Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 6), I-Q (part 1)

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I’ANSON, Edward (eld. son of Edward I’Anson 1775–1853, surveyor and architect). b. St. Laurence, Pountney hill, London 25 July 1812; ed. at Merchant Taylors’; exhibited 18 designs at R.A. 1830–80; architect in city of London 1837 to death; surveyor for St. Bartholomew’s hospital 18 Dec. 1871; designed British and Foreign Bible Society’s buildings, Queen Victoria st. 1866, Merchant Taylors’ school at the Charterhouse opened 1875, and greater part of the fine buildings in the City built exclusively for offices; restored Dutch church in Austin Friars and that of St. Mary, Abchurch; F.R.I.B.A. 1840, pres. 1886 to death, wrote many papers for its Transactions; author of Detached essays and illustrations, Architectural Publication soc. 1853. d. 28 Clanricarde gardens, Bayswater, London 30 Jany. 1888. bur. at Headley in Hampshire. Builder, xxix 189, 1006 (1871), portrait.

I’ANSON, William, b. Middleham, Yorkshire 1810; horse trainer; trainer to A. Johnstone at Malton 1849; trained Blink Bonny winner of the Derby 1857, Caller Ou winner of the St. Leger 1861 and Blair Athol winner of the Derby and St. Leger 1864; had a yearly sale of horses on Friday after the St. Leger; owner of numerous race horses; golf player; captain of Malton curling club; his Blink Bonny stud farm was very well known. d. Hungerford house, Norton, Malton 10 Jany. 1881. Illust. sp. and dram. news, xiv 453, 466 (1881), portrait; Bell’s Life in London 15 Jany. 1881 pp. 6, 7.

IBBETSON, Levett Landen Boscawen. Captain; gave his valuable collections of fossils and cretaceous mollusca to Museum of practical geology, Jermyn st. London 1853–61; F.G.S.; F.R.S. 6 June 1850; knight of the orders of the Red Eagle and Hohenzollern of Prussia; resided at Biebrich for several years; author of Notes on the geology and chemical composition of the various strata in the Isle of Wight 1849. d. Biebrich, Prussia 8 Sep. 1869. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxvi p. xli (1870).

IBBOTSON, Henry, b. about 1816; schoolmaster at Mowthorpe near Castle Howard, at Dunnington and at Grimthorpe near Whitwell all in Yorkshire; distributed sets of the rarer plants of the northern counties; contributed to Baines’s Flora of Yorkshire 1840 and to Baker’s North Yorkshire 1863; author of A catalogue of the Phœnogamous plants of Great Britain 1848; The ferns of York 1884. d. in great poverty at York 12 Feb. 1886.

IBRAHIM, Mirza Muhammad. b. Persia; a great English scholar; assistant professor in the Oriental department at Haileybury college near Amwell, Herts., professor of Arabic and Persian there 1829–44; retired on a pension from H.E.I. Co.; translated Isaiah into Persian, London 1834 but the title page is in Arabic; wrote A grammar of the Persian language, London 1841, and other books published in Leipzig; tutor to the heir of the Shah of Persia. d. Teheran, Persia, July 1857.

ICELY, Thomas. b. Plymouth, Nov. 1797; went to New South Wales 1819; a merchant and shipper Sydney; member of legislative council 1842–56; a member of the upper house 1864 to death. d. Elizabeth farm, Paramatta 13 Feb. 1874. Heaton’s Australian Dict. of dates (1879) 99.

IDDESLEIGH, Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, 1 Earl of (eld. son of Henry Stafford Northcote 1792–1850). b. 23 Portland place, London 27 Oct. 1818; ed. at Eton 1831–6 and at Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842, D.C.L. 1863; barrister L.I. 19 Nov. 1847; legal sec. to board of trade 1847; sec. to comrs. of Great exhibition of 1851; succeeded his grandfather as 8 baronet 17 Nov. 1851; C.B. 25 Oct. 1851, G.C.B. 20 April 1880; M.P. Dudley 1855–7, M.P. Stamford 1858–66, M.P. North Devon 1866–85; president of board of trade 1 July 1866 to March 1867; P.C. 6 July 1866; sec. of state for India 2 March 1867 to Dec. 1868; governor of Hudson Bay co. 5 Jany. 1869; chancellor of the exchequer 21 Feb. 1874 to 28 April 1880; elected lord rector of Edin. univ. 3 Nov. 1883, installed 30 Jany. 1884; cr. earl of Iddesleigh and viscount St. Cyres of Newton St. Cyres, co. Devon 3 July 1885; first lord of the treasury 24 June 1885 to 6 Feb. 1886; author of A short review of the history of the navigation laws. By A Barrister 1849; A statement connected with the elections of W. E. Gladstone for the university of Oxford 1847, 1852 and 1853; Twenty five years of financial policy 1862; reprinted The triumphs of Petrarch. Roxburgh Club 1887. d. in Lord Salisbury’s ante-room, Downing st. London 12 Jany. 1887. Lang’s Life, letters and diaries of Sir S. Northcote, new ed. (1891), 2 portraits; D. Anderson’s Scenes in the house of commons (1884) 24–28; C. Brown’s Life of Beaconsfield, i 98 (1882), portrait; W. Hole’s Quasi Cursores (1884) 19, 21–3, portrait.

Note.—He is drawn by Anthony Trollope in his novel The Three Clerks under the name of Sir Warwick West End.

IDDISON, Roger. b. Bedale, Yorkshire 15 Sep. 1834; a butcher; kept a shop for sale of cricket articles at Manchester 1864; one of the first team of English cricketers who played 15 matches in Australia 1 Jany. to 22 March 1862; played his first match at Lords 9–11 June 1862; played in 27 first-rate matches and made 1059 runs 1867; founded with George Freeman the United North of England Eleven 1869; professional at Harrow school 1871–2; joint sec. with C. D. Barstow of Yorkshire United Eleven 1874; a first-rate batsman, a good fieldsman at point and a good lob-bowler; a commission agent at York 1870 to death. d. 20 Blake st. York 19 March 1890. Illust. sporting news, iii 441 (1864), portrait.

IDLE, Christopher. b. Kent 1799 or 1800; lived in France some years, then in Argyleshire; joint editor with J. H. Walsh of The Field 1858–9; contributed to the Review and Land and Water; a salmon fisher; a whist player and member of Graham’s and the Portland clubs; a member of the Reform where he was one of the best ecarté players 1856 to death; edited The rural almanack 1855; author of Hints on shooting and fishing 1855, 2 ed. 1865. d. 11 Norris st. Haymarket, London 28 May 1871. Westminster papers July 1871 p. 44; Field 3 June 1871 p. 447.

IGGULDEN, John. b. Deal 1 June 1777; notary and proctor Doctors’ commons, London; one of the 3 deputy registrars of prerogative court of Canterbury, Doctors’ commons 1829 to death. d. 8 Russell sq. London 18 Nov. 1857. bur. Highgate cemetery.

IKIN, John Arthur. b. 1810; solicitor at Leeds 1832 to death; town clerk of Leeds 19 July 1843 to death. d. Scarcroft grange near Leeds 4 Sep. 1860. Leeds Intelligencer 8 Sep. 1860 p. 5.

ILBERY, Josiah James. b. London 16 Sep. 1769; superintendent Liverpool and Manchester railway 1826, superannuated in 1855 when 86 years old being one of the oldest and most indefatigable railway officers in the world. d. Douglas, Isle of Man 11 April 1869 when almost a centenarian. Reg. and Mag. of Biog. i 485–6 (1869).

ILCHESTER, Henry Stephen Fox Strangways, 3 Earl of (only son of 2 Earl of Ilchester 1747–1802). b. 21 Feb. 1787; styled lord Stavordale 1787–1802; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., D.C.L. 1814; succeeded his father 5 Sep. 1802; capt. Dorsetshire regt. of yeomanry 15 April 1808, lieut.-col. commandant 12 Feb. 1846; lord lieut. of Somerset 19 April 1837 to May 1839; capt. of the yeomen of the guard 12 July 1837 to 5 July 1841; P.C. 12 July 1837. d. Melbury house near Dorchester 3 Jany. 1858.

ILCHESTER, William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways, 4 Earl of (half brother of the preceding). b. 7 May 1795; styled hon. William Fox-Strangways 1795–1858; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1820; attaché at St. Petersburg 1816, at Constantinople 1820, at Naples 1822 and at the Hague 1824; sec. of legation at Florence 1825, at Naples 1828, at Turin 1832 and at Vienna 1832; under sec. of state for foreign affairs 1835–40; envoy extraord. and minister plenipo. at Frankfort 17 March 1840 to Jany. 1849; succeeded as 3 earl 3 Jany. 1858; F.R.S. 8 March 1821. d. Melbury house near Dorchester 10 Jany. 1865.

ILES, Ven. John Hodgson (eld. son of John Iles of Healing, Lincolnshire). b. 22 Sep. 1828; ed. at Rugby and Lincoln coll. Oxf., fellow 1855–61; B.A. 1849, M.A. 1853; assist. master Bromsgrove gr. sch. 1852–7; R. of St. Peter’s, Wolverhampton 1860–76; V. of Barton-under-Needwood 1876–80; V. of Ch. Ch. Lichfield 1880–3; preb. of Lichfield 1870–7; archdeacon of Stafford 1876 to death; canon of Lichfield 1877 to death. d. 13 Nov. 1888. bur. Lichfield 17 Nov.

ILIFF, Rev. Frederick (younger son of Wm. Tiffin Iliff 1772–1830). b. Nottingham 12 Nov. 1799; ed. at Christ hospital; entered Trin. coll. Cam. as a sizar 6 Jany. 1819, scholar 19 April 1822; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, D.D. 1838; head master of royal institution school, Liverpool; master of Grange sch. Bishop Wearmouth 1856–62; P.C. of Gateworth near Selby 1862, resigned 1868; edited the Biblia ecclesiæ polyglotta: the proper lessons for Sundays in Hebrew etc. 1843; author of Week days prayers for the use of boarding schools 1855; A plea for a revisal of the Bible translation of 1611. Sunderland 1856; The Old is better: materials for new forms of Common Prayer from parts of the Prayer book not used in Sunday services 1872. d. Sunderland 9 March 1869. Reg. and Mag. of Biog. i 350 (1869).

ILIFF, Rev. George (2 son of the preceding). Ordained deacon 1855, priest 1857; second master at Grange sch. Bishop Wearmouth 1856–61; head master of Hall school, Sunderland (opened by him) July 1861 to death; author of Chronology in verse without numbers 1855, anon.; An English education, what it means and how it may be carried out 1858, 3 ed. 1861. d. 15 Murton st. Sunderland 6 Sep. 1878.

ILLIDGE, Thomas Henry. b. Birmingham 26 Sep. 1799; ed. at Manchester; painted portraits of many celebrities of Lancashire; exhibited at Liverpool academy from 1827; portrait painter in London 1842 to death; exhibited 14 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I. and 13 at Suffolk st. 1826–51. d. of fever at 33 Bruton st. Berkeley sq. London 13 May 1851.

ILSLEY, Rev. Joseph Mary. b. Maple Durham, Oxfordshire 20 Dec. 1805; ed. at English coll. Lisbon, professor there, president 1854–63; D.D. by papal decree 20 June 1854; missioner at Scorton, Lancs. 1863 to death; received order of the Immaculada Conceicao; wrote ten sermons in The Catholic Pulpit vols. i–ii 1839–40. d. Scorton 31 Aug. 1868. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii 530–2 (1887).

IMAGE, Rev. Thomas (son of rev. John Image, V. of Peterborough, d. 1786). b. 1772; ed. at C.C. coll. Cam., B.A. 1795, M.A. 1798; R. of Whepstead, Suffolk 30 Jany. 1798 to death; R. of Stanningfield, Suffolk 20 March 1809 to death; formed from counties of Cambridge, Norfolk and Suffolk, nearly the finest collection of fossils in England, which he sold to Univ. of Cambridge for Woodwardian museum 1856; F.G.S. 1840. d. Whepstead rectory 8 March 1856. G.M. xlv 386, 534, 554 (1856).

IMHOFF, Sir Charles (son of baron Charles Von Imhoff a German). b. England 1766; ed. at Magd. coll. Ox. 1785–6; commanded a company in one of regiments of Prince of Waldeck 1787–93; served in Berkshire militia 1793–8; captain 1 light dragoons 1799; major 4 foot 1801, lieut. col. 5 Feb. 1802; lieut. col. 4 garrison battalion 17 Sep. 1807 to June 1812; inspecting field officer of Guernsey militia 1812; general 9 Nov. 1846. d. Daylesford house, Chipping Norton, Worcs. 14 Feb. 1853. G.M. xxxix 543–4 (1853), xl 390.

Note.—From 18 May 1807 the date of his obtaining a royal licence to accept insignia of grand commander of St. Joachim, he enjoyed the titular distinction of a knight, in this country, the regulation to contrary with respect to foreign orders of knighthood not being issued until the year 1813. His mother m. (2) Warren Hastings and d. 29 March 1837 aged 90. On his death the mansion and estate of Daylesford, the ultimate aim and object of Warren Hastings’ ambition, were sold 30 July 1853 to George Grisewood of the Stock Exchange for £30,250.

IMLACH, James. b. Banff, Scotland 8 May 1789; bookseller, Banff; collected materials for sir Walter Scott for a life of Macpherson the freebooter, a work never published; author of History of Banff and account of its inhabitants. Banff 1868. d. Castle Panton, Banff 13 July 1880. Banffshire Journal 20 July 1880 p. 5.

IMPEY, John (2 son of sir Elijah Impey 1732–1809, chief justice of Bengal). b. 1772; midshipman R.N. 28 April 1785; captain 22 Jany. 1806; R.A. 17 Aug. 1840; admiral on half pay 4 July 1855. d. Coly villa, Colyford 2 Aug. 1858.

IMRAY, James Frederick. b. 1829 or 1830; F.R.G.S.; F.S.A.; author of Pilotage rates of the ports of the United Kingdom 1858; Baltic pilot 1870; The Bay of Bengal pilot 1879; he also published for the admiralty, Sailing directions for the ports in the bay of Bengal 1866, and other books of Sailing Directions for various places 1866–76; with W. Rosser The lights and tides of the world 1869. d. St. Catharine’s, Beckenham, Kent 8 Oct. 1891. bur. Norwood cemetery 12 Oct.

IMRAY, John. b. in north of Scotland 11 Jany. 1811; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1831; M.D. Heidelberg 1842; practised at Roseau, Dominica, West Indies from 1832 to death; introduced the cultivation of limes and of Liberian coffee; member of executive council; chairman of board of health; a founder of the Roseau infirmary; author of Memoir on yaws in Gavin Milroy’s Report on leprosy and yaws in the West Indies 1873; wrote papers on The yellow fever, in Edin. Med. Journ. 1838–48; contributed to the Gardener’s Chronicle, the Technologist, the Journal of applied sciences and Nature. d. Dominica 22 Aug. 1880. Medical Times, ii 417 (1880).

IMRAY, Keith. M.D., F.R.S.; author of A popular cyclopedia of modern domestic medicine 1842. d. Stonehaven 27 Aug. 1855.

IMRIE, George (son of George Imrie of Perth). b. Scotland 2 July 1829; ed. at Christ hospital; clerk to Thomas Jones, solicitor, city of London 1844; kept the accounts of the parish of St. Stephen, Coleman st. 1847–64; assist. sec. Licensed victuallers’ asylum, Old Kent road, London 1854, sec. 1864 to death, presented with a purse of 100 guineas 1864, presented with a silver cup and 250 sovereigns 1867. d. The Asylum, London 6 Sep. 1872. Licensed Victuallers’ Almanack (1868) 113–5, portrait, (1873) 156–7; Illust. Sporting News, vi 145 (1867), portrait.

INCE, Henry Bret (eld. son of Edward Bret Ince, publisher of the Law Journal, who d. 1882). b. London 1830; in business connected with shipping; a leader writer on the Daily News; barrister I.T. 1 Nov. 1852; admitted ad eundem at L.I. 7 Nov. 1859, bencher 4 Nov. 1878; reported for The Jurist in court of V. C. Wood; Q.C. 28 June 1875; M.P. for Hastings 1883 to 1885, for East division of Islington 1885 to 1886, contested the seat 1886; author of A systematic treatment of the Trustee act and the Extension act of 1852, 1858, 2 ed. 1858. d. suddenly at 20 Old sq. Lincoln’s Inn 7 May 1889.

INCE, Joseph Murray. b. Presteign, Radnorshire 1806; pupil of David Cox 1823–6; came to London 1826; exhibited 16 pictures at R.A., 23 at B.I. and 137 at Suffolk st. 1826–58; a good painter of landscape in water-colours; painted at Presteign about 1835 to death; published Views illustrating the county of Radnor, Seven lithographic plates 1832. d. 24 Sep. 1859. bur. Kensal Green cemetery, monu. erected to his memory at Presteign.

INCE, William. b. 1794; connected with Godfrey & Cook, pharmaceutical chemists, Southampton st. Covent Garden, London from an early age to his death; a founder of the Pharmaceutical society of Great Britain 20 March 1841, V.P. 1849–50 and president 1850–1. d. Kensington 26 March 1853. J. Bell and T. Redwood’s Pharmacy (1880) 228.

INCHBOLD, John William (son of Thomas Inchbold, proprietor and editor of the Leeds Intelligencer). b. Leeds 29 April 1830; studied under Louis Haghe; a student at the R.A. 1847; exhibited 27 pictures at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 3 at Suffolk st. 1849–79; his pictures The Moorland 1855 and The White Doe of Rylstone were much praised by Ruskin; made a sketching tour in Algeria; many of his pictures were exhibited by Leeds Philosophical soc. 1887; author of Annus Amoris. Sonnets 1876. d. at his sister’s residence, Headingley near Leeds 23 Jany. 1888. bur. Adel ch. yard 25 Jany. Swinburne wrote a memorial funereal ode for him. Athenæum, i 123, 154, 188 (1888).

INCHIQUIN, Sir Lucius O’Brien, 13 Baron. b. Dromoland, county Clare 5 Dec. 1800; M.P. for co. Clare 1826–30 and 1847–52; succeeded his father as 5 baronet 13 March 1837; lord lieut. of Clare, May 1843 to death; succeeded James O’Brien 3rd marquis of Thomond and 12 baron Inchiquin, as 13 baron 3 July 1855, his right to the barony was confirmed by House of Lords 11 April 1862; a representative peer for Ireland 20 Oct. 1863 to death; author of Ireland: the late famine and the poor laws 1848. d. Dromoland 22 March 1872.

INCLEDON, Charles (eld. son of Charles Incledon, vocalist 1763–1826). b. 1791; had a pure tenor voice; appeared at Drury Lane as Meadows in Love in a Village 3 Oct. 1829; an English teacher at Vienna many years. d. Bad Tuffé department of Sarthe, France 1865.

INGALL, William Lenox. b. 2 June 1822; ensign 62 foot 27 Dec. 1842, lieut. col. 25 Oct. 1855 to 6 March 1868; served in Sutlej campaign 1845–6 and in Crimean war 1854–5; brigadier general Bengal, April to Oct. 1869 and April 1870 to Jany. 1874; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; col. Royal Sussex regiment 14 Sep. 1885 to death; C.B. 22 Jany. 1857. d. Queen’s park, Chester 11 Jany. 1888.

INGALTON, William (son of a shoemaker at Worplesdon, Surrey). b. Worplesdon 1794; lived at Eton long time, where he painted domestic and rustic scenes; published lithographed views of Eton 1821; exhibited 9 pictures at R.A., 19 at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk st. 1816–26; an architect and builder at Windsor from 1824. d. Clewer, Windsor 1866.

INGHAM, Charles Cromwell. b. Dublin 1796; pupil of Wm. Cumming 1810–14; a portrait painter in New York 1816 to death; noted for his portraits of women and children; a founder of National Academy of Design, V.P. 1845–50 and an originator of the Sketch club, New York; his works include The laughing girl and The White plume. d. New York city 10 Dec. 1863. Appleton’s American Biog. iii 348 (1887).

INGHAM, James Penrose (elder son of the succeeding). b. 1839; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A, 1861; rowed in the Cambridge boat against London and Oxford at Henley 1859; sculled with David Ingles in the University pairs 1859 and with Robert U. P. Fitzgerald 1860; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1866; practised as a special pleader; went South Eastern circuit. d. 40 Gloucester sq. Hyde park, London 28 Nov. 1879.

INGHAM, Sir James Taylor (younger son of Joshua Ingham of Blake hall, West Riding of Yorkshire). b. 17 Jany. 1805; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister I.T. 15 June 1832; magistrate Thames police court March 1849, transferred to Hammersmith and Wandsworth 1856; chief magistrate at Bow st. July 1876 to death; knighted at Osborne 21 July 1876; adjudicated upon many important extradition cases. d. 40 Gloucester sq. Hyde park, London 5 March 1890. Vanity Fair 20 Feb. 1886, portrait; Graphic, xxiii 341 (1881) portrait.

INGHAM, Robert (son of Wm. Ingham of Newcastle on Tyne). b. 1793; ed. at Harrow and Oriel coll. Oxf., fellow 1816–26; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; barrister L.I. 16 June 1820, barrister I.T. 1825, bencher 1850 to death, reader 1862, treasurer 1863; Q.C. July 1851; M.P. for South Shields 1832–41 and 1852–68; recorder of Berwick on Tweed June 1832, resigned Nov. 1870; attorney general of county palatine of Durham 1846–61. d. Weston, South Shields 21 Oct. 1875.

INGILBY, Rev. Sir Henry John, 1 Baronet (eld. son of rev. Henry Ingilby of Ripley, Yorkshire 1761–1833). b. 28 Jany. 1790; ed. at Univ. coll. Oxf., scholar to 1816; B.A. 1812, M.A. 1816; created baronet 26 July 1866. d. Ripley castle, Yorkshire 5 July 1870.

INGILBY, Sir William Amcotts-, 2 Baronet. b. Yorkshire, June 1783; succeeded his maternal grandfather as 2 baronet 26 Sep. 1807, his father as 2 baronet 8 May 1815; assumed name of Amcotts before that of Ingilby 1812; M.P. for Lincolnshire 6 Dec. 1823 to 3 Dec. 1832, for North Lincolnshire 24 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec. 1834. d. 23 Abingdon st. Westminster 14 May 1854.

INGILBY, Sir William Bates (brother of rev. sir H. J. Ingilby 1790–1870). b. North Deighton, Yorkshire 30 April 1791; ed. at Houghton le Spring, Marlow and Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 April 1809, col. 6 Nov. 1854 to 22 June 1860, colonel commandment 24 Aug. 1866 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; K.C.B. 13 March 1867. d. 9 Roland gardens, South Kensington, London 6 Aug. 1879.

INGLEBY, Clement Mansfield (only son of Clement Ingleby of Birmingham, solicitor, d. 1859). b. Edgbaston 29 Oct. 1823; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850, LL.D. 1859; solicitor at Birmingham 1849–59; professor of logic at Birmingham and Midland institute 1858; foreign sec. and V.P. of R. Soc. of literature; an original trustee of Shakespeare’s birthplace 1861; V.P. New Shakespeare soc.; author of Outlines of theoretical logic 1856; The Shakespeare fabrications 1859; An introduction to metaphysics 1869; The Still lion 1874, republished as Shakespeare hermeneutics 1875; Shakespeare’s Centurie of prayse 1874, three editions. d. Valentines, Ilford, Essex 26 Sep. 1886. Edgbastonia, iii 65–7 (1883), portrait; Biograph, iii 283–8 (1880).

INGLEDEW, Henry. b. 1786; solicitor at Newcastle 1817 to death; registrar of Gateshead county court; alderman of Newcastle to death, sheriff 1852–3, mayor 1860. d. Lovaine place, Newcastle 24 May 1882.

INGLIS, Andrew. b. 1838; M.D. Edin. 1859; F.R.C.S. Edin. 1863; professor of midwifery in Univ. of Aberdeen 1869 to death; author of papers in Edin. Medical Journal 1864–71, and of Case of deformity of the pelvis in which cæsarean section was performed. Edin. 1871. d. 1 East Craibstone st. Aberdeen 13 March 1875 aged 37.

INGLIS, Rev. David. b. Greenlaw, Berwickshire 8 June 1825; ed. at Edin. univ. 1841–5; went to U.S. of America 1846; presbyterian minister at Washington Heights, New York, at Bedford, N.Y., at Montreal and at Hamilton; professor of systematic theology, Knox coll. Toronto 1871–2; minister Dutch reformed ch. Brooklyn, N.Y. 1872; LL.D. of Olivet 1872; D.D. of Rutgers 1874; author of Systematic theology in its relation to modern thought 1876. d. Brooklyn, New York 15 Dec. 1887. Appleton’s American Biog. iii 349 (1887).

INGLIS, James. b. Glasgow, Sep. 1813; ed. at gr. school Musselburgh and univ. of Edin.; apprenticed to sir George Ballingall, Edin.; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1834; M.D. Edin. 1834; practised at Castle Douglas 1835–37, then at Ripon and finally at Halifax; physician to Ripon public dispensary; curator of geology to Halifax Lit. and Philos. soc.; author of Hope Prize essay on Iodine and bromine 1835; Treatise on English bronchocele with remarks on the use of iodine and its compounds 1838, and of contributions to medical periodicals. d. Green Royde near Halifax 9 March 1851.

INGLIS, James Gordon. b. 1816; M.D. Glasgow 1836; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1838; assistant surgeon in army 29 March 1839, surgeon 1852; surgeon general 7 Jany. 1875 to 19 July 1876 when placed on h.p.; served in Punjab campaign 1848–9, Persian campaign 1856–7 and in Indian mutiny 1857–8; medical superintendent of Meerut division 1873–6; C.B. 1859. d. Floriana, Jersey 6 Sep. 1879.

INGLIS, John, Lord Glencorse (youngest son of rev. John Inglis, minister of Old Greyfriars’ ch. Edinburgh). b. Edin. 21 Aug. 1810; ed. at high sch. Edin., univ. of Glasgow and Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1837, D.C.L. 1859; LL.D. Aberdeen 1857, LL.D. Edin. 1858; called to bar in Scotland 1838; solicitor general for Scotland 28 Feb. to May 1852, lord advocate 19 May to Dec. 1852 and Feb. to June 1858; dean of faculty of advocates Nov. 1852; defended Madeline Smith, June–July 1857; lord rector of univ. of Aberdeen 1857; M.P. Stamford 3 March to 10 July 1858; H.M. advocate for Scotland 1 March 1858; lord justice clerk in Scotland and president of 2 division of court of session with title of Lord Glencorse 10 July 1858 to Feb. 1867; P.C. 2 Feb. 1859; lord justice general and president of court of session in Scotland 25 Feb. 1867 to death; nominated chancellor of univ. of Edin. 30 Oct. 1868, installed 21 April 1869; author of The historical study of law. An address. Edin. 1863. d. Loganbank, Midlothian 20 Aug. 1891. W. Hole’s Quasi Cursores (1884) 3–4; Juridical Review, i (1889) portrait; I.L.N. 29 Aug. 1891 pp. 270, 271, portrait.

Note.—He brought in a “Bill to make provision for the better government and discipline of the Universities of Scotland” 22 April 1858 which became law 2 Aug. 1858, he was chairman of the executive commission to carry out views of the act from 27 Aug. 1858 to 20 Dec. 1862 and presided at all the 126 meetings. Sir A. Grant’s Story of the Univ. of Edin. ii 91–102, 236 (1884).

INGLIS, Sir John Eardley Wilmot (son of right rev. John Inglis, bishop of Nova Scotia, d. 27 Oct. 1850 aged 72). b. Nova Scotia 15 Nov. 1814; ensign 32 foot 2 Aug. 1833, lieut. col. 20 Feb. 1855 to 26 Nov. 1857, col. 5 May 1860 to death; M.G. 26 Nov. 1857; served in Canadian rebellion of 1837, in the Punjab campaign 1848–9 including siege of Moultan when he succeeded to command of right column of attack, in action of Soorjkomd, at capture of Cheniote and in battle of Goojerat; K.C.B. 21 Jany. 1858 for his enduring fortitude and persevering gallantry in defence of residency of Lucknow for 87 days against an overwhelming force of the enemy; commander of forces in Corfu, Jany. 1862. (m. 19 July 1851 Julia Selina 4 dau. of Frederic Thesiger 1 baron Chelmsford, she was b. 19 April 1833 and was granted civil list pension of £500 June 1864). d. Homburg 27 Sep. 1862. Illust. news of the world, ii (1858), portrait; Nolan’s Illustrated history of British empire in India, ii 755 (1878–9), portrait; The siege of Lucknow: a diary. By Lady Inglis (1892).

INGLIS, Sir Robert Harry, 2 Baronet (only son of sir Hugh Inglis, 1 baronet, d. 1820). b. London 12 Jany. 1786; ed. at Winchester and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809, created D.C.L. 1826; a comr. for settlement of affairs of the Carnatic 1814–30; barrister L.I. 8 June 1818; M.P. Dundalk 1824–6; M.P. Ripon 1828; M.P. univ. of Ox. 1829–54; P.C. 11 Aug. 1854; F.R.S. 4 March 1813; F.S.A. 22 Feb. 1816, V.P. 1846–54; member of record commission 12 March 1831; a trustee of British Museum 1834 to death; professor of antiquity in Royal academy 1850 to death; president of Literary club usually called Dr. Johnson’s club; edited Family prayers. By H. Thornton, M.P. 1834 and other editions 1843, 1851 and 1854; with H. Hallam wrote Survey of the principal repositories of the public records of Great Britain and Ireland 1823; many of Inglis’ Speeches were printed 1825–53. d. 7 Bedford sq. London 5 May 1855. Ryall’s Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen 1 series, portrait; Fraser’s Mag. xxxiv 648–53 (1846); I.L.N. i 240 (1842) portrait, xxiv 49 (1854) portrait.

Note.—He was the champion of the Protestant church and earned sobriquet of “Member for Heaven.” He opposed repeal of the test and corporation acts, Roman catholic relief and reform bills and admission of Jews to parliament.

INGLIS, William. b. Midlem, Roxburghshire 1812 or 1813; partner in firm of W. and R. Chambers, publishers, Edin. to death; author of Book keeping by single entry 1866; Book keeping by single and double entry 1858, other editions 1861 and 1867; Farm book keeping 1866. d. Dick place, Edinburgh 11 Oct. 1887.

INGLIS, William (son of sir William Inglis, K.C.B. d. 1835). b. 8 July 1823; ensign 4 foot 7 Feb. 1840; ensign 57 foot 6 March 1840, lieut. col. 21 May 1858 to 29 Jany. 1861; served in Crimean war 1854–6; lieut. col. 9 foot 29 Jany. 1861 to 23 Jany. 1863; lieut. col. depot battalion 23 Jany. 1863 to 17 April 1866 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 15 March 1879; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; C.B. 13 March 1867. d. Hildersham hall, Cambridge 21 Nov. 1888.

INGPEN, Abel. F.L.S.; author of Instructions for preserving British insects, crustacea and shells 1827; Instructions for collecting, rearing and preserving British insects, also for collecting and preserving British crustacea, together with a description of entomological apparatus 1843; Manual for the butterfly collector 1849. d. Chelsea 14 Sep. 1854.

INGPEN, William Alfred (youngest son of Thomas Ingpen, sec. to sir James Burroughs, judge of common pleas 1816–20). b. Guilford st. Russell sq. London 23 Feb. 1812; exhibited 8 sporting pictures at R.A., 2 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. 1830–8; a clerk of insolvent debtors’ court, Portugal st. Lincoln’s Inn Fields 1842, clerk of the rules 1858 to 12 April 1865 when granted pension of £216. d. 3 Pountney road, Lavender hill, London 29 July 1888.

INGRAM, Alexander. b. Scotland; M.D.; surgeon in army of U.S. of America, May 1861; served with 2nd cavalry in army of the Potomac 1862–3; in charge of St. Aloysius hospital, Washington 1863, then of Judiciary sq. hospital; chief surgeon of the troops in Southern California; chief medical officer in general Wright’s army in Northern division of the Pacific coast; lost in the wreck of steamship Brother Jonathan off coast of Oregon 30 July 1865. Appleton’s Annual Cyclop. v 645 (1866).

INGRAM, Augustus Henry. b. 1811; entered navy 13 Feb. 1821; commander 8 June 1841 for his conduct in the Blonde’s boat at siege of Canton; captain 5 June 1856, retired 1 July 1867; retired R.A. 1 Jany. 1875; retired admiral 31 March 1885. d. 10 Chilworth st. Westbourne terrace, London 5 Oct. 1888.

INGRAM, Herbert (son of Herbert Ingram of Boston, Lincs.) b. Boston 27 May 1811; a journeyman printer in London 1832–4; printer and bookseller with his brother-in-law Nathaniel Cooke at Nottingham 1834; purchased from T. Roberts a druggist at Manchester, a receipt for an aperient pill called Parr’s Life Pill; they moved to London and started The Illustrated London News at 198 Strand 14 May 1842 mainly to advertize their pill, they dissolved partnership 1848; bought The Pictorial Times 1845, merged it in The Lady’s Newspaper which he started 2 Jany. 1847; started The London Telegraph 1 Feb. 1848, last number appeared 9 July 1848; bought copyright and plant of The London Journal from George Stiff 8 Oct. 1857 for £24,000; M.P. for Boston 7 March 1856 to death; drowned with his eldest son Herbert on board steamer Lady Elgin on Lake Michigan 8 Sep. 1860. bur. Boston cemetery 5 Oct., marble memorial statue erected in Market place, Boston 1862. C. Mackay’s Forty years recollections, ii 64–75 (1877); M. Jackson’s Pictorial Press (1885) 284–311, portrait; J. Hatton’s Journalistic London (1882) 24, 222, portrait.

INGRAM, Rev. James (son of a farmer who lived to be 100). b. Logie Coldston, Aberdeenshire 3 April 1776; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen 1791; assist. minister at Fetlar and North Yell 1800–3 and minister 1803; minister of Unst 1821–43; joined the Free ch. 1843 and was minister of Unst Free ch. 1843 to death; learnt Hebrew and German after he was 60; D.D. of Glasgow univ.; presented with his portrait and a silver tea service 1872. d. Unst 3 March 1879. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881); Times 3 April 1876 p. 6.

INGRAM, Robert Hugh Wilson, b. 1792 or 1793; barrister M.T. 20 June 1817, bencher 25 Jany. 1869; presented to Society of Middle Temple, marble busts of the Prince of Wales and of Edmund Plowden placed in Middle Temple hall 1868. d. Slough, Bucks. 29 Jany. 1869.

INGRAM, Walter (youngest son of Herbert Ingram 1811–60). b. 1855; officer in Middlesex yeomanry cavalry; travelled in Zululand; went up the Nile in his steam launch and joined Sir H. Stewart’s brigade in its march across Bayuda desert; attached to lord C. Beresford’s naval corps and was in battles of Abu Klea and Metammeh 1885; went up the Nile to within sight of Khartoum, Feb. 1885, rewarded with a medal; killed by an elephant which he had wounded near Berbera east coast of Africa 6 April 1888. Times 11 April 1888 p. 5, col. 5.

INGS, Edward. Barrister I.T. 1 May 1835; a legal coach at 40 Great James st. Bedford row, London many years; author of The act for the abolition of arrest on mesne process in civil actions, with rules, orders and cases and an appendix of forms 1840. d. 40 Great James st. London 2 May 1885 aged 76.

INMAN, Rev. James (younger son of Richard Inman of Garsdale Foot, Sedbergh, Yorkshire). b. 1776; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., fellow 1800, senior wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman 1800, B.A. 1800, M.A. 1805, B.D. 1815, D.D. 1820; sailed round the world with Flinders as astronomer; professor of mathematics at royal naval college, Portsmouth 1808–39; principal of the school of naval architecture, Portsmouth 1810–39; author of The scriptural doctrine of divine grace. A sermon 1820; A treatise on navigation and nautical astronomy. Portsea 1821, 3 ed. 1835; An introduction to naval gunnery. Portsea 1828; Nautical tables for the use of British seamen 1860, 4 ed. 1888 and other books. d. Southsea 2 Feb. 1859.

INMAN, Rev. James Williams (son of the preceding). Ed. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; fellow of his coll. 1835–7; head master Grantham gram. sch. 1837–58; master of Pymsent’s sch. Chudleigh 1858–77; C. of Knighton, Devon 1863–72; edited some of his Father’s works 1860–88; author of Orioma, the reclaimed, a drama. Grantham 1858; Latitudes and longitudes of places on the seabord 1865; The chasuble not Anglican but Roman 1867. d. 1889.

INMAN, Thomas (2 son of Charles Inman, director of the bank of Liverpool, who d. 1858). b. Rutland st. Leicester 27 Jany. 1820; ed. at King’s coll. London; M.R.C.S. Eng. and L.S.A. 1842; M.D. Lond. 1844; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1859; surgeon in Liverpool 1842–71; house surgeon Liverpool infirmary; author of Spontaneous combustion. Liverpool 1855; Foundation for a new theory of medicine 1860, 2 ed. 1861; Ancient faiths embodied in ancient names 2 vols. 1868–9, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1872–3; The preservation of health 1870, 3 ed. 1872; Ancient pagan and modern christian symbolism explained 1869, 3 ed. 1880 and other books. d. Clifton 3 May 1876.

INMAN, William (brother of the preceding). b. Leicester 6 April 1825; clerk successively to Nathan Cairns and to Cater & Co. merchants, Liverpool; clerk to Richardson Brothers, merchants, Liverpool and a partner Jany. 1849, managed the fleet of American sailing packets and purchased the City of Glasgow and 4 other iron screw ships 1850–6; formed the Liverpool, New York and Philadelphia steamship co. better known as the Inman line 1857; established a fortnightly line to New York 1857, a weekly service 1860, three times a fortnight 1863; carried the mail between England and America; launched the City of Berlin 1875 largest steam vessel afloat except the Great Eastern. d. Upton manor near Birkenhead 3 July 1881. bur. Moreton parish church 6 July. History of merchant shipping. By W. S. Lindsay, iv 251–60, 611–2 (1876); Colburn’s New monthly mag. clxviii 177, portrait; Biograph, iv 467 (1880).

INNES, Anne (eld. dau. of Charles Innes of Fleet st. and Hatton garden, London). Joint proprietor and editor with her sisters Eliza and Maria Catherine of the peerage known as Sams’s annual peerage 2 vols. 1827 after its publisher Wm. Sams of St. James’ st. London, in 1832 it was published by H. Colburn with the altered title of Lodge’s Peerage, the Norroy king at arms allowing his name to be placed on it to oblige the Misses Innes. The surviving sister edited The Peerage to 1862; it is the only work which gives the births of the female nobility. d. High st. Hounslow 24 March 1856. G.M. i 253 (1856).

Note.—Eliza Innes d. about 1857 and Maria Catherine Innes d. 4 Thorne road, South Lambeth, London 13 Dec. 1880 in 85 year. Times 21 Dec. 1880 p. 11 col. 1. Eliza and Maria C. Innes compiled the Index to Davies Gilbert’s Parochial history of Cornwall (1838) vol. iii. pp. 395–571.

INNES, Cosmo Nelson (youngest son of John Innes of Leuchars, Elginshire, writer to the signet). b. Durris manor house, Kincardineshire 9 Sep. 1798; ed. at Aberdeen univ. and Glasgow univ. from which he was a Snell exhibitioner to Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1824; called to Scottish bar 1822; one of advocates depute 1833; sheriff of Elginshire 1840–52; a principal clerk of session 23 Feb. 1852 to death; professor of civil history in univ. of Edin. 19 Nov. 1846 to 1862, professor of history there 1862 to death; member of Bannatyne, Spalding and Maitland clubs and Scottish Burghs’ Record Soc. for which he edited many Cartularies and other works 1832–64, 25 in number; edited with T. Thomson, Acts of the parliaments of Scotland 12 vols. 1814–75 for Commissioners on Public Records; author of Sketches of early Scottish history 1861; Scotland in the middle ages 1860. d. Killin near Crieff, Perthshire 31 July 1874. bur. Warriston cemet. Edinburgh 5 Aug. Memoirs of Cosmo Innes (1874); Proc. of R. Soc. of Edin. viii 453–60 (1875).

INNES, Frederick Maitland. b. Scotland 1816; went to Australia 1833; member Tasmanian legislative assembly 2 Dec. 1856; colonial treasurer 25 April 1857 to 1 Nov. 1862; colonial secretary 1 Nov. 1862 to 20 Jany. 1863; colonial treasurer and premier 4 Nov. 1872 to 4 Aug. 1873; colonial treasurer 13 March 1875 to 20 July 1876; member legislative council 1862, president legislative council 1876. d. Hobart Town, May 1882. Heaton’s Australian Dictionary (1879) 100, 156.

INNES, James Charles. b. 30 May 1811; ensign 61 Bengal N.I. 3 June 1829, major 3 July 1855; lieut. col. Bengal Infantry 15 July 1859, col. 10 Nov. 1868; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 30 May 1881. d. 13 Dunsford place, Bath 5 May 1885.

INNES, Rev. William (son of Rev. James Innes of Yester). b. 1775; presbyterian minister Stirling 1793, deposed from his charge 8 Oct. 1799; chaplain Stirling castle 1793; minister at the Tabernacle, Dundee 1800; pastor of a Baptist congregation, Edinburgh; bookseller Edinburgh; D.D. of Washington coll. Pennsylvania 1848; author of Reasons for separating from the church of Scotland. Dundee 1804; Sketches of human nature. Edin. 1807; Liberia, or the history of the American colony of free Negroes 1831, 2 ed. 1833; Suggestions for thoughtful but sceptical minds 1854 and many other books. d. Edinburgh 8 March 1855. H. Scott’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ, ii part 2 p. 680 (1869).

INSKIP, John Swannell. b. Huntingdon 10 Aug. 1816; taken to U.S. of America 1821; a preacher in Methodist Episcopal church 1835; attained distinction as an orator and conductor of camp-meetings; edited The Christian Standard; author of Life of Rev. William Summers a blind man. Baltimore; Methodism explained and defended. Philadelphia 1856. d. Ocean Grove, New Jersey 7 March 1884.

INSKIP, Rev. Robert Mills. b. 1816; naval instructor R.N. 22 Dec. 1836, chaplain 14 June 1853, retired 25 July 1871; C.B. 2 June 1869; author of Navigation and nautical astronomy 1869, new ed. 1871. d. 22 Torrington place, Plymouth 17 Dec. 1890.

INSKIPP, James. b. 1790; in the commissariat service, retired with a pension; exhibited 24 pictures at R.A., 83 at B.I. and 56 at Suffolk st. 1816–64; his pictures were chiefly small subject-pictures and portraits, some of them were engraved; illustrated Sir Harris Nicolas’s edition of Izaac Walton’s Complete Angler 1833–6; published a series of engravings from his own drawings entitled, Studies of heads from nature 1838. d. Godalming, Surrey 15 March 1868.

INVERARITY, Jonathan Duncan. b. 1812 or 1813; entered Bombay civil service 1830; comr. in Scinde 1859–62; member of council at Bombay 24 March 1862–65 when he retired on annuity. d. Rosemount, Forfarshire 28 April 1882.

INVERNESS, Cecilia Letitia Gore Underwood, Duchess of (8 dau. of 2 earl of Arran 1734–1809). b. 1788. (m. (1) 14 May 1815 sir George Buggin who d. Great Cumberland place, London 12 April 1825 aged 65; m. (2) 1830 Augustus Frederick 1 duke of Sussex, he was b. Buckingham house 27 Jany. 1773, d. Kensington palace 21 April 1843); assumed her maternal surname of Underwood by sign manual 2 May 1831; cr. duchess of Inverness 10 April 1840. d. Kensington palace, London 1 Aug. 1873. I.L.N. lxiii 135 (1873).

IONS, Thomas (eld. son of James Ions of Gateshead, Durham). b. 1817; organist St. Nicholas ch. Newcastle 1835 to death; conductor Sacred harmonic and choral soc. Newcastle 1852 to death; Mus. Bac. (Magdalen hall) Oxf. 10 July 1848, Mus. Doc. 3 Feb. 1854; composer of Clear serene eyes, a canzonet 1845; By the waters of Babylon, an anthem for five voices 1848; Cantica ecclesiastica, a collection of psalm and hymn tunes 1850, 3 ed. 1855, besides songs and other pieces of music. d. Westmoreland ter. Newcastle-on-Tyne 25 Sep. 1857. Newcastle Chronicle 2 Oct. 1857 p. 8.

IRELAND, James. b. Horsham 10 March 1811; went to Brighton to reside with his uncle the proprietor of tea gardens and cricket ground 1823; a carpenter, a wood merchant and a builder 1844; opened up several new districts in Preston and Hove and built a large number of houses; a founder of Brighton gram. sch. 1859; vice chairman of board of guardians 1868–71; member of school board Nov. 1870, chairman to death; mayor of Brighton 1872–4. d. 74 Dyke road, Brighton 20 March 1877. Sussex Daily News 21 March 1877 p. 3.

IRELAND, Richard Davies. b. Galway; barrister King’s Inns, Dublin, Nov. 1838; went to Victoria, Australia 1852; admitted to Victorian bar 24 Feb. 1853; defended the Ballarat rioters Dec. 1854; member of legislature from 1857; solicitor general, Victoria 10 March 1858 to 27 Oct. 1859, 26 Nov. 1860 to 29 July 1861 and 14 Nov. 1861 to 27 June 1863; Q.C. 14 Aug. 1863. d. Melbourne 1875. Heaton’s Australian Dictionary (1879) 100, 158.

IREMONGER, William. b. 31 Aug. 1776; ensign 18 foot 29 Feb. 1792; lieut. col. 2 foot 17 March 1808 to 2 May 1811; K.C. d. Wherwell priory near Andover, Hants. 21 Jany. 1852. G.M. xxxvii 521 (1852).

IRONS, Rev. Joseph. b. Ware, Herts. 5 Nov. 1785; ordained an independent minister 21 May 1814; minister at Hoddesdon, Herts. 1814–15, at Sawston, Cambridge 1815–18 and at Grove chapel, Camberwell, Surrey 1818 to death; author of Zion’s hymns: a supplement to Dr. Watts’ Psalms and hymns. Saffron Walden 1816, 10 ed. 1846; Jazer: assistance for the weak in faith 1821, 21 ed. 1880; Calvary, a poem, 2 ed. 1834; The true church of God as described in the oracles of God, 3 ed. 1837; Nymphas: an exposition of the Song of Solomon in blank verse 1841; Grove chapel pulpit: Discourses 4 vols. 1848–51 and 14 other books. d. Camberwell 3 April 1852. G. Bayfield’s Memoir of rev. J. Irons (1852).

IRONS, Rev. William Josiah (2 son of the preceding). b. Hoddesdon, Herts. 12 Sep. 1812; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1835, B.D. 1842, D.D. 1854; C. of St. Mary, Newington Butts, London 1835–37; P.C. of St. Peter’s, Walworth 1837–38; V. of Barkway, Herts. 1838–40; P.C. of Brompton, London 1840–70; preb. of St. Paul’s cath. Dec. 1860 to death; R. of Waddingham, Lincs. 1870–72; Bampton lecturer 1870; R. of St. Mary Woolnoth with St. Mary Woolchurch, Haw, London 7 June 1872 to death; one of editors of Literary Churchman, in which he wrote leading articles May 1855 to Dec. 1861; author of On the Holy catholic church: lectures, three series 1837–47; Our Blessed Lord regarded in his earthly relationship 1844; Notes of the church 1845, 3 ed. 1846; The miracles of Christ: sermons 1859; Analysis of human responsibility 1869; Occasional sermons 1876. d. 20 Gordon sq. London 18 June 1883. C. Mackeson’s Church congress handbook (1877) 98–100; Guide to the church congress (1883) p. 46; Times 20, 21 June 1883.

IRONSIDE, Adelaide Eliza (dau. of James Ironside, accountant, d. Sydney 20 July 1866 aged 63). b. Sydney 17 Nov. 1831; studied in Rome 1856–7; painted ‘The marriage in Cana of Galilee’ and ‘The pilgrim of art’ shown at Great exhibition, London 1862; also painted ‘The presentation of the Magi to the infant Jesus,’ which with 2 other subjects was sent to Australia; sent fugitive poems signed A. E. I. to the colonial press. d. Rome 15 April 1867. Heaton’s Australian Dict. of Dates (1879) 100.

IRTON, Samuel (eld. son of Edmund Lamplugh Irton of Irton hall, Ravenglass, Cumberland, d. 1820). b. Irton hall 29 Sep. 1796; ed. at Shrewsbury and St. John’s coll. Cam.; M.P. western div. of Cumberland 1833–47 and 1852–7. d. 10 July 1866.

IRVINE, Alexander (son of a farmer). b. Daviot, Aberdeenshire 1793; ed. at Marischal coll. Aberdeen; schoolmaster at Albury, Surrey, in London, at Bristol and at Guildford; kept a school at Chelsea from 1851; connected with Irvingite ch. White Notley, Essex; a botanist in the neighbourhood of London; edited The Phytologist 6 vols. 1855–63; F.B.S.; author of The London Flora 1838, new ed. 1846; Illustrated handbook of British plants 1858; Botanists’ Chronicle 17 numbers 1865; Introduction to the science of botany 1858. d. Upper Manor st. Chelsea 13 May 1873. Journal of Botany (1873) p. 222; Gardeners’ Chronicle (1873) 1017.

IRVINE, Alexander Forbes (eld. son of Alexander Forbes Irvine 1777–1861). b. 18 Feb. 1818; ed. at univs. of Aberdeen and Edinburgh; called to Scotch bar 1843; clerk to the justiciary court; convener of the county of Aberdeen 1862; sheriff of Argyll 1874–91; F.R.S.E. 1874, a vice pres. 1884–5. d. Drum castle, Aberdeenshire 4 April 1892.

IRVINE, Hans. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1826, M.A. and M.B. 1833; F.R.C.S. Ireland 1837, president; lecturer on anatomy and surgery, medical school, Marlborough st.; hon. sec. royal zoological soc. of Dublin. d. University club, Dublin 1 March 1882.

IRVINE, James (eld. son of John Irvine of Meadowburn, Menmuir, Forfarshire). b. 1833; studied at Edinb. acad.; portrait painter at Arbroath and then at Montrose, one of best portrait painters in Scotland, also a landscape painter. d. Brunswick cottage, Hillside, Montrose 17 March 1889. Dundee Advertiser 18 March 1889.

IRVINE, James Pearson (3 son of Dr. James Pearson Irvine). b. Galgate, Lancaster, March 1842; ed. at Univ. coll. London; B.A. London 1862, B. Sc. 1864, M.B. 1870, M.D. 1871; L.R.C.P. Edin. 1864; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1874, F.R.C.P. 1879; in practice at Liverpool 1864–74 and in London 1874 to death; assist. physician Charing Cross hospital 1874 and lecturer on botany, lecturer on forensic medicine, demonstrator of morbid anatomy and subdean of the medical school; a frequent contributor to medical journals; author of Tales of a father 1860; Relapse of typhoid fever especially with reference to the temperature 1880. d. 3 Mansfield st. Portland place, London 15 Oct. 1880. Medical Times, ii 606 (1880); Proc. of Med. and Chir. soc. ix 48 (1882).

IRVING, Christopher. b. Dalton, Dumfriesshire; schoolmaster; LL.D.; author of A catechism of astronomy, 6 ed. 1819; A catechism of general geography 1820, 12 ed. 1867; A catechism of Roman history 1821; Elements of permanent and field fortifications 1828; An outline of the kingdom of nature 1841 and upwards of 20 other school books. d. Lea, Gloucestershire 27 Feb. 1856.

IRVING, David (4 son of Janetus Irving d. April 1815). b. Langholm, Dumfriesshire 5 Dec. 1778; ed. at univ. of Edin., M.A. 1801; LL.D. of univ. of Aberdeen 1813; D.C.L. of Göttingen 1837; principal librarian of Faculty of Advocates, Edin. June 1820, resigned Dec. 1848; author of The elements of English composition 1801, 11 ed. 1841; The lives of the Scottish poets 2 vols. 1804, 2 ed. 1810; Memoirs of the life and writings of George Buchanan 1807, 2 ed. 1817; Observations on the study of civil law 1815, several editions; The history of Scottish poetry 1861; edited works for the Bannatyne and the Maitland clubs 1821–32; contributed to seventh ed. of Encyclopædia Britannica 27 biographical memoirs and some articles on law; left 7000 vols. of books. d. 6 Meadow place, Edinb. 10 May 1860. D. Irving’s Scottish poetry (1861), with Memoir by D. Laing pp. xi–xxiv; Gent. Mag. viii 645, ix 320–1 (1860).

IRVING, George. b. 1774; second lieut. royal Irish artillery 16 Dec. 1793, captain 1 July 1794 to 1 April 1801 when he retired on full pay, the corps being amalgamated with the R.A.; general 16 Dec. 1856. d. Balmae, Kirkcudbrightshire 22 Nov. 1864.

IRVING, George Vere (only child of Alexander Irving, lord Newton, d. 1832). b. 1815; advocate at Scotch bar 1837; captain of the Carnwarth troop of volunteers; F.S.A. Scot.; Assoc. British Archæological Assoc. 1852 and member of council; author of Digest of the law of the assessed taxes in Scotland. Edin. 1841; Digest of the inhabited house tax act. Edin. 1852; and with A. Murray of The upper ward of Lanarkshire 3 vols. Glasgow 1864. d. 5 St. Mark’s crescent, Regent’s park, London 29 Oct. 1869. Journal British Archæological Assoc. xxvi 267–8 (1870); Notes and Queries 4 ser. iv 398 (1869).

IRVING, Jacob Æmilius (son of Jacob Æmilius Irving of Ironshore, Jamaica and of Liverpool). b. Charleston, South Carolina 29 Jany. 1797; cornet 13 light dragoons 18 May 1815, lieut. 1816 to 5 Nov. 1818 when placed on h.p.; wounded at Waterloo 18 June 1815; presented with freedom of city of Liverpool for his gallant conduct in the war; went to Canada 1834, aided in suppressing rebellion on Niagara frontier 1837; first warden for district of Simcoe; member of legislative council. d. Niagara Falls 7 Oct. 1856.

IRVING, John. Partner in firm of Reid, Irving and Co. merchants, London; executed a contract for clothing the Russian army amounting to £1,500,000, 1816–7; M.P. for Bramber 1806–32; contested Clitheroe 1832 and Poole 1835; M.P. for co. Antrim 1837–45; chairman of Alliance British and foreign fire and life insurance co. from its foundation 1824 to 1846. d. 1853.

IRVING, Joseph (son of Andrew Irving, joiner). b. Dumfries 2 May 1830; apprenticed to a printer, Dumfries; editor of Dumbarton Herald 1854; bookseller Dumbarton to 1869; started the Dumbarton Journal 1867; removed to Paisley 1880; wrote for the Glasgow Herald and other papers; F.S.A. Scot. 1860; author of The history of Dumbartonshire. Dumbarton 1857, 2 ed. 1860; The annals of our Time: a diurnal of events from the accession of queen Victoria 1869, 2 ed. 1871, 3 Supplements 1875, 79, 89; The book of Scotsmen. Paisley 1881; The West of Scotland in history. Glasgow 1885; The book of Dumbartonshire. Edinb. 3 vols. 1879. d. Hillhead house, Paisley 2 Sep. 1891. Stationery trades journal 30 Sep. 1891 p. 452; Glasgow Herald 5 Sep. 1891.

IRVING, Joseph Henry. b. 1840; appeared at Strand theatre; played at Hull and other places in the provinces; appeared at Haymarket theatre as Narcissus Fitzfrizzle in The Dancing Barber 6 Aug. 1866; played Jean Cochet in Alfred B. Richards’s drama The Prisoner of Toulon at Drury Lane 2 March 1868, Jack in Jack the giant killer, and Grimalkin in Puss in boots at Drury Lane 1867–8 and 1868–9; played Uriah Heep in Halliday’s Little Em’ly at Olympic 9 Oct. 1869; played in New York 1869; his last appearance was as Boggle in The ‘Varsity boat race at the Olympic 6 April 1870. d. from softening of the brain at 255 New Cross road, London 6 Sep. 1870. bur. Brompton cemet. 12 Sep. The Era 11 Sep. 1870 p. 10, 25 Sep. p. 13.

IRVING, Rev. Matthew (son of Matthew Irving of Langholme, Dumfriesshire). Matric. from Pemb. coll. Ox. 20 March 1806 aged 26; migrated to Trin. coll. Cam., B.D. 1817, D.D. 1831; V. of Sturminster Marshall, Dorset 25 April 1822 to death; preb. of Rochester 1 Sep. 1824 to death; chaplain in ord. to the Sovereign 1825 to death; P.C. of Chatham, Kent 28 June 1828 to death; author of A sermon at the consecration of the church of Hamworthy, Dorset 1826. d. Dover 6 Oct. 1857.

IRVING, Rev. Thomas, usually called Thomas Sherburne (son of Joseph Irving). b. Kirkham, Lancs. 16 June 1779; ed. at English coll. Valladolid 1788–1803, where he assumed his mother’s name Sherburne; ordained a priest 1803; missioner at Claughton 1804, at Blackburn 1805; pastor of The Willows, Kirkham 1813–22 and 1824 to death; rector of Valladolid coll. 1822–4; vicar general of Lancashire district Jany. 1842 to death; acquired considerable property on death of Mr. Wm. Heatley 1840; built at cost of £10,000 St. John the Evangelist, Kirkham, opened 23 April 1845, first R.C. ch. with a peal of bells since days of queen Mary; gave evidence before select committee on mortmain 1845; edited Whittingham’s The old fashioned farmer’s motives for leaving the church of England and embracing the Roman catholic faith 1815. d. Kirkham 17 Dec. 1854. Gillow’s English catholics, iii 555–8 (1887).

IRWIN, Frederick Chidley. Ensign 83 foot 25 March 1808, served in Peninsula 1809–14; capt. 63 regt. 1828–42; commandant in Western Australia 28 June 1836 to 15 Dec. 1854; lieut. col. on h.p. 15 Dec. 1854, sold out 29 Aug. 1856; K.H. 1836; war medal and 9 clasps. d. Cheltenham 31 March 1860.

IRWIN, William. b. 3 Dec. 1810; ensign 88 foot 3 Nov. 1827, major 18 Jany. 1848 to 26 Dec. 1851; lieut. col. 3 West India regiment 26 Dec. 1851 to 7 June 1854 when placed on h.p.; A.Q.M.G. Kilkenny district 1854–56; col. of 34 foot 2 Aug. 1875, of 88 foot 9 April 1879 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 3 Dec. 1880. d. St. Catherine’s park, Leixlip, Kildare 22 Dec. 1889.

ISAAC, Samuel (son of Lewis Isaac of Poole, Dorset). b. Chatham 1815; army contractor in London as Isaac, Campbell and Co. 1850–63, merchant in London 1863–71; their ships during 1861–65 were employed as blockade runners in supplying the southern states of the U.S. of America with military stores; ruined on the conclusion of the war 1865; raised the 5th Northampton rifle corps from his factory at Northampton 1860, captain commandant 3 March 1860, major 1868–74; purchased rights of promoters of Mersey tunnel 1880 and completed the boring 17 Jany. 1884, opened by Prince of Wales 20 Jany. 1886; formed a collection of paintings containing many by B. W. Leader. d. 29 Warrington crescent, Maida vale, London 22 Nov. 1886, left £203,084 17s. 9d. Jewish Chronicle 26 Nov. 1886 p. 10; Times 26 Nov. 1886 p. 6; I.L.N. 30 Jany. 1886 p. 111.

ISAACS, Elias, commonly called Liley Isaacs, attorney in City of London 1797 to 1860; great criminal lawyer. d. 1860 aged 85.

ISAACS, Rebecca (dau. of John Isaacs of Covent Garden theatre, actor and bass singer 1791–1830). b. London 26 June 1828; first appeared on the stage at The City theatre, Milton st. London as Fanny in The barn burners 17 March 1835; played Mother Bunch in Planche’s burletta Riquet with the Tuft at the Olympic theatre 26 Dec. 1836; travelled with the Distins as a singer under the name of Miss Zuchilli 1838; appeared as Albert at Covent garden 3 Dec. 1838 to Macready’s William Tell; acted at Drury lane taking the chief roles in English operas 1846, at the Surrey theatre 1847; appeared as Amina at Sadler’s Wells; sang in the provinces and in Dublin and appeared in operas with Sims Reeves; took Louisa Pyne’s part Eolia in the Mountain Sylph at Drury lane June 1852; directress of operas at the Strand theatre 1852–3 and 1855; the original Leila in Satanella at Covent Garden 1858; her voice was a soprano of great compass and exceeding sweetness. (m. Thomas Roberts, acting manager who d. 6 June 1876 aged 44). d. London 21 April 1877. bur. Woking cemetery 24 April. The Players, iii 279–80, 289 (1860), portrait; Era 29 April 1877 p. 5.

ISBISTER, Alexander Kennedy (eld. son of Thomas Isbister an officer of Hudson Bay Co.) b. Fort Cumberland, Canada 1822; in service of Hudson Bay Co.; studied at universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh, M.A. Edin. 1858; second master East Islington proprietary school 1849 and master 1850–55; head master Jews’ coll. Finsbury sq. 1855–8; master Stationers’ Co. sch. 1858–82; connected with College of preceptors from 1851, editor of the Educational Times 1862, dean of the college 1872 to death; barrister M.T. 17 Nov. 1864; LL.B. of univ. of Lond. 1866; author of Elements of book-keeping 1850; A proposal for a new penal settlement in British North America 1850; The illustrated public school speaker 1870 and many other school books. d. 20 Milner sq. Islington 28 May 1883. Journal of education, July 1883 p. 247.

ISELIN, John Frederick. Ed. at C.C. coll. Cam., B.A. 1855, M.A. 1858; assistant director for science, science and art department, South Kensington to death. d. Rosenfeld, Streatham 1 Nov. 1884 aged 52.

ISHAM, Rev. Arthur (only son of Rev. Henry Charles Isham 1777–1833). b. 23 July 1809; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; fellow of All Souls’ coll. 1832–7; R. of Weston-Turville, Bucks. 1837–76; author of Jacob and Israel, Ephraim and Judah or the use of these titles with reference to the destiny of God’s ancient people 1854; Ecclesiastical outlines or suggestions for the abatement of schism 1857; An historical interpretation of the Revelation of John 1890. d. Cawood, Reigate 4 Feb. 1892.

IVES, Rev. Cornelius (son of Thomas Horatio Ives of Horstead, Norfolk). b. 18 July 1793; ed. at Rugby and Ex. coll. Ox.; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; R. of Bradden, Northants. 10 Feb. 1818 to death; author of A compendious history of the church of God to the end of the seventeenth century 1820; Sermons composed for a country congregation. Oxford 1832; edited W. Van Mildert’s Sermons and charges 1838. d. Bradden house 15 Nov. 1883.

IVIMEY, Joseph. b. 1803; admitted a solicitor 1825; practised at 7 Harpur st. Red lion sq. London, next at 89 Chancery lane, then at 30 Southampton buildings and lastly at 8 Staple inn; one of the promoters of Anti-corn law league 1839, solicitor to that body 1839–46. d. New lodge near Lymington 4 Oct. 1878.

IVISON, Henry. b. Glasgow 25 Dec. 1808; went to U.S. of A. 1820; apprenticed to Wm. Williams of Utica, bookbinder; established house of H. Ivison and Co. in Auburn, New York about 1830; publisher in New York 1846–80; one of the largest publishers of educational works in the United States, having a list of over 300 school books. d. New York 26 Nov. 1884. Appleton’s American Biog. iii 370 (1887), portrait.

IVORY, James (son of Thomas Ivory, watchmaker). b. Dundee 1792; ed. at univ. of Edin.; called to Scottish bar 1816; one of deputies of lord advocate Francis Jeffrey 1830; sheriff of Caithness 1832–3; sheriff of Bute 26 June 1833; solicitor general of Scotland 20 April 1839; one of lords of session 9 May 1840, resigned Oct. 1862; one of lords of justiciary 24 May 1849 to Oct. 1862 with title of Lord Ivory; F.R.S. Edin. d. 9 Ainslie place, Edinburgh 17 Oct. 1866. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 273; Journal of Jurisprudence, x 330–32 (1866).

Note.—His son Thomas Ivory, advocate, threw himself over the Dean bridge, Leith, Edinburgh 6 May 1882.

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JABLONSKI, Leon. b. Strjakow, Poland about 1806; entered Polish army and fought for the liberation of Poland; lived at Dijon in France; engaged in tuition in Edinburgh; a merchant in London; author of an English translation of the well-known Polish poem ‘Conrad Wallenrod’ by A. Mickiewicz 1841, this was reprinted in Polish, French and English 1851. d. Dijon 2 Oct. 1853.

JACK, Alexander (son of rev. William Jack d. 9 Feb. 1854). b. 19 Oct. 1805; ensign 30 Bengal N.I. 23 May 1824, major 1846–51; brigadier of force sent against Kangra in the Punjab 1847; commanded a battalion in second Sikh war, present at Aliwal, Chillianwalla and Goojerat; lieut. col. 33 Bengal N.I. 18 Dec. 1851; lieut. col. 42 Bengal light infantry 1853; lieut. col. 34 Bengal N.I. 1856 to death; brigadier at Cawnpore 8 Aug. 1856 to death; C.B. 9 June 1849; published Six views of Kot Kangra sketched on the spot 1847; shot by the mutineers at Cawnpore 27 June 1857. Mowbray Thomason’s Story of Cawnpore (1859) 62, etc.; Kaye’s Indian mutiny, ii 217–68 (1889).

JACK, Rev. Alexander (son of rev. Robert Jack of Manchester). b. Linlithgow 16 June 1794; ed. at Edin. univ. and at Divinity hall, Selkirk; presbyterian minister Dunbar 1818–64; D.D. of an American univ. 1862. d. Musselburgh near Edinburgh 5 Aug. 1868. Sanctuary services. By A. Jack. With a memoir by J. Kerr. Edin. (1869), portrait.

JACK, James (son of a land steward). b. Drumkilbo, parish of Meigle 1785; enlisted in Forfar and Kincardine militia 1803 and was employed as clerk in the orderly room, regiment disbanded 1816; member of Forfar and Kincardine masonic lodge 25 Aug. 1808 for which he framed a code of laws and established a benefit soc. in the lodge; lieut. in the militia at Montrose 1816; formed a code of rules for the Caledonian lodge of Free Gardeners, Montrose; surveyor of taxes for Dundee and district 1831, retired with a pension; kept the Union royal arch chapter No. 6 Dundee in its place on the roll from 1831–55 and was presented with his portrait 1857. d. Dundee 15 Dec. 1861. monu. erected in ch. yard at Liff. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 204–6.

JACK, Thomas C. (son of an Edinburgh printer). b. 1830; apprentice to W. P. Kennedy, bookseller; bookseller Edinb.; with his brother in the hardware trade, Glasgow; member of firm of Inglis and Jack, publishers, Edinb.; publisher alone; brought out Fairbairn’s Crests of British Families 1860 and Riddell’s The Carpenter 1868; published a Welsh Bible 1873 which returned a good profit, the Globe Encyclopædia 1875, the Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, and the Encyclopædia of Freemasonry; sec. of Edinb. chamber of commerce 1872; purchased the stock and copyrights of Fullarton & Co. 1880. d. 13 Strathearn road, David st. Edinburgh 3 Dec. 1886. The Bookseller 16 Dec. 1886 p. 1322.

JACK, Rev. William (son of rev. William Jack, D.D.) b. Northmavin, Shetland 1768; ed. at Univ. and King’s colleges, Aberdeen, D.D. 1815; M.D. of Edin.; professor in Univ. and King’s colleges, Aberdeen 1794, sub-principal and professor of moral philosophy Dec. 1800, principal 1815 to death; mayor of Aberdeen. d. King’s coll. Aberdeen 9 Feb. 1854. The Aberdeen Herald 25 Feb. 1854 p. 6.

JACKMAN, Henry. b. about 1786; manager of Northampton theatrical circuit 45 years. d. Northampton 30 Sep. 1852 aged 66. The Era 10 Oct. 1852 p. 12.

JACKSON, Rev. Arthur Gregory. b. 1844; ed. at Lichfield theol. coll. to 1868; C. of Wolverhampton coll. ch. 1868–72; in charge of St. Andrew, W. Bromwich 1872–5; C. of St. Thomas, Regent st. London 1875–82; hon. chaplain Newport market refuge 1878; chaplain and warden of Philanthropic Soc. farm sch. Redhill, Surrey 1882 to death; proprietor of the Leicester Journal to death; author of A penny pocket book of prayers and hymns 1867; The missioner’s manual of anecdotes 1876; The history of St. Thomas’s church, Regent st. 1881; The missioner’s hymnal 1884; The missioner’s book of sermon notes and illustrations 1890; hanged himself at Redhill 23 April 1887. Times 27 April 1887 p. 14.

JACKSON, Arthur Herbert. b. 1852; student R. Acad. of music 1872, won Lucas medal for composition, professor of harmony and composition 1878 to death; composer of Fugue in E for two performers on the piano 1874; Toccata for the piano 1875; In a boat: barcarolle for the pianoforte 1878; Lord Ullin’s daughter: chorus 1879; Andante con variazione for two performers on the piano 1880; The Siren’s song for female voices 1885; The Bride of Abydos, an overture; Jason and the golden fleece. A cantata. d. 4 Oxford and Cambridge mansions, London 27 Sep. 1881. Musical Times 1 Nov. 1881 p. 581.

JACKSON, Basil. b. Glasgow 27 June 1795; ensign royal staff corps 23 Oct. 1811; attached to head quarters staff at Waterloo, of which battle he lived to be one of the 4 surviving officers; captain royal waggon train 1820; captain royal staff corps 1829 to 7 Feb. 1834 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 9 Nov. 1846; professor of military surveying H.E.I. coll. Addiscombe 20 years; lived at Glewstone court near Ross, Herefordshire 1858–74, at Hillsborough, Ashfield 1874 to death; author of A course of military surveying 1838, 2 ed. 1841; England and Russia, the navy and steam warfare 1839; Elementary surveying, comprising land surveying with Gunter’s chain 1842; and with C. Rochfort Scott The military life of the duke of Wellington 2 vols. 1840. d. Ross 23 Oct. 1889. Graphic 9 Nov. 1889 pp. 563, 564, portrait.

JACKSON, Catherine Hannah Charlotte (dau. of Thomas Elliott of Wakefield). m. at St. Helena 1856 Sir George Jackson 1785–1861; granted civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1874; edited The Diaries and letters of sir G. Jackson 1872; The Bath archives: a further selection from The Diaries 1873; author of Fair Lusitania 1874; Old Paris, its court and literary saloons 2 vols. 1878; The old regime: court, salons and theatres 2 vols. 1880; The French court and society. Reign of Louis XVI. and First empire 2 vols. 1881; The Court of the Tuileries from the restoration to the flight of Louis Philippe 2 vols. 1883; The Court of France in the 16th century 2 vols. 1886; The last of the Valois 2 vols. 1887; The first of the Bourbons 2 vols. 1890. d. Bath 9 Dec. 1891. Times 11 Dec. 1891 p. 6.

JACKSON, Charles (3 son of James Jackson, banker, Doncaster). b. 25 July 1809; barrister L.I. 6 May 1834; banker Doncaster; borough treasurer 1838 to death; helped to establish Doncaster free library 1868; edited for the Surtees Soc., Diary of Abraham de la Pryme 1870, The autobiography of Mrs. A. Thornton 1875 and Yorkshire diaries and autobiographies 1877; author of Doncaster charities, past and present. Worksop 1881, with portrait of C. Jackson. d. Balby near Doncaster 1 Dec. 1882. Times 15 Dec. 1882 p. 5.

JACKSON, Charles Forbes. Entered Bombay army 1825; major 2nd regiment light cavalry 19 Oct. 1819, lieut. col. 24 April 1854 to 1 Jany. 1858; retired M.G. 1 Jany. 1858. d. 7 Aug. 1870.

JACKSON, Sir Charles Robert Mitchell (eld. son of lieut. gen. Alexander Cosby Jackson of Dawlish, Devon). b. Trincomali 1814; ed. at Warminster; barrister L.I. 29 April 1836; advocate general at Bengal 1848; puisne judge of supreme court of Bombay, Feb. 1853; knighted by patent 2 Dec. 1852; transferred to court of Calcutta 1855; member of legislative council of India 1859; judge of high court of judicature at Calcutta 13 May 1862, resigned 1863; chairman of Bombay bank commission 1868; auditor of the Indian home accounts 1872–4; author of A vindication of the marquis of Dalhousie’s Indian administration 1865. d. 2 Nevill park, Tunbridge Wells 21 July 1874. Law Times, lvii 276 (1874); I.L.N. lxv 115, 210 (1874).

JACKSON, Rev. Edward Dudley. b. near Warminster, Wilts. 1803; ed. at Trin. hall, Cam., LLB. 1827; C. of St. Matthew’s ch. Manchester 1830; English master of gram. sch. Manchester; P.C. of St. Michael’s, Manchester 21 Dec. 1837–1844; R. of St. Thomas, Heaton Norris near Stockport 1844 to death; edited Goldsmith’s History of England 1844; author of The Crucifixion and other poems 1833, 3 ed. 1834; The Devotional year, or the companion to the liturgy 1835, 2 ed. 1839; Scripture history 1837; Lays of Palestine 1850; Nugæ Lyricæ 1871. d. 27 Dec. 1879. bur. Cheltenham. Evans’ Lancashire authors (1850) 44–8.

JACKSON, Elphinstone (son of Welby Brown Jackson, judge of Sudder court, Calcutta). b. 14 March 1824; entered Bengal civil service 1842; judge of high court of judicature at Fort William 25 May 1865 to death. d. Upton park, Slough 3 Feb. 1873. Law Times, liv 334 (1873).

JACKSON, Emmanuel. b. 1818; gimp manufacturer at Derby, retired; the best known aeronaut in the Midland counties, made very numerous ascents; in Australia 1878; went up from the Arboretum, Derby in the Evening Star balloon with his dau. in a thunder storm 25 June 1883; shot his wife Hannah Jackson aged 60 and then himself at 102 Burton road, Derby 26 June 1883, he d. 27 June. Derby Mercury 27 June 1883 p. 5 and 4 July p. 2.

JACKSON, George. b. South Devon 1792; ed. at Ashburton school, studied at St. Thomas’s and Guy’s hospitals; M.R.C.S. 1813; an original member of Microscopical society 1840, president 1852–54: stood alone in contrivance and fabrication of ruled glass micrometers, which he supplied to every optician of eminence for 15 years; a manager of London Institution 1858; author of On micrometers 1847. d. 30 Church st. Spitalfields 15 Jany. 1861. I.L.N. 6 Aug. 1861 p. 315, portrait.

JACKSON, Sir George (youngest son of rev. Thomas Jackson, D.D. 1745–97, canon residentiary of St. Paul’s cath.). b. Oct. 1785; attached to mission at Berlin 1802–6; sec. of legation and chargé d’affaires at Berlin 1807–8 and 1813–15; sec. to embassy at St. Petersburgh 1816; comr. at Washington for settlement of American claims, April 1823 to 1827; commissary judge at Sierra Leone, Jany. 1828, at Rio Janeiro 19 July 1832, at Surinam, Aug. 1841, at Loanda Dec. 1845, retired 1859; K.C.H. 1832; knighted at St. James’s palace 12 Sep. 1832. d. Boulogne 2 May 1861.

JACKSON, George. b. about 1782; entered Madras army 1800; colonel 7 Madras N.I. 26 Nov. 1834 to death; general 13 March 1859. d. 10 Baring crescent, Exeter 26 May 1866 aged 84.

JACKSON, George. b. Hurley Bottom near Henley on Thames 1815; enlisted in grenadier guards 1831, serjeant, retired 1846; taught fencing and boxing at Mahmoud’s gymnasium, Brighton 1847–50, where Tom Sayers was his pupil; exhibited feats of dexterity and strength with the sword before the Queen at Holland house; the originator of assaults at arms, opening at Saville house, Leicester sq. where he held assaults 3 times a week and gave lessons in fencing and boxing, C. Dickens and Albert Smith were his pupils; immortalised in Bleak House as George the Trooper, Dickens gave him the name of General Jackson which stuck to him; taught fencing, etc. at Cambridge during term time from 1855 to his death. d. Cambridge 25 Dec. 1878. Bell’s Life in London 4 Jany. 1879 p. 12.

JACKSON, George. b. 1 July 1812; cornet 4 Bengal light cavalry 26 June 1830, captain 1849–58; captain 3 European light cavalry 1858, major 1861–4; second in command 2 regiment irregular cavalry 1842, commandant 24 Feb. 1848–64; served in Punjab campaign 1848–9 and on Peshawar frontier 1851–2, twice wounded during the mutiny 1857; lieut. col. Bengal staff corps 18 Feb. 1863; L.G. 17 Nov. 1879; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881. d. St. Helen’s, Preston, Brighton 26 April 1889.

JACKSON, George Vernon (eld. son of George Jackson of the Isle of Wight). b. Chalwood, Surrey 13 July 1787; midshipman in navy 1801, went on h.p. Feb. 1828; captain 23 Nov. 1841; retired admiral 30 July 1875. d. Verno, Christchurch, Hants. 18 April 1876. O’Byrne’s Naval Biog. (1849) 571.

Note.—He is said to have been the original of O’Brien in Marryat’s novel Peter Simple.

JACKSON, Harry. b. 1836; played at Auckland theatre 1856; manager of William Denny hotel, Auckland 1857; visited San Francisco, U.S. of America and Australia 1862; appeared at Drury Lane in Heads of the People; at the Surrey theatre in Queen’s Evidence; a music hall artist giving clever sketches of character; engaged at Drury Lane under A. Harris’ management acted Moss Jewell in The World 31 July 1880 and Larry O’Phesey in Youth, 6 Aug. 1881; his embodiment of the part of Napoleon I. whom he much resembled, attracted great notice; directed the Opera Comique during Lotta’s performances 23 Dec. 1883 to 1884; played at the Pavilion theatre 12 Aug. 1885 as Moss Jewell in The World. d. from taking an overdose of morphia at 45 Great Russell st. London 13 Aug. 1885. bur. Jewish cemetery, Willesden 19 Aug. Era 15 Aug. 1885 p. 8, 22 Aug. p. 8; The Stage, i 25 (1874), portrait; Illust. Sport. & Dram. News 22 Aug. 1885 pp. 589, 590, portrait.

JACKSON, Henry (son of a brewer at Boston). b. Boston 15 April 1831; ed. at Sleaford and Boston gram. schools; became an invalid 1849; author of A dead man’s revenge, in Chambers’ Journal vol. 30; A first friendship, in Fraser’s Mag. vols. 66 and 67, reissued in 1 vol. 1863; Gilbert Rugge, in Fraser’s Mag. vols. 69–73, reissued in 3 vols. 1866, both novels were reprinted in America; A dangerous guest 1870; Hearth Ghosts 1871; Argus Fairburn 3 vols. 1874, all his books were anonymous except the last. d. Hampstead 24 May 1879.

JACKSON, Henry James. b. London 5 Sep. 1824; apprenticed to Otway and Warmington 1840–7; with sir J. Whitworth, Manchester 1849–51; engineer in service of North of Europe steam navigation co. 1851; engineer in W. S. Lindsay and co.’s steamship Harbinger in India 1855–9; engineer of John Penn between Dover and Calais 1859–65; superintendent of arsenal at Alexandria and engineer of Khedive’s steam yacht Mahroussa the fastest steamer afloat 1865–74; created a Bey as Jackson Bey; engineer of General steam navigation co.’s fleet of 64 steamers with a factory of 500 men 1874 to death; invented an improved propeller adopted by many steam boat companies; A.I.C.E. 4 Feb. 1873 and M.I.C.E. 14 Jany. 1879; M.I.M.E. 1876. d. Deptford 2 Nov. 1884. Proc. Instit. Mechanical Engineers (1884) 473–4; Min. of Proc. I.C.E. lxxx 332–3 (1885).

JACKSON, Sir Henry Mather, 2 Baronet (eld. son of sir Wm. Jackson, 1 baronet 1805–76). b. 23 July 1831; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1853, M.A. 1859; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1855, bencher 15 April 1875 to death; one of the two leaders of palatine court of Lancaster; Q.C. 3 Feb. 1873; practised in V. C. Bacon’s court 1873–81; justice of Queen’s bench division 2 March 1881 but died without taking his seat; contested Birkenhead 13 July 1865; M.P. Coventry 1867–8 when unseated, and 1874 to 1881. d. 61 Portland place, London 8 March 1881. bur. Birkenhead cemetery 14 March. I.L.N. lxxviii 281 (1881), portrait.

JACKSON, Sir James (3 son of col. George Jackson of North Mayo 1761–1805). b. 1790; ensign 83 foot 29 Oct 1806; served in the Peninsula 1809–14 and at Waterloo; served in India and Arabia 1819–26; major 6 dragoon guards 1827, lieut. col. 2 March 1839 to 21 May 1850; commander in chief Cape of Good Hope 1854–9; col. of 6 dragoons 11 June 1856, of 6 dragoon guards 17 July 1860 and of 1 dragoon guards 21 Jany. 1868 to death; general 6 Feb. 1865; K.H. 1837; K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856, G.C.B. 20 March 1865. d. Westwood, Manchester 31 Dec. 1871. I.L.N. lx 50 (1872).

JACKSON, Rev. James. b. 1796; the first student admitted at St. Bees theol. coll. 6 Jany. 1817; P.C. of Rivington, Bolton-le-Moors 1823–56; lived at Summer Hill, Sandwith, St. Bees; was accustomed to ascend the Pillar rock, Ennerdale, Cumberland on the 1 May every year and was known as the Patriarch of the Pillarites; went up on 1 May 1878, fell down 250 yards, dead body found on 3 May 400 yards from the Pillar rock, aged 82. Graphic 18 May 1878 pp. 479, 480, portrait and view of Pillar rock; Cumberland Pacquet, Whitehaven 7 May 1878 p. 2.

JACKSON, John (son of a farmer). b. Tunstall near Catterick Bridge, Feb. 1828; helped his father in buying and selling cattle and sheep; a book maker, won £27,000 on Ellington winner of the Derby 1856; purchased Tim Whiffler from Mr. O’Hara 1861 and won with him £10,000 on the Chester cup and the Queen’s vase at Ascot 1862; purchased Blair Athol for £7,500 guineas from Wm. I’Anson 1864, sold him to Wm. Blenkiron for 5000 guineas 1868; proprietor of Fairfield house and paddocks 1863 and made it a stud farm, all his horses sold 1868 producing £28,500. d. Fairfield 2 Feb. 1869. Sporting Times 29 Aug. 1885 p. 2; Saddle and Sirloin. By the Druid. Part North (1870) 209–15.

JACKSON, John. b. Crossedale Beck, Yorkshire 4 Dec. 1793; assist. schoolmaster Bristol to 1821; master of the Friends’ seminary at Academy court, Warrington 1821–53; contributed to the Gentlemen’s and Ladies’ Diary, solutions of difficult mathematical problems; made MS. collections on the dialects of Lancashire, Yorkshire, Westmoreland and Cumberland; his old pupils purchased for him an annuity 1853; author of Rational amusement for winter evenings or a collection of puzzles and paradoxes with their solutions 1821; his library of 1900 volumes purchased and presented by Mr. McMinnies to the Warrington library June 1876. d. Academy st. Warrington 27 Sep. 1875. bur. Friends’ ground, Penketh 1 Oct. J. Kendrick’s Profiles of Warrington Worthies (1854), p. 7 plate 3, portrait; Warrington Examiner 2 Oct. 1875 p. 2, 3 June 1876 p. 2.

JACKSON, Right Rev. John (son of Henry Jackson of St. Pancras, London, merchant). b. London 22 Feb. 1811; ed. at Reading gram. school and Pemb. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836, B.D. 1853, D.D. 1853; head master of proprietary gr. sch. Islington 1833–46; P.C. of St. James’s, Muswell Hill 1842–6; select preacher to univ. of Ox. 1845, 1850, 1862 and 1866; R. of St. James’s, Piccadilly 1846 to 1853; chaplain to the Queen 18 June 1847 to 1853; canon of Bristol 1852–3; Boyle lecturer 1853; bishop of Lincoln 24 March 1853, consecrated in Lambeth church 5 May 1853, translated to see of London 4 Jany. 1869; dean of her majesty’s chapels royal 29 Jany. 1869 to death; P.C. 13 May 1869; aided in establishment of diocese of St. Albans 1877 and rearrangement of dioceses of Rochester and Winchester; encouraged organisation of lay help and created a diocesan conference; wrote the Commentary and notes on the Pastoral Epistles in The Speaker’s Commentary vol. iii (1881); author of The sanctifying influence of the Holy Ghost is indispensable to human salvation, Ellerton essay 1834; Six sermons on the leading points of the christian character 1844; The sinfulness of little sins: a course of sermons 1849; The nemesis of unbelief 1866 and 25 other works. d. Fulham palace 6 Jany. 1885. Church portrait Journal, ii 89 (1881), portrait; Our bishops and deans, by Rev. F. Arnold, i 340–57 (1875); I.L.N. liv 135, 137 (1869), portrait.

JACKSON, Rev. John Edward (2 son of James Jackson of Doncaster, banker). b. 12 Nov. 1805; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; R. of Leigh Delamere with Sevington, Wilts. 1845 to death; V. of Norton Coleparle, Wilts. 1846 to death; hon. canon of Bristol 1855 to death; librarian to marquis of Bath; F.S.A. 19 March 1857; author of The history of Grittleton, co. Wilts. 1843; Kingston House, Bradford. Devizes 1854; History of Longleat. Devizes 1857; Swindon and its neighbourhood. Devizes 1861 and 12 other books; ed. John Aubrey’s Wiltshire topographical collection 1862 and other books; ed. for Roxburgh club The Glastonbury inquisition of A.D. 1189, 1882. d. Leigh Delamere 6 March 1891.

JACKSON, John Napper. b. 1793; lieut. 94 foot 1 Jany. 1806; major 99 foot 11 June 1829, lieut. col. 20 June 1854 to 26 Oct. 1858; M.G. 26 Aug. 1858; col. 3 West India regiment 13 Aug. 1862, col. 99 foot 8 June 1863 to death. d. St. Heliers, Jersey 25 Jany. 1866.

JACKSON, John Richardson (2 son of E. Jackson of Portsmouth, banker). b. Portsmouth 14 Dec. 1819; pupil of Robert Graves A.R.A.; engraved ‘The Otter and Salmon’ after sir Edwin Landseer 1847; engraved numerous portraits after George Richmond, R.A., and several after J. P. Knight, R.A.; engraved ‘St. John the Baptist’ after the picture by Murillo in the National Gallery; exhibited 27 engravings at the R.A. 1854–76; resided at Adelaide road, South Hampstead. d. of fever at Southsea 10 May 1877.

JACKSON, Joseph Devonsher (eld. son of Strettel Jackson of Petersborough, co. Cork, landwaiter). b. Cork 23 June 1783; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1806, M.A. 1832; called to Irish bar 1806; bencher of King’s Inns 1835; hon. sec. Kildare Place soc. from establishment 1811 to 1830; chairman of co. Londonderry quarter sessions 1830 to Dec. 1834; serjeant 1826, third serjeant 1835, second serjeant 23 May 1835 to 10 Nov. 1841; solicitor general for Ireland 10 Nov. 1841 to 9 Sep. 1842; judge of Irish court of common pleas 9 Sep. 1842 to death; P.O. Ireland 1842; M.P. for Bandon 1835–42; M.P. for univ. of Dublin, Feb. to Sep. 1842, he was the chief antagonist in house of commons of D. O’Connell. d. Sutton house, Howth near Dublin 19 Dec. 1857. J. R. O’Flanagan’s Irish bar (1879) 381–3; Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen (1836) 1 series, portrait 15.

JACKSON, Julian (son of Wm. Turner Jackson of Westminster). b. 30 March 1790; ed. at R.M. Acad. Woolwich; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 26 Sep. 1808, 1 lieut. 1809–13; lieut. on quartermaster’s staff of Russian imperial suite 2 June 1815, served with it in France to 1818; served in grenadier brigade of quartermaster general’s staff 1819–25; col. in Russian army 14 Aug. 1829, retired 21 Sep. 1830; comr. and correspondent in London for Russian department of manufactures 1830 to about 1847; sec. of Royal Geog. Soc. London 1841 to Feb. 1847; a clerk under council of education about 1847 to death; F.R.S. 3 April 1845; a knight of St. Stanislaus of Poland; author of Guide du Voyageur. Paris 1822, several editions, reproduced in English as What to observe, or the traveller’s remembrancer. By J. R. Jackson 1841, 3 ed. 1861. d. 52 Coleshill st. Eaton sq. London 16 March 1853.

JACKSON, Sir Louis Stewart (son of lieut. col. Henry George Jackson, R.A.). b. Woolwich 14 Jany. 1824; educ. at R. sch. Enniskillen, at Haileybury coll. and at Trin. coll. Dublin; entered Bengal C.S. 1843; employed under the government in the Straits settlements 1847–50; puisne judge high court, Calcutta, July 1862, acting chief justice 1878, retired June 1880; C.I.E. 1 Jany. 1878; knighted at Windsor castle 1 Dec. 1880; fellow of Calcutta univ.; F.R.G.S.; purchased Hadleigh hall, Suffolk 1883 and d. there 9 April 1890.

JACKSON, Ralph Ward (3 son of Wm. Ward Jackson of Normanby hall near Middlesbro on Tees, d. 2 Feb. 1842 aged 63). b. Normanby hall 7 June 1806; ed. at Rugby; solicitor at Stockton to 1854; chairman of Stockton and Hartlepool union railway; conceived idea of forming a railway from Stockton to Hartlepool by ‘way leaves,’ that is with consent of owners of land without an act of parliament, which was done and the line opened 1841; made a harbour and dock on west side of bay of Hartlepool named West Hartlepool and opened 1 June 1847; chairman of the West Hartlepool harbour and railway company 1852–62, population of West Hartlepool rose from 400 in 1840 to about 4000 in 1847 and 15,000 in 1862; A.I.C.E. 4 March 1851; contested Armagh city 15 Jany. 1835, and Hartlepool 6 Feb. 1874; M.P. for Hartlepool 1868–74. d. Albion st. Hyde park, London 6 Aug. 1880. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxiii 328–32 (1881); I.L.N. xxvii 517, 518 (1855), portrait.

JACKSON, Richard Henry (only son of rev. Richard Jackson of Abergele, Denbigh). b. 1812 or 1813; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1838; P.C. of Newmarket, Flintshire 1851–9; R. of Llanellian, Denbighshire 1859 to death; author of Welsh Highland agriculture: a prize essay at Rhuddlan Eisteddfod 1850; Comparaison of the working classes of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales: a prize essay at Tremadoc Eisteddfod 1851. d. 10 Jany. 1867.

JACKSON, Robert. Entered navy 20 April 1781; commander of the Bonne Citoyenne in which he captured the Spanish privateer Vives 31 Dec. 1800; gold medal 1801 for services during campaign in Egypt; captain 29 April 1802, R.A. 10 Jany. 1837, V.A. 8 March 1847. d. 21 Hornton st. Kensington 3 June 1852. O’Byrne’s Naval Biog. Dict. (1849) 573.

JACKSON, afterwards SCORESBY-JACKSON, Robert Edmund (son of Thomas Jackson of Whitby, captain of a Greenland whaler). b. Whitby 22 Oct. 1833; ed. at St. George’s hospital, London, univ. of Edin. and Paris; L.S.A. 1855; M.R.C.S. 1855; M.D. Edin. 1857; F.R.C.S. Edin. 1859; F.R.S. Edin. 1861; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1862; lectured upon materia medica in Surgeons’ hall, Edin.; phys. to royal infirmary, Edin. 1865 to death, lecturer on clinical medicine; assumed additional name of Scoresby; author of The life of William Scoresby 1861; Medical Climatology 1862; Note-book of materia medica, pharmacology and therapeutics 1866, 4 ed. Edin. 1880. d. of typhus fever 32 Queen’s st. Edin. 1 Feb. 1867. Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. vi 197–8 (1869).

JACKSON, Samuel (4 child of Thomas Jackson of Sancton, East Yorkshire, farm labourer and mole-catcher, d. 1829 aged 83). b. Sancton 10 Feb. 1786; Wesleyan M. minister at Brecon 1806–7 and successively at 17 other places 1807 to death; president of Wesleyan conference at Liverpool 1847; house governor of theological institution, Richmond, Surrey 1848–55; edited The Reporter 1842; The Wesleyan vindicator 1850; author of Catechumens in the Wesleyan church 1850; The Wesleyan people or the great power and true policy of the private members of that body 1853; Ministers and children or the givers of early evangelical instruction 1853. d. Newcastle 4 Aug. 1861. Sermons by S. Jackson. With a memoir by T. Jackson (1863) ix–lxxxii; Wesleyan Methodist Mag. Sep. 1861 p. 842.

JACKSON, Samuel (son of Mr. Jackson of Bristol, merchant). b. Bristol 31 Dec. 1794; pupil of Francis Danby, A.R.A. at Bristol; associate of Soc. of painters in water-colours 10 Feb. 1823, withdrew in 1848, after having exhibited 46 pictures; one of founders of a sketching society at Bristol 1833; his water-colours are nearly all of English scenery; sent many Swiss views in oil to Bristol annual exhibitions; exhibited 1 landscape at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1828–43. d. Clifton 8 Dec. 1869. Roget’s History of the old water-colour society, i 432 etc., ii 87, 452 (1891).

JACKSON, Stephen (son of Postle Jackson). b. Ipswich 1808; ed. at Bury St. Edmunds’ gr. sch. and Caius coll. Camb., scholar; 26 wrangler 1830, B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; succeeded his father as proprietor and editor of Ipswich journal; a student of the arts and architecture; wrote Architectural notes on church of hospital of St. Cross in Journal British Archæol. Assoc. Winchester volume 401–406. d. St. Lawrence, Ipswich 16 Feb. 1855.

JACKSON, Thomas (brother of rev. Samuel Jackson 1786–1861). b. Sancton, Yorkshire 12 Dec. 1783; apprenticed to a carpenter 1798; became a Wesleyan Methodist 1801; Wesleyan minister Spilsby 1804–5 and at 10 other places 1805 to death; editor of Wesleyan press publications 1824–43; president of Wesleyan conferences 1838–9 and 1849–50; professor of divinity at theological college, Richmond, Surrey 1843–61; author of The life of John Goodwin 1822, new ed. 1872; The centenary of Wesleyan Methodism 1839; Life of the Rev. Charles Wesley 2 vols. 1841 and other books; edited The works of the Rev. John Wesley 14 vols. 1829–31; A library of Christian biography 12 vols. 1837–40 and other books. d. 29 St. Stephen’s road, Hammersmith, London 10 March 1873. T. Jackson’s Recollections of my own life (1873), portrait; F. Ross’s Celebrities of Yorkshire Wolds (1878) 84–8.

JACKSON, Thomas. b. 1808; a labourer on the Birmingham canal 1816; contractor on Birmingham and Derby railway 1837 and on Chester and Crewe 1840; renovated and improved Caledonian canal 1843–7; constructed the Tyne dock near Jarrow 1854; made the Alderney breakwater one mile into the sea at a great depth 1847–72, the Alderney harbour defences and the breakwater at St. Catharine’s bay, Jersey; constructed the Harrogate water works. d. Eltham park, Eltham, Kent 3 Jany. 1885. Iron 16 Jany. 1885 p. 53; Times 13 Jany. 1885 p. 6.

JACKSON, Thomas (son of rev. Thomas Jackson 1783–1873). b. Preston, or Richmond, Surrey 1812; ed. at St. Saviour’s sch. Southwark and St. Mary hall, Oxf., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; V. of St. Peter’s, Stepney 1838–44; principal of national society’s training college, Battersea 1844–50; preb. of St. Paul’s 1850 to death; nominated bishop of Lyttleton, New Zealand 1850, went out there but was never consecrated; R. of Stoke Newington 1852 to death, built a new parish church 1858; edited The English journal of education 1843; author with J. D. Giles of a jeu d’esprit entitled Uniomachia or the battle at the Union, an Homeric fragment, lately given to the world by Habbakukius Dunderheadius [T. Jackson], and now rendered into the English tongue by Jedediah Puzzlepate [J. D. Giles]. Oxford 1833, 3 ed. London 1875; Our dumb companions 1864; Curiosities of the pulpit 1868; The narrative of the fire of London, freely handled on the principles of modern rationalism. By P. Maritzburg 1869, and other books. d. the rectory, Stoke Newington 18 March 1886. Church of England photographic portrait gallery (1859), portrait xiii.

JACKSON, Thomas. b. Oldham; organist of St. Peter’s chapel, Oldham 1821; leader of Oldham musical soc.; leader of Oldham borough choral soc.; violinist; member of Philharmonic concerts, Liverpool 1856; arranged orchestral parts to Dr. Green’s God is our hope and strength. E. Butterworth’s Oldham (1856) 254.

JACKSON, Thomas Carr (son of John Jackson, surgeon, Paradise st. Rotherhithe). b. Yorkshire 4 Jany. 1823; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school; studied at St. Thomas’ hospital; M.R.C.S. 1845, F.R.C.S. 1857; surgeon to the Great Northern and Orthopedic hospitals; president of Harveian soc.; performed operation of lithotomy 23 times with great success; wrote Cursory observations on lithotomy, in St. Thomas’ hospital reports 1870; author of Circumscribed abscess of bone 1867. d. 91 Harley st. London 23 April 1878. Medical Times, i 493 (1878); Proc. of Royal Med. and Chir. Soc. viii 384 (1880).

JACKSON, Thomas Charles. b. 1832; ed. The Medical Directory for J. and A. Churchill 11 New Burlington st. London 1860 to death. d. 159 Gloucester road, Regent’s park, London 15 Jany. 1890.

JACKSON, Thomas Thomson. b. 1798; amanuensis to Dugald Stewart; crown professor of biblical criticism and theology in St. Mary’s coll. St. Andrews 1836–51; ordained a presbyterian minister, preached at the settlement of Dr. Hew Scott at West Anstruther, his only sermon; professor of ecclesiastical history, Glasgow univ. 1851 to 1874, Emeritus professor 1874 to death. d. St. Andrews 24 Dec. 1878. The Scotsman 26 Dec. 1878 p. 4.

JACKSON, William. b. 1822; lived at Kennieside, Cumberland; wrestled at Flatt, Cumberland 1839 when he threw Chapman, Gordon and Nelson; threw all his competitors at Liverpool, Preston, Manchester, etc. 1840; won the heavy weight prizes at Carlisle 1841–4; beat Nicol for the championship, Liverpool 1842; won 17 prizes in 1843; threw Tom Longmire at Keswick 1845; wrestled for the last time 1851 at Ulverston with Robert Atkinson for £300 when he was defeated in presence of 10,000 persons; his record is almost unsurpassed, he stood 6 feet 1 inch and weighed 14 stone. d. Wythop hall 21 Nov. 1856. Bell’s Life in London 23 Nov. 1856 p. 6.

JACKSON, William (son of Mr. Jackson of Masham, Yorkshire, miller). b. Masham 9 Jany. 1816; a journeyman miller; an amateur organ builder; taught himself to play on 15 musical instruments; organist of Masham ch. 1832 at £30 a year; partner with a tallow-chandler 1839–52; a music-seller at Bradford 1852 to death; organist of St. John’s ch. Bradford 1852–6 and of Horton lane chapel 1856–66; conductor of Bradford choral union; chorus master of Bradford musical festivals 1853, 56 and 59, conductor of Festival choral soc. 1856 to death; with his choir of 210 singers performed before Queen at Buckingham palace 1858; author of A manual of singing; composer of For joy let fertile valleys sing: an anthem 1839; The sisters of the sea: glee. First prize Huddersfield glee club 1840; Deliverance of Israel from Babylon: an oratorio 3 parts 1844–5; Isaiah: an oratorio 1851; The year: a cantata 1859; The praise of music: a symphony 1866, and upwards of 20 other pieces of music. d. Ashgrove, Bradford 15 April 1866. Bradford Observer 19 April 1866 p. 4 and 26 April p. 5.

Note.—His son William Jackson b. 1853, organist Edinburgh, d. there 1877.

JACKSON, Sir William, 1 Baronet (son of Peter Jackson of Warrington, Lancs., surgeon 1772–1811). b. Warrington 28 April 1805; member of firm of Hamilton, Jackson & Co., African merchants to 1841; chairman of Chester and Birkenhead railway; chief partner in Clay-cross colliery near Chesterfield; constructed with Thomas Brassey many of the chief railways in Italy and Grand trunk railway of Canada; M.P. Newcastle under Lyne 1847–65; M.P. North Derbyshire 1865–8; one of the founders of Birkenhead 1845; created baronet 4 Nov. 1869; A.I.C.E. 7 Dec. 1852. d. 61 Portland place, London 30 or 31 Jany. 1876, personalty sworn under £700,000, 11 March 1876. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xlv 252–56 (1876); I.L.N. lxviii 167, 263 (1876).

JACKSON, William (son of rev. Thomas Jackson, R. of Grasmere, Westmoreland). b. Grasmere 17 Dec. 1792; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815, B.D. 1828, D.D. 1832; fellow of his coll. 9 Dec. 1820–29, chaplain 1820, bursar 1826, tutor 1827; Whitehall preacher 1827; chancellor of Carlisle 1846–55, archdeacon Jany. 1855 to 1863, canon 1858–63; R. of Lowther, Westmoreland 17 April 1828 to death; R. of Cliburn, Westmoreland 1841–58; provost of Queen’s coll. 8 May 1862 to death; author of A charge to the clergy of the archdeaconry of Carlisle 1857. d. Askham hall, Penrith 13 Sep. 1878. bur. Lowther churchyard.

JACKSON, William (2 son of Mr. Jackson of Liverpool). Matric. from Queen’s coll. Oxf. 25 Oct. 1838 aged 21; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; C. of Gillingham, Dorset 1843–8; C. of Warbleton, Sussex 1850–4; V. of Heathfield, Sussex 1858 to death; edited Stories and catechisings in illustration of the collects 3 vols. 1852–3; Stories and lessons on the catechism 3 vols. 1854–6; author of Sermons preached in village churches 1853, 2 ed. 1854; The under housemaid 1858; The history of confirmation 1877, new ed. 1881; Parochial Sermons 1881. d. 18 July 1885.

JACKSON, William, professional name of William Howitt. b. Norwich 15 Feb. 1821; ran a mile match against J. Davies and Tom Maxfield upon the Slough road when Maxfield won, about 1844; beat William Sheppard of Birmingham at Gannick corner near Barnet £100 a side, doing 11 miles and 48 yards in one hour 6 Jany. 1845; winner of many prizes in England and North and South America; known as the American Deer. Illust. Sporting News 2 July 1864 pp. 228, 233, portrait.

JACOB, Arthur (2 son of John Jacob, M.D. 1754–1827). b. Knockfin, Maryborough, June 1790; ed. at Steevens’s hospital, Dublin and univ. of Edin., M.D. 1814; demonstrator of anatomy at Trin. coll. Dublin 1819; discovered a previously unknown membrane of the eye 1819 since known as membrana Jacobi; founded with R. J. Graves and others Park street school of medicine 1821; professor of anatomy Royal college of surgeons in Ireland 1826–69, pres. of the college 3 times, his portrait, bust and library were afterwards placed in the college; edited The Dublin Medical Press 42 vols. 1838–59; a medal bearing his likeness was struck and presented to him Dec. 1860; author of A treatise on the inflammation of the eyeball 1849; On cataract and the operation for its removal by absorption 1851. d. Newbarnes, Barrow-in-Furness 21 Sep. 1874. Jacob and Glascott’s Families of Jacob (1875) 63 &c.; Medical Times 3 Oct. 1874 pp. 405–6; Graphic 17 Oct. 1874 pp. 367, 372, portrait.

JACOB, Edwin (son of John Jacob of Painswick, Gloucs.). b. Gloucs. 1794; ed. at Lincoln coll. Oxf. 1810–12, scholar of Corpus Christi 1812–21; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818, B. and D.D. 1829; R. of St. Pancras, Chichester 1827–9; vice president and professor of classics King’s coll. Frederickton, New Brunswick 1829–60; author of Sermons intended for the propagation of the gospel 1835; An oration at the 14th encænia in King’s college 1844. d. Cardigan, York county, New Brunswick 31 July 1868. Appleton’s American Biog. iii 393 (1887).

JACOB, Sir George Le Grand (5 son of John Jacob of Guernsey 1765–1840). b. Roath court near Cardiff 24 April 1805; ed. at Elizabeth coll. Guernsey; ensign 2 regt. Bombay N.I. 9 June 1821, major 1848–54; political agent in Cutch 1851–9; lieut. col. 8 Bombay N.I. 1854–6, 27 Bombay N.I. 1856–8; commanded a native battalion in Persian expedition 1857; put down the mutiny in Kolapore Dec. 1857; special commissioner of South Mahratta country 1858; lieut. col. of 31 Bombay N.I. 1858–60, of 5 light infantry 1860 to 31 Dec. 1861 when he retired as major-general; C.B. 21 March 1859; K.C.S.I. 4 June 1869; wrote numerous papers on Indian history, etc.; author of Report upon the general condition of Kattewar in 1842, 1845; Western India before and during the mutinies 1871. d. 12 Queensborough ter. Kensington gardens, London 27 Jany. 1881. Overland Mail 6 May 1881 pp. 17–18; Holme’s Indian mutiny 3 ed. (1888) 450, 454–57.

JACOB, John (5 son of Stephen Long Jacob, V. of Woolavington, Somerset, d. 1851 aged 86). b. Woolavington 11 Jany. 1812; ed. at Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bombay artillery 11 Jany. 1828; raised the Sind irregular horse 1841 usually called Jacob’s horse, in command of which he continually harassed the enemy 17 Feb. 1843 to death; called by sir W. Napier the Seidlitz of the Sind army; political superintendent and commandant of frontier of Upper Sind 1847; C.B. 10 Sep. 1850; commanded the troops at Koree for service in Upper Sind 1852; the town of Kanghur was called Jacobabad in his honour 1851; acting comr. in Sind 1856 to death; A.D.C. to the Queen 20 March 1857; commanded cavalry division in Persian war 1857; invented a greatly improved rifle 1858; raised 2 regiments of infantry called Jacob’s rifles 1858; author of Rifle practice 1855, 4 ed. 1858; Tracts on the native army of India 1857; A few remarks on the Bengal army and furlough regulations. By a Bombay officer 1857. d. Jacobabad 5 Dec. 1858, bust placed in shire hall at Taunton. L. Pelly’s Views and opinions of J. Jacob, 2 ed. (1858); I.L.N. xxxiii 227 (1858), portrait.

JACOB, Joshua. b. Clonmel, co. Tipperary about 1805; a grocer Nicholas st. Dublin; disowned by Society of Friends 1838; formed a society of his own in Dublin commonly called White Quakers from the members wearing white garments 1838, with stations in other places; established a community at Newlands, Clondalkin, co. Dublin about 1849 which lasted but a short time; a grocer at Celbridge, co. Kildare; became a Roman catholic; author of Some account of the progress of the truth. Mountmellick 1843 and other small works. d. Wales 15 Feb. 1877. bur. Glasnevin cemetery, Dublin. Joseph Smith’s Friends’ books, ii 4 (1867).

JACOB, Philip (brother of sir George Le Grand Jacob d. 1881). b. 1803; ed. at C.C. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; C. of Newport, Monmouth 1827–31; R. of Crawley with Hunton, Wilts. 31 May 1831 to death; canon residentiary of Winchester cath. 19 July 1834 to death; archdeacon of Winchester 28 June 1860 to death. d. The Close, Winchester 20 Dec. 1884.

JACOB, Philip Whittington. b. 1805; alderman of Guildford many years, mayor about 1866 when he stamped out the usual 5 Nov. riots; an eminent linguist in Eastern and European languages; a sub-editor of Dr. J. A. H. Murray’s A new English dictionary 1884 etc.; author of Hindoo tales: adventures of ten princes freely translated from the Sanskrit 1873. d. 6 Wellington place, Woodbridge road, Guildford 26 Dec. 1889.

JACOB, Sarah (3 dau. of Evan Jacob, farmer, and Hannah his wife). b. Llethernoyadd-ucha farm, Carmarthenshire 12 May 1857; fell ill in Feb. 1867 with attacks of convulsions and lost all her hair; reported not to have eaten anything after 10 Oct. 1867, nor drank after Dec. 1867; in Oct. 1867 people commenced visiting her as The Welsh fasting girl and gave her presents of money and clothes; was watched by 3 nurses from Guy’s hospital 9 to 17 Dec. 1869 when she died having lived, as stated, without food for two years; Evan and Hannah Jacob tried for manslaughter at Carmarthen 14–15 July 1870, Evan condemned to 12 months hard labour and Hannah to six months hard labour, the cost of this prosecution to the country was about £800. R. Fowler’s Complete history of Welsh fasting-girl (1871).

JACOB, William. b. 1762; South American merchant in Newgate st. London; F.R.S. 23 April 1807; M.P. Rye 1808–12; alderman for ward of Lime st. London 1810, resigned 1811; comptroller of corn returns in board of trade 1822, retired Jany. 1842; author of Travels in the south of Spain 1811; A view of the agriculture, manufacture, statistics and state of society of Germany and parts of Holland and France 1820; An historical enquiry into the production and consumption of the precious metals 2 vols. 1831. d. 31 Cadogan place, Sloane st. London 17 Dec. 1851.

JACOB, William Stephen (brother of John Jacob 1812–58). b. Woolavington vicarage 19 Nov. 1813; ed. at Addiscombe and Chatham; lieut. Bombay engineers 1 July 1833 to 1848; established a private observatory at Poonah 1842; director of Madras observatory Dec. 1848 to 13 Oct. 1859; projected erection of a mountain observatory on the Mahratta hills 5000 feet above the sea for which parliament voted £1000 in 1862; made observations on double stars, on satellites of Saturn and on Jupiter; F.R.A.S. 1849; author of A few more words on the plurality of worlds 1855; Meteorological observations made at Dodabetta bungalow 1851–5, 1857. d. Poonah 16 Aug. 1862. Monthly notices of Astronomical Soc. xxiii 128–9 (1863).

JACOBS, Mr. b. Canterbury 1813; came out at Dover as an improvisatore, ventriloquist and conjuror 1834; first appeared in London at Horns tavern, Kennington 1835 when he introduced the Chinese ring trick; at Strand theatre 1841 when in imitation of J. H. Anderson he made a great show of expensive apparatus; brought out the trick of producing from under a shawl, bowls of water containing gold fish 1850; at Adelaide gallery 1853, in America 1854, in Australia and New Zealand 1860; opened Polygraphic hall, London 1860; his brother as a page named Sprightly was his assistant in his entertainments. d. 13 Oct. 1870 aged 57. Frost’s Lives of Conjurors (1876) 214–20.

JACOBS, Simeon (son of Jacob or Lewis Jacobs of London, solicitor). b. 1830; ed. at City of London school; licensed by I.T. to practise as special pleader Nov. 1851; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1852; advocate of supreme court, Cape of Good Hope, Dec. 1860; attorney general of British Kaffraria 4 April 1861; solicitor general Cape of Good Hope 1866, attorney general 1874–82, puisne judge 1882, member of the executive council; C.M.G. 17 Nov. 1882. d. 22 Holland park gardens, London 15 June 1883.

JACOBSON, William. b. about 1785; solicitor at Plymouth 1815–50; chief founder of the small debts court, which became the County Court 1847; chief founder and prior of The order of Blue Friars at Plymouth and known as Father Tuck 17 May 1829, wrote many articles for the Blue Box of the fraternity, which have since been printed. d. 5 Regent’s park, Exeter 25 April 1866. W. H. K. Wright’s The Blue Friars (1889) 66–73, portrait, and Pleasantries from the Blue Box (1891) passim.

JACOBSON, William (son of Wm. Jacobson a merchant’s clerk). b. Great Yarmouth 18 July 1803; ed. at Homerton college and Glasgow univ.; commoner St. Edmund hall, Oxf. 1823; scholar of Lincoln college 1825; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1829, D.D. 1848; Ellerton theological prizeman 1829; fellow of Exeter college 1829–36, hon. fellow 9 Dec. 1882; vice principal of Magdalen hall 1832–48; select preacher at univ. 1833, 1842, public orator 1842–8; regius professor of divinity, canon of Ch. Ch. and R. of Ewelme, Oxf. 1 April 1848 to 1865; bishop of Chester 8 July 1865, consecrated in York minster 24 Aug. 1865, enthroned 13 Sep., resigned Feb. 1884; promoted the division of his diocese made by foundation of bishopric of Liverpool 9 April 1880; edited S. Clementis Romani S. Ignatii, S. Polycarpi quæ supersunt 2 vols. 1838, several editions; The works of Robert Sanderson 6 vols. 1854; author of Sixteen sermons preached in the church of Iffley 1840, 2 ed. 1846. d. the palace, Deeside 13 July 1884. Burgon’s Lives of Twelve Good Men (1891) 367–401, portrait; I.L.N. xlvii 217 (1865), portrait.

JACOBSON, William Bowstead Richards (1 son of the preceding). b. St. Peter in the East, Oxford 3 Aug. 1838; scholar of Winchester 1851–9; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 13 June 1859; rowed in the Oxford boat against Cambridge 1862–4; C. of St. Mary, Golden lane, London 1864–7, and vicar 1870–7; C. of St. George, Bloomsbury, London 1867–70. d. 22 The Beacon, Exmouth 26 April 1880. Treherne & Goldie’s University Boat Race (1884) 241–2.

JACOMB, William (probably son of Thomas Jacomb, surgeon). b. 51 Upper York st. Portman sq. London 1832; pupil of I. K. Brunel 1851–9, assistant to Gainsford in construction of Paddington terminus and in supervision of building of Great Eastern steamship; under sir J. Fowler took part in construction of Metropolitan railway 1864–8; assisted Jacomb Hood in works on the South London and Suburban lines; chief resident engineer London and South Western railway 1870 to death. d. of apoplexy in his office at Waterloo terminus 26 May 1887. Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. xc 434–5 (1887).

JACQUES, James. b. 1792; well known jockey on the Borders and at Carlisle and Penrith; kept a public house at Penrith; trained and rode for Mr. Ferguson in Ireland; rode Fire-away for the St. Leger in Blue Bonnett’s year 1842; had a pension on the Bentinck fund. d. from an overdose of laudanum at West Laith gate, Doncaster 17 Feb. 1868. Sporting Review, March 1868 pp. 154–5; Doncaster Gazette 21 Feb. 1868 p. 5.

JAFFRAY, John. Free church minister; editor of Home and foreign missionary record of the church of Scotland 1839; a writer in the Aberdeen Censor 1825 of two dramatic articles The Traveller’s Talk and The Symposium; author of Hiltown church. Statement. Dundee 1836. d. Edinburgh 29 Oct. 1858. R. Inglis’ Dramatic writers of Scotland (1868) 57.

JAFFRAY, John. b. Carse of Stirling 1792; presbyterian minister Dunbar, Nov. 1820 to death; an authority on agriculture, made improvements in implements and in the cultivation of the soil; printed in Transactions of Highland Soc., Account of an experiment on deep ploughing. d. Dunbar 13 Feb. 1862. H. Scott’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ, vol. i, pt. i, p. 370.

JAGO, Charles Trelawny-(2 son of Edward Jago by Ann Darell dau. of Edward Trelawny). b. 9 Nov. 1829; entered R.N. 1843, lieut. 23 Oct. 1849; 3 lieut. of the Enterprise, Capt. R. Collinson, in the Arctic expedition 1850–4 in search of sir John Franklin; in the sledge travelling in the spring of 1852 he was away from the ship 49 days; spent 3 winters on the ice; Arctic medal; captain 11 April 1866; good service pension 30 Jany. 1880; rear admiral 20 March 1883, retired 27 Dec. 1886; retired V.A. 14 July 1889. d. at res. of his brother, general John Jago Trelawny, Coldrenick, Menheniot, Cornwall 15 Nov. 1891.

JAMES, Abraham (son of Joseph James, schoolmaster). b. South Wingfield, Derbyshire 22 Dec. 1799; a stocking frame weaver; taught himself to write; learnt trade of a stonemason; a writer of fugitive verses chiefly on local subjects. d. South Wingfield 6 June 1864. J. B. Robinson’s Derbyshire gatherings (1866) 93–7.

JAMES, Benjamin Fuller (2 son of John Haddy James 1788–1869). Matric. from Ex. coll. Oxf. 11 Nov. 1841 aged 17, B.A. 1846, M.A. 1848; assistant master at Westminster school 1846–84 where he also kept a boarding house. d. 6 Hungershall park, Tunbridge Wells 29 Jany. 1892 aged 67.

JAMES, Charles Butler. Entered Bombay army 1800; lieut. col. 16 Bombay N.I. 1842–3; lieut. col. 8 Bombay N.I. 1843 to 2 March 1846; commander at Candeish 27 Dec. 1842, at Rajcote 20 March 1846, at Deesa 1 Nov. 1848 to 1 Oct. 1849, of Northern division 3 April 1850, of Southern division 21 March 1851 to 16 Oct. 1853; col. of 4 Bombay N.I. 2 March 1846 to 1869; general 6 Nov. 1866. d. Plymouth 21 Feb. 1870.

JAMES, Charles Herbert (youngest son of Wm. James, maltster). b. Merthyr Tydfil 1817; took prize for law at Univ. coll. London by public competition; solicitor at Merthyr Tydfil 1838–79; M.P. for Merthyr Tydfil 1880–1888. d. Brynteg, Merthyr Tydfil 3 Oct. 1890.

JAMES, Charles James (son of Mr. James, artist in glass painting). b. 1804; with his father made transparent views of John Martin’s pictures, the view of ‘Joshua commanding the sun to stand still’ was exhibited in London 1830 and with others was shown in America 1831–34; scene painter for Madame Vestris at Olympic 1834–6 and at Victoria theatre 1836; lessee and manager of Queen’s theatre, Tottenham court road, Sep. 1839–65; acting manager for Marie Wilton when she opened the house as the Prince of Wales’s 15 April 1865 to 4 Aug. 1876; reported to have died 8 April 1864. d. 244 Camden road, London 2 Oct. 1888. E. L. Blanchard’s Life, i 28, 289, ii 500, 623 (1891); Theatrical Times, iii 161 (1848), portrait.

JAMES, Charles Stanfield (only son of the preceding). b. 1832 or 1833; wrote Christmas and Easter extravaganzas for Queen’s theatre for some years; scene painter at Drury Lane theatre, at Sadler’s Wells, at Prince of Wales’s; painted the act drop for Holborn T.R. London, opened by Sefton Parry 6 Oct. 1866. d. Setubal near Lisbon 23 March 1868. Era 5 April 1868 p. 10.

JAMES, David. b. Manor-Deify near Cardigan 6 Jany. 1803; ed. at Cardigan and Ystrad Meurig gram. schools; C. of Almondbury, Yorkshire 1829–36; V. of St. Mary, Kirkdale, Liverpool 1836–53; F.S.A. 1844; M.A. of Lambeth 1849; D. Philos. of Heidelberg 1853; warden of Welsh educational institution, Llandovery 1853–4; P.C. of Marsden 1854–6; R. of Panteg, Monmouthshire 1856 to death; author of Patriarchal religion of Britain, a manual of British Druidism 1836; The apostolic origin and scripture character of confirmation 1850; The Pope’s supremacy disproved 1854. d. Panteg 2 Aug. 1871. Hulbert’s Annals of Almondbury (1882) 29, 457–61, 592.

JAMES, Edward (2 son of Frederick Wm. James, merchant). b. Manchester 1807; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; barrister L.I. 16 June 1835, bencher 1853 to death; went Northern circuit, leader of it 1860 to death; assessor of the court of passage, Liverpool 1852 to death; Q.C. Nov. 1853; attorney general and queen’s serjeant of co. palatine of Lancashire 1863 to death; M.P. for Manchester 13 July 1865 to death; author of Has Dr. Wiseman violated the law? 1851. d. Hotel du Louvre, Paris 3 Nov. 1867. bur. Highgate cemetery, London 9 Nov. Law mag. and law review, Feb. 1868 pp. 293–300.

JAMES, Edwin John (eld. son of John James 1783–1852). b. 1812; on the stage for a time but not successful; barrister I.T. 30 Jany. 1836; Q.C. 28 Feb. 1850 to 15 July 1862 when name removed; recorder of Brighton, Jany. 1855 to March or April 1861; M.P. Marylebone, London 25 Feb. 1859 to 10 April 1861; visited Garibaldi, present at skirmish before Capua 10 Sep. 1860; his call to bar vacated and he was disbarred 18 July 1861; his debts amounted to £100,000; went to New York, Aug. 1861, admitted to bar of state of New York 5 Nov. 1861, practised there short time; played at Winter garden theatre, New York, April 1865; returned to London 1872; lectured on subject of America, at St. George’s hall, London 17 April 1872; articled to Wm. Henry Roberts, 46 Moorgate st. solicitor, May 1873; author of The bankrupt law of the United States 1867; The political institutions of England and America 1872. d. 11 Bayley st. Bedford sq. London 4 March 1882. Law magazine and law review, xii 263–86 (1882), xiii 335–45; I.L.N. xxxiv 429, 430 (1859), portrait; A.R. (1862) 140–43; Law Times, lxxii 358 (1882); Daily News 7 March 1882 p. 5 col. 2.

JAMES, Frank Linsly (eld. son of Daniel James of Liverpool, metal merchant). b. Liverpool 21 April 1851; ed. at Caius and Downing colls. Cam., B.A. 1877, M.A. 1881; explored the Basé country in the Soudan winters of 1879–80 and 1880–1; explored interior of the Somali country 1885; author of The wild tribes of the Soudan 1883, 2 ed. 1884; The unknown horn of Africa, an expedition from Berbera to the Leopard river 1888, 2 ed. 1890; killed by an elephant at San Benite about 100 miles north of the Gaboon river 21 April 1890. F. L. James’s Unknown horn of Africa (1890), portrait.

JAMES, George. b. 30 June 1791; 2 lieut. R.A. 5 March 1810, lieut. col. 1 Nov. 1848, retired on full pay 27 May 1850; L.G. 2 Feb. 1868. d. Hersham, Surrey 1 Nov. 1875.

JAMES, George Payne Rainsford (son of Pinkstan James 1766–1830, physician, London). b. 1 George st. Hanover sq. 9 Aug. 1801; encouraged to write by sir Walter Scott and Washington Irving; wrote his first novel Richelieu 1825, published 1829; historiographer royal to William iv. 20 May 1837; produced Blanche of Navarre, drama 5 acts 1839 and Camaralzaman, fairy drama 3 acts 1848; British consul in Massachusetts 12 Oct. 1852–5, Richmond, Virginia 1855–8 and for the Austrian ports in the Adriatic 24 July 1858 to death; wrote 77 novels and other works in 198 vols. including Darnley 1830; Philip Augustus 1831; Henry Masterton 1832; The Huguenot 3 vols. 1845; The Smuggler 3 vols. 1845; a collected edition of his novels 1844–9, 21 vols.; his style caricatured by Thackeray in his Barbazure by G. R. P. Jeames, Esq., in Punch July 1847, in Novels by Eminent Hands, and in The Book of Snobs, chapters 2 and 16; published Memoirs of Great commanders 3 vols. 1832; Life of the Black prince 2 vols. 1836; The Life and times of Louis xiv. 4 vols. 1838. d. of apoplexy at Venice 9 June 1860. R. H. Horne’s A new spirit of the age, i 215–32 (1844); Maunsell B. Field’s Memories of many men (1874) 186–210; Bentley’s Miscellany, xlix 192–5 (1861); Notes and Queries 8 Nov. 1862 p. 366; The work of G. P. R. James (1844) vol. i, portrait.

Note.—The copyright of 46 of his novels, of which 43 were stereotyped, was sold to Routledge & Co. for £2075 in March 1858. James’ widow Frances d. Eau Claire, Wisconsin, U.S. America 9 June 1891 in 91 year.

JAMES, Sir Henry (5 son of John James, attorney, Truro, d. 1819). b. Rose-in-Vale near St. Agnes, Cornwall 8 June 1803; ed. at Exeter gram. sch. and Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 22 Sep. 1826, colonel 9 Feb. 1862, colonel commandant 21 Nov. 1874 to death; L.G. 21 Nov. 1874; local superintendent of geological survey, Ireland 1842–6; superintendent of dockyard construction works, Portsmouth 1846–50; superintendent of ordnance survey, Scotland 1850; director of ordnance survey of United Kingdom 21 Aug. 1854 to Aug. 1875; reduced plans from larger to smaller scale by photography 1855; director of topographical and statistical department of war office 22 Aug. 1857 to 1870; F.R.S. 9 June 1848; A.I.C.E. 1 May 1849; knighted at St. James’ palace 28 March 1860; arranged for a survey of Jerusalem 1864–5; mainly instrumental in invention of photozincography 1859, now much used in ordnance office; author of On the figure, dimensions and specific gravity of the earth 1856; Principal triangulations of the earth 2 vols. 1858; Extension of the triangulations of the survey with France and Belgium and measurement of an arc of parallel 1863. d. 3 Cumberland ter. Southampton 14 June 1877. I.L.N. lxx 595 (1877); Palmer’s Ordnance survey of United Kingdom (1873) passim; Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 266–8, 1243–4; Boase’s Collect. Cornub. (1890) 414, 415.

JAMES, Houghton. Entered Bombay army 1819; major 18 Bombay N.I. 23 March 1847, lieut. col. 17 Feb. 1852 to 1856; lieut. col. 15 N.I. 1856–7; lieut. col. 6 N.I. 1857 to 30 Sep. 1862; L.G. 14 Dec. 1871. d. Brighton 9 March 1875.

JAMES, Jabez. b. 1810; a locksmith and bell hanger 1837, then an engineer and model maker; had large contracts in connection with the palace at Westminster, hung the bells in the clock tower 1859; established a factory 28A Broadwall, Blackfriars, London and afterwards at 40 Princes st. Commercial road where he manufactured engines and constructed special machinery for the bank of England, the royal mint, the royal arsenal and the inland revenue department; name became associated with mechanical excellence; for government small arms he made exact gauges and machines; A.I.C.E. 1852, M.I.C.E. 1878; M.I.M.E. 1856. d. 9 Jany. 1883. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxiii 358–60 (1882–3); Proc. Instit. Mechanical engineers (1884) 64.

JAMES, John. b. 1783; attorney in city of London 1806 to death; secondary of the Giltspur st. Compter, city of London 1831 to death. d. 11 Artillery place, Finsbury sq. 21 July 1852.

JAMES, John (son of John James d. about 1814). b. West Witton, Wensleydale, Yorkshire 22 Jany. 1811; ed. at West Witton; worked at a lime kiln for 10d. a day; clerk to Ottiwell Tomlin, solicitor, Richmond, then in London; clerk to Richard Tolson, solicitor, Bradford to his decease 1847; correspondent of Leeds Times, York Herald and of Bradford Observer 1834; author of The history of Bradford 2 vols. 1841–66; The history of the worsted manufacture in England 1857; F.S.A. d. Netheredge, Sheffield 4 July 1867. bur. West Witton ch. 8 July. William Smith’s Old Yorkshire (1883) 131–33.

JAMES, John (eld. son of John James of St. Andrew’s, Cambridge). b. 1783; ed. at Rugby 1792–9; probationary fellow of St. John’s coll. Oxf. 1799; B.A. 1803, M.A. 1807, B.D. and D.D. 1834; master of Oundle gr. sch.; C. of Oundle; V. of Southwick, Northamptonshire 1828–34; canon res. of Peterborough 9 Feb. 1829 to death; V. of Maxey 1832–50; V. of St. John the Baptist, Peterborough 1833–50; R. of Peakirk with Glinton 1850–65; V. of Glinton 1865 to death, all in Northants.; author of The happy communicant 1849, 2 ed. 1883; A devotional comment on the morning and evening services in the book of common prayer 2 vols. 1851; A harmonized summary of the four gospels 1853; Spiritual life 1869. d. at 12.15 p.m. 15 Dec. 1868 in the Minster precincts, Peterborough. Reg. and Mag. of Biog. Feb. 1869 pp. 116–7.

JAMES, John (2 son of John James of Redbrook Newland, Gloucs.) b. 1806; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; R. of Rawmarsh, Yorkshire 1831–43; V. of Pinhoe, Devon 1844; P.C. of Tor-Mohun and Cockington, Devon 1844–8; V. of Headington Quarry, Oxf. 1851–3; R. of Avington near Hungerford 1853–79; author of A comment upon the collects 1824,16 ed. 1866; Christian watchfulness in the prospect of sickness 1839, 2 ed. 1840; A harmonized summary of the four gospels 1853; The happy communicant 1849, 2 ed. 1883. d. Highfield, Lydney, Gloucs. 16 Dec. 1886.

JAMES, John Angell (eld. son of John James, draper, d. 1812). b. Salisbury st. Blandford, Dorset 6 June 1785; apprentice to a draper at Poole 1798; ed. at Gosport acad. 1802; pastor Carr’s lane chapel, Birmingham 11 Jany. 1805 to death, rebuilt the chapel at cost of £11,000, 1819 and erected six other chapels as offshoots of his congregation; chairman of board of education Spring Hill coll. (now Mansfield coll. Oxf.) 1838 to death; a projector of the Evangelical alliance May 1842; presented with £500 on jubilee of his pastorate 1855 which he made nucleus of a pastors’ retiring fund; D.D. of Glasgow univ.; D.D. of Princeton coll. New Jersey; author of The Sunday school teacher’s guide 1816; Christian charity explained or the influence of religion upon the temper 1828, many editions; The anxious enquirer after salvation 1834 many editions, translated into Welsh, Gaelic and Malagasy; Collected Works 17 vols. 1860–64. d. 283 Hagley road, Edgbaston, Birmingham 1 Oct. 1859. G. Redford’s True greatness, A memoir (1860); R. W. Dale’s Life and letters of J. A. James 2 ed. (1861), portrait; Drawing room portrait gallery 3 ser. (1860), portrait; S. Couling’s History of temperance movement (1862) 312–14; R. K. Dent’s Birmingham (1880) 362, portrait.

JAMES, John Haddy (son of a merchant at Bristol). b. Exeter 6 July 1788; ed. at Exeter gram. sch.; apprentice to B. W. Johnson surgeon 1805, and to Mr. Patch 1806–8; studied at St. Bartholomew’s 1808–12; M.R.C.S. 1811, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; assist. surgeon first life guards 27 Oct. 1812, placed on h.p. 30 July 1816; present at Waterloo and in garrison in France; surgeon Devon and Exeter hospital, Aug. 1816 to 1858; a general practitioner in Cathedral close, Exeter 1816 to death; president Exeter meeting of Provincial medical and surgical assoc. 1842; sheriff of Exeter 1826, mayor 1828; one of the few surgeons who tied the abdominal aorta for aneurism of the internal iliac; author of Observations on some of the general principles and treatment of inflammation 1821; Chloroform versus pain and paracentisis of the bladder above the pubes 1870. d. Southernhay, Exeter 17 March 1869. Register and Mag. of Biography, May 1869 pp. 402–404; Medical Times, i 369–71 (1869).

JAMES, John Hutchison (son of John James, Wesleyan minister, d. 1832). b. Macclesfield 1 Jany. 1816; Wesleyan M. minister in London 1839–42, 1854–7, 1871–7, in Sheffield 1860–2 and at many other places; D.D.; assist. tutor Hoxton coll. 1838–9; governor of Wesleyan coll. Sheffield 1862–8; sec. of conference 1870 and president 1871; author of A false witness unmasked 1847; A sermon on the Russian war 1854. d. suddenly at res. of Bickford Smith, M.P., Trevarno, Helston 26 Sep. 1891. I.L.N. lix 157, 158 (1871), portrait.

JAMES, Sir John Kingston, 1 Baronet (son of Francis James). b. 28 April 1784; a wine and West India merchant in Dublin; sheriff of Dublin 1812, alderman 25 June 1817 to 1840, lord mayor 1821–22 and 1840–41; knighted by marquess Wellesley 29 Dec. 1821; cr. a baronet 19 March 1823; a director of bank of Ireland to death; M.R.I.A. d. 9 Cavendish row, Rutland sq. Dublin 28 Jany. 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog., i 200 (1869).

JAMES, John Polglase. b. 1791; entered Madras army 1806; lieut. col. 45 Madras N.I. 1833; col. 32 Madras N.I. 3 Nov. 1844 to 1853; col. 20 Madras N.I. 1853 to death; commanded Hydrabad subsidiary force 11 Jany. 1848 to 26 Jany. 1852; brigadier general northern division 16 Feb. 1852 to death. d. George st. Devonport 5 July 1854.

JAMES, Maria. b. Wales 11 Oct. 1793; emigrated to U.S. of America 1803 when she learnt English; lived at domestic service in the Garrison family of Dutchess county, N.Y.; author of Wales and other poems. New York 1839. d. Rhinebeck, N.Y. 11 Sep. 1868. Appleton’s American Biog. iii 399 (1887); Griswold’s Female poets of America, Stoddard’s ed. (1874) pp. 66–8.

JAMES, Paul Moon. b. Exeter 1780; manager of Galton’s bank at Birmingham, afterwards a partner; manager of the Birmingham banking company 1829; managing director of Manchester and Salford bank 10 Mosley st. Manchester, Aug. 1836 to death; author of Poems 1821. d. Summerville, Pendleton 13 July 1854. R. W. Procter’s Memorials of bygone Manchester (1880) 12–20.

JAMES, Thomas (eld. son of rev. Thomas James, preb. of Worcester, d. 1804). b. 1781 or 1782; barrister G.I. 23 Nov. 1810, bencher 1834 to death; practised as conveyancer. d. 21 Burton crescent, London 5 Oct. 1853.

JAMES, Thomas (2 son of Thomas James of Croydon). b. Croydon, Feb. 1809; ed. at Eton, univ. of Glasgow and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; assist. master Charterhouse 1832; chap. to Bp. of Peterborough; V. of Sibbertoft, Northamptonshire 23 May 1838 to death; V. of Theddingworth, Leics. 1842 to death; hon. canon of Peterborough, Sep. 1852 to death; rural dean Dec. 1853 to death; author of Æsop’s Fables, a new version 1848, 3 ed. 1858; The history and antiquities of Northamptonshire 1864. d. Theddingworth 18 Oct. 1863.

JAMES, Thomas Smith (son of rev. John Angell James 1785–1859). b. 1809; solicitor in Birmingham 1831 to death; edited a collected edition of his Father’s works 17 vols. 1860–4; author of The history of the litigation and legislation respecting Presbyterian chapels and charities in England and Ireland 1867, with an Addendum [1868]. d. Hagley road, Edgbaston 3 Feb. 1874.

JAMES, William (son of William Evans James 1763–95). b. Liverpool 29 March 1791; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816; contested Carlisle 1820 and 1826; M.P. Carlisle 1820–26, 1831–35, the 1820 election cost him £13,000; sheriff of Cumberland 1827; M.P. East Cumberland 1836–47; opposed the grant of £50,000 for coronation of George IV. 1821. d. Barrock park near Carlisle 4 May 1861. Saunders’ Portraits of reformers (1840) 154–6, portrait; Bean’s Representation of six northern counties (1890) 39–45.

JAMES, William Henry (eldest son of Wm. James, railway projector 1771–1837). b. Henley-in-Arden, March 1796; assisted his father in survey of Liverpool and Manchester railway; an engineer in Birmingham; took out patents for locomotives, steam engines, railway carriages, diving apparatus, &c. d. Dulwich college almshouses 16 Dec. 1873.

JAMES, Sir William Milbourne (2 son of Christopher James of Swansea). b. Merthyr-Tydvil, Glamorganshire 29 June 1807; ed. at univ. of Glasgow, M.A. 1828, hon. D.C.L. 1873; barrister L.I. 10 June 1831, bencher 15 April 1853 to death, treasurer 1873–4; vice chancellor of county palatine of Lancaster at Liverpool 4 Jany. 1853 to 6 Jany. 1869; Q.C. Feb. 1853; contested Derby 30 April 1859; counsel for Bishop of Natal 1864; leading counsel for plaintiff in spiritualist case of Lyon v. Home 1868; vice chancellor 11 Jany. 1869 to 2 July 1870; knighted at Osborne 4 Feb. 1869; lord justice of appeal 4 July 1870 to death; P.C. 6 July 1870; arbitrator under European Assurance society arbitration acts 1872 and 1873, 20 Jany. 1875; author of The British in India 1882. d. 47 Wimpole st. London 7 June 1881. A generation of judges by their reporter (1886) 95–111; Red Dragon, i 483–93 (1882), portrait; I.L.N. liv 304 (1869), portrait.

JAMES, William Powell (1 son of rev. Wm. Henry James). b. 1837; ed. at Oriel coll. Oxf., scholar 1854–8; B.A. 1858, M.A. 1862; author of King Alfred surveying Oxford at the present time: Newdigate prize poem 1856; Scenes from Plautus, with notes 1879; Guesses at purpose in nature, with especial reference to plants 1882; From source to sea, or gleanings about rivers in many fields 1884. d. 1885.

JAMES, William Withall (eld. son of John Haddy James 1788–1869). b. Exeter 1823; studied King’s coll. London; M.R.C.S. 1844, F.R.C.S. 1848; L.S.A. 1845; in practice at Exeter 1846 to death; surgeon Devon and Exeter hospital 1858 to death, to which he left £2000, the interest to be divided among its four surgeons; fellow Med. Chir. soc. d. Exmouth 17 March 1865. Proc. Med. and Chir. Soc. iv. 148–9, 156–9 (1865).

JAMESON, Andrew (son of Andrew Jameson, sheriff substitute of Fifeshire). b. 1811; called to Scotch bar 1835; sheriff substitute of Ayrshire 1843–5; sheriff substitute of Midlothian 1845–65; sheriff of Aberdeen 6 Nov. 1865 to death; reported on the laws of Malta and framed a civil and criminal code for that island 1854. d. Edinburgh 30 Oct. 1870. Journal of jurisprudence, xv 666–8 (1870); Law magazine and review, xxx 345–47 (1871).

JAMESON, Anna Brownell (eld. dau. of Dudley Brownell Murphy, miniature painter, d. March 1842). b. Dublin 19 May 1794; governess to children of marquess of Winchester 1810–14, to children of E. J. W. Littleton afterwards lord Hatherton 1821–5. (m. 1825 Robert Sympson Jameson, barrister of M.T. 28 Nov. 1823, vice chancellor of Upper Canada 1837, d. Toronto 1 Aug. 1854); resided in Germany 1833–6, 1845 etc.; lived with her husband in Canada, Sep. 1836 to March 1838; great friend of lady Byron from 1846, disagreed with her about 1853; resided in Italy 1847 etc. studying art; granted civil list pension of £100 Aug. 30, 1851; her friends gave her an annuity of £100, 1854; author of The Diary of an Ennuyée. By A Lady 1826; Companion to the private galleries of art in London 1842; Memoirs of the early Italian painters 2 vols. 1845, 4 ed. 1868; Sacred and legendary art 2 vols. 1848, 3 ed. 1857; Legends of the monastic orders as represented in the fine arts 1850, 2 ed. 1852; Legends of the Madonna 1852, 2 ed. 1857; The history of our Lord and of his life as exemplified in works of art 2 vols. 1864. d. 57 Conduit st. Regent st. London 17 March 1860. G. Macpherson’s Memoirs of life of A. Jameson (1878), portrait; Winter studies by Mrs. Jameson 3 vols. (1838); B. R. Parkes’ Vignettes (1866) 441–8; I.L.N. xxxvi 300, 309 (1860), portrait; Martineau’s Biog. sketches 4 ed. (1876) 429–36; Powell’s Pictures of living authors (1851) 165–77.

JAMESON, Francis James (2 son of Robert Francis Jameson, barrister I.T. 1815, judge at Havannah 1819). b. Hampstead 13 Sep. 1828; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., 6 wrangler and B.A. 1850, M.A. 1853; fellow of Caius March 1852; fellow and tutor of St. Cath. coll. June 1855–62; C. of St. Sepulchre’s, Camb. 1852–62; pro-proctor at Camb. 1858–9, select preacher 1862; R. of Coton near Camb. 1862 to death; author of The principles of the solutions of Senate-house riders, Camb. 1851; The analogy between the miracles and doctrines of scripture: Norrisian prize essay 1852. d. Bournemouth 6 Feb. 1869. Correspondence between the vice chancellor and the pro-proctors G. Williams and F. J. Jameson (1859); F. J. Jameson’s Heaven’s whisper in the storm (1869), Memoir pp. ix–xx.

JAMESON, Sir George Inglis. Entered Bombay army 1819; lieut. col. 3 European regiment 17 Sep. 1855 to 29 Sep. 1860; colonel 30 Bombay N.I. 29 Sep. 1860 to 1863; col. 23 N.I. 1863–9; M.G. 15 June 1862; K.C.S.I. 20 May 1871. d. Heathville, 1 Vanbrugh park road east, Blackheath 24 Oct. 1871.

JAMESON, James Sligo (son of Andrew Jameson, land agent, sheriff clerk Clackmannanshire). b. Walk house, Alloa 17 Aug. 1856; ed. at International coll. Isleworth 1868–77; read for the army but in 1877 devoted himself to travel; in Borneo 1877 where he discovered the black pern, a honey buzzard; hunted big game in Africa and discovered the junction of the Umvuli and the Umnyati 1879–81; naturalist to Emin Pacha relief expedition under H. M. Stanley 1887, contributing £1000 to the expenses; second in command of rear column under major Walter Barttelot in June 1877 at Yambuya where a third of the company died; witnessed the massacre and eating of a girl and made sketches of the scenes May 1888. d. of fever at Bangala on the Congo 17 Aug. 1888. Some of his collections exhibited at Rowland Ward’s, 166 Piccadilly, London, Nov. 1888. H. M. Stanley’s Darkest Africa (1890); J. S. Jameson’s Story of the rear column (1890), portrait; Times 22 Sep. 1888 p. 6.

JAMESON, John (eld. son of John Jameson of Dublin, distiller 1773–1851). b. 1804; distiller at 50 Bow st. and 11 and 12 Smithfield, Dublin to his death, the business was founded in 1780 and is noted for its John Jameson whisky; sheriff of Dublin 1879. d. St. Marnocks, Malahide, co. Dublin 19 Dec. 1881.

JAMESON, Robert (3 son of Thomas Jameson, soap maker). b. Leith 11 July 1774; ed. at Edin. univ.; assistant to John Cheyney, surgeon, Leith; studied under A. G. Werner at Freiberg, Saxony 1800–1802; regius professor of natural history and keeper of univ. museum, Edinb. 30 March 1804 to death; founded Wernerian natural history soc. 1808 and was the perpetual president; with sir D. Brewster originated Edinb. Philosophical journal 1819 and was sole editor from vol. x. to his death; F.L.S. 1797, F.R.S. 25 May 1826; hon. member of upwards of 50 societies in Europe and America; author of Mineralogy of the Scottish isles 2 vols. 1800; System of mineralogy 3 vols. 1804–8, 3 ed. 1820; A treatise on the external characters of minerals 1805, 2 ed. 1816; with Hugh Murray, Encyclopædia of geography 1834; Historical account of British India 1843, 2 ed. 1844. d. 21 Royal circus, Edinburgh 19 April 1854. Quarterly Journal Geol. Soc. xi 38–41 (1855); Proc. Linnean Soc. ii 306–9 (1855); Jerdan’s National portrait gallery, iv (1833), portrait; W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery, iii 126–27, portrait.

JAMESON, Robert William (brother of the preceding). b. Leith 1805; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edin.; a writer to the signet in Edin.; an original member of reformed town council of Edin. 1832; the best hustings speaker of his time; edited Wigtownshire Free Press at Stranraer 1855–61; his tragedy Timoleon 2 ed. 1852 was produced at the T.R. Edin.; proprietor of a newspaper at Sudbury 1861, then in residence in London; author of Nimrod, a poem 1848; The curse of gold, a novel 1854. d. 12 Earl’s Court terrace, Kensington, London 10 Dec. 1868. Reg. and Mag. of Biog. Feb. 1869 pp. 124–5.

JAMESON, William (son of Wm. Jameson, writer to the signet). b. Edinburgh 3 Oct. 1796; ed. at univ. of Edin.; M.R.C.S. Edin. 17 Feb. 1818; surgeon at Guayaquil, Peru 1822–6, at Quito 1826–7; professor of chemistry and botany in univ. of Quito 1827–32; assayer to the mint, Quito 1832, director 1861 to Nov. 1869; joined Church of Rome; created a caballero of Spain by Queen Isabella 1867; sent to England many new species of plants, among which species of anemone, gentian and the moss Dicranum bear his name; a genus of ferns is also called Jamesonia; author of Synopsis plantarum Æquatoriensium 2 vols. and part i. of vol. 3. Quito 1865. d. Quito 22 June 1873. Trans. Botanical Soc. Edin. xii 19–28 (1876).

JAMESON, William. b. Leith 1815; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edin.; of H.E.I.C. medical service 30 Aug. 1838; curator of museum of Asiatic Society of Bengal 1838; taken prisoner while examining the course of the Indus and imprisoned in Kohat fort 1841; superintendent of the Saharunpore botanical garden 1842 to 31 Dec. 1875; procured tea plants and distributed them in various parts of India 1843 etc., the development of tea-planting in India was entirely due to him, tea has now become a staple commodity on the lower Himalaya; surgeon major 10 April 1852, retired as deputy surgeon general 31 Dec. 1875; C.I.E. 1 Jany. 1878. d. Deyrah Doon a tea garden 18 March 1882. Proc. of Botanical Soc. of Edin. xiv 288–95 (1882).

JAMESON, William. b. Penrith 1839; apprenticed to a joiner there; a pole leaper; won the first prize for wrestling from 23 picked men at Talkin Tarn regatta 1858; wrestled Dick Wright for £25 a side at Carlisle, Dec. 1859 when he was thrown 3 times; first appeared in the London ring at Hornsey Wood House, Good Friday 1861 when he won first prize for heavy weights and divided first prize for pole leaping; won the London heavy weight prize 1862, 67 and 70, won the second prize 1863, 66 and 68; won the first prize at Carlisle 5 times; thrown by Dubois, French wrestler at Agricultural hall, London 1870; performed in the country with English and French wrestlers 1870; landlord of Griffin inn, Penrith 1871 to death; the best wrestler in North of England 1860–70, had no superior at hiping and buttocking; nearly 6 feet high and weighed 17 stone. d. Griffin inn, Penrith 23 Nov. 1888. Walter Armstrong’s Wrestliana (1870) passim.

JAMIE, William. b. Marykirk, Kincardineshire 25 Dec. 1818; a blacksmith; a teacher; author of The Jacobite’s son, a tale; The emigrant’s family. Glasgow 1854; The musings of a wanderer, being poems and songs in the Scottish dialect. Glasgow 1856. d. Pollockshaws near Glasgow 186-. R. Inglis’ Dramatic writers (1868) 58.

JAMIESON, John Lennox Kincaid. b. Milton of Campsie near Glasgow 27 March 1826; 3 class assist. engineer R.N.; at bombardment of Bomarsund, Crimean medal; superintendent engineer for Pacific steam navigation co. at Tobago 1856–66; connected with improvement of the compound marine engine 1857 etc.; manager for Randolph, Elder & Co. Glasgow 1866 and partner 1870–79, removed the works to Fairfield; introduced the three cylinder compound marine engine in the Iberia and Liguria 1872; town councillor Glasgow 1880 to death; president of Anderson’s coll. 1879; M.I.M.E. 1870. d. at his sister’s res. 38 Wickham road, St. John’s, Kent 2 July 1883. Proc. Instit. Mechanical engineers (1884) 65–6; Glasgow Herald 3 July 1883 p. 4.

JAMIESON, Robert. Merchant in connection with South America, Brazil, India and China, at 33 Great Winchester st. city of London 1836 to death; equipped at his own expense the Ethiope steamship, whose commander captain Beecroft explored several West African rivers 1839 and helped to rescue H.M.S. Albert and the government Niger expedition 1841; declined vice presidency of Institut d’Afrique of France 1840; sought to civilise Africa by opening up the rivers and suppressing slave trade; author of An appeal to the government against the proposed Niger expedition 1840, A further appeal 1841, and Sequel to appeals 1843; Commerce with Africa 1859. d. 18 Gloucester sq. Hyde park, London 5 April 1861. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. v 160 (1860–61); Times 8 April 1861 p. 9.

JAMIESON, Rev. Robert (son of Mr. Jamieson of Edinburgh, baker). b. Edin. 3 Jany. 1802; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edin.; licensed as a preacher 1827; minister of Weststruther in presbytery of Lauder 1830–7; minister of Currie, Edin. 1837–44; minister of St. Paul’s, Glasgow 14 March 1844 to death; D.D. Glasgow 17 April 1848; moderator of general assembly 1872; author of Eastern manners illustrative of the Old Testament 1836, 4 ed. 1854; Eastern manners illustrative of the New Testament, 3 ed. 1851; Manners and trials of primitive christians 1839; with E. H. Bickersteth and Brown, The Holy Bible with a commentary 1861–5. d. 156 Randolph terrace, Glasgow 26 Oct. 1880. John Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy (1848) 259–65.

JAMIESON, Thomas Hill. b. Bonnington near Arbroath, Aug. 1843; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edin.; assistant librarian of the Advocates’ library, Edin., and librarian June 1871 to death; edited a reprint of Barclay’s translation of Brandt’s Ship of Fools 1874; author of Notice of the life and writings of Alexander Barclay 1874; over-exerted himself at time of fire in Advocates’ Lib. 3 March 1875. d. 7 Gillespie crescent, Edinburgh 9 Jany. 1876.

JAMRACH, Johann Christian Carl (son of Johann Gottlieb Jamrach, chief of the Hamburg river police). b. Hamburg, March 1815; dealer in wild animals 86 Upper East Smithfield 1843, removed to an establishment in Ratcliffe Highway known as 179 & 180 St. George st.; naturalised 12 March 1856; well known among naturalists, he supplied menageries and zoological gardens with many of their animals; imported eastern curiosities and had a collection of Japanese idols; a breeder of Persian greyhounds, Japanese pugs and Madagascar cats; had encounter with a runaway tiger in 1857. d. Beaufort cottage, Wellington road, Bow 6 Sep. 1891. Strand Mag. April 1891 pp. 429–36; Good Words (1879) 1865–9; Times 8 Sep. 1891 p. 7; Pall Mall Budget 10 Sep. 1891.

Note.—Anton Herman Jamrach junior, naturalist, eld. son of above d. 355 East India dock road, Poplar 14 Nov. 1855.

JANISCH, Hudson Ralph. Entered colonial service 1838; police magistrate St. Helena 1851, acting queen’s advocate there 1856, 1857, acting colonial sec. 1861, 1868, colonial sec. and auditor general; governor of St. Helena 1 Oct. 1873 to death; author of The exhumation of the remains of Napoleon Bonaparte. St. Helena 1840. d. St. Helena, April 1884.

JANSON, Ailsa (son of Henry Etienne Janson tutor to George V. of Hanover). b. Richmond, Surrey, Jany. 1844; ed. at Polytechnic sch. Hanover; under Tolmé, C.E. employed on Gellivara canals, Sweden 1865–6; resident engineer East Hungarian railway 1871 etc.; A.I.C.E. 3 Dec. 1872 and member 14 May 1878; constructor of the Soudan railway 1875, director of works in the Soudan 1878; engineer and general manager of Great Western railway, Brazil 1879 to death. d. of yellow fever, Pernambuco 28 April 1885. Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. lxxxi 324–7 (1885).

JANSON, Thomas Corbyn (son of Mr. Janson of Tunbridge Wells, banker). b. 1 July 1809; ed. at Hove near Brighton; partner in Brown, Janson & Co. bankers 32 Abchurch lane, London to death; F.L.S. March 1843. d. Stamford hill, Middlesex 23 June 1863.

JAQUES, Richard Machell (son of Robert Jaques founder of the Easby stud, d. 1842). b. 31 March 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.; well known agriculturalist; steward at many race meetings and the reviver of the York meetings 1843; owner of many horses, chiefly trained by John Scott, very unlucky in racing, ran second for the St. Leger with High Treason 1860; had a stud at Easby abbey, Richmond, Yorkshire, including Irish Birdcatcher, Pyrrhus the First and other famous sires; sold his yearlings at Doncaster; a breeder of cattle particularly of shorthorns; president Richmond Farmers’ club 1873. d. 30 June 1889. Sporting Review, xv 7–10 (1846), portrait.

JARACZEWSKI, Miecislas, Count, great friend of Prince of Wales; a well known man in fashionable and racing circles, member of Turf club. d. at his lodgings 4 Bennett st. St. James’s, London 11 March 1881. bur. R.C. cemetery, Kensal green 17 March.

JARDINE, Alexander (2 son of Sir Alexander Jardine 6 baronet, d. 1821). b. 2 Oct. 1803; ensign 75 foot 22 April 1826, lieut. col. 1 June 1849, retired on full pay 7 Oct. 1859; M.G. 7 Oct. 1859. d. Brighton 23 June 1869.

JARDINE, David (son of rev. David B. Jardine 1766–97, unitarian minister). b. 1792; barrister M.T. 7 Feb. 1823, went western circuit; one of the 20 municipal corporation comrs. for England and Wales 18 July 1833 to 1835; recorder of Bath, March 1837 to death; stipendiary magistrate Bow st. London 1839 to death; author of General index to Howell’s Collection of state trials 1828; A reading on the use of torture 1837; A narrative of the gunpowder plot 1857. d. The Heath, Weybridge, Surrey 13 Sep. 1860.

JARDINE, Sir Henry (son of Rev. Dr. John Jardine, dean of chapel royal in Scotland 1763–6). b. 1766; a writer to the signet 1790; king’s remembrancer of court of exchequer in Scotland 1820–37; knighted at Carlton house, London 20 April 1825; F.S.A. Scot. and V.P.; F.R.S. Edin. d. Belleville lodge, Newington, Edinburgh 11 Aug. 1851.

JARDINE, James. b. Applegarth, Dumfriesshire 30 Nov. 1776; taught mathematics in Edin. 1796–1806; a civil engineer in Edin. 1806 to death; introduced the Crawley water into Edin. 1820; constructed the Union canal 1822; the first to determine the mean level of the sea 1809; engineer of the Dalkeith railway. d. 18 Queen st. Edinburgh 20 June 1858.

JARDINE, Sir William, 7 Baronet (eld. son of sir Alexander Jardine d. 1820). b. North Hanover st. Edinburgh 23 Feb. 1806; ed. at York and univ. of Edin.; with P. J. Selby commenced Illustrations of ornithology 1825; edited the Naturalist’s Library 40 vols. 1833–45 of which he wrote 14 vols.; commenced with P. J. Selby at Edin. the Magazine of zoology and botany 1837 which became in 1838 the Annals of natural history, and in 1841 the Annals and magazine of natural history; joint editor of Edinburgh Philosophical Journal 1855; a comr. to enquire into salmon fisheries of England and Wales 30 July 1860; F.R.S. Edin. 1824; author of Contributions to ornithology 3 vols. 1848–52; The Ichnology of Annandale 1851–3; The Birds of Great Britain and Ireland 4 vols. 1876. d. Sandown, Isle of Wight 21 Nov. 1874. Proc. of royal Soc. of Edin. ix 20–2 (1878); Nature 26 Nov. 1874 p. 74; Graphic, xi 68 (1875), portrait.

JARMAN, Frances Eleanor (eld. child of John Jarman of York, actor). b. Hull, Feb. 1803; made her first appearance at Bath 23 May 1815 as Edward a child in Mrs. Inchbald’s Every one has his fault; acted at Bath 1815–22, in Ireland 1824–7; first appeared in London at Covent Garden 7 Feb. 1827 as Juliet; played Imogen 10 May 1827 her best tragic part; made a great success as Amadis in Dimond’s Nymph of the Grotto 15 Jany. 1829; acted in Scotland 1829–34, in America and Canada 1834–7, at Drury Lane 1837–8, in Dublin 1843; played Paulina in The Winter’s Tale at Princess’s theatre, London, Oct. 1855; acted with Charles Dickens in Wilkie Collins’ drama The Frozen Deep, at Manchester 1857; retired about 1857–8; played at Lyceum theatre, London 23 Dec. 1865. (m. 21 Sep. 1834 Thomas Luke Ternan, actor and author who d. 17 Oct. 1846 aged 47). d. The Lawn, Oxford 30 Oct. 1873. Tallis’s Drawing room table book, part 17 (1851), portrait; Actors by daylight, i 121 (1838), portrait; J. N. Ireland’s New York stage, ii 107 (1867).

JARMAN, Henry. b. 1819; solicitor in London 1847 to death; author of New practice of the court of chancery 1853, 3 ed. 1854; Forms of bills of costs in chancery 1857; Index to the bankruptcy act 1869; Index to the old and new Testaments 1883. d. 6 Sandmere road, Clapham, Surrey 10 Jany. 1889.

JARMAN, Thomas. b. 1800; clerk in office of his uncle a solicitor at Bristol; barrister M.T. 10 Feb. 1826; conveyancing counsel to court of chancery to death; edited J. J. Powell’s An essay on devises 3rd ed. 2 vols. 1827, wrote all the 2nd vol. himself; W. M. Bythwood’s A selection of precedents forming a system of conveyancing 1827, vols, 4 to 10 were compiled by T. Jarman, 2 ed. 11 vols. 1829–36; author of A treatise on wills 2 vols. 1844, 4 ed. 2 vols. 1881; author with W. Hayes of Concise forms of wills with practical notes 1835, 9 ed. 1883. d. Hadley, Middlesex 26 Feb. 1860. A brief memorial of the late Thomas Jarman, Esq. of Lincoln’s Inn. By Rev. Professor Charlton, privately printed; Law mag. and law review, x 251–62 (1861); Solicitors’ Journal, iv 351–3 (1860).

JARMAN, Thomas. Lived at Clipston, Northamptonshire; prolific composer of anthems and psalm tunes, some of which were very popular about 1840; published Devotional melodist 1828; Sacred music. The Northamptonshire harmony 1835; The church and chapel melodist 1850. d. Jany. 1862.

JARRETT, Rev. Thomas. b. 1805; ed. at St. Cath. coll. Camb., 34 wrangler 1827; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; fellow of his college 1828–32, classical and Hebrew lecturer to 1832; professor of Arabic at Camb. 1831–54; R. of Trunch, Norfolk 4 Feb. 1832 to death; regius professor of Hebrew at Camb., and canon of Ely, Feb. 1854 to death; lectured on Sanskrit 20 years; knew 20 languages; devised a system for transliterating oriental languages into the Roman character; author of An Essay on algebraic development. Cambridge 1831; A new lexicon of the Hebrew language, Part i. Hebrew and English, Part ii. English and Hebrew 1848; A new way of marking the sounds of English words without change of spelling 1858; The Hebrew text of the old covenant, printed in a modified Roman alphabet 1882. d. Trunch rectory 7 March 1882. The Biograph, iv 231–33 (1880).

JARROLD, Thomas. b. Manningtree, Essex 1 Dec. 1770; ed. at univ. of Edin.; M.D. Glasgow 1802; physician at Stockport, Cheshire, then at Manchester; member of Manchester Lit. and Phil. Soc.; author of Essays in answer to professor Malthus’ work on population. Stockport 1806; Anthropologia or dissertations on the form and colour of man 1808; An enquiry into the cause of the curvature of the spine 1823. d. Greenhill st. Greenheys, Manchester 24 June 1853. J. P. Earwaker’s Local Gleanings (1876) 137, 143.

JARVIS, Sir Lewis Whincop (only son of Lewis Weston Jarvis of Lynn, solicitor). b. 1816; articled to his father; solicitor at Lynn 1840 to death; head of bank of Jarvis and Jarvis at Lynn to death; mayor of Lynn 1860, 61 and 62; steward of the Prince of Wales’s manors in Norfolk; knighted at Osborne 15 Jany. 1878. d. Middleton Towers, Lynn, Norfolk 2 Nov. 1888.

JARVIS, Sir Samuel Raymond (son of Samuel Jarvis of Fair Oak house, Hants.) b. about 1790; ensign 18 foot 12 April 1806; lieut. 25 foot 1807 to 1816 when placed on h.p.; captain 2 life guards 25 April 1817 to 25 Jany. 1823 when placed on h.p.; knighted at St. James’s palace 17 Sep. 1834; sheriff of Hants. 1834; lieut. col. in the army 11 Nov. 1851; captain 3 West India regiment 6 March 1863 but sold out same day. d. Cove cottage, Ventnor, Isle of Wight 5 Dec. 1868.

JARVIS, Stephen. b. 1834; organist; published a set of Six trios for male voices to the words of old nursery ditties; Merrily oh. Song, words by T. Moore 1877; The Inchcape bell. Scena 1879; Peter Piper. Canon for three voices 1879; Old England on the lee. Song 1880; Pensées Musicales. A set of pieces for the piano 1880. d. 2 Thornford ter. Lewisham, Kent 27 Nov. 1880.

JAVASU, Caraboo, Princess of, a name taken by Mary Willcocks (dau. of Thomas Willcocks a cobbler at Witheridge, North Devon). b. Witheridge 11 Nov. 1792; in service at Exeter 1810, then became a wandering mendicant; assumed male attire and was a footman in a family 1813; acquired the art of altering her features so that no one knew her; lost in the snow and buried during a night near Witheridge; in Magdalen hospital, London, Feb.-July 1813. (m. 1816 John Edward Francis Baker or Bakerstendt, who soon ran away from her, placed her child in the Foundling hospital, London, where it died Sep. 1816); camped with gipsies near Exeter and learnt some of their skill; pretended to be a Frenchwoman, then a Spaniard; announced herself to be Caraboo princess of Javasu, and at Bath at the Pack Horse inn held a reception when the ladies knelt before her; invented written characters for the Javasu language; went to America 1817, returned 1824; exhibited herself in New Bond st. London 1824; living under Pyle Hill, Bedminster, Bristol as a seller of leeches Dec. 1849. d. Bristol, Dec. 1864. Full particulars of the life of Caraboo, alias Mary Baker. Bristol (1817); Narrative of an imposition by Mary Willcocks alias Baker, alias Bakerstendt alias Caraboo, Princess of Javasu. Bristol (1817) with 2 portraits; Temple Bar, June 1866 pp. 420–2; Whately’s Miscellaneous Remains (1864) 249–52; Hone’s Everyday book, ii 1631–4 (1838), 2 portraits.

JAY, John. Carpenter at 121 Bunhill Row, London 1835–8, builder at 65 London Wall 1838–49, contractor at 15 & 16 Macclesfield st. City road 1848–62, at 9 Euston road 1866–73; constructed the Great Northern railway station 1852, one of the three contractors for Metropolitan railway from Paddington to Farringdon st. 1860–2; completed the houses of parliament, including the central clock and Victoria towers; built fortifications for government, and the casemated barracks at Portland. d. Ashford house, Hornsey 28 Dec. 1872.

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

JAY, William Chickall. b. Suffolk 1811; came to London as a boy and entered a millinery establishment; opened a shawl warehouse at 217 Regent st. London 1841 and was proprietor of a mourning warehouse at 247 and 249 Regent st. 1842–68, it was turned into a limited company 1868; member of hon. artillery co. 1835 and capt. of the troop of horse artillery 1860–9; member of Victoria rifles 1850; a successful farmer at Tolesbury, Essex. d. 27 April 1888, personalty sworn over £101,000. Henry Mayhew’s Shops of London, ii 217–20 (1865); Warehouseman and Draper’s trade journal 4 Sep. 1886 pp. 735–6, portrait, 5 May 1888 p. 446.

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

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

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

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

JEBB, William Francis (3 son of lieut. William Francis Jebb, R.N.). b. Corby, Northants. 1828; educ. for the bar; clerk to Westminster district board to 1867; clerk to Metropolitan asylums district board from its beginning 1867 to death. d. 3 Campden grove, Kensington 4 Oct. 1890. bur. Kensington cemet. Hanwell 9 Oct. The Metropolitan 11 Oct. 1890 p. 647; I.L.N. 18 Oct. 1890 p. 483, portrait.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

JEFFERSON, Margaret C. (dau. of Mr. Lockyer). b. Burnham, England 11 Sep. 1832. (m. 1849 Joseph Jefferson, American comedian who was b. Philadelphia 20 Feb. 1829); first appeared at Bowery theatre, New York as the Fairy queen in Cinderella 1848; came out at Niblo’s garden as Mrs. Lullaby 23 July 1859; a pleasing actress in soubrette parts. d. Twelfth st. New York 25 Feb. 1861. Brown’s American stage (1870) 194; Ireland’s New York stage, ii 501, 558 (1867); Autobiography of J. Jefferson (1890) 127–8, 229.

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

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

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

JEFFERY, James Reddecliff. b. Devonport 25 Nov. 1809; went to Liverpool, Feb. 1832 and in partnership with Walden and Bright commenced business, partnership dissolved July 1832, associated himself with James Morrish and opened Compton house Nov. 1832, his brother Wm. Sam. Jeffery being also in the firm, in 1860 the house covered a space of 16,200 square feet, was three stories high and employed 300 hands and was one of the four largest silk and drapery establishments in United Kingdom; Compton house burnt down 1865 and rebuilt at cost of £250,000; James Jeffrey had a share in Howell & James 5, 7, 9 Regent st. London, which share he sold to concentrate his energies in Compton house; bankrupt 15 March 1871. d. Ilkley, Yorkshire 4 July 1871. bur. the necropolis, Liverpool. Puseley’s Commercial Companion (2 ed. 1860) 107–8; The Draper 7 July 1871 p. 317.

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

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

JEFFREY, Allen Ronald Macdonald. b. 1823 or 1824; wrote for sporting journals in London from about 1850 to death; wrote an article every week in the Sporting Times signed, the Member for Tattersall’s 1875 to death; one of the oldest members of the Victoria club 18 Wellington st. Strand. d. 75 Sandmere road, Clapham 26 March 1891. bur. Norwood cemetery 30 March.

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

JEFFREY, Rev. George. b. Leitholm, Berwickshire 1 Oct. 1815; ed. Edinb. univ. 1830 and at Theological hall of the United secession presbytery 1833; minister of London road ch. Mile End, Glasgow 1838 to death; clerk to the presbytery of Glasgow, and moderator 1879; a very popular preacher and lecturer; author of The present war, a discourse. Glasgow 1854. d. Glasgow 23 May 1887. bur. Sighthill cemet. 27 May. G. Jeffrey’s The believer’s privilege. Sermons Edin. 1888, with biographical sketch by A. Thomson pp. 1–54, portrait; John Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy (1848) 223–30.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

JELLICOE, Mrs. Anne W. (dau. of Mr. Mullin). b. 1823; a Friend, joined the Ch. of England; lady superintendent of Alexandra college, 2 Earlsfort terrace, Dublin (founded for education of ladies) 1866 to death. d. at the residence of her brother John W. Mullin 13 South road, Birmingham 18 Oct. 1880. bur. Friends’ ground at Rosenallis near Mountmellick 21 Oct. Freeman’s Journal 19 Oct. 1880 p. 1, 22 Oct. p. 2.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

JENNER, Robert Fitzhardinge (2 son of Edward Jenner, M.D., the introducer of vaccination 1749–1823). b. 1797; vaccinated by his father 12 April 1798; ed. at Ex. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; lieut. col. royal south Gloucester militia 29 Sep. 1842 to death. d. Berkeley, Gloucs. 16 March 1854 aged 56. J. Baron’s Life of Edward Jenner, i 147, ii 44–9 (1827–38).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

JERNINGHAM, Charles William Edward (eld. son of Edward Jerningham 1774–1822, barrister). b. 27 Nov. 1805; ed. Stonyhurst; barrister I.T. 12 Feb. 1830; a frequent contributor to Dolman’s Magazine; author of A letter to the vicar apostolic of Great Britain upon the regulations by the holy see, with respect to mixed marriages 1843. d. 26 Feb. 1854. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii 624–5 (1887).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

JESSOP, Thomas (son of Wm. Jessop of Sheffield, steel smelter). b. Sheffield 31 Jany. 1804; iron and steel manufacturer with his father and brothers at Sheffield 1830, the business became one of the largest in England, was left sole surviving partner 1871; converted business into a limited liability co. at Brightside works, Sheffield 1875, chairman of the co. 1875 to death; works stood on 27 acres of ground; built and furnished at cost of £30,000 the Jessop hospital for women 1878; mayor and master cutler of Sheffield 1863; president Sheffield Birthday club. d. Endcliffe grange, Sheffield 30 Nov. 1887. bur. Eccleshall ch. 3 Dec.; gross value of personal estate in England sworn at £656,449. Sheffield Independent 1 Dec. 1887 p. 2, 5 Dec. p. 2.

JESSOP, William Henry Bowlestone (eld. son of James Jessop of Crayford, Kent). Ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857; published A complete decimal system of money and measures 1855; author of Flindersland and Sturtland, or the inside and outside of Australia 2 vols. 1862. d. Doreh, Papua 3 Feb. 1862. G.M. xix 652 (1865).

Note.—His death was not announced in the Times until 26 Aug. 1865.

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

JEUNE, Francis (eld. son of Francis Jeune of Jersey). b. St. Brelade, Jersey 22 May 1806; ed. at St. Servan’s coll. Rennes and Pemb. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830, B.C.L. and D.C.L. 1834; scholar of his coll. 1822, fellow 1830–7, tutor 1830–4, master 22 Dec. 1843 to Jany. 1864, admitted master 26 Dec. 1843, the validity of his election to the mastership was afterwards disputed; master King Edward’s sch. Birmingham 1834–8; dean of Jersey and R. of St. Heliers 1838–44; Victoria college, St. Heliers, was built on a plan recommended by him; canon of Gloucester 1843–64; V. of Taynton, Gloucs. 1843–64; comr. for inquiring into state of univ. and colleges of Oxford 31 Aug. 1850, wrote greater part of the report; member of hebdomadal council 1854–64; vice chancellor of univ. of Oxf. 1858–9; dean of Lincoln 18 Jany. 1864; bishop of Peterborough 21 May 1864 to death, consecrated 29 June; author of Was Christ crucified for you? a sermon 1863, 3 ed. 1864. d. Whitby 21 Aug. 1868. bur. Peterborough cath. yard 28 Aug. Guardian 26 Aug. 1868 p. 956, 2 Sep. p. 979; Times 22 Aug. 1868 p. 7; I.L.N. 28 May 1864 p. 512, portrait.

JEVONS, William. b. Staffordshire 1794; Unitarian minister; author of Systematic morality 1827; Elements of astronomy 1828 and other books. d. Liverpool 1873.

JEVONS, William Stanley (9 child of Thomas Jevons, iron merchant at Liverpool). b. 14 Alfred st. Liverpool 1 Sep. 1835; ed. at univ. coll. London, fellow 1864; M.A. univ. of London 1862; LLD. Edinb. 1876; assayer to the Sydney mint, N.S.W. 1854–9; tutor at Owen’s college, Manchester 1863; professor of logic, mental and moral philosophy and Cobden lecturer in political economy, Owen’s coll. Manchester, May 1866 to Oct. 1876; professor of political economy at univ. coll. London 1876–80; F.R.S. 6 June 1872; lived at 2 The Chestnuts, West Heath road, Hampstead 1876 to death; author of Remarks on the Australian gold fields 1859; Pure logic or the logic of quality apart from quantity 1864; Value of gold 1863; The coal question 1865, 2 ed. 1866; The principles of science, a treatise on logic 2 vols. 1874, 2 ed. 1877; Money and the mechanism of exchange 1875; Primer of political economy 1878; Investigations in currency and finance 1884; drowned when bathing at Galley Hill, Belverhythe near Hastings 13 Aug. 1882. bur. Hampstead cemetery 18 Aug. Letters of W. S. Jevons ed. by his wife (1886), portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxv, pp. i–xi (1883); Baines’s Hampstead (1890) 369–70; Biograph, v 426 (1881).

JEWELL, Jacob. Owner of the largest travelling bazaar; a tenant under Wm. Holland at North Woolwich gardens about 15 years; the only Israelite itinerant showman travelling the English and continental fairs for over 60 years. d. Sep. 1884. bur. Jewish cemetery, West Ham.

JEWERS, Richard Francis. Entered navy June 1803; severely wounded in a fire ship in Aix roads, April 1809; retired commander 7 Aug. 1861; had a grant from Patriotic soc.; naval knight of Windsor 21 Jany. 1846, governor of the naval knights 7 May 1860 to death. d. Traver’s college, Windsor castle 14 Nov. 1872.

JEWISON, Christopher. b. 1785; L.S.A. 1836, M.R.C.S. 1844; coroner for liberty of honour of Pontefract 1817 to death. d. Rothwell, Leeds 5 March 1870.

JEWITT, Arthur (eld. son of Arthur Jewitt, cutler). b. Sheffield 7 March 1772; apprentice to his father as a cutler 1786–93; master of schools at Sheffield 1793, at Chesterfield 1794 and at Kimberworth 1814–18; resided at Duffield near Derby 1818–38; author of The history of Lincoln 1810; The history of Buxton 1811; The Northern star, or Yorkshire magazine 3 vols. 1817–18; The Sylph, or Lady’s magazine for Yorkshire 1818; The handbook of practical perspective 1840; Handbook of geometry 1842. d. Headington near Oxford 7 March 1852. William Smith’s Old Yorkshire (1883) 147–51, portrait.

JEWITT, Llewellyn Frederick William (17 and youngest child of the preceding). b. Kimberworth near Rotherham, Yorkshire 24 Nov. 1816; went to London as a drawer and engraver 1838; illustrated Charles Knight’s publications, Pictorial Times, Illustrated London News, etc.; managed illustrations of Punch about 1848; chief librarian of Plymouth public library 1849–53; started the Derby Telegraph at Derby 1853, editor 1853–68; started The Reliquary 1860, editor 1860 to death; F.S.A. 27 Jany. 1853; formed a collection of china, sold 1871; granted civil list pension of £70, 16 June 1885; author of Rifle and volunteer rifle corps 1860; The Wedgwoods 1865; The life of William Hutton 1869; A history of Plymouth 1873; The ceramic art of Great Britain 2 vols. 1878, 2 ed. 1883; The life of Jacob Thompson 1882. d. the Hollies, Duffield, Derby 5 June 1886. bur. Winster 9 June. W. H. Goss’ Life of Llewellyn Jewitt (1889), portrait; Proc. Soc. of Antiq. xi 370–1 (1885–7); The Biograph, Feb. 1882 pp. 115–24.

JEWITT, Thomas Orlando Sheldon (brother of the preceding). b. Derbyshire 1799; wood engraver, illustrated with woodcuts Rev. A. G. Jewitt’s Wanderings of Memory 1815; while at Oxford 1838 &c. illustrated J. H. Parker’s architectural publications; employed as an artist by the Archæological Institute; had many pupils. d. 20 Clifton villas, Camden sq. London 30 May 1869.

JEWSBURY, Geraldine Endsor (dau. of Thomas Jewsbury of Manchester, merchant, d. 1840). b. Measham, Derbyshire 1812; her parents removed to Manchester 1818; great friend of Thomas Carlyle and his wife from 1841, many of Mrs. Carlyle’s letters are addressed to her, as are also Lady Theodore Martin’s Letters on Shakspere’s Female characters; lived in Chelsea 1854–66, at Sevenoaks, Kent 1866–80; granted civil list pension of £40, 19 June 1874; author of Zoe, the history of two lives 3 vols. 1845; The half-sisters 2 vols. 1848, three editions; Marian Withers 3 vols. 1851; The history of an adopted child 1853; Constance Herbert 3 vols. 1855; The sorrows of gentility 2 vols. 1856; Angelo or the pine forest 1856; Right or Wrong 2 vols. 1859. d. in a private hospital at Burwood place, Edgware road, London 23 Sep. 1880. bur. in Lady Morgan’s vault, Brompton cemet. J. Evans’ Lancashire authors (1850) 140–4.

JEWSON, Frederick Bowen. b. Edinburgh 26 July 1823, where he performed in public from 1828; studied at R. Acad. of music, London 1834, King’s scholar 1837, professor of pianoforte 1840–89; professor of music, St. Mary’s hall, Brighton; composer of Overtures for various dramas; Six grand studies for the piano 1869; Douze etudes melodiques et brillantes; Chanson d’ Amour for piano 1876; The mountain stream, caprice 1876. d. 21 Manchester st. Manchester sq. London 28 May 1891. Cazalet’s Royal academy of music (1854) 298.

JEX, Johnson (son of Wm. Jex, blacksmith). b. Billingford, Norfolk about 1778, a blacksmith there and at Letheringsett near Holt to 1822 when he commenced employing workmen; made a gold chronometer for sir Jacob Astley, with a detached escapement and compensating balance before he ever heard of the detached escapement; learnt French when about 60; invented a lathe by which he could cut the teeth of wheels mathematically correct into any number up to 2000 by means of a dividing plate; an iron and brass founder, a glass blower, a maker of mathematical instruments, barometers, thermometers, gun barrels, air guns, &c. d. Letheringsett, Norfolk 5 Jany. 1852. Norfolk News 17 Jany. 1852 p. 4; Athenæum 24 Jany. 1852 pp. 123–4; A. Young’s General view of Norfolk (1804) 73–4.

JEZREEL, Esther, name assumed by Clarissa Rogers (dau. of Edward Rogers, sawyer, New Brompton, Kent). b. 1860; a member of The New and latter house of Israel, made preaching tours in America 1878 and 1879; (m. 1879 James Jershom Jezreel 1840–85); succeeded her husband as head of the sect 1 March 1885 and was known as queen Esther the mother of Israel; issued The messenger of wisdom and Israel’s guide 1887, a monthly publication. d. the Woodlands, Gillingham, Rochester 30 June 1888.

JEZREEL, James Jershom, name assumed by James White, b. 1840; a private in 16 regt. at Chatham; joined The New house of Israel or Joanna Southcottians 15 Oct. 1875, dismissed 26 Dec.; founded The New and latter house of Israel 1875; in India with his regt. 1876, bought out, returned to England under the name of James Jershom Jezreel, claiming to have received a revelation contained in The Flying Scroll. (m. 1879 Clarissa Rogers i.e. Esther Jezreel 1860–88); erected a large temple on Chatham hill, New Brompton; had a numerous following who put their money into a common fund; published Extracts from the Flying Roll vol. i three parts 1879–81. d. the Woodlands, Gillingham, Rochester 1 March 1885. Pall Mall Gazette 6 March 1885 p. 12, 2 July 1888 p. 10; N. and Q. 29 Jany. 1887 p. 98.

JOBBINS, John Richard. Surveyor, mechanical draughtsman and lithographer at 3 Warwick court, Holborn, London about 1836 to death; invented method of etching with a brush upon stone and zinc; illustrated Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. with his new process many years; Assoc. B.A. Assoc. 1852; author with F. T. Dollman of An analysis of ancient domestic architecture in Great Britain 1860. d. Warwick court, Holborn, London 27 Feb. 1866.

JOBSON, Rev. Frederick James (son of John Jobson d. 1875 aged 88). b. Northwich, Cheshire 6 July 1812; Wesleyan minister at Patrington, Yorkshire 1834, at City road, London 1837–40, 1849–52 and 1861–4, at Spitalfields, London 1840–3, at Leeds, Manchester, Bradford and Huddersfield 1843–61; attended Australian conference at Sydney, Jany. 1861; book steward of W.M. organisation 1864 to death; elected pres. of the conference 5 Aug. 1869; author of Chapel and school architecture 1850; America and American methodism 1857; Perfect love for Christian believers 1864. d. 21 Highbury place, Holloway road, London 4 Jany. 1881. Life. By Rev. B. Gregory (1884), portrait; Evans’s Lancashire authors (1850) 136–40; I.L.N. 14 Aug. 1869 p. 165, portrait.

JOBSON, Robert. b. Sheffield 1 April 1817; an ironfounder near Dudley about 1840 to death; made a large portion of the castings for the Great exhibition of 1851 and for the Crystal palace at Sydenham; invented valuable improvements in mechanical engineering, including machinery for moulding. d. near Dudley 1 Aug. 1872.

JOCELYN, Robert (eld. son of 3 earl of Roden 1788–1870). b. Pall Mall, London 20 Feb. 1816; styled viscount Jocelyn 29 June 1820 to death; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 24 May 1833; lieut. 15 hussars 1839 to 19 June 1841 when he sold out; military sec. on staff of lord Saltoun in China 1842; contested Leeds 1841; M.P. King’s Lynn 10 Feb. 1842 to death; a sec. of board of control 17 Feb. 1845 to 6 July 1846; lieut. col. commandant of East Essex militia 25 Feb. 1853 to death; published Six months with the Chinese expedition 2 ed. 1841. d. Carlton gardens, London 12 Aug. 1854. bur. Sawbridgeworth, Herts.

JODRELL, Sir Richard Paul, 2 Baronet (eld. son of Richard Paul Jodrell, dramatist 1745–1831). b. Marylebone, London 26 June 1781; ed. at Eton and Magd. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1806; barrister L.I. 26 Nov. 1803; succeeded his maternal grand-uncle Sir John Lombe 27 May 1817; author of Carmina Selecta 1810; Dover, ancient and modern, a poem. Dover 1841. d. 64 Portland place, London 14 Jany. 1861.

JOEL, Julian Von. b. 5 May 1785; German jödler; first appeared in London as a siffleur or whistler of tunes on walking sticks at the Sans Souci, Leicester place, Leicester sq. about July 1829; performed at Vauxhall gardens 1830, in the provinces, and at the Cyder Cellars and Evans’s, Covent Garden; sold cigars at Evans’s 1852 to death; his name is often mentioned in the first vol. of Punch 1841, is found in Albert Smith’s The adventures of Mr. Ledbury 1844 and in Mark Lemon’s comedy The Ladies club. d. 22 July 1865. Illustrated sporting news, iv 421, 422 (1865), portrait; Era 30 July 1865 p. 10.

JOHN, William. b. Narberth, Pembrokeshire, July 1845; student in R. sch. of naval architecture and marine engineering 1864; draughtsman, Admiralty 1867–72; made the calculations for the first curves of stability for a ship ever produced 1868; pointed out the dangerous construction of the Captain 1870 and the Atalanta 18—; assist. chief surveyor Lloyd’s Register 1872–81; general manager Barrow ship building and engineering co. 1881–8, when he designed and built the City of Rome 1881 known as the Atlantic Greyhound, and La Normandie 1882 the largest French liner; naval architect 101 Leadenhall st. London 1888–90; contributed papers to Trans. Instit. naval architects 1874 etc.; author of The masting of vessels. A report to the Committee of Lloyd’s Register. d. Madrid 26 Dec. 1890. D. Pollock’s Modern ship-building (1884) 124–6 portrait.

JOHNES, Arthur James (only son of Edward Johnes, M.D. of Garthmyl Issa near Montgomery). b. 4 Feb. 1808; ed. at Oswestry gr. sch. and London univ. 1828–9; barrister L.I. 30 Jany. 1835; judge of county courts, circuit 28 (Anglesey, Carnarvon & Merioneth), 13 March 1847, resigned Dec. 1870; a great supporter of the established ch. in Wales; a promoter of Cambrian quarterly Mag. 1830 in which he wrote under signature of Maelog; author of An essay on the causes which have produced dissent from the established church in Wales 1831, 3 ed. 1870; Suggestions for a reform of the court of chancery 1834; Philological proofs of the original unity and recent origin of human race 1843; Should the law of imprisonment for debt be abolished or amended? 1868; Is credit an evil? 1869. d. Garthmyl Issa 23 July 1871. bur. Berriew ch. Law Times, li 245, 263 (1871).

JOHNES, John (only son of John Johnes of Dolancothy near Llandilo, Carmarthenshire, d. 12 Sep. 1815). b. Dolancothy 6 Feb. 1800; ed. at Carmarthen and Lampeter gr. schs., at Bath and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. and M.A. 1829; barrister I.T. 18 Nov. 1831; judge of county courts, circuit 31 (Carmarthen, Cardigan and Pembroke), 13 March 1847, resigned Nov. 1861; recorder of Carmarthen, Dec. 1851 to Oct. 1872; chairman of Carmarthenshire quarter sessions 1853–72; shot by his butler at Caio, Carmarthenshire 19 Aug. 1876. Law Times, lxi 368 (1876).

JOHNS, Ambrose Bowden. b. Plymouth 1776; apprentice to Benjamin Robert Haydon, bookseller, Plymouth; bookseller at Plymouth; landscape painter, friend and fellow painter with J. M. W. Turner, some of his paintings have been sold as being by Turner; member of Plymouth soc. of artists and amateurs; exhibited 13 pictures at R.A., 3 at B.I. and 4 at Suffolk st. 1814–46; some of his paintings are in the earl of Morley’s collection at Saltram. d. Plymouth 10 Dec. 1858. Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire (1883) 77–81.

JOHNS, Charles Alexander (son of Henry Incledon Johns, banker, Devonport). b. Plymouth 31 Dec. 1811; F.L.S. 1836; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1841; chaplain National soc. training schs. Westminster 1842–4; head master Helston gram. sch. June 1843 to Dec. 1847; C. of Porthleven 1844–7; C. of Beenham, Berks. 1848–56; kept a school at Winton house, Winchester 1856 to death; first pres. Hampshire and Winchester scientific and lit. soc. 1870; author of A week at the Lizard 1848, 3 ed. 1874; Flowers of the field 2 vols. 1853; Birds’ nests. Anon. 1854, 2 ed. 1865; The governess. By A schoolmaster of twenty years standing 1855; Rambles about Paris 1859; British birds in their haunts 1862, 2 ed. 1879. d. Winton house, Winchester 28 June 1874.

JOHNS, Jasper Wilson (only son of Thomas Evan Johns of Cardiganshire). b. Dublin 1824; a civil engineer to 1854; captain commandant 3rd Montgomery rifle volunteers 14 Aug. 1860 to 11 Sep. 1865; partner in Bird & Co., iron merchants, London 1854; took an active part in promoting railways in Wales; contested Northallerton 1865 and 1868; M.P. North Eastern Warwickshire 1885–6; author of The Anglican cathedral church of St. James, Mount Zion, Jerusalem 1844. d. 16 Grenville place, Cromwell road, London 26 July 1889.

JOHNS, Richard (son of Wm. Johns, adjutant of Cornwall militia, d. 1834). b. Helston, Cornwall 5 Oct. 1805; 2 lieut. R.M. 1 Oct. 1825, captain 7 Aug. 1843 to death; author of Poems 1825; Legends and romances 3 vols. 1839; The schoolfellows or a by-way to fame 3 vols. 1841; The calendar of victory, a record of valour by sea and land 1855; The naval and military heroes of Great Britain 1860, another ed. of the previous work. d. Royal naval hospital, Stonehouse 6 Nov. 1851. G.M. xxxvi 671 (1851); Boase and Courtney’s Bibl Cornub. 277, 1248.

JOHNSON, Alexander Bryan. b. Gosport 29 May 1786; settled in Utica, N.Y., U.S. of America 1801; barrister; banker; author of The nature of value, capital, etc. New York 1813; The philosophy of human knowledge 1828; Physiology of the senses 1856; An encyclopædia of instruction 1857; Our monetary condition 1864. d. Utica 9 Sep. 1867. Appleton’s American Biog. iii 436 (1887).

JOHNSON, Charles. b. about 1793; M.R.C.S. Ireland 1815, F.R.C.S.I. 1818; F.K.Q.C.P.I. 1841; professor of midwifery in medical sch. of college of surgeons; founded with Henry Marsh an institution for diseases of children, in Pitt st. Dublin; master of the Lying in hospital, Dublin 1840; retired from practice 1864; author of Essays in Dublin hospital reports and in Cyclopædia of practical medicine. d. 24 Merrion sq. south, Dublin 19 June 1866.

JOHNSON, Charles. b. London 5 Oct. 1791; lecturer on botany 1819; professor of botany Guy’s hospital 1830–73; edited sir J. E. Smith’s English botany 2 ed. 1832; author of British poisonous plants 1856, 2 ed. 1861; with J. E. Sowerby The ferns of Great Britain 1855; The fern allies 1856; The grasses of Great Britain 1857–61. d. Camberwell 21 Sep. 1880. Journal of botany, xviii 351 (1880).

JOHNSON, Cuthbert William (son of Wm. Johnson of the Coalbrookdale china works). b. Widmore house, Bromley, Kent 28 Sep. 1799; employed in his father’s salt works at Heybridge, Essex; barrister G.I. 8 June 1836; F.R.S. 10 March 1842; took 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, 8o., 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.