Chapter II: Part 2

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.