Chapter V: Part 5

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

JESSOP, THOMAS (son of Wm. Jessop of Sheffield, steel smelter).
_b._ Sheffield 31 Jany. 1804; iron and steel manufacturer
with his father and brothers at Sheffield 1830, the business
became one of the largest in England, was left sole surviving
partner 1871; converted business into a limited liability co. at
Brightside works, Sheffield 1875, chairman of the co. 1875 to
death; works stood on 27 acres of ground; built and furnished at
cost of £30,000 the Jessop hospital for women 1878; mayor and
master cutler of Sheffield 1863; president Sheffield Birthday
club. _d._ Endcliffe grange, Sheffield 30 Nov. 1887. _bur._
Eccleshall ch. 3 Dec.; gross value of personal estate in England
sworn at £656,449. _Sheffield Independent 1 Dec. 1887 p._ 2, _5
Dec. p._ 2.

JESSOP, WILLIAM HENRY BOWLESTONE (eld. son of James Jessop of
Crayford, Kent). Ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1854, M.A.
1857; published A complete decimal system of money and measures
1855; author of Flindersland and Sturtland, or the inside and
outside of Australia 2 vols. 1862. _d._ Doreh, Papua 3 Feb.
1862. _G.M. xix_ 652 (1865).

NOTE.--His death was not announced in the Times until 26 Aug. 1865.

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

JEUNE, FRANCIS (eld. son of Francis Jeune of Jersey). _b._ St.
Brelade, Jersey 22 May 1806; ed. at St. Servan’s coll. Rennes
and Pemb. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830, B.C.L. and D.C.L.
1834; scholar of his coll. 1822, fellow 1830–7, tutor 1830–4,
master 22 Dec. 1843 to Jany. 1864, admitted master 26 Dec. 1843,
the validity of his election to the mastership was afterwards
disputed; master King Edward’s sch. Birmingham 1834–8; dean
of Jersey and R. of St. Heliers 1838–44; Victoria college,
St. Heliers, was built on a plan recommended by him; canon of
Gloucester 1843–64; V. of Taynton, Gloucs. 1843–64; comr. for
inquiring into state of univ. and colleges of Oxford 31 Aug.
1850, wrote greater part of the report; member of hebdomadal
council 1854–64; vice chancellor of univ. of Oxf. 1858–9; dean
of Lincoln 18 Jany. 1864; bishop of Peterborough 21 May 1864 to
death, consecrated 29 June; author of Was Christ crucified for
you? a sermon 1863, 3 ed. 1864. _d._ Whitby 21 Aug. 1868. _bur._
Peterborough cath. yard 28 Aug. _Guardian 26 Aug. 1868 p._ 956,
_2 Sep. p._ 979; _Times 22 Aug. 1868 p._ 7; _I.L.N. 28 May 1864
p._ 512, _portrait_.

JEVONS, WILLIAM. _b._ Staffordshire 1794; Unitarian minister;
author of Systematic morality 1827; Elements of astronomy 1828
and other books. _d._ Liverpool 1873.

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

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

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

JEWISON, CHRISTOPHER. _b._ 1785; L.S.A. 1836, M.R.C.S. 1844;
coroner for liberty of honour of Pontefract 1817 to death. _d._
Rothwell, Leeds 5 March 1870.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

JEZREEL, JAMES JERSHOM, name assumed by James White, _b._
1840; a private in 16 regt. at Chatham; joined The New house
of Israel or Joanna Southcottians 15 Oct. 1875, dismissed 26
Dec.; founded The New and latter house of Israel 1875; in India
with his regt. 1876, bought out, returned to England under the
name of James Jershom Jezreel, claiming to have received a
revelation contained in The Flying Scroll. (_m._ 1879 Clarissa
Rogers _i.e._ Esther Jezreel 1860–88); erected a large temple
on Chatham hill, New Brompton; had a numerous following who put
their money into a common fund; published Extracts from the
Flying Roll vol. i three parts 1879–81. _d._ the Woodlands,
Gillingham, Rochester 1 March 1885. _Pall Mall Gazette 6 March
1885 p._ 12, _2 July 1888 p._ 10; _N. and Q. 29 Jany. 1887 p._
98.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

JOHNSON, CUTHBERT WILLIAM (son of Wm. Johnson of the
Coalbrookdale china works). _b._ Widmore house, Bromley, Kent
28 Sep. 1799; employed in his father’s salt works at Heybridge,
Essex; barrister G.I. 8 June 1836; F.R.S. 10 March 1842; took
part in agitation on Public Health acts 1848; chairman Croydon
local board of health; published works with his bro. Geo. W.
Johnson; author of The use of crushed bones as manure 1836,
three editions; The life of sir Edward Coke 2 vols. 1837;
The laws of bills of exchange, notes, cheques, etc. 1837,
2 ed. 1839; The farmer’s encyclopædia 1842, his best work;
with W. Shaw The farmer’s almanac and calendar 1840; with J.
Hare The annual register of agricultural implements 1843–45.
_d._ Waldronhurst, Croydon 8 March 1878. _John Donaldson’s
Agricultural Biog._ (1854) 127–8; _Academy_, _i_ 233 (1878).

JOHNSON, DANIEL JAMES. _b._ 1831 or 1832; civil engineer in
London; superintendent of Kensal Green cemetery 1857–73. _d._
170 Hornington road, Burton on Trent 24 Oct. 1885.

JOHNSON, SIR EDWARD (2 son of John Johnson). _b._ Drumgavesy,
Ireland 1785; educ. Edinb. and Glasgow, M.D. Edinb. 1815;
M.R.C.S. Lond. 1807; hospital mate in army July 1807; assist.
surgeon 28 regt. Nov. 1807 and served in Sweden and the
Peninsula where he was severely wounded; surgeon 2 bat. 39 regt.
1815–16; a physician at Weymouth 1816, retired 1821; K.C.S.
1835, K.C.C.S. 1847; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 July
1838. _d._ Greenhill, Weymouth 10 Jany. 1862. _Proc. of Med. and
Chir. Soc. iv_ 84–6 (1864).

JOHNSON, EDWARD JOHN (youngest son of rev. Henry Johnson of
Bywell, Northumberland). _b._ 1795; entered R.N. 1 May 1807;
commanded the ‘Britomart’ 10 guns 4 March 1829 to 1831 when he
was paid off; surveyed the Faroe islands for the admiralty 1831
etc.; member of magnetic compass committee of the admiralty 1838
etc.; captain 27 Dec. 1838; superintendent of compass department
of R.N. 14 March 1842 to death; F.R.S. 10 May 1836; author of
Practical illustrations of the necessity of ascertaining the
deviations of the compass 1847. _d._ 13 Oxford terrace, Hyde
park, London 7 Feb. 1853.

JOHNSON, ELI (son of Mr. Johnson of George row, Northampton).
_b._ Northampton 1850; a cabinet maker, Northampton; a wood
carver; studied at South Kensington and under J. E. Boehm, R.A.;
sculptor Hugh st. Eccleston sq. London; executed for Northampton
marble bust of Charles Gilpin, M.P., and busts of J. B. Gough,
Dr. Robert Moffat and Henry Vincent; exhibited 3 pieces of
sculpture at R.A. 1878–80; author of The honest Irishman or
a tour in the British isles 1879. _d._ 45 Victoria road,
Northampton 14 Jany. 1881. _Northampton Mercury 15 Jany. 1881
p._ 8.

JOHNSON, ELLEN. Factory girl; author of The lord of the castle,
a fairy legend. London, Darton & Co. 1861, 8^o., 1/6. _d._ 1873.

JOHNSON, FRANCIS. _b._ 1796; travelled in Italy and learnt
Arabic from an Arab; professor of Sanscrit and Teloogoo at
H.E.I.C. coll. Haileybury 1824 to 1845, of Sanscrit, Teloogoo
and Bengali 1845 to Oct. 1855; author of The Sanskrit text of
the first book of Hitopadésa 1840, 4 ed. 1864; Selections from
the Mahábhárata 1842; A dictionary, Persian, Arabic and English
1852; The Gulistān of Sa’di 1863 in Persian. _d._ Hertford 29
Jany. 1876. _bur._ Great Amwell 4 Feb. _Hertfordshire Mercury 12
Feb. 1876 p._ 3.

JOHNSON, FREDERICK WILLIAM. Ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.,
rowed stroke in the Cambridge boat when she won the Grand
challenge cup at Henley 1851, also in the race against Oxford
1852; B.A. 1853, M.A. 1856; C. of St. Nicholas, Yarmouth 1854–8;
C. of St. John’s, Yarmouth 1858 to death. _d._ Yarmouth, Dec.
1859.

JOHNSON, GEORGE. One of the chief promoters of the Doncaster
races from 1847 and the chief means of largely increasing value
of the prizes; chairman of Doncaster race committee; never
betted more than a few crowns and that on St. Leger only;
superintended building new stand on Doncaster course. _d._
Doncaster 4 Nov. 1855. _Sporting Rev._ (1855) 419–21.

JOHNSON, GEORGE HENRY SACHEVERELL (son of rev. Henry Johnson).
_b._ Keswick, Cumberland 1808; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf.,
Ireland scholar 1827, mathematical scholar 1831, double first
1829, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1833; fellow of his college 1829–55, Greek
lecturer, chaplain and tutor 1842, bursar 1844, dean 1848;
public examiner in the univ. 1834–50; F.R.S. 18 Jany. 1838;
Savilian professor of astronomy 1839–42; White prof. of moral
philosophy 1842–45; Whitehall preacher, Sep. 1852 to 1854; royal
commissioner on univ. 1850 and parliamentary commissioner 1854;
dean of Wells 27 March 1854 to death; V. of Wells 1855–70;
author of Treatise on Optics 1836; Sermons preached in Wells
cathedral 1857; author with C. J. Ellicott and F. C. Cook of The
book of psalms: with a commentary 1880. _d._ Weston-super-Mare
4 Nov. 1881. _bur._ in the palm ch. yard, Wells cath. 10 Nov.
_Waagen’s Treasures of art_, _iii_ 112–20 (1854); _Times 7 Nov.
1881 p._ 9; _Guardian 9 Nov. 1881 p._ 1592.

JOHNSON, _George William_ (brother of Cuthbert W. Johnson
1799–1878). _b._ Blackheath, Kent 4 Nov. 1802; in his father’s
salt works; prepared Epsom salts from sea water; made
experiments in gardening and in the manufacture of manures;
barrister G.I. 8 June 1836; professor of moral and political
economy in Hindoo coll. Calcutta 1839–42; edited in Calcutta the
Englishman newspaper and government Gazette 1837–41; owner of
the Fairfax MSS. published as the Fairfax Correspondence 4 vols.
1848–67; edited the Gardeners’ Almanack 1844–66; The Gardener’s
Monthly Volume 12 vols. 1847; Cottage Gardener 1848, renamed
Journal of horticulture 1851 when he edited it with R. Hogg to
1881; with his brother he printed An essay on the use of salt
in agriculture 1821, 13 ed. 1838; Outlines of chemistry 1828;
Paley’s Work 1839; author of A history of English gardening
1829; Memoirs of John Selden 1835; The stranger in India 1843;
The principles of practical gardening 1845; A dictionary of
gardening 1846; The British ferns 1857, 4 ed. 1861; with rev. W.
W. Wingfield The poultry book 1853, 2 ed. 1856; with R. Hogg The
wild flowers of Great Britain 1863. _d._ Waldronhurst, Croydon
29 Oct. 1886. _Journal of horticulture_, _xiii_ 401–4, 424
(1887), _portrait_; _Bookseller 6 Nov. 1886 p._ 1181; _Times 5
Nov. 1886 p._ 6.

JOHNSON, _Harry John_. _b._ Birmingham 10 April 1826; was with
sir C. Fellowes in Lycia 1840; studied under Samuel Lines, W.
J. Müller and at the Clipstone st. acad. London; Assoc. Instit.
Painters in W.C. 1868 and member 1870; exhibited 15 landscapes
at R.A. 1859–80; some of his pictures are at South Kensington.
_d._ 12 Loudoun road, St. John’s Wood, London 31 Dec. 1884.

JOHNSON, HENRY. _b._ near London 1814; in employment of D.
Appleton & Co. publishers, New York 20 years; partner with
Robert Martin in the publication of serials, periodicals
and illustrated books 1855, firm became Johnson, Fry & Co.;
connected with Brooklyn real estate; identified with the
boulevard running to Coney island. _d._ Gravesend, Long Island
27 Nov. 1872. _American Annual Cyclop. for 1872 xii_ 634.

JOHNSON, SIR HENRY ALLEN, 2 Baronet. _b._ Shelbourne, Nova
Scotia 26 Sep. 1785; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1807, M.A. 1810;
A.D.C. to Prince of Orange during Peninsular war; knight of the
military order of Wilhelm of the Netherlands; succeeded 18 March
1835. _d._ Southland, Isle of Wight 27 June 1860.

JOHNSON, SIR HENRY FRANKS FREDERIC, 3 Baronet (eld. child
of preceding). _b._ Bath 5 Feb. 1819; ed. at Winchester and
Sandhurst; 2 lieut. 5 foot 22 Nov. 1836, major 5 Oct. 1849 to
15 Jany. 1856 when placed on h.p.; D.Q.M.G. in the Mauritius
31 Dec. 1855 to 18 July 1862; D.A.G. in Jamaica 2 Nov. 1866 to
1 April 1869; commanded forces in Windward and Leeward islands
1869–70; col. on the staff in command at Jamaica 1870–3; sold
out 1873. _d._ Avranche, Normandy 20 June 1883.

JOHNSON, HENRY ISAAC. _b._ Cambridge; ed. at Christ’s coll.
Camb., 30th wrangler 1852, B.A. 1853, M.A. 1856; assistant
master at Brighton college 1853–5; rector of Grey Institute,
Port Elizabeth, Cape of Good Hope 1863–73; incumbent of Trinity
ch. Port Elizabeth to 1873; espoused the cause of bishop
Colenso, his church was the only one in Cape Colony that did not
secede from the bishop’s rule; assistant master at Cheltenham
college 1873–4; head master of Royal Institution school,
Liverpool 1874–89. _d._ Penrhyn house, Ullet road, Liverpool 6
May 1892.

JOHNSON, JAMES A. _b._ England 1820; choir master Holy Communion
ch. New York 1846, solo tenor singer in oratorio music; compiled
A tune book 1848; composer of The Offertory sentences set to
music for four voices. New York 1862. _d._ Orange, New Jersey
1883. _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_ 444 (1889).

JOHNSON, JOHN. Ironfounder at 13 Lower Whitecross st. city of
London 1826 to death; member of ward of Cripplegate without 1841
to death; sheriff of London 1836–7, alderman of Dowgate 1839–49,
lord mayor 1845–6. _d._ Alfred terrace, Upper Holloway 12 Sep.
1858. _I.L.N. vii_ 320 (1845) _portrait_, _ix_ 125 (1846)
_portrait_.

JOHNSON, JOHN. _b._ 1801; studied in Italy 1836–40; built St.
Saviour’s ch. Walmer 1846, Water colour gallery, Pall Mall;
decorated H.M. theatre for Benjamin Lumley; built mansion
for sir John Kelk at Tedworth, Wilts. 1878; with Mr. Meeson,
Alexandra palace, which was burnt 9 June 1873; district surveyor
East Hackney; a great fisherman; in 1866 he obtained the prize
for the greatest weight of fish caught 550 lbs.; member of
Piscatorial soc.; member of Thames angling preservation soc.
and on the committee. _d._ 14 Buckingham st. Adelphi, London 28
Dec. 1878. _The Builder_ (1874) 687–9, (1879) 53, 137; _Fishing
Gazette 3 Jany. 1879 p._ 7.

JOHNSON, JOHN JAMES (3 son of William Johnson of The Pallant,
Chichester, _d._ 1823). _b._ June 1812; ed. at Winchester;
barrister M.T. 10 June 1836, bencher 5 May 1864 to death;
recorder of Chichester, Aug. 1863 to death; Q.C. 13 Feb. 1864.
_d._ 26 Gresham place, Belgrave sq. London 22 July 1890.

JOHNSON, JOHN MERCER (son of a timber merchant). _b._ Liverpool
1818; ed. Northumberland county gram. sch. New Brunswick;
barrister 1840; member of provincial legislature, postmaster
general 1847, speaker of the house, and attorney general,
solicitor general 1854; member of Quebec and London conferences
which settled the confederation act of the Dominion of Canada
1864, 1867; member for Northumberland in Dominion parliament
1867. _d._ Northumberland, Canada 9 Nov. 1868. _Appleton’s
American Biog. iii_ 445 (1889).

JOHNSON, JOHN SAMUEL WILLES (eld. son of rev. Charles Johnson,
preb. of Wells, _d._ 1841). _b._ South Stoke near Bath 3 July
1793; entered R.N. 1 Feb. 1807; commander 6 Feb. 1821, on
h.p. from Aug. 1842; captain 9 Nov. 1846; served at capture
of Algiers 1816 and in the first Chinese war 1841; M.P.
for Montgomery district 4 May 1861 to death; author of The
traveller’s guide through France, Italy and Switzerland 1828.
_d._ Hannington hall, Highworth, Wiltshire 25 July 1863.

JOHNSON, JOSEPH. _b._ 1791; a brushmaker in or near Manchester;
tried with Henry Hunt and 8 others at York assizes 16–27 March
1820 for conspiracy and unlawfully assembling in St. Peter’s
Field, Manchester 16 Aug. 1819, sentenced to be imprisoned for
one year in Lincoln castle 15 May 1820; author of A letter to
H. Hunt esq. relating to certain accounts. Manchester 1822, 2
ed. 1822; A second letter to H. Hunt 1822. d. Sep. 1872 aged 81.
_Reports of State Trials_, _i_ 171–496 (1888).

JOHNSON, MANUEL JOHN (only son of John William Johnson of Macao,
China). _b._ Macao 23 May 1835; ed. Addiscombe; lieut. H.E.I.
Co.’s artillery at St. Helena 1821–32, where he erected the St.
Helena observatory 1828; matric. from Magd. hall, Oxf. 1835,
B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; in charge of Radcliffe observatory, Oxf.
1839 to death; made observations of double stars and a catalogue
of 6,317 circumpolar stars; adopted the photographic method
of registering meteorological facts 1854; F.R.S. 5 June 1856;
F.R.A.S., president 1857–8; made a collection of engravings,
sold for £3,359 April 1860; author of A catalogue of 606
principal fixed stars in the Southern Hemisphere observed at
the magnetical and meteorological observatory, St. Helena 1835;
Astronomical observations made at the Radcliffe observatory,
Oxford 1840–58. Oxford 1842 etc. _d._ The observatory, Oxford
28 Feb. 1859; Johnson prize instituted 1862 and given once in 4
years to astronomers. _Proc. Royal Soc. x_ 21–4 (1860); _Monthly
Notices R.A. Soc. xix_ 169–70 (1859), _xx_ 123–30 (1860);
_Mozley’s Reminiscences_, _ii_ 188–99 (1882).

JOHNSON, PAUL. _b._ 1789; ed. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1811,
M.A. 1814; R. of Sidestrand, Norfolk 1834–72; R. of Overstrand
1841–72; author of The fall of the Yarmouth suspension bridge,
with reflections. Norwich 1845; The death of the prince imperial
Louis Napoleon, a poem 1879; An epitome in verse of the life of
the Prince Consort 1883. _d._ Kirmington, Ulceby, Lincs. 29 Oct.
1883.

JOHNSON, PERCIVAL NORTON (only son of John Johnson, at one time
the only commercial assayer in London). _b._ 1793; worked with
his father; assayer and metallurgist at 79 Hatton garden, London
about 1816; began and carried on manufacture of German silver,
and introduced it to general use in England; invented several
pottery colours, amongst them the rose-pink; the first person
who refined and manufactured platinum upon a commercial scale;
F.R.S. 30 April 1846; of firm of John Johnson & Sons, assayers
of bullion, metals and minerals, 18A Basinghall st. London,
assayers to the bank of England and the Mint. _d._ Stoke house
near Dartmouth 1 June 1866. _Quarterly Journal of geological
soc. xxiii_ 39–41 (1867); _Proc. of R.S. xvi_ 23–25 (1868).

NOTE.--He made and gave the Wollaston medals to geological society many years; they were composed of palladium, a metal discovered in platinum, which in 1867 became so scarce that it sometimes realized ten guineas per ounce.

JOHNSON, PETER. Professional swimmer. _d._ of inflammation of
lungs in a cab whilst going to the hospital at Prague 4 Jany.
1890.

JOHNSON, ROBERT JAMES. _b._ about 1832; architect at Newcastle;
had a very large practice; A.R.I.B.A. 1861, F.R.I.B.A. 1865;
F.S.A. _d._ Rock villa, Tunbridge Wells 18 April 1892.

JOHNSON, THOMAS MARR. _b._ Appleby, Lincs. 29 June 1826; ed.
Winterton, Lincs. and at Ripon; A.I.C.E. 6 April 1852, M.I.C.E.
7 Feb. 1863; res. engineer river Nene and Norfolk estuary works;
with B. Baker (under J. Fowler’s instructions) res. engineer of
Metropolitan railway, superintended design and execution 1860–9;
member of firm of G. Smith & Co. builders and contractors, Feb.
1870 to death; with W. Mills superintended construction of
Holborn viaduct station, London. _d._ 14 Westbourne st. Hyde
park, London 20 July 1874. _Min. of Proc. I.C.E. xxxix_ 268–9
(1875).

JOHNSON, JOSEPH TOWERS, stage name of Edward Joseph Towers.
_b._ Kentish town, London 26 March 1815; clerk to Goding and
Broadwood, ale brewers; made first appearance as Claude in The
Bear hunt, Marylebone theatre 1835; at the Pavilion 1835–7, at
the Garrick 1839, at Surrey 1840–7, at Lyceum 1847, at Sadler’s
Wells; lessee Victoria theatre Nov. 1856 to 1866; stage manager
for John Coleman on the Northern circuit 7 or 8 years; the Isaac
Levi and Mr. Eden in the original cast of ‘Never too late to
mend,’ produced at Royal theatre, Leeds 1864. _d._ 37 Mitford
place, Upper Kennington lane, London 8 July 1891. _bur._ Tooting
cemetery 13 July. _Theatrical Times_, _ii_ 225, 242 (1847),
_portrait_; _The Players_, _iii_ 311 (1860), _portrait_.

JOHNSON, WILLIAM (3 son of James Johnson of Kendal, attorney,
who _d._ 1828). _b._ Kendal 1823; sub-editor of the Glasgow
Practical mechanics’ and engineers’ magazine 1845–48; started
The Practical Mechanics’ Journal, Glasgow 1848, edited it 1848
to death, 16 vols.; patent agent at Glasgow; A.I.C.E. 1850;
edited Practical draughtsman’s book of industrial design 1861;
author of The imperial cyclopædia of machinery 1852–6; with J.
H. Johnson of Abstract of the patent law amendment act 1852.
_d._ Glasgow 10 June 1864.

JOHNSON, WILLIAM. _b._ Cumberland 1784; ed. St. John’s coll.
Camb. 1810, B.D. 1827; C. of Grasmere 1811, teacher at Grasmere
sch., and a friend of Wordsworth; in charge of National
society’s sch. Holborn, taught on the Bell system 1812,
school removed to Baldwin’s gardens 1814; trainer of masters,
travelling organiser, inspector of schools, and later on cashier
and comptroller of accounts of National Soc. to 1840; called the
Patriarch of National Education; R. of St. Clement’s Eastcheap
with St. Martin’s Orgar, London 19 Oct. 1820 to death. _d._ 29
Martin’s lane, Cannon st. London 20 Sep. 1864. _G.M. xvii_ 526,
661 (1864).

JOHNSON, WILLIAM. _b._ Hindley near Wigan, Lancs. 7 March 1831;
ed. at Stonyhurst, Ampleforth and Prior park, Bath; missioner at
St. Mary’s on the Quay, Bristol 1853–6 and at Chippenham, Wilts.
1856–9; assist. priest at pro-cathedral, Liverpool 1859–62;
priest at Breck, Poulton-le-Fylde 1862–79 and at Lydiate 1879
to death; composer of Litany of B.V.M. for four voices 1872;
Hail! holy Joseph hail! for four voices 1874; Missa de Sancta
Maria 1880; Hail, thou resplendent star. Chorus with solo 1881;
The lion and the bear 1878 and his other comic song obtained
popularity. _d._ Lydiate 9 Oct. 1885. _Gillow’s English
Catholics_, _iii_ 641 (1887); _Liverpool Catholic Almanac_
(1886) _p._ 96, _portrait_.

JOHNSON, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS. _b._ 1776; ensign of a new
independent company of foot 18 Sep. 1793; captain 32 foot 7
Jany. 1795, lieut. col. 17 May 1810 to 18 Aug. 1814 when placed
on h.p.; L.G. 23 Nov. 1841; retired from the army 1855; M.P.
Boston 1820–26, M.P. Oldham 1837–47; sheriff of Lincolnshire
1830. _d._ Wytham on the hill near Stamford 26 Oct. 1863.

JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM GILLILAN (youngest son of William Johnson,
merchant). _b._ Fortfield, co. Antrim 1808; ed. Trin. coll.
Dublin, B.A. 1830, M.A. 1830; barrister King’s inns, Dublin
1838; M.P. Belfast 10 July 1841, election declared void 19 Aug.
1842; mayor of Belfast 1849 when he received the queen on her
visit there 11 Aug.; knighted at Belfast 12 Aug. 1849; a founder
of the Protestant orphan asylum, Belfast 1866, and with his wife
of the Belfast ophthalmic hospital. _d._ College sq. north,
Dublin 9 April 1886. _The Belfast news-letter 10 April 1886 p._
5.

JOHNSON, W. H. (son of an ordnance officer, H.E.I.C.S.) _b._
1831; ed. at Mussooree; in the North-west Himalayan survey
1848–52; ascended the Snoy Peak near the Néla pass 22 June 1854;
in the Kashmir survey party 1855, conducted the triangulations
of the Kishangunga valley, fixing his theodolite on some of the
highest peaks which had ever been ascended, going nearly to
20,000 feet; first European traveller who visited the plains of
Khotan 1865; in service of maharajah of Kashmir 1866 to death,
governor and joint commissioner of Ladakh; presented with gold
watch by R. Geogr. Soc. 1875. _d._ it was thought by poison at
Jummoo, Kashmir 3 March 1882. _Proc. R. Geogr. Soc. v_ 291–3,
604 (1883).

JOHNSON, WILLIAM ROBERT. _b._ 17 July 1830; ed. Putney coll.;
ensign 39 Madras N.I. 2 Oct. 1850, captain 30 Aug. 1860; engaged
in public works department, Mysore 1857; first class permanent
superintending engineer 1 Jany. 1880 to death; superintending
engineer for irrigation, when he looked after the 38,000 water
tanks in Mysore; completed the bridge over the Toonga Bhadra
river at Hurryhurh; lieut. col. Madras staff corps 20 Dec. 1875;
col. in the army 20 Dec. 1880; A.I.C.E. 4 Feb. 1868. _d._ London
7 June 1882. _Min. of Proc. I.C.E. lxxii_ 319–20 (1883).

JOHNSON, WILLIAM WARD PERCIVAL. _b._ 1790; entered navy 2 July
1803, commander 19 Sep. 1835; captain on h.p. 14 Dec. 1841;
admiral on h.p. 30 July 1875. _d._ Little Baddow near Chelmsford
26 Dec. 1880. _Graphic_, _xix_ 216 (1879), _portrait_; _I.L.N.
lxxviii_ 37 (1881), _portrait_.

JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER (son of an architect). _b._ Edinburgh 1815;
with a seal engraver 1830; student in Trustees acad. Edinb.
1831–4; at Royal acad. London 1836; exhibited 73 pictures at
R.A., 49 at B.I. and 16 at Suffolk st. 1836–80; The gentle
shepherd 1840 and Sunday morning 1841, are well known by
the engravings; his The interview of the regent Murray with
Mary, queen of Scots 1841, was purchased by Edinb. art union;
Archbishop Tillotson administering the sacrament to lord William
Russell in the tower. 1845, is in National gallery. _d._ 21
Carlingford road, Hampstead 2 Feb. 1891. _I.L.N. 14 Feb. 1891
p._ 207, _portrait_.

JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER JAMES (eld. son of James S. Johnston of
Wood Hill, Kinnellar, Aberdeenshire). _b._ Kinnellar 1820;
student Lincoln’s inn 1838; barrister M.T. 27 Jany. 1843; deputy
recorder of Leeds 1857; a puisne judge of supreme court of New
Zealand 1858 to death, acted as chief justice 1867 and 1886;
author of A lecture on the influence of art on human happiness.
Napier 1861; Reports of cases determined in the courts of appeal
of New Zealand 3 vols. 1867; The New Zealand justice of the
peace, resident magistrate, coroner and constable. Wellington
1879. _d._ London 1 June 1888.

JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER KEITH (4 son of Andrew Johnston). _b._
Kirkhill near Edinburgh 28 Dec. 1804; ed. Edin. univ., LLD.
1865; engraver with his bro. William Keith 1826; geographer in
ordinary to the Queen 8 Feb. 1840; F.R.G.S. 1843 and Victoria
medalist May 1871; F.G.S. 1845, F.R.S.E. 1850; constructed the
first globe illustrative of physical geography, medal from Great
exhibition of 1851; a founder of Scotch meteorological soc., and
hon. sec.; member Edinb. Geological soc. 1862; published The
national atlas of historical, commercial and political geography
1843; The physical atlas of natural phenomena 1848, the first
physical atlas published in England; Atlas of classical
geography 1853. _d._ Ben Rhydding, Yorkshire 9 July 1871. _bur._
Grange cemet. Edinb. 14 July. _Athenæum 15 July 1871 p._ 81;
_Proc. R. Geographical Soc. xvi_ 304–6 (1872).

JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER KEITH (eld. son of the preceding).
_b._ Edinburgh 24 Nov. 1844; ed. Edinb. instit. and Grange
house sch.; superintendent of drawing and engraving of maps
with Stanford, London 1866–7; life member R.G.S. 1868 and
map-draughtsman and assistant curator 1872–3; in charge of
geographical branch of W. and A. K. Johnston’s London business
1869–73; a founder of the Grove park rowing club; geographer to
the commission for the survey of Palestine 1873–5; geographer
in Paraguay 1873–5; published The library map of Africa 1866;
Handbook of physical geography. Edinb. 1870; Lake regions of
Central Africa 1870; The surface zones of the globe 1874; leader
of R. Geogr. Soc. expedition to the head of lake Nyassa, Nov.
1878. _d._ of dysentery, Berobero 120 miles from Dar es Salaam
28 June 1879. _Academy_, _ii_ 102, 107 (1879); _I.L.N. lxxv_ 174
(1879), _portrait_; _J. Thomson’s To the central African lakes_,
_i_, _pp. xiii–xix_ (1881), _memoir and portrait_.

JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER ROBERT CAMPBELL (3 son of sir Alexander
Johnston 1775–1849, chief justice of Ceylon). _b._ Colombo,
Ceylon 14 June 1812; in civil service of Mauritius 1828–33;
private sec. to lord Napier in China 1833–35; third commissioner
in China 1835; deputy superintendent of trade of British
subjects in China, May 1837; administered government of Hong
Kong, June 1841 to Dec. 1842; medal for services on board H.M.S.
Nemesis 1841; sec. and registrar superintending in China 1843
to 25 Sep. 1852 when office abolished; F.R.S. 5 June 1845. _d._
San Raphael Ranche, Los Angelos, California 21 Jany. 1888.
_Athenæum_, _i_ 151 (1888).

JOHNSTON, ANDREW. _b._ Cursitor st. London 1818; a civil
engineer at Nottingham in partnership with Mr. Underwood 1854–8;
assist. engineer Brighton railway 1858–65; principal assist.
engineer Midland railway 1865 and engineer 1875 to death;
M.I.C.E. 1875. _d._ 1884. _Min. of proc. I.C.E. lxxviii_ 434–5
(1884).

JOHNSTON, CHARLES. _b._ Birmingham; L.S.A. 1833, M.R.C.S. 1835;
assist. surgeon Queen’s service 1833–4, surgeon H.E.I.C.S.
1839–41; travelled in Abyssinia and was friendly with king
Theodore 1842; proprietor of Hunt’s London Journal, in which he
wrote many articles; surgeon at Natal, and member of legislative
council 1856–8; surgeon at Barnstaple, Devon; author of Travels
in Southern Abyssinia through the country of Adal to the kingdom
of Shoa 2 vols. 1844; Observations on health and disease in
Natal 1860. _d._ The square, Barnstaple 16 July 1872. _Medical
Times 17 Aug. 1872 p._ 189.

JOHNSTON, CHARLES JAMES. _b._ 1765; entered navy about 1787;
governor of naval hospital of Madras 1802; captain 5 Sep. 1806;
the Cornwallis under his command in 1807 was the first regular
man of war to pass between Australia and Van Diemen’s Land; V.A.
on half pay 6 Nov. 1850; pensioned 15 April 1854. _d._ Cowhill
near Dumfries 16 Oct. 1856.

JOHNSTON, DAVID (son of Henry Johnston of Corstorphine and
Edinburgh). _b._ Edinburgh 19 May 1801; ed. at univ. of Edinb.,
M.D. 1 Aug. 1821; translated Dante’s Inferno, Purgatorio and
Paradiso 3 vols. 1867–8; Corneille’s Polyeucte 1870; published
Hadrianus Moriens, translations of Hadrian’s Address to his soul
1870, containing 98 translations by living authors; author of A
general view of the system of public education in France. Edin.
1827; A general medical and statistical history of charity in
France 1829. _d._ 13 Marlborough buildings, Bath 17 Oct. 1879.
_The Academy 1879 ii p._ 321.

JOHNSTON, FREDERICK. _b._ 18 June 1792; cornet 6 dragoons 4
April 1810; captain 17 light dragoons 1824–6; major 67 foot 2
April 1829 to 26 Feb. 1836; general 7 Jany. 1874; placed on
retired list 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ A 10, Albany, Piccadilly, London
31 Jany. 1882.

JOHNSTON, GEORGE. _b._ Simprin, Berwickshire 20 July 1797; ed.
at Kelso, Berwick and univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1819; M.R.C.S.
Edinb. 1817, F.R.C.S. 1819; general practitioner at Berwick
1819–53, mayor 3 times; LL.D. Aberdeen; a founder of Ray soc.
1844 and of Berwickshire naturalists’ club; one of editors of
Mag. of zoology and botany; wrote 90 papers on natural history;
author of A Flora of Berwick-upon-Tweed 2 vols. 1829–31; A
history of the British zoophytes. Edinb. 1838, 2 ed. London
1847; A history of British sponges and lithophytes 1842; An
introduction to conchology 1850. _d._ Berwick on Tweed 30 July
1855. _Proc. of Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club_, _iii_ 202, 215.