Chapter III: Part 3

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.