV. and William IV. 2
vols. 1857. _d._ 7 Kingsmead st. Bath 21 Sep. 1857.
KEENE, HENRY GEORGE (only son of Thomas Keene). _b._ 30 Sep.
1781; cadet Madras army about 1798; entered Madras civil
service Feb. 1801; assistant registrar to the Sudder courts,
Madras; wrote a book in Arabic on law, for which government
awarded him 10,000 rupees; left India 1809, retired from
C.S. 1812; matric. from Sidney Sussex coll. Camb. 13 Nov.
1811, fellow 13 Nov. 1817, 8 senior optime and B.A. 1815;
ordained 1817; contested Arabic professorship at Camb. March
1819; professor of Arabic and Persian at East India college,
Haileybury 1824 to 1834; lived at Tunbridge Wells 1834 to death;
author of Akhlák-i-Mahsini translated from the Persian 1850;
Anwás-i-Suhaili; Persian fables for young and old 1833; Persian
stories 1835; Sermons of rev. W. Sharpe with a memoir 1836. _d._
3 Mount Ephraim road, Tunbridge Wells 29 Jany. 1864.
KEENE, JAMES. _b._ 1796; proprietor of Keene’s Bath Journal to
death, edited it from 1818, supplying nearly all the leaders and
superintending the management till his death; minister of the
New Church (Swedenborgian) denomination; a supporter of the Bath
Athenæum. _d._ 16 Norfolk buildings, Bath 25 Dec. 1875.
KEENE, LAURA (dau. of Mr. Lee and wife of Mr. Taylor). _b._
England 1830; acted at the Lyceum under Madame Vestris; played
Pauline in Lady of Lyons, Olympic theatre Oct. 1851; appeared
as Albina Mandeville in The Will, Wallack’s theatre, New York
20 Sep. 1852; acted in California and Australia 1852–5; opened
Laura Keene’s Varieties theatre, New York 27 Dec. 1855; opened
Laura Keene’s New theatre with As you like it 18 Nov. 1856
and remained lessee till 1868; produced Our American Cousin,
in which E. A. Sothern, Joseph Jefferson and herself appeared
18 Oct. 1858 which ran to 25 March 1859; in England 1868;
starred in America with her own company 1868 to death; edited
Shakespeare’s Play of a Midsummer Night’s dream, with notes
1863; left two daughters by her first husband. _d._ Montclair,
New Jersey 4 Nov. 1873. _J. Jefferson’s Autobiography_ (1890)
183, 489, _portrait_; _Brown’s American stage_ (1870) 202,
_portrait_; _The Era 30 Nov. 1873 p._ 10.
KEENE, RICHARD WYNNE. _b._ Norwich 1810 or 1811; a sculptor;
inventor of Keene’s cement made by saturating plaster of Paris
in small lumps with alum and recalcining it, patented by himself
and J. D. Greenwood 27 Feb. 1838; designer and modeller of the
masks and symbolic properties for the Drury Lane pantomimes
1852–73 under the name of Dykwynkyn; a pensioner on the Dramatic
and musical sick fund from Oct. 1884. _d._ 32 Hanbury road,
Lavender hill, London 28 Nov. 1887. _bur._ Woking. _Belgravia_,
_i_ 359–64 (1867).
KEHOE, LAWRANCE. _b._ parish of Litter, Wexford 24 July 1832;
editor and publisher of New York Tablet 1857–65; founded the
Catholic publication society co. 1865 and was manager to his
death; manager of the Catholic World; edited The complete works
of J. Hughes, archbishop of New York 1866. _d._ Brooklyn, New
York 27 Feb. 1890. _The Tablet 22 March 1890 p._ 473.
KEIGHTLEY, JOHN. _b._ 1778; lieut. 57 foot 22 July 1795; major
23 foot 25 July 1816 to 16 Oct. 1823 when placed on half pay;
lieut. col. 11 foot 2 June 1825 to 29 May 1835; resident
governor of Santa Maura; lieut. col. 35 foot 29 May 1835 to 17
June 1836 when he sold out; resident governor of Zante. _d._
Pickhill hall near Wrexham 6 Sep. 1852.
KEIGHTLEY, THOMAS (eld. son of Thomas Keightley of Newtown,
Kildare). _b._ Dublin 17 Oct. 1789; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin,
B.A. 1808; came to London 1824 and became a journalist; granted
civil list pension of £100, 31 Jany. 1855; author of The fairy
mythology 2 vols. 1828, anon., another ed. 1850; Outlines of
history 1829; History of the war of independence in Greece 2
vols. 1830; The mythology of Ancient Greece and Italy 1832,
2 ed. 1834; Tales and popular fictions 1834; The history of
England 2 vols. 1837–9, three editions; The history of Greece
1835, 3 ed. 1839; The Crusaders 2 vols. 1834; Secret societies
of the Middle Ages 1837; edited the Bucolics and Georgics 1847;
The poems of John Milton, with notes 2 vols. 1859; The plays and
poems of William Shakespeare 6 vols. 1864. _d._ Hartwell lodge,
Lessness Heath near Erith, Kent 4 Nov. 1872. _bur._ Erith. _C.
R. Smith’s Retrospections_, _i_ 322 (1883); _I.L.N. lxi_ 479
(1872).
KEILLER, JAMES M. Confectioner and maker of preserves at Dundee;
commenced producing Seville orange marmalade, the first to make
it as an article of commerce, its use spread to England and it
is now sent all over the world; the marmalade season lasts from
Dec. to March, the candied peel season is from March to June,
and the jam fruit season begins in June; maker also of lozenges,
comfits, candies and gum goods; gave £10,500 to clear off the
debt on Dundee free library 1885. _Bremner’s Industries of
Scotland_ (1869) 466–72; _Dundee Year Book_ (1886) _p._ 5.
KEITH, ALEXANDER (son of George Skene Keith, D.D. 1752–1823).
_b._ manse of Keith hall, Aberdeenshire 30 Nov. 1791; ed. at
Marischal coll. and univ. of Aberdeen, B.A. 1809, D.D. 1833;
minister of St. Cyrus parish, Forfarshire 1816, resigned 1840;
one of a deputation to Palestine with rev. Robert McCheyne, rev.
A. Bonnar and rev. A. Black to enquire into state of the Jews
described in Narrative of Mission to the Jews 1839, revisited
Palestine 1844 and was the first to take daguerrotype views of
places in Syria; one of founders of Free church of Scotland
1843, declined the moderatorship repeatedly on account of
his health; author of Evidence of the truth of the Christian
religion derived from the fulfilment of prophecy 1828, 40 ed.
1873, translated into many foreign languages; The signs of the
times as denoted by the fulfilment of historical predictions
2 vols. 1832, 8 ed. 1847; The harmony of prophecy 1851; The
history and destiny of the world and of the church 1861. _d._
Aberdeen house 56 West st. Buxton, where he had resided for
some years, 8 Feb. 1880. _bur._ Chinley, Chapel-en-le-Frith,
Derbyshire 12 Feb. _Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 331–8,
_portrait_; _H. Scott’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticaniæ_, _iii_, _pt.
ii_, 585, 865 (1871).
KEITH, HESTER MARIA, viscountess Keith (eld. dau. of Henry
Thrale, brewer, _d._ 1781). _b._ 1762; from 1765 Dr. Johnson
called her Queenie, wrote verses for her and directed her
education; by death of her only brother 1776 she became a
rich heiress; greatly disapproved of her mother’s marriage to
Piozzi; a considerable scholar in history, poetry, Hebrew and
mathematics; refused Samuel Rogers the poet. (_m._ 10 Jany.
1808 at Ramsgate, George Keith Elphinstone, admiral, _b._ 7
Jany. 1746, cr. viscount Keith 1 June 1814, _d._ 10 March 1823);
one of the patronesses of Almack’s 1808; a prominent leader
of society in London and Edinburgh 1814–50; she was the last
survivor of the persons who are mentioned in Boswell’s Johnson.
_d._ 110 Piccadilly, London 31 March 1857. _Willis’ Current
Notes_ 1857 _p._ 29; _G.M. ii_ 615–6 (1857).
KEITH, MARGARET MERCER ELPHINSTONE, Baroness Keith (eld. dau. of
George Keith Elphinstone, admiral, viscount Keith 1746–1823).
_b._ Hertford st. Mayfair, London 12 June 1788; styled hon.
Margaret Elphinstone 1797–1817; was in the household of the
princess Charlotte. (_m._ 20 June 1817 at Edinburgh, Augustus
Charles Joseph, count de Flahault de la Billardrie, French
ambassador to London 1860, _d._ 2 Sep. 1870 aged 85); baroness
Keith of Stonehaven Marishal and baroness Keith of Banheath on
death of her father 10 March 1823; baroness Nairne on the death
of her cousin William 4 lord Nairne 7 Dec. 1837; styled baroness
Nairne and Keith 1837 to death. _d._ at palace of the legion of
honour, Paris 11 Nov. 1867.
KEITH-FALCONER, ION GRANT NEVILLE (3 son of 9 Earl of Kintore).
_b._ Edinburgh 5 July 1856; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1878; Tyrwhitt univ. Hebrew scholar; defeated John Keen
by five yards in a two-mile bicycle race at Cambridge 11 May
1878; rode 50 miles in 2 hours and 44 minutes at Crystal palace,
beating the record 9 July 1882; rode from Land’s End to John o’
Groat’s House 994 miles in 13 days, June 1882; Hebrew lecturer
at Clare college, Camb.; missionary of Free church of Scotland
26 May 1886; lord almoner’s professor of Arabic at Camb. 1886
to death, gave 3 lectures on the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Nov.;
arrived at Aden 8 Dec. 1886; began to build a permanent home for
a mission at Shaikh Othman near Aden, attacked by Aden fever
Feb. 1887. _d._ Shaikh Othman 11 May 1887. _bur._ Aden cemetery.
_R. Sinker’s Memorials of Ion Keith-Falconer_ (1888); _Sporting
Mirror_, _iv_ 49–52 (1882), _portrait_.
KEKEWICH, GEORGE GRANVILLE (1 son of George Kekewich of
Dartmouth). _b._ 1802; ed. at Ex. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1824, M.A.
1827; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1827; judge of county courts
circuit 60 (Cornwall), March 1847 to death. _d._ Exeter 7 Jany.
1857.
KEKEWICH, SAMUEL TREHAWKE (son of Samuel Kekewich, D.C.L., _d._
26 Aug. 1822). _b._ Bowden house near Totnes, Devon 31 Oct.
1796; ed. at Eton; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 27 Oct. 1814; M.P.
Exeter 1826–30; M.P. South Devon 1858 to death; sheriff of Devon
1834. _d._ Peamore near Exeter 1 June 1873.
KELAART, EDWARD FREDERICK. _b._ Ceylon 1818 or 1819; assistant
surgeon in army 16 July 1841, surgeon 16 July 1852 to death;
F.G.S. 1845; author of Flora Calpensis, contributions to
the flora and topography of Gibraltar 1846; Prodromus faunæ
Zeylanicæ, being contributions to the zoology of Ceylon 1852–54;
Introductory report on the natural history of the pearl oyster
of Ceylon 1857; Contributions to marine zoology, descriptions of
Ceylon nudibranchiate mollusca, sea anemones and entozoa 1859.
_d._ on board the Ripon on the evening before her arrival at
Southampton 31 Aug. 1860. _Proc. of Linnean soc._ (1861) _p._ 41.
KELK, JOHN. _b._ 1798; a student at Leyden 30 Sep. 1822 and M.D.
1824; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1860; author of Dissertatio de sylphide.
Leyden 1824; The Scarborough spa, its analysis and medical use,
to which is added On the utility of the bath 1841, 4 ed. 1860.
_d._ 1 Brunswick ter. Scarborough 3 May 1873.
KELK, SIR JOHN, 1 Baronet (3 son of John Kelk of London
1781–1848). _b._ London 16 Feb. 1816; apprentice to Thomas
Cubitt, builder; partner with Mr. Newton as builders 12 Margaret
st. Cavendish sq. till 1845; contractor for railway and other
works, being at times associated with Brassey, Peto and Betts
and others; agent for the commissioners of the Great Exhibition
of 1851 in purchasing the Gore house estate; gave £15,000
towards debt on Great Exhibition of 1862, which he and Mr. Lucas
erected; constructed the Albert memorial without pecuniary
benefit 1864; with Messrs. Aird made the Millwall docks 1868;
built the Victoria station and Pimlico railway 1858–60;
constructed works on the Metropolitan and Metropolitan District
railways 1860–71; built Smithfield goods depôt and meat market
1866–9; erected with Mr. Lucas the Alexandra palace, opened 22
May 1873, burnt 9 June 1873, re-erected it and lost much money
in the undertaking, it was reopened 1 May 1875; M.P. Harwich
1865–8; A.I.C.E. 5 Feb. 1861; cr. baronet 1 May 1874; sheriff
of co. Southampton 1884. _d._ 12 Sep. 1886. _Min. of Proc. of
I.C.E. lxxxvii_ 451–5 (1886); _I.L.N. May 1862 pp._ 479, 481,
_portrait_; _Law Reports. Chancery Division_, _xxvi_ 107–54
(1884).
KELKE, WILLIAM HASTINGS. Ed. at Jesus coll. Camb., B.A. 1828; R.
of Osgathorpe, Leics. 1836–40; R. of Drayton Beauchamp, Bucks.
1840–60; author of Notices of sepulchral monuments in English
churches 1850; Britain’s ancient church and Rome’s usurpations
1851; The churchyard manual, with designs for memorials 1851;
Family prayers 1854. _d._ Little Missenden, Bucks. 12 April 1865.
KELL, EDMUND (son of a unitarian minister). _b._ Wareham 18
Jany. 1799; ed. at Glasgow 1815, M.A. 1819, and at Manchester
New coll. York; unitarian minister Newport, Isle of Wight
1823–53, where he also kept a school; hon. sec. Unitarian
societies of South of England; minister at Southampton 1853 to
death; the first to draw public attention to the Roman remains
in the Isle of Wight; F.S.A.; author of An earnest appeal
to unitarian christians on the duty of supporting their own
religious institutions 2 ed. 1848; What patriotism, justice
and christianity demand for India, a sermon 1857, 4 ed. 1858;
Shall christians seek to build up a faith with the weapons of
misrepresentation. Controversy between Dr. Cumming and rev. E.
Kell 1858. _d._ Southampton 17 Jany. 1874. _Memorials of rev. E.
Kell_ (1875); _Journal British Archæol. Assoc. xxxi_ 230–31.
KELLAND, PHILIP (son of Philip Kelland, R. of Dunster,
Somerset). _b._ Dunster 1808; ed. Queen’s coll. Camb., senior
wrangler and Smith’s prizeman 1834; B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; tutor
of his college; professor of mathematics in univ. of Edinb. 19
Oct. 1838 to death, secretary of the Senatus Academicus till
1867; F.R.S. 6 Dec. 1838; F.R.S. Edinb. 1839, president Nov.
1878 to death; pres. of Society of arts 1853–54; one of founders
of Life association of Scotland; wrote the article Algebra, in 9
ed. of Encyclopædia Britannica; author of Theory of heat 1837;
The elements of algebra 1839, 3 ed. 1861; How to improve the
Scottish universities, a lecture 1855; Transatlantic sketches
1858; with P. G. Tait, Introduction to quaternions 1873. _d._
Bridge of Allan 7 May 1879. _Sir A. Grant’s Story of univ. of
Edinb. ii_ 304–305 (1884); _Proc. of R.S. of Edinb. x_ 208, 211,
321–29 (1880); _Proc. of R.S. xxix pp. vii–x_ (1879).
KELLETT, SIR HENRY (son of John Dalton Kellett of Clonacody, co.
Tipperary). _b._ 2 Nov. 1806; entered R.N. 7 Jany. 1822; in the
Eden employed in scheme for colonising Fernando Po 1827; lieut.
in Ætna surveying vessel 1831–5; in Starling cutter in war in
Canton river; capt. 23 Dec. 1842; C.B. 24 Dec. 1832, K.C.B. 2
June 1869; in the Herald co-operated in Behring’s Straits with
Franklin search expedition 1848–50; commander of the Resolute
in search for sir John Franklin 1852, the ship abandoned by sir
E. Belcher’s orders 15 May 1854, the Resolute was found by the
Americans, refitted and sent to England as a present to the
queen and people of Great Britain 12 Dec. 1856; commodore at
Jamaica 1855–9; superintendent Malta dockyard 26 Nov. 1864 to 16
April 1868; retired V.A. 8 April 1868; commander in chief China
1869–71. _d._ Clonacody house, Tipperary 1 March 1875. _Seeman’s
Narrative of voyage of H.M.S. Herald 2 vols._ (1853); _G. F.
Mc. Dougall’s Eventful voyage of H.M. discovery ship Resolute_
(1857).
KELLETT, SIR RICHARD, 1 Baronet (son of Richard Kellett,
alderman of Cork, _d._ 25 Jany. 1828 aged 95). _b._ Cork 16 May
1761; created baronet 6 Aug. 1801; of Lota co. and city of Cork.
_d._ 5 Mespil parade, Dublin 1853.
KELLIE, WALTER CONINGSBY ERSKINE, 12 Earl of (2 son of Henry
David Erskine 1776–1846). _b._ Warkworth, Northumberland 12 July
1810; ed. at Durham gr. school and univ. of Edinb.; entered
Bengal army 1827; served in and had medals for Sutlej campaign;
commissioner of Jubbulpore during the mutiny 1857; retired
lieut. col. 25 Sep. 1861; C.B. 18 May 1860; succeeded his cousin
as 12 earl of Kellie 19 June 1866; Scotch representative peer 8
July 1869 to death; claimed earldom of Mar 1867 but died before
the decision. _d._ Cannes 15 Jany. 1872.
KELLNER, SIR GEORGE WELSH (son of Francis Daniel Kellner). _b._
1825; entered service of H.E.I.C. 1841; inspector general of
accounts 1866–70; military accountant general of India 1871–7;
financial commissioner and member of council in Cyprus 1878;
assist. paymaster general in chancery Feb. 1884 to death; C.S.I.
1 Jany. 1877; K.C.M.G. 24 May 1879. _d._ 46 Pembridge villas,
Bayswater, London 10 June 1886.
KELLY, ANN. _b._ 1749; of a theatrical family; acted in many
theatres in England, Ireland and Scotland; played with Edmund
Kean and James Sheridan Knowles; frequently played Alicia to
the Jane Shore of Mrs. Siddons; became deaf and left the stage
1809; J. S. Knowles befriended her from that time till her
death; twice married to persons called Kelly. _d._ Lewisham,
Kent 15 March 1852 aged 103. _bur._ Sydenham on Good Friday.
KELLY, BENEDICTUS MARWOOD (2 son of Benedictus Marwood Kelly of
Holsworthy, Devon, attorney, _d._ 1836). _b._ Holsworthy 1 Sep.
1790; entered navy 19 Oct. 1798; wounded in a boat attack on the
French in the island of Elba 1801; captain 19 July 1821; admiral
on half pay 27 April 1863. _d._ Saltford house, Bath 26 Sep.
1867.
NOTE.--He left by his will a sum of £200,000 for Kelly college, which
was built close to Tavistock and opened Sep. 1877, the endowments are
devoted to education of the founder’s kin and of the orphan sons of
naval officers, but there is also full provision for a first-grade
public school.
KELLY, BERNARD (son of Peter Kelly, grocer and owner of
potteries). _b._ Ballyshannon, co. Donegal; in business with
his father; sec. to local branch of National League; M.P. South
Donegal, Dec. 1885 to death. _d._ Mountcharles, co. Donegal 1
Jany. 1887.
KELLY, CHARLES, stage name of Charles Clavering Wardell (son
of rev. Henry Wardell, R. of Winlaton, Durham). _b._ Newcastle
1839; made first public appearance at T.R. Hull as Montano in
Othello 1868; played in Halliday’s The great city, at Surrey
theatre 1869, and in Tom Taylor’s Arkwright’s Wife as Richard
Arkwright, at Globe theatre 6 Oct. 1873; acted Samuel Brown
in New Men and Old Acres, Court theatre 2 Dec. 1875 which was
played 250 times; played Darnley in Lord Lytton’s House of
Darnley, at Court theatre 6 Oct. 1877, and Robert L’Estrange in
Bondage, Opera Comique 31 March 1883; his characteristic was his
ability to indicate strong emotion without obtrusive display;
made his final appearance at a complimentary benefit given to
him at Prince’s theatre 16 July 1883. (_m._ at St. Phillip’s
ch. South Kensington 21 Nov. 1877 Ellen Terry dau. of Benjamin
Terry); Kelly’s first wife Anne Maria _d._ 7 Nov. 1875. He _d._
of apoplexy 27 Bedford place, London 17 April 1885. _C. E.
Pascoe’s Dramatic List_ (1880) 229–31.
KELLY, DAVID. _b._ Manchester 1821; in employment of George
Simms, bookseller, Exchange st. Manchester (the founder of firm
of Simms and Dinham) till 1851; bookseller in partnership with
Edwin Slater 1851 and then on his own account in Market st.;
became acquainted with Edwin Waugh 1852 and was instrumental in
the publication of Waugh’s Lancashire sketches 1855; published
many of Waughs’ poems on cards 1856 etc. which had immense
circulation; furnished some information to Procter’s Memorials
of Manchester streets 1874. _d._ Brunswick st. Stretford near
Manchester 2 Nov. 1891.
KELLY, DENNIS (eld. son of James Kelly). _b._ 1804 or 1805; ed.
at Dundalk and at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1825; C. of Crewe
to 1832; V. of Killyon and Kilronan 1832–4; C. of St. John’s,
Chatham 1834–6; C. of St. Bride’s, Fleet st. London 1836–8; P.C.
of Trinity ch. Gough sq. Fleet st. London on its consecration
June 1838 to death; contributed 250 essays to Church of England
Magazine; author of Practical Sermons 1836, 2 ed. 1837; Sabbath
evening readings, 1st series 1835, 22 ed. 1845, 2nd series
1842–3, the two series complete 1 vol. 1853; Self inspection
1845; Characters 1846; Neophilus or moral reflections 1846. _d._
5 New Bridge st. Blackfriars, London 14 Nov. 1866. _D. Kelly’s
Posthumous Sermons_ (1867), _memoir pp. vii–xv_.
KELLY, EDWARD (eld. son of John Kelly of Belfast, afterwards
a convict in Tasmania, who _d._ Victoria 1865). _b._ Victoria
1854; imprisoned 3 years for horse-stealing; shot a constable at
his house near Greta, April 1878; bushranger in Australia with
his brothers James and Daniel and two men called Byrne and Hart
from 1878 to death, Victoria and New South Wales governments
jointly offered a reward of £8000 for their apprehension; robbed
the bank of Euroa, Victoria of £3000, 11 Dec. 1878; held the
town of Jerilderie, New South Wales for 2 days and robbed the
bank of about £700, Feb. 1879; they wore iron plates weighing
nearly 100 lb. each, they were killed near Beechworth 27 June
1880 except Edward Kelly who was tried at Beechworth, convicted
Oct. 1880 and hanged there 11 Nov. _F. A. Hare’s Last of the
Bushrangers_ (1891), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxvii_ 252 (1880),
_portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxii_ 225 (1880), _portrait_.
KELLY, EDWARD. _b._ 26 April 1836; entered navy 1850; first
lieut. of Bombay 67 guns, destroyed by fire off Montevideo 14
Dec. 1864; captain 22 Oct. 1870; commanded Achilles during
Egyptian war 1882; A.D.C. to the Queen 1885–7; captain
superintendent of Pembroke dockyard 1 Jany. 1886 to 10 June
1887; R.A. 10 June 1887; admiral superintendent of Chatham
dockyard 1 Nov. 1887 to death. _d._ of influenza at Admiralty
house, Chatham dockyard 17 Jany. 1892. _bur._ Rochester
cathedral cemetery.
KELLY, SIR FITZROY EDWARD (son of Robert Hawke Kelly, captain
R.N.) _b._ London 9 Oct. 1796; practised as special pleader;
barrister L.I. 7 May 1824; went Norfolk circuit; K.C. 27 Dec.
1834, bencher of his inn 1838–66; contested Hythe 1830, Ipswich
1832 and 1841, and Lyme Regis 1847; M.P. for Ipswich 8 Jany.
1835 to June 1835 when unseated on petition; contested Ipswich
27 July 1837, seated on petition 26 Feb. 1838 and sat for it
until 1841; M.P. for Cambridge borough 1843–1847, M.P. East
Suffolk 1852–1866; standing counsel to Bank of England, May
1845; solicitor general 29 June 1845 to 2 July 1846 and 27 Feb.
1852 to 28 Dec. 1852; knighted at Buckingham palace 8 Aug. 1845;
attorney general 26 Feb. 1858 to 18 June 1859; serjeant at law
16 July 1866, admitted 2 Nov. 1866; lord chief baron of court of
exchequer 16 July 1866 to Nov. 1875 when he became a judge of
supreme court of judicature but retained his former title by act
of parliament; P.C. 10 Nov. 1866. _d._ Bedford hotel, Brighton
17 Sep. 1880. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 22 Sep. _A generation of
Judges. By Their Reporter_ (1886) 38–53; _Public men of Ipswich_
(1875) 71–8; _Illust. news of the world_, _vol. i_ (1858),
_portrait_; _I.L.N. vii_ 48 (1845) _portrait_, _lxxvii_ 324
(1880) _portrait_.
NOTE.--At one time his income at the bar amounted to £25,000 a year,
a sum scarcely ever equalled by an advocate of late years, except by
Lord Selborne when Roundell Palmer. He made his famous defence of John
Tawell the Quaker murderer, at Aylesbury assizes March 1845, which
gained him sobriquet of ‘Apple pip Kelly,’ this was the first occasion
on which the telegraph was called in to assist in securing a murderer.
See _Browne and Stewart’s Reports of trials_ (1883) 16–49.
KELLY, FRANCES MARIA (dau. of Mark Kelly _d._ Canterbury 4
April 1833). _b._ Brighton 15 Dec. 1790; appeared at Drury
Lane in opera of Bluebeard 16 Jany. 1798; chorister Drury Lane
1799; took many of Madame Storace’s characters and afterwards
those of Mrs. Jordan, at Drury Lane and the Italian opera
1800–1806; learnt Italian, French and Latin; co-operated with
Edmund Kean at Drury Lane 1812 and frequently played Ophelia to
his Hamlet; while acting in Modern Antiques at Covent Garden
17 Feb. 1816 George Barnett fired a pistol at her; made final
appearance at Drury Lane 8 June 1835; besides impersonating many
of Shakespeare’s heroines, she played all the leading comedy
characters in the English drama, and was superior in melodrama
to all other actresses; lessee of New Strand theatre where she
gave a monologue entertainment Feb. to Oct. 1833 with which she
afterwards travelled in the provinces; built a theatre at back
of 73 Dean st. Soho for a dramatic school, opened 25 March
1840 and called Miss Kelly’s theatre, where she gave occasional
dramatic performances; gave Shakespeare readings in the country;
her theatre seized by the landlord 1849, she lost £16,000. _d._
Ross cottage, Feltham, Middlesex 6 Dec. 1882. _bur._ Brompton
cemetery 16 Dec. _Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography_, _i_ 215–24
(1825), _portrait_; _Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our actresses_, _ii_
223–34 (1844); _Illust. sp. and dr. news_, _xii_ 414 (1880),
_portrait_; _Theatrical Inquisitor_, _v_ 203–206 (1814),
_portrait_, _viii_ 83–86 (1816), _portrait_; _I.L.N. viii_ 9
(1846), _portrait_, _lxxxi_ 661 (1882), _portrait_.
NOTE.--Her sister Lydia Eliza Kelly an actress _b._ London 2 June 1795,
_d._ in U.S. of America before 1882. _Theatrical Inquisitor_, _vi_ 323
(1815), _portrait_; _Ireland’s Records_, _i_ 433 (1866).
KELLY, FRANCIS (son of Edward Kelly). _b._ Drumragh, co. Tyrone
31 July 1813; ed. at Maynooth 1835; ordained priest 13 June
1840; C. of Drumragh 1840–6; professor in the diocesan seminary,
Derry, July 1846; C. of Strabane; C. of Culdaff; parish priest
of Upper Fahan to 1849; D.D.; bishop of Derry 8 Aug. 1849 to
death, consecrated in Derry 21 Oct. 1849; built Derry cath. at
cost of £40,000. _d._ St. Eugene’s, Derry 1 Sep. 1889. _The
Derry Journal 2, 4, 6 Sep. 1889._
KELLY, GORDON WILLIAM (only child of rev. Dr. John Kelly
1750–1809, Manx scholar, V. of Ardleigh near Colchester). _b._
Isle of Man 1786; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., fellow, B.A.
1808, M.A. 1811; called to bar of Isle of Man; recorder of
Colchester to death. (_m._ 1830 Miss White, she founded 1858
the Kelly scholarship in King William’s college, Isle of Man,
also the Kelly prize in same college for proficiency in the Manx
language). _d._ Oxney Green House, Whittle near Chelmsford 4
April 1858.
KELLY, JOHN. _b._ Edinburgh 1 Dec. 1801; independent minister
of Bethesda chapel, Liverpool, Sep. 1829; his new chapel at
Everton, Liverpool, opened 23 Nov. 1837, retired from it 28
Sep. 1873; a director of London missionary society many years;
chairman of Congregational union of England and Wales in London,
May 1851, and at Northampton, Oct. 1851; author of The voluntary
support of the Christian ministry the law of the New Testament
1838; Discourses on holy scripture 1850 and other books. _d._
18 Richmond terrace, Liverpool 12 June 1876. _Hassan’s Rev.
John Kelly, a memorial_ (1876), _portrait_; _Waddington’s
Congregational history_, _v_ 561–9 (1880).
KELLY, JOHN. _b._ 1834; presbyterian minister at Hebburn
and Streatham; editor of tracts of Religious tract soc. 56
Paternoster row, London; author of P. Gerhardt’s Spiritual
songs, translated 1867; The king and the kingdom 1867; Who is
the apostate? A passover story by A Saphir, translated 1878;
Louisa of Prussia and other sketches 1888. _d._ Braemar 19 July
1890. _Christian World 24 July 1890 p._ 601.
KELLY, MATTHEW (eld. son of James Kelly). _b._ Maudlin st.
Kilkenny 21 Sep. 1814; studied at Maynooth 1831–9; professor of
philosophy and theology successively in the Irish college, Paris
1839–41; professor of belles-lettres and French at Maynooth 5
Nov. 1841, of ecclesiastical history 20 Oct. 1857 to death;
created D.D. by Pius IX. 1854; a canon of Ossory about 1854;
member of council of Celtic Society for which he edited John
Lynch’s Cambrensis Eversus. Dublin 3 vols. 1848–52; also edited
White’s Apologia 1849, and O’Sullivan Beare’s Historiæ Catholicæ
Hiberniæ Compendium; author of Calendar of Irish saints, the
martyrology of Tallagh, with notices of the patron saints of
Ireland. Dublin 1857. _d._ Maynooth 30 Oct. 1858. _Dissertations
chiefly on Irish church history, by M. Kelly_ (1864), _with a
memoir by Dr. Mc.Carthy, pp. v–xiii_.
KELLY, PETER BURROWES. _b._ Stradbally; called to bar in
Ireland; clerk of the peace for Queen’s co. to death;
contributed to Dublin Review and other periodicals; author of
The manor of Glenmore, or the Irish peasant. By a Member of the
Irish bar 3 vols. 1839; The Polish mother, a tragedy in five
acts 1840, and of some light dramatic pieces which are still
played. _d._ Glentolka, Fairview near Dublin 24 March 1883.
_Irish Law Times_, _xvii_ 183 191 (1883).
KELLY, THOMAS (son of John Kelly of Chevening, Kent, innkeeper,
_d._ 1810). _b._ Chevening 7 Jany. 1772; assistant in employ
of Alexander Hogg of 16 Paternoster row 1786–1809; publisher
at 52 Paternoster row 1809; one of common council of ward of
Farringdon within 9 May 1823, alderman of same ward Dec. 1830
to death; sheriff of London 1825–6, lord mayor 1836–37; lived
at Streatham hill; printed Kelly’s Practical Builders’ price