Chapter VII: Part 7
JONES, JOSEPH DAVID (son of a farmer and local preacher). _b._
Bryncrugog, parish of Llanfair-Caereinion, Montgomeryshire 1827;
held singing classes at Towyn, Merionethshire 1848–57; in charge
of the British school, Ruthin 1857–66; kept a private school at
Ruthin 1866 to death; published Perganiedydd 1847, a collection
of congregational tunes; Tonau ac Emynau 1868, a collection of
hymns and tunes; composer of Riflemen form, a new song. Ruthin
1862; Llys Arthur or Arthur’s court, a cantata 1864. _d._ Ruthin
17 Sep. 1870.
JONES, LATIMER MAURICE (son of rev. Thomas William Jones, P.C.
of Llanybri). _b._ 8 July 1833; ed. at Lampeter coll., B.D.
1864; V. of St. Peter’s, Carmarthen 1863 to death; proctor to
lower house of convocation 1874; travelled in Palestine and on
his return lectured on Egypt and the Holy Land 1874; author of
The Welsh people and the Welsh tongue 1862. _d._ Carmarthen 11
Oct. 1877. _The Carmarthen Journal 12 Oct. 1877 p._ 5, _19 Oct.
p._ 5.
JONES, LESTOCK BOILEAU. Entered Bengal army 16 July 1842;
captain 56 Bengal N.I. 9 March 1852; deputy judge advocate
general Peshawur 27 April 1857; commandant 3 Punjab cavalry
11 Nov. 1859 to death; col. in the army 16 July 1873. _d._
Hampstead 5 May 1879.
JONES, LEWIS. _b._ Penponpren, Cardiganshire 14 Feb. 1793; a
master at Clitheroe gram. sch. Lancashire; P.C. of Llandevaud,
Monmouthshire 1822–52; V. of Almondbury, Yorkshire 13 March 1823
to death; P.C. of Meltham, Yorkshire 1829–38; instrumental in
erecting 14 churches in Almondbury 1822–66. _d._ Almondbury 26
Aug. 1866. _Hulbert’s Annals of Almondbury_ (1882) 49, 64, 79,
452–4, 592.
JONES, LLOYD. _b._ Bandon, co. Cork, March 1811; a
fustian-cutter at Manchester 1827–37; joined a co-operative
society in Salford 1829; chief advocate of Robert Owen’s plan
of village communities; the best public lecturer and debater
of his day; had a chief part in organisation and development
of co-operative movement 1837 to death; pres. of the Oldham
congress 1885; established the Leeds Express 1857; an editor of
the London Reader 1863; editor of Miner’s Watchman and labour
sentinel 1878; author of Life, times and labours of Robert Owen
1889 and of many pamphlets; author with J. M. Ludlow of The
progress of the working classes 1867. _d._ 23 May 1886. _Notice
of life of Lloyd Jones_ (1885); _L. Jones’s Life of R. Owen_
(1889), _memoir_.
JONES, LOFTUS FRANCIS. Second lieut. 95 rifles 7 Feb. 1811,
lieut. 1812, placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1818; lieut. 59 foot 1822;
lieut. 2 foot 1823; lieut. 96 foot 1824, captain 9 March 1834,
placed on h.p. 14 Jany. 1848; major 62 foot 2 Nov. 1849 to 23
May 1851; lieut. col. 2 West India regiment 23 May 1851 to
death; served in the Peninsula, June 1811 to end of the war
1814. _d._ St. Vincent, West Indies 13 Feb. 1853.
JONES, MARGARET CHARLOTTE (elder dau. of sir George Campbell of
Edenwood, Fifeshire). _b._ 1825. (_m._ (1) 28 July 1845 at St.
Margaret’s, Westminster, David Jones of Pantglos, Carmarthen,
M.P. co. Carmarthen 1852–74; _m._ (2) 10 Feb. 1870 sir Richard
George Augustus Levinge, baronet of Knockdrin castle, co.
Westmeath); an exhibitor at Exhibition of Water colours; author
of Scattered leaves, or twilight trifles 1853; Lottery, a tale
1858. _d._ Lowndes sq. London 5 Nov. 1871. _The Court Album_
(1854), _portrait_.
JONES, _Maria B._ (dau. of Charles Jones, actor, and of Mrs. C.
Jones of theatre royal, Brighton). _b._ 1846; first appeared on
the stage at Bradford; leading lady of Prince of Wales theatre,
Liverpool 3 seasons; first appeared in London at Olympic theatre
as Florence Conway, in Tom Taylor’s Handsome is that handsome
does 3 Sep. 1870; leading lady at Surrey theatre 1871; at Drury
Lane, Sep. 1872 as the Lady of the Lake. (_m._ July 1871 Francis
Charles Philips of 2nd foot). _d._ London 11 Feb. 1873. _bur._
Brompton cemetery 18 Feb. _Era 16 Feb. 1873 p._ 11, _23 Feb. p._
11.
JONES, MICHAEL (2 son of Michael Jones of Caton, Lancashire).
_b._ 1774; barrister L.I. 13 May 1809; collected books and MSS.
and materials for pedigrees of R.C. families; claimed that the
ancient barony of Scrope was vested in his family 1815. _d._
1851 or 1852. _Gillow’s English Catholics_, _iii_ 668–70 (1887).
JONES, NATHANIEL. Entered Bengal army 1815; lieut. col. of 58
Bengal N.I. 12 Aug. 1847, of 17 N.I. 1850, of 49 N.I. 1853, of
64 N.I. 1855–46; colonel 49 Bengal N.I. 31 May 1857 to death;
M.G. 30 May 1859. _d._ Murree 21 July 1869.
JONES, OLIVER JOHN. _b._ 15 March 1813; entered navy 7 Sep.
1826; captain 29 Sep. 1855, retired R.A. 25 Aug. 1873; author
of Recollections of a winter campaign in India. 1859. _d._
Westfield house, Bramston, Northants. 11 Jany. 1878.
JONES, OWEN (only son of Owen Jones, antiquary 1741–1814). _b._
148 Upper Thames st. London 15 Feb. 1809; ed. Charterhouse;
pupil of Louis Vulliamy 1825–31; travelled in the East and took
much notice of Arabic decorations 1833 and 1837; superintendent
of works of Great Exhibition 1851 and helped to decorate and
arrange the building; joint director of decoration of Crystal
palace 1852 and designer of Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Alhambra
courts; employed in decorating private houses; decorated palace
of viceroy of Egypt; architect of St. James’ hall, London 1857;
exhibited 12 architectural drawings at R.A. 1831–61; gold medal
of R. Instit. of B.A. 1857; author of Plans, elevations, etc.
of the Alhambra 2 vols. 1842–5; The polychromatic ornaments of
Italy 1846; The grammar of ornament 1856, another ed. 1865; One
thousand and one initial letters 1864. _d._ 9 Argyll place,
Regent st. London 19 April 1874. _bur._ Kensal green. _Practical
Mag. iii_ 400 (1874), _vii_ 257–60 (1877), _portrait_;
_Graphic_, _ix_ 433 (1874), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xix_ 487, 508
(1851) _portrait_, _lxiv_ 445, 446 (1874) _portrait_.
JONES, OWEN (son of John Thomas of Y Gaerwen Bach, in parish of
Llanfihangel Ysgeifiog, Anglesea). _b._ 15 July 1806; a farm
servant, then a schoolmaster; a lay methodist preacher about
1827; pastor successively at Llangoed, Mold 1833, Manchester
1844 and Llandudno 1866; ordained 1842; preached 12,000 times
and left 6000 manuscript sermons; Welsh editor for Messrs.
Blackie of Glasgow 1867 to death; author, translator or editor
of 40 works in Welsh. _d._ Llandudno 10 Oct. 1889. _Bye Gones
relating to Wales for 16 Oct. 1889 p._ 240.
JONES, RICE. Second lieut. R.E. 1 Feb. 1806, captain 1814,
placed on h.p. 1 Feb. 1819; captain R.E. 18 Nov. 1820, col. 9
Nov. 1846 to death; present at passage of the Douro and capture
of Oporto; K.H. 1834. _d._ Gibraltar 20 March 1854.
JONES, RICHARD (son of a builder). _b._ Birmingham 1779; ed. for
an architect; acted in Lichfield, Birmingham and other towns
to 1799; appeared at Crow st. theatre, Dublin 20 Nov. 1799 and
remained in Ireland till 1807; made his début in London at
Covent garden as Goldfinch in The road to ruin 9 Oct. 1807, the
original Count Ignatio in Dibdin’s Two faces under one hood 17
Nov.; played the Copper Captain in Rule a wife and have a wife,
at the Haymarket 5 June 1809; became a most popular comedian and
was always known as Gentleman Jones; the best Roderigo on the
stage; gave an entertainment called a Carnival, which was not
successful; last appeared on stage 3 June 1833; a teacher of
elocution, especially for the pulpit 1833 to death; author of
The Green man, a comedy played at the Haymarket 15 Aug. 1818;
Too late for dinner, a farce, Covent Garden 22 Feb. 1820; The
School for gallantry, a comedy; Peter Fin’s trip to Brighton,
a farce; and with Theodore Hook, of Hoaxing. _d._ 14 Chapel
st. Belgrave sq. London 30 Aug. 1851. _bur._ St. Peter’s ch.
Pimlico. _Oxberry’s Dramatic Biog. ii_ 181 (1825), _portrait_;
_Monthly Mirror_, _Aug. 1809 pp._ 67–9, _portrait_; _Mark Boyd’s
Reminiscences of 50 years_ (1871) 251–67.
JONES, RICHARD (son of Richard Jones, solicitor). _b._ Tunbridge
Wells 1790; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819;
C. of Brasted, Kent 1822–33; professor of political economy,
King’s coll. London 1833–5; professor of political economy and
history in Haileybury coll. 1835 to death; commissioner under
tithe commutation act 183– to 1851; sec. to capitular commission
1851–3; third Charity estate commissioner 24 Oct. 1853 to
death; author of An essay on the distribution of wealth and
on the sources of taxation 1831; A few remarks on the proposed
commutation of tithes 1833; Remarks on the government bill for
the commutation of tithes 1836, 2 ed. 1836; Remarks on the
manner in which tithe should be assessed to the poor’s rates
1838, to which there were 4 replies; Text book of lectures on
the political economy of nations. Hertford 1852. _d._ East India
coll. Haileybury 26 Jany. 1855. _G.M. xliii_ 316–7 (1855);
_Illustrated Mag._, _Aug. 1855 pp._ 95–104; _Literary remains of
R. Jones_ (1859), _portrait_.
JONES, RICHARD. _b._ 1780; 2 lieut. R.A. 12 May 1797, col. 23
Nov. 1841, col. commandant 12 Jany. 1854 to death; L.G. 28 Nov.
1854. _d._ Cheshunt, Herts. 18 May 1863.
JONES, RICHARD LAMBERT. _b._ 1783; a working man; plumber,
painter and glazier at Little Moorfields, London; estate and
house agent, 40 Little Moorfields 1825–53; member of court of
common council of city of London for ward of Cripplegate without
1819–51, chairman of improvements committee, of committee for
rebuilding London bridge 1824–31, of committee for rebuilding
the Royal exchange 1838–44, retired from corporation 1851;
presented with his bust in marble (placed in the council chamber
Guildhall), with a gold medal, and surplus of subscriptions used
in founding a Lambert Jones scholarship at city of London school
17 June 1852. _d._ Lowestoft 16 Aug. 1863. _I.L.N. 3 July 1852
p._ 12, _with woodcut of medal_; _Reminiscences of R. L. Jones_
(1863); _The Town_, _ii_ 811 (1839).
JONES, ROBERT. Ed. at St. Bees; V. of Branxton, Northumberland,
Feb. 1835 to death; author of A sermon 1841; The plague spots in
the church of England 18--, a tract; The Battle of Flodden, and
of sermons in Church of England Mag. _d._ 1870.
JONES, ROBERT (eld. son of Robert Jones). _b._ Llanfyllin,
Montgomeryshire 6 Jany. 1810; ed. at Oswestry sch. and Jesus
coll. Oxf., B.A. 1837; vicar of All Saint’s, Rotherhithe 1841
to death; Welsh tutor to Prince Lucien Bonaparte; his fine
collection of Welsh books is in the Swansea free library; first
editor of Y Cym mrodor 1876; author of The history of the
Cymmrodorion; edited The poetical works of the rev. Goronwy Owen
2 vols. 1876. _d._ All Saints’ vicarage, Deptford 28 March 1879.
JONES, ROBERT HARRIES. Ed. at univ. of Gottingen, M.A. and Ph.
D.; C. of Hollinwood near Manchester 1847–9; C. of Bolton
1852–7; C. of Llanfairfechnan, Bangor 1861–7; V. of Llanidloes,
Montgomeryshire 1867 to death; editor of Y Cymro 1851–3; author
of Lectures on The affinity of European races; Landmarks in the
reign of Henry VIII.; The Inquisition; author of translations
from the Russian of Marlinska, Poushkin and Lermontoff for the
Bolton Chronicle; translated into Welsh, Hecuba, Schiller’s
Raeuber and Cæsar Cantu’s Margareta Pusterla. _d._ 1878.
JONES, ROBERT OLIVER (eld. son of major general Oliver Thomas
Jones). _b._ 16 Dec. 1811; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 97 foot 25
June 1829, lieut. 1832–34; barrister M.T. 25 Jany. 1850; sheriff
of Glamorganshire 1838; stipendiary magistrate for Cardiff 18
Feb. 1858 to death; chairman of Glamorganshire quarter sessions.
_d._ Fonmon castle, Cowbridge 14 Nov. 1886.
JONES, ROGER LYON. _d._ Princes park, Liverpool 1 Jany. 1875,
personalty sworn under £350,000, 13 Feb. 1875, left greater part
of his estate to Liverpool charities. _Times 12 Feb. 1875 p._ 11.
JONES, THEOBALD (2 son of James Jones, R. of Urney, Derry). _b._
1790; entered navy 1 June 1803, captain 25 Aug. 1828, retired
admiral 12 Sep. 1865; M.P. co. Londonderry 1830–57. _d._ 18
Harcourt st. Marylebone road, London 7 Feb. 1868.
JONES, THOMAS. _b._ 24 June 1775; optician at 62 Charing Cross,
London 1815–50, at 4 Rupert st. 1850 to death; constructed
astronomical instruments for chief observatories of Great
Britain and the colonies; a founder of Astronomical Society
1820; F.R.S. 4 June 1835; invented or improved the Englefield
improved side transit instrument, the Sectograph, an improved
hygrometer, and a double eye-piece; author of Description
and use of the sectograph 1814; A companion to the mountain
barometer, consisting of tables, &c. 1817, 2 ed. 1820. _d._ 4
Rupert st. London 29 July 1852.
JONES, THOMAS. _b._ 1812; a special pleader to 1846; barrister
M.T. 22 May 1846, bencher Nov. 1866 to death; Q.C. 23 July 1866.
_d._ 57 Craven hill gardens, London 17 Oct. 1869.
JONES, THOMAS (3 son of Philip Jones). _b._ Underhill, Margam
near Neath, Glamorgansh. 1810; ed. Cowbridge gr. sch. and Jesus
coll. Oxf., scholar 1829–35, B.A. 1832; librarian Chetham
library, Manchester, March 1845 to death, when the number of
volumes grew from 19,000 to 40,000; gave evidence before public
committee on libraries 1849; F.S.A. 22 Feb. 1866; a contributor
to Notes and Queries under name of Bibliothecarius Chethamensis;
author of Catalogue of the Neath library 1842; Catalogue of
Chetham Soc. Lib. 2 vols. 1862–3; Catalogue of the collection
of tracts for and against popery in Chetham Library 2 vols.
1859–62. _d._ Southport, Manchester 29 Nov. 1875. _Manchester
Courier 3 Dec. 1875 p._ 5; _Papers of Manchester Literary club_,
_ii_ 59–65 (1876).
JONES, THOMAS. _b._ 1791; Roman catholic bookseller, the first
who settled in Paternoster row, Dec. 1823, retired 1870; lost
his invested money, when a public subscription was raised for
him 1877. _d._ Great Ormond st. London 25 May 1882. _Illustrated
Catholic Mag. ii_ 334–6 (1872); _Gillow’s English Catholics_,
_iii_ 674 (1887).
JONES, THOMAS (son of John Jones, commercial traveller, _d._
1829). _b._ Rhayader, Radnorshire 17 July 1819; a collier at
Brynmawr 1837, then a check weigher; ordained Independent
pastor of Bryn chapel near Llanelly, July 1844; pastor of
Libanus church, Morriston near Swansea 1850; known in Wales
for his eloquence and originality as Jones Treforris and the
Welsh poet preacher; pastor of Albany chapel, Frederick st.
London 1858 and of Bedford chapel near Oakley sq. 1861 to Dec.
1869; pastor of congregational church, Walter’s road, Swansea,
Jany. 1870 to 1877 and 1881 to death; pastor of congregational
church, Collins st. Melbourne, Australia 1877–80; chairman of
Congregational Union of England and Wales 1871–2; author of The
work of the christian preacher 1871; The answer of the church to
the scepticism of the age 1871; a series of his sermons appeared
in Words of Peace, Melbourne 1877–78, and another in the Sunday
Mag. Lond. 1883. d. Swansea 19 June 1882. _The Divine and other
sermons by T. Jones_ (1884), _memoir pp. v–viii_, _portrait_;
_Lyric thoughts of T. Jones_ (1886), _memoir pp._ 1–27.
JONES, THOMAS RYMER (son of a captain in the navy). _b._ 1810;
studied at Guy’s hospital and in Paris; M.R.C.S. 1833, but did
not practice as he was deaf; the first professor of comparative
anatomy in King’s college, London 1836–74; Fullerian professor
of physiology at Royal Institution 1840–2; F.R.S. 21 March 1844;
granted civil list pension of £50, 7 Aug. 1873; author of A
general outline of the animal kingdom and manual of comparative
anatomy 1841, 4 ed. 1871; The natural history of animals 2 vols.
1845–52; The animal creation a popular introduction to zoology
1865; The natural history of birds 1867; Mammalia 1873. _d._ 22
Castletown road, West Kensington, London 10 Dec. 1880.
NOTE.--His 2 son Alexander Manson Jones _b._ 15 July 1845, _d._ 5 Oct. 1881, was a civil engineer, he invented an automatic levelling machine called the ‘Temnograph.’
JONES, THOMAS WHARTON (son of Richard Jones of H.M.’s customs,
Scotland). _b._ St. Andrews 1808; ed. at univ. of Edin.;
F.R.S. 30 April 1840; F.R.C.S. 1844; lecturer on physiology
at Charing Cross hospital; Fullerian prof. of physiology in
Royal Institution of Great Britain 1851–54; Emeritus prof. of
ophthalmic medicine and surgery, Univ. coll. hospital, London;
granted civil list pension of £150, 31 Oct. 1881; author of A
manual of ophthalmic medicine and surgery 1847, 3 ed. 1865; The
wisdom of the Almighty displayed in the sense of vision 1851;
Defects of sight, their nature, cause and prevention 1856, the 2
ed. was entitled Defects of sight and hearing 1866, 3 ed. 1877;
A catalogue of the medicine and surgery of the eye and ear 1857;
Evolution of the human race from apes, a doctrine unsanctioned
by science 1876. _d._ Ventnor, Isle of Wight 7 Oct. 1891.
JONES, WILLIAM. _b._ Battersea, London 15 April 1795; clerk
to an attorney; attorney at law; a superintendent of Surrey
chapel Sunday sch. 1815; an itinerant preacher among the
Independents 1820; on committee of Religious Tract Soc. 1820–4,
and travelling secretary Sep. 1824 to death; wrote the annual
reports for 31 years to 1855 and many Tracts; author of The
Jubilee memorial of the Religious Tract Soc. 1850; Recollections
of the late George Stokes; Memoir of the rev. Rowland Holt 1834.
d. London 5 April 1855. _W. H. R. Jones’s Life of Wm. Jones_
(1857), _portrait_.
JONES, WILLIAM. _b._ 1811; studied at Middlesex and Westminster
hospitals and in Paris; L.S.A. 1832, M.R.C.S. 1834, M.D. King’s
coll. Aberdeen 1850; invented the syphon douche 1848; author
of Practical observations on the diseases of women 1839; Gas
and gas meters, an address 1843; An essay on some of the most
important diseases of women 1848. _d._ 10 Lower Seymour st.
Portman sq. London 26 Jany. 1863. _Journal British Archæol
Assoc._ (1864) 168.
JONES, WILLIAM. Ed. at Glasgow univ. and Lampeter; V. of Nevin,
Carnarvonshire 1842–62; R. of Llanenddwyn, Merionethshire 1862
to death; author of A portrait of the true philosopher 1831, a
lecture; The character of the Welsh as a nation at the present
day. Carnarvon 1840, a prize essay in Welsh and English; The
Resurrection, a poem. Ruthin 1853, and of essays, orations and
sermons. _d._ 1873.
JONES, SIR WILLIAM (only son of Wm. Jones of Glan Helen,
Carnarvonshire). _b._ 1808; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 61 foot 10
April 1825, lieut. col. 29 Dec. 1848 to 16 Nov. 1860 when placed
on h.p.; served in Punjaub campaign 1848, and Indian mutiny
1857–8, commanded 3rd infantry brigade at siege of Delhi 1 July
to 11 Oct. 1857 and was in charge during six days fighting in
the streets; col. of 32 foot 2 Jany. 1871 to death; general 1
Oct. 1877; C.B. 9 June 1849, K.C.B. 2 June 1869, G.C.B. 29 May
1886. _d._ Lansdown lodge, Lansdown road, Dublin 8 April 1890.
JONES, WILLIAM ARTHUR (youngest son of Wm. Jones, corn
merchant). _b._ Carmarthen 1 May 1818; ed. at Carmarthen college
and Glasgow univ., M.A. 1841; Unitarian minister at Northampton
1842–9, at Bridgwater 1849–52, at Taunton 1852–66; hon. sec.
of Taunton and Somerset archæological and natural history soc.
about 1853 to death, contributed to its Proceedings many papers;
established a school of science and art at Taunton; author with
rev. W. P. Williams of A glossary of the Somersetshire dialect.
_d._ Tauntfield, Taunton 23 April 1873, memorial monument
erected in grounds of Taunton Castle. _The Taunton Courier 30
April 1873 p._ 5.
JONES, WILLIAM BENCE (elder son of Wm. Jones, lieut.-col. 5
dragoon guards, _d._ 1843). _b._ Beccles, Suffolk 5 Oct. 1812;
ed. at Harrow and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1836;
barrister I.T. 9 June 1837; farmed and made great improvements
on Lisselan estate, co. Cork 1838–80, when refusing to accept
Griffith’s valuation from his tenants he was boycotted although
he had always shown the greatest kindness to them; author of
The Irish church from the point of view of one of its laymen
1868; The life’s work in Ireland of a landlord who tried to do
his duty 1880. _d._ 34 Elvaston place, London 22 June 1882.
_Agricultural Gazette 13 March 1882_, _portrait_.
JONES, WILLIAM DANIEL, _b._ 1787; 2 lieut. R.A. 12 Sep. 1803,
col. 1 Nov. 1848 to 6 Jany. 1855 when he retired on full pay;
M.G. 13 Dec. 1854. _d._ Bournemouth 20 May 1857.
JONES, WILLIAM FRANK (only son of Wm. Jenkin Saer of Newport,
Pembrokeshire). _b._ 1842; ed. at St. Mary hall, Oxf., S.C.L.
and B.A. 1870, B.C.L. and M.A. 1871; barrister L.I. 30 April
1874; assumed surname of Jones in lieu of Saer; edited with H.
E. Hirst, Edward Chitty’s Index to all reported cases decided
in several courts of equity in England and Ireland, the Privy
Council and the House of Lords, 4 ed. 9 vols. 1883–9. _d._
Baroda, Ventnor, Isle of Wight 27 Dec. 1890.
JONES, WILLIAM GORE (son of John Gore Jones of Sligo). _b._
12 March 1826; cadet R.N. 12 Feb. 1841; commanded boats of
Firebrand in Black sea, destroying the Russian establishments
between the Danube and the Dneister 1854; first lieut. of
Firebrand in attack on Sebastopol 17 Oct. 1854; Crimean and
Turkish medals; 3 class Medjidie 25 March 1870; captain 20 Aug.
1861; flag capt. on Indian and China stations; naval attaché at
Washington 1873–9; granted good service pension 6 Sep. 1871;
C.B. 2 June 1877; V.A. 6 May 1882; author of A scheme by which
it is proposed to increase the employment of naval officers
1863. _d._ 26 Ashburn place, South Kensington, London 28 May
1888.
JONES, WILLIAM HENRY. Assistant manager at Crystal palace,
Sydenham; manager of and afterwards partner in firm of C. T.
Brock and Co., pyrotechnists, Nunhead, Surrey; manager of
Alexander palace, Muswell Hill 1 May 1880, palace reopened 15
May 1880 by James Willing, advertisement contractor; lessee of
Alexandra palace with Benjamin Barber at rent of £10,000 per
annum 25 March 1881. _d._ Magdala, Campsbourne, Hornsey 17 March
1883 aged 39.
JONES, WILLIAM HENRY RICH- (eld. son of Wm. Jones 1795–1855,
chief secretary of Religious tract society). _b._ parish
of Christchurch, Blackfriars, London 31 Aug. 1817; ed. at
Totteridge, Herts., King’s coll. London and Magd. hall, Oxf.;
B.A. 1840, M.A. 1844; C. of St. Andrew, Holborn 1841–2; R. of
St. Martin-in-the-Fields 1842–5; Inc. of St. James’s, Curtain
road, Shoreditch 1845–51; V. of Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts. 1851
to death, where he restored the church; surrogate and canon of
Salisbury 1872 to death; prefixed his wife’s maiden name Rich
to his surname 1883; F.S.A. 6 June 1861; edited for the Rolls
series, The Registers of St. Osmund 2 vols. 1863–4; author of
The life and times of St. Aldhelm. 1874; An account of the Saxon
church of Bradford-on-Avon 1878; Fasti ecclesiæ Sarisberiensis
1879; Salisbury, a history of the diocese 1880. _d._ the
vicarage, Bradford-on-Avon 28 Oct. 1885.
JONES, SIR WILLOUGHBY, 3 Baronet (2 son of Sir John Thomas
Jones, K.C.B., major general _d._ 1843). _b._ Woolwich 24 Nov.
1820; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., scholar 1842, 20 wrangler 1843,
B.A. 1843, M.A. 1847; succeeded his brother sir Lawrence Jones
1845; M.P. for Cheltenham 29 July 1847, but unseated on petition
for bribery 28 June 1848; sheriff of Norfolk 1851; chairman of
quarter sessions 1856; author of Public libraries, an address
1855; Christianity and common sense 1863. _d._ Cranmer hall,
Fakenham, Norfolk 21 Aug. 1884. _Power, Rodwell and Dew’s
Reports_, _i_ 179–89 (1853).
JONGHMANS, F. _b._ 1822; a singer and musical conductor at
Evans’ Supper rooms, Covent Garden, London 1852; a singer at
Canterbury music hall, London; musical conductor at Oxford music
hall, London, from the opening 26 March 1861 to about 1868;
vocal director at Royal Alhambra palace 1869–70; sang at Argyll
rooms when re-opened as the Trocadero 30 Oct. 1882. _d._ 15
Hemberton road, Mayflower road, Clapham 17 Oct. 1887. _bur._ St.
Mary’s cemet. Kensal green 21 Oct. _Entr’Acte Almanac_ (1876)
77, _portrait_.
JOPE, WILLIAM (2 son of rev. John Jope, V. of St. Cleer,
Cornwall, _d._ 1844). _bapt._ St. Cleer 12 Feb. 1789; barrister
G.I. 20 June 1820, bencher 1847 to death, treasurer 1847; mayor
of Liskeard 1820, 1828; recorder of Liskeard 1835 to death;
recorder of Helston 1846–52. _d._ Thames Ditton 1 May 1854,
monument in St. Cleer church.
JOPLING, JOSEPH MIDLETON (son of Joseph Jopling, clerk in the
Horse Guards, Whitehall, London). _b._ 1831; clerk in adjutant
general’s department Horse Guards 1848–70; associate of New Soc.
of Painters in water colours 1859–76; exhibited 27 pictures at
R.A. and 21 at Suffolk st. 1848–76; an early member of the Arts
club, Hanover sq.; director of fine art section of Philadelphia
international exhibition 1876; member of 3rd Middlesex rifle
corps, won the queen’s prize at Wimbledon 1861. _d._ 28 Beaufort
st. Chelsea, Dec. 1884.
JORDAN, JOHN. Ed. at Clare coll. Camb., B.A. 1826; C. of Little
Dean 1827–30; C. of Handborough 1830–6; C. of Somerton 1836–40;
V. of Church-Enstone, Oxfordshire 15 Aug. 1840 to death; author
of Review of tradition as taught by the writers of tracts
for the times 1840; The Holy Baptist 1843, poem in 5 cantos;
Scriptural views of the Sabbath of God 1848; A parochial history
of Enstone 1857, and of many pamphlets. _d._ 16 May 1874 aged 70.
JORDAN, ROBERT JACOB. M.R.C.S. Eng. 1859; L.R.C.P. Edin. 1859;
practised at 19 Berner’s st. Oxford st. London 1859–60, his
name struck off the Medical Register 1864; kept anatomical
museum 29 George st. Hanover square 1860–9; lived at 6 Bedford
sq. London; proprietor of the Cordial balm of Rakasira; author
of Diseases of the skin 1860; Skin diseases and their remedies
1860; Exposure of quackery and quacks. By Protector. _d._ London
14 April 1874, will which is signed Lewis Jacob Jordan proved
11 July 1874, personalty under £90,000. _F. B. Courtenay’s
Revelations of quacks and quackery 3 ed._ (1871) 19, 98–110.
JORDAN, THOMAS BROWN (son of Thomas Jordan). _b._ Bristol 24
Oct. 1807; an artist at Falmouth 1827, a mathematical instrument
maker there; made improvements in the miners’ dial, and aided R.
W. Fox in the construction of his dipping needle 1834; devised
instrument for recording variations of barometer by photography
1838; sec. of R. Polytechnic soc. Falmouth 1835–40; first
keeper of mining records, London 1840–5; invented wood carving
by machinery and established works at Lambeth 1845; mechanical
engineer at Manchester, then at Glasgow to 1870; mining engineer
London 1871 to death. _d._ London 30 May 1890. _Iron 20 June
1890 p._ 541.
NOTE.--He experimented in electro-metallurgy, and in 1841 made an egg cup of electro deposited copper, plated with silver outside and gold inside. This is now in Museum of practical geology, London.
JORDEN, GEORGE (son of a labourer, his mother was a
herb-doctress). _b._ Clee Hills, in Farlow parish, Shropshire
1783; came to Bewdley as an errand boy; servant to James Fryer,
M.D. 1806–56; botanist, his Flora Bellus Locus is in the
Worcester museum; he collected, mounted and named every plant he
was able to find; accumulated antiquarian lore including ballads
and electioneering songs, which he bequeathed to Worcester
museum. _d._ Bewdley 1871. _J. R. Burton’s Bewdley_ (1883) 60.
JORDON, EDWARD. _b._ Jamaica 1801; a quadroon; agitated for the
free political right of the coloured population, and then for
the abolition of slavery in Jamaica; edited a newspaper in
Jamaica, for an article in which he was tried for high treason
but acquitted; prime minister in first executive committee,
Jamaica 1860, member of the committee again April 1863 to Oct.
1864; receiver general Oct. 1864 to Aug. 1865; island secretary
and governor’s secretary Aug. 1865 to death; C.B. 18 May 1860,
the first coloured man so honoured. _d._ Kingston, Jamaica 8
Feb. 1869. _American Annual Cyclop. for 1869 p._ 529.
JOSEPH, FELIX (eld. son of Abraham Joseph of 3 Woodstock st.
Oxford st. London, curiosity dealer, _d._ 1872). _b._ London
1840; ed. at Ghent; in business with his father to 1872 when
he retired; made a collection of old Wedgwood ware, now in the
Nottingham castle museum; a selection from his best examples was
on loan at the Guelph exhibition in London; a benefactor to the
museums of Nottingham, Maidstone, Norwich, Sandgate and Derby; a
full length portrait of him by Knighton Warren is in Nottingham
castle museum. _d._ Southsea 19 Aug. 1892. _Daily Graphic 18
Dec. 1891 p._ 9, _col._ 1, _portrait_.
JOSEPH, HENRY SAMUEL. _b._ 1801; Jewish rabbi at Bedford;
ordained as a literate in the ch. of England 1835; travelling
sec. to society for promoting christianity among the Jews;
chaplain to Chester castle 1847–56; author of Reason for
embracing christianity 1834; Memoirs of convicted prisoners.
Chester 1853. _d._ Strasburg, France 28 Jany. 1864.
JOSEPH, JOHN CHARLES. _b._ 1810; proprietor of Northumberland
hotel, Dublin; patentee and owner of Queen’s theatre, Great
Brunswick st. Dublin 29 June 1844 to death; a guardian of the
poor of the North Union; member of municipal council of Dublin,
representing the North Dock ward 15 years. _d._ Northumberland
buildings, Eden quay, Dublin 8 Nov. 1871. _The Freeman’s Journal
9 Nov. 1871 pp._ 3, 4, _14 Nov. p._ 3.
JOSEPHS, FRANCES ADELINE, known as Fanny Josephs (dau. of W. H.
Josephs, manager of Sadler’s Wells theatre, London). _b._ 1842;
first appeared in London at Sadler’s Wells as Celia in As you
like it 8 Sep. 1860; a member of the Strand burlesque co. 1861;
played Lord Woodbie in The Flying Scud, on opening night of
Holborn theatre 6 Oct. 1866 and 200 nights afterwards; manager
of the Holborn theatre April 1868 to 29 March 1869; the original
Emily Mervyn in Byron’s comedy Partners for life, at Globe
theatre 7 Oct. 1871; acted Bella in School, at Prince of Wales’
20 Sep. 1873 to 1 April 1874, and Lady Sneerwell in School for
Scandal 4 April to 7 Aug. 1874; the original Lady Marie Wagstaff
in The Pink Dominos, Criterion theatre 31 March to Dec. 1877;
lessee of the Olympic, Easter 1879; played Mary Blythe in The
World, at Drury Lane 31 July 1880; lessee and manager of Prince
of Wales’, Liverpool 1884–90. (_m._ captain George Wombwell).
_d._ Margate 17 June 1890. _bur._ Brompton cemet. _Illust.
sport. and dram. news_, _i_ 649, 674 (1874) _portrait_, _xiii_
565, 570 (1880) _portrait_; _Era 21 June 1890 p._ 8; _Pascoe’s
Dramatic list_ (1880) 215–6; _Saturday Programme 11 March 1876
pp._ 7–8, _portrait_.
NOTE.--Her sister Eliza Stuart Patti Josephs, always known as Patti Josephs, was _b._ 1849, acted in England and America, _d._ Philadelphia 5 Oct. 1876, _m._ John Fitzpatrick, actor.
JOSSELYN, GEORGE (younger son of John Josselyn of Sproughton
near Ipswich, land agent). _b._ 1 Jany. 1807; solicitor at
Ipswich 1828–86; member of Ipswich town council 1840, mayor
1842, 1851, 1859, alderman 1846–78; a director of Eastern Union
and Great Eastern railway companies. _d._ Sproughton near
Ipswich 27 May 1888. _Public men of Ipswich_ (1875) 110–6.
JOSSELYN, JOHN (son of John Josselyn of Boxted, Essex, _d._
1819). _b._ 1816; ed. C.C. coll. Camb.; sheriff of Suffolk 1855;
master of Suffolk fox hounds 20 years. _d._ St. Edmund’s hill,
Bury St. Edmunds 19 Feb. 1884.
JOULE, JAMES PRESCOTT (son of Benjamin Joule of Salford, brewer
1784–1858). _b._ New Bailey st. Salford 24 Dec. 1818; pupil of
John Dalton the chemist at Manchester; member of Manchester
literary and philosophical soc. 1842, librarian 1844, hon. sec.
1846, vice pres. 1851, pres. 1860; F.R.S. 6 June 1850, royal
medal 1852, Copley medal 1870; LL.D. Dublin 1857, D.C.L. Oxf.
1860, LL.D. Edin. 1871; granted civil list pension of £200,
19 June 1878; received Albert medal of Society of Arts 1880;
experimented on electro-magnetism with view of applying it as
a motive power; discovered that the attractive force exercised
by two electric magnets is proportioned to the square of the
strength of the magnetising current 1840; established the
relation between heat and chemical affinity 1840; established
the mechanical equivalent of heat by experiments 1842–9; had
a laboratory at Whalley Range 1844; wrote upwards of 100
scientific papers; author of New theory of heat 1846; Mechanical
equivalent of heat 1859; The scientific papers of J. P. Joule.
Published by The Physical society of London 2 vols. 1884–7,
with portrait. _d._ 12 Wardle road, Sale near Manchester 11 Oct.
1889. _Popular Science Monthly_, _v_ 103–7, _portrait_; _Leisure
Hour_, _Aug. 1873 pp_. 549–52; _Nature 26 Oct. 1882 pp._ 617–20,
_portrait_; _Graphic 2 Nov. 1869 pp._ 530, 532, _portrait_.
JOWETT, JOSEPH. _b._ 1784; ed. Queen’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1806,
M.A. 1823; R. of Silk Willoughby near Sleaford 1810 to death;
composer of Musæ Solitariæ. A collection of original melodies
adapted to various measures of psalms and hymns 2 vols. 1823–7;
Lyra Sacra. Select extracts from the cathedral music of the
Church of England 1825; A manual of parochial psalmody 1832;
Pocket index to the final key note in any piece of music 1842.
_d._ Silk Willoughby 13 May 1856.
JOWETT, WILLIAM (son of J. Jowett of Newington, Surrey). _b._
1787; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., fellow 1811–16; twelfth
wrangler 1810; B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813, Hulsean prizeman 1810;
first Anglican clergyman who volunteered for foreign service of
Church missionary soc. 1813; missionary of Church Missionary
Soc. in Mediterranean 1815–20, in Syria and Holy Land 1823–4;
clerical sec. of the C.M. Soc. 1832–40; Sunday evening lecturer
at St. Mary, Aldermanbury to 1851; Inc. of St. John, Clapham
Rise, London 1851 to death; author of An essay to prove that
the propensity of the Jews to idolatry affords no grounds
for disbelieving miracles 1811; Christian researches in the
Mediterranean 1822; Christian researches in Syria and the
Holy Land 1825, 2 ed. 1826; Scripture characters from the Old
Testament, three series 1847–8; Scripture characters from the
New Testament 1850. _d._ 4 The Rise, Larkhall lane, Clapham 20
Feb. 1855. _bur._ Lewisham churchyard.
JOY, HENRY HOLMES (3 son of Henry Joy of Belfast). _b._ the
Lodge, Belfast 1805; ed. at Belfast academy and Trin. coll.
Dublin; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1841, LL.B. and LL.D. 1856; called to
Irish bar 1827, Q.C. 13 Feb. 1849. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 28 Feb.
1875.
JOY, JOHN CANTILOE (son of Mr. Joy, guard to mail coach between
Yarmouth and Ipswich). _b._ Yarmouth 1806; employed by the
government as draughtsman at Portsmouth about 1832; marine
painter with his brother Wm. Joy at Chichester, Putney and
London, the two brothers always worked together on the same
pictures; exhibited 6 sea pieces at Suffolk st. London 1826–7.
_d._ London 1866.
JOY, THOMAS MUSGRAVE (only son of Thomas Joy). _b._
Boughton-Monchelsea, Kent 1812; pupil of Samuel Drummond,
A.R.A.; exhibited 67 pictures at R.A., 82 at B.I. and 50 at
Suffolk st. 1831–67; painted subject pictures and portraits
of the prince of Wales and princess Royal 1841–3, sir Charles
Napier and duke of Cambridge; his best picture Le Bourgeois
Gentilhomme was in R.A. 1853; painted a picture of the Meeting
of the subscribers to Tattersall’s before the races 1864; his
pictures were sold at Christie’s on the Ascot settling day after
his death. _d._ of bronchitis, 32 St. George’s sq. Pimlico,
London 7 April 1866. _Art Journal_, _Aug. 1866 p._ 240.
JOY, WILLIAM (brother of John Cantiloe Joy 1806–66). _b._
Yarmouth 1803; employed by government as draughtsman at
Portsmouth about 1832; always worked with his brother on the
same pictures; exhibited 2 sea pieces at R.A., 2 at B.I. and 3
at Suffolk st. 1823–45. _d._ Chichester 1867.
JOYCE, FRANK (son of Pierce Joyce of Merview, Galway, _d._
1883). Agent for marquess of Clanricarde, resigned and brought
an action against his employer for libel; well known sportsman
in Galway; resided at Tallyho, Loughrea; upset in a jaunting car
and _d._ at Loughrea from a wound in his head May 1890. _Times 9
May 1890 p._ 10.
JOYCE, JAMES GERALD (eld. son of Harry Gandy Joyce). _b._
Clonmel, Ireland 1819; ed. Magd. hall, Oxf., B.A. 1846; V. of
Burford with Fullbrook 1850–5; R. of Strathfieldsaye, Hants.
1855 to death; F.S.A. 1 June 1865; took much interest in
the excavations at Silchester and contributed papers on the
discoveries made there 1865 etc.; author of Can the liturgy be
used to attach the people to the church? 1869; The Fairford
windows. A monograph. Published by the Arundel society 1872, the
letter press and the drawings on wood, stone and paper were all
by him. _d._ Strathfieldsaye rectory 28 June 1878. _Proc. Soc.
Antiq. London_, _viii_ 106–8 (1881).
JOYCE, JAMES WAYLAND (eld. son of rev. James Joyce of Henley,
Oxon). _b._ 1812; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1828–44; B.A. 1832,
M.A. 1835; R. of Burford (3rd portion), Salop 1843 to death;
proctor of diocese of Hereford 1852–80; preb. of Hereford 1868
to death; author of England’s sacred synods 1855; Ecclesia
vindicata: a treatise on appeals in matters spiritual 1862; The
civil power in its relation to the church 1869; On the courts of
final appeal as proposed by the commissioners on ecclesiastical
courts 1884; Acts of the church 1531. 1885; The church her own
reformer 1886. _d._ Burford 16 Nov. 1887. _The Hereford Journal
26 Nov. 1887 p._ 4.
JOYCE, ROBERT DWYER. _b._ in co. Limerick, Sep. 1836; ed.
Queen’s univ. Dublin; professor of English literature in college
of R.C. univ. Dublin; surgeon in Dublin to 1866; went to U.S.
America and resided at Boston till his death; member of R. Irish
acad.; author of Ballads, romances and songs. Dublin 1861;
Legends of the war in Ireland. Boston 1868; Fireside stories of
Ireland 1871; Ballads of Irish chivalry, songs and poems. Boston
1875; Deirdrè [A poem by R.D.J.] 1876; Blanid, a poem. Boston
1879; The squire of Castleton. _d._ Dublin 23 Oct. 1883.
JOYCE, SAMUEL (3 son of James Joyce of Chapel st. Pentonville,
London). _b._ 1817; barrister G.I. and M.T. 21 Jany. 1846; Q.C.
5 Feb. 1874; bencher of G.I. 1874 to death; author of Remarks
on the operations of the county courts act 9 & 10 Vict. c. 95,
with suggestions for amendment of practice of superior courts
in personal actions 1850. _d._ 12 Endsleigh st. Tavistock sq.
London 6 Jany. 1876. _bur._ in Highgate cemetery.
JOYCE, WILLIAM (2 son of James Joyce of Pentonville, London).
Barrister I.T. 21 Nov. 1851 and of L.I. 14 Jany. 1860; resided
12 Endsleigh st. Tavistock sq.; author of The law and practice
of injunctions in equity and at common law 2 vols. 1872; The
doctrines and principles of the law of injunctions 1877;
Proposals for an intellectual franchise. _d._ Thirlestane,
Hampton hill 19 Oct. 1891.
JOYNER, HENRY BATSON (eld. son of Henry St. John Joyner). _b._
Northwick, Harrow 9 July 1839; resident engineer to Tunbridge
Wells commissioners 1868–70; in service of Japanese government,
constructing railways, making a trigonometrical survey and
organising a department of meteorology 1870–7; engineer in chief
of water supply and sewerage system of city of Sāo Paulo, Brazil
1877–84; A.I.C.E. 6 May 1879, M.I.C.E. 29 Nov. 1881; F.R.G.S.;
author of The progress and ultimate results of meteorology,
specially considered in reference to Japan 1876. _d._ England 23
Nov. 1884. _Min. of Proc. I.C.E. lxxix_ 370–1 (1885).
JUDD, WILLIAM HENRY. M.R.C.S. 1815, hon. F.R.C.S. 1844;
assistant surgeon 3 foot guards 25 Feb. 1819, battalion surgeon
12 July 1827, surgeon major 22 July 1845 to 17 Feb. 1854 when
placed on h.p.; the first advocate to claim justice for the
army surgeon; he caused the abolition of the cross belts
and the substitution of the present manner of carrying the
cartouch box and ammunition; surgeon in ordinary to the Prince
Consort; edited Part 4 of vol. i. of Transactions of the Royal
Medico-Botanical Society 1839; author of A practical treatise
on urethritis and syphilis 1836. _d._ 41 Maddox st. Regent st.
London 7 or 10 Sep. 1868 aged 73.
JUDKIN, THOMAS JAMES. _b._ 1788; ed. Gonville and Caius coll.
Camb., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; admitted ad eundem at Oxf. 1 Dec.
1842; P.C. of Somers chapel, Somers Town, London 1828–68;
author of Twelve signs of the times; Church and home psalmody,
being a collection of psalms from the old and new versions and
original hymns 1831, 7 ed. 1851; Bygone moods, or hues of fancy
and feeling from the spring to the autumn of life 1856. _d._
Reigate-heath 11 Sep. 1871.
JUKES, JOSEPH BEETE (only son of John Jukes of Birmingham,
manufacturer, who _d._ 1819). _b._ Summerhill near Birmingham
10 October 1811; ed. at Wolverhampton and Birmingham gr. schs.
and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1836; geological surveyor of
Newfoundland 1839–40; naturalist to expedition for surveying
coast of Australia, Torres Strait and New Guinea 1842–6; member
of the English geological survey 1 Oct. 1846 to 1850; director
of the Irish survey Nov. 1850 to 1870; lecturer on geology at R.
coll. of science, Dublin 1854; member of commission to enquire
into the resources of the coal fields 1860; wrote upwards of 50
papers on geology in scientific journals; author of Excursions
in and about Newfoundland 2 vols. 1842; Narrative of the voyage
of H.M.S. Fly 2 vols. 1847; A sketch of the physical structure
of Australia 1850; The student’s manual of geology 1857, 3 ed.
1872; injured his brain by a fall and _d._ Upper Leeson st.
Dublin 29 July 1869. _bur._ Selley Oak near Birmingham. _Letters
of J. B. Jukes_ (1871), _portrait_; _Quarterly Journ. Geol. Soc.
xxvi_ 32–4 (1870).
JUKES, ROBERT BOSWELL. Ed. at C.C. coll. Camb., B.A. 1838;
chaplain to Leopold I. king of the Belgians; consular chaplain
at Ostend 1846–75; Raine lecturer St. Michael’s Cornhill, London
1875 to death. _d._ in St. Michael’s ch. a few minutes after
finishing his sermon 9 July 1882. _Guardian 12 July 1882 p._ 964.
JULIAN, CHARLES SAINT. Chief justice of Fiji 1871–4; author
of Notes on the latent resources of Polynesia. Sydney 1851;
The international status of Fiji and the political rights
of British subjects residing in the Fijian archipelago 1872;
with Edward Kennedy Silvester, The productions, industry and
resources of New South Wales 1853. _d._ Vadratan, New Zealand 26
Dec. 1874.
JULIAN, WILLIAM ROBERT (son of William Julian _d._ 25 Jany.
1872 aged 74). _b._ 1827; connected with Masks and Faces
entertainment; an entertainer on the music hall stage; dramatic
and musical agent at 34 Wellington st. Strand 1864–70, at 29 Bow
st. Covent Garden 1870–4, at 75 Berwick st. Soho 1875 to death.
_d._ 4 April 1886. _bur._ Woking cemet. 11 April. _Era 10 April
1886 p._ 7.
JULLIEN or JULIEN, LOUIS GEORGE ANTOINE JULES (son of M.
Jullien, conductor of band of the Garde Nationale). _b._
Sisteron, Basses Alpes 23 Aug. 1812; a piccolo player in band
of the Garde Nationale; played violin solos in concerts in
Italy 1834; served in French navy and army for short periods;
studied at the Conservatoire, Paris under J. H. Halevy 1833–6;
founder and conductor of concerts in the Jardin Turc, Paris
1836 which for a time were a great success; director of Bals
d’Opera, Paris; rented and opened the Hotel of the Duke of
Parma in the Chaussée d’Antin as a casino, soon closed by the
police; published a programme in which he turned the government
into ridicule, fled to England to escape imprisonment 1838;
conducted dance music at Drury Lane 1838 and then became chief
conductor there for the first time Nov. 1838; conductor of
concerts d’hiver 1841 and of concerts de societé 1842, before
one shilling audiences; his winter seasons of concerts at Drury
lane lasted 1842–59; much noticed in Punch where he was called
The Great Mons.; opened at Drury Lane 6 Dec. 1847 with Lucia
di Lammermoor; bankrupt 19 April 1848, awarded first class
certificate; gave out-door promenade concerts at Surrey gardens
1849; kept a depot for sale of dance music at 214 Regent st.
1845–58 and the royal conservatory of music at 45 King st.
Golden sq. 1846–58; produced his own opera Pietro il Grande at
Covent Garden 17 Aug. 1852, played 4 times; in U.S. America,
July 1853 to June 1854; opened New Music hall, Surrey gardens
15 July 1856, gardens closed 1857 when he lost £6000; the whole
of his engraved and manuscript music burnt in Covent Garden 5
March 1856; gave his concerts d’adieu, his twentieth season at
the Lyceum 1858; in prison at Clichy, France 4 months May-Aug.
1859; composer of British army quadrilles and 150 pieces of
music; the first to familiarize the masses with the works of
Mozart, Beethoven and Mendelssohn; placed in a lunatic asylum 10
March 1860, wounded himself with a knife. _d._ Neuilly, Paris
14 March 1860. _Dramatic and musical review_, _i_ 5 (1842),
_portrait_; _The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent
personages 4 series_ (1860), _portrait_; _G.M. viii_ 632–4
(1860); _I.L.N. iii_ 348, 413 (1843) _portrait_, _ix_ 289 (1846)
_view of concert_; _You have heard of them by Q._ (1854) 283–92;
_Reynolds’ Miscellany_, _xi_ 181 (1854), _portrait_, _xvii_ 344
(1857), _portrait_; _Belgravia_, _xli_ 285–96 (1880); _Putnam’s
Monthly Mag. ii_ 423–33 (1853).
JUNG, SIR SALAR. _b._ 1829; dewan or prime minister of Hydrabad
1853, when he made great reform in the management of the state;
remained faithful at the time of the mutiny 1857; one of the
regents of Hydrabad 1866; visited England 1876, D.C.L. Oxf. 21
June 1876; presented to the queen at Windsor 29 June 1876; voted
freedom of city of London 29 June 1876, admitted 25 July 1876;
G.C.S.I. 31 May 1870. _d._ Hydrabad 8 Feb. 1883. _To-day_, _July
1883_; _Times 10 Feb. 1883 p._ 5, _11 Feb. p._ 8, _12 Feb. p._ 5.
JUNG, SIR SALAR. _b._ 1863; prime minister of Hydrabad to 1887;
visited England in the Jubilee year 1887 when he resided in the
house of lord Howard, Rutland gate, London; author of two papers
entitled Europe revisited in Nineteenth Century, Aug. and Oct.
1887; K.C.I.E. 15 Feb. 1887. _d._ Hydrabad 7 July 1889. _Times 8
July 1889 p._ 5, _9 July p._ 5, _15 July p._ 5.
JUNNER, ROBERT GORDON. _b._ Edinburgh 1841; barrister M.T. 17
Nov. 1865; went Midland circuit, attended Birmingham sessions,
and lord mayor’s court, London; author of The practice before
the railway commissioners 1874. _d._ Portobello near Edinburgh
27 Aug. 1874.
JUPP, EDWARD BASIL (son of Richard Webb Jupp). _b._ 1 Jany.
1812; admitted solicitor 1836; partner with his father 1836–44,
with Richard Samuel Jupp 1844–48, practised alone 1848 to death;
joint clerk with his father to the Carpenters’ company 1843–52,
and clerk 1852 to death; collected works of Thomas Bewick,
which were sold by auction at Christie’s Feb. 1878; author of
An historical account of the worshipful company of carpenters
of the City of London 1848, 2 ed. 1887; Genealogical memoranda
relating to R. Wyatt of Hall place, Shackleford 1870. _d._ 4
Paragon, Blackheath, Kent 30 May 1877.
JUPP, HENRY (son of C. Jupp a cricketer). _b._ Dorking, Surrey
19 Nov. 1841; a brickmaker; played his first match at Lords
16–18 May 1864; played in the Surrey Eleven 1864–81; one of
the best batsmen in England, also a good field; made 216 runs
in one innings in match Players of the South _v._ Gentlemen of
the South 25 Sep. 1865; scored 1557 runs in 1866; played in
Australia 1874; landlord of Sun inn, Dorking about 1867–75, of
Horns tavern, Lower Norwood 1875–8, of Onslow Arms, Cranleigh,
Surrey 1878. _d._ Bermondsey, London 8 April 1889. _Baily’s Mag.
xxvi_ 403 (1875), _portrait_; _Grace’s Cricket_ (1891) 331–2;
_Illust. sporting and dramatic news_, _i_ 568, 570 (1874),
_portrait_.
JUPP, RICHARD WEBB. _b._ 1767; solicitor in City of London
1792–1844; clerk to the Carpenters’ company 1798 to death;
member of common council for Broad st. to death. _d._
Carpenters’ hall, 6 London Wall, London 26 Aug. 1852.
JUST, JOHN (eld. son of Jonathan Just, farmer). _b._ Natland
near Kendal 3 Dec. 1797; ed. at Kendal and Kirkby Lonsdale
gram. schools 1811–17; second master of Bury gr. sch. 1832 to
death; lecturer on botany at Pine street (afterwards Royal
Manchester) school of medicine and surgery Sep. 1833, lectured
annually 1834–52; hon. professor of botany at Royal Manchester
Institution, Oct. 1848, delivered 3 courses of lectures 1849–51;
investigated the Roman roads in Lancashire; deciphered the
Runic inscriptions in the Isle of Man; wrote numerous papers on
farming, botany and philosophy. _d._ Bury 14 Oct. 1852. _Memoirs
of Literary and Philos. Soc. of Manchester_, _xi_ 91–121 (1854);
_Journal of British Archæological Assoc. ix_ 105–11 (1854).
JUSTICE, WILLIAM. Entered Madras army 1818; lieut. col. of 52
Madras N.I. 29 Sep. 1842, of 15 N.I. 1844–5, of 11 N.I. 1845–8,
of 4 N.I. 1848–50, of 49 N.I. 1850–1, of 34 N.I. 1851–3, of 7
N.I. 1853–4; col. of 32 Madras N.I. 1854–60, of 39 N.I. 1860–1,
of 5 N.I. 1861 to death; L.G. 6 Dec. 1866. _d._ Bath 27 Oct.
1868.
JUSTYNE, PERCY WILLIAM (son of Percy Justyne). _b._ Rochester
1812; landscape painter; exhibited 1 picture at R.A. and 2
at Suffolk st. 1837–8; private sec. to Charles Joseph Doyle,
governor of island of Grenada 1841–5, acting stipendiary
magistrate in Grenada, returned to England 1848; a skilful
illustrator of books; employed on the Illustrated London News
1849–50, London Journal, National Mag., Graphic, &c. _d._ 6 June
1883. _bur._ Norwood cemetery.
JUTSUM, HENRY. _b._ London 1816; ed. in Devonshire; pupil
of James Stark 1839; member of New Water-colour Soc. 1843;
exhibited 68 pictures at R.A., 75 at B.I. and 19 at Suffolk
st. 1836–69; the drawings chiefly of English scenery which he
had collected were sold at Christie’s 17 April 1882; of his
paintings ‘The Noonday walk’ is in the Royal collection, and
‘The Foot Bridge’ in South Kensington museum. _d._ 88 Hamilton
terrace, St. John’s Wood, London 3 March 1869.
K
KAHN, JOSEPH. _b._ Germany; opened a small anatomical museum at
315 Oxford st. London 1851; kept anatomical museum, 4 Coventry
st. Leicester sq. 1855–7; physician at 17 Harley st. Cavendish
sq. 1857–62; kept museum and gallery of science 3 Tichborne st.
1857–66, re-opened with exhibitions and lectures on oxhydrogen,
microscope, dissolving views, &c., besides lectures on the laws
of life and preservation of health, lecturers Dr. Kahn and Dr.
Sexton 8 Dec. 1857; returned to Germany about 1866; author
of Catalogue of Dr. Kahn’s Anatomical museum exhibiting at
315 Oxford st. 1851; Atlas of the formation of the human body
1852; The evangel of human nature, fourteen lectures 1856; The
philosophy of marriage 1859. _F. B. Courtenay’s Revelations of
Quacks_, _3 ed._ (1871) 76–8; _The Era 13 Dec. 1857 p._ 13.
KALEY, JAMES. Scotch giant nearly 8 feet high; exhibited at a
cafe on the Boulevards, Paris, _d._ Paris, Dec. 1852 aged 27.
KALISCH, MARCUS MORITZ. _b._ Treptow, Pomerania 16 May 1825;
ed. at univ. of Berlin; Ph.D. Halle; came to England as a
refugee 1848; sec. to Nathan Marcus Adler, chief rabbi of the
great synagogue, London 1848–53; tutor to sons of baron Lionel
Rothschild and to the daughters of sir Anthony Rothschild; the
liberality of the Rothschild family enabled him to publish his
literary works; author of A historical and critical commentary
on the Old Testament Hebrew and English 1855, with English
edition of the same 1858; The life and writings of Oliver
Goldsmith, two lectures 1860; A Hebrew grammar with exercises
1862–3; Bible studies 1877–8; Path and gaol. A discussion on the
elements of civilisation and the conditions of happiness 1880;
resided 35 Longridge road, Earl’s court, London. _d._ Baslow
hydropathic establishment, Rowsley, Derbyshire 23 Aug. 1885.
_bur._ Jewish cemetery, Willesden. _The Jewish Chronicle 28 Aug.
1885 pp._ 5, 10.
KANE, DANIEL RYAN. Called to Irish bar 1825; Q.C. 15 Feb. 1847;
commissioner of bankrupts 1826; assistant barrister for county
of Leitrim. _d._ Vesey place, Kingstown 17 Jany. 1883. _Law Mag.
and Law Rev. Aug. 1858 pp._ 261–2.
KANE, DENIS. _b._ Ardnahue, co. Carlow 3 March 1822; ed. at
Tullow monastery, Carlow diocesan sch., Carlow coll. and
Maynooth; dean of the lay house 1848 and then professor
of natural philosophy Carlow coll. 1851–7; curate in
Leighlin-bridge 1857, administrator at Tullow 1860; in pastoral
charge of Philipstown 1867 and of Baltinglas 1871; vicar general
of Carlow 1878 to death; D.D. _d._ Carlow 2 July 1883. _M.
Comerford’s Collections of Kildare and Leighlin_ (1883) 232,
330–1.
KANE, SIR ROBERT JOHN (2 son of John Kane, chemist). _b._
Dublin 24 Sep. 1809; ed. at Dublin univ., LL.D. 1868, member
of academic council 16 Dec. 1874; clinical clerk Meath
hospital, Dublin 1830; F.K. and Q.C.P. Dublin 1835; lecturer
in chemistry Apothecaries’ Co. of Ireland medical sch. Dublin
1831–45; discovered an arsenide of manganese since known as
Kaneite; claimed to be the discoverer of the ethyl theory 183-;
experimented on the compounds of ammonia; member R. Irish
Acad. 1832, sec. 1842–9, Cunningham medal 1843, president
1877–82; royal medal of Royal Soc. 1841 for paper on archil and
litmus; F.R.S. 7 June 1849; professor of natural philosophy
Royal Dublin soc. 1834–47; originator and first director of
Museum of Irish industry, Dublin 1845–9; established Royal
coll. of science, Ireland; knighted by lord Heytesbury, Feb.
1846; president Queen’s coll. Cork 1849, resigned May 1873;
commissioner of national education in Ireland 1873; president
R. Geol. soc. of Ireland; commissioner of national education
Aug. 1875; vice chancellor R. University of Ireland 1880. (_m._
1838 Katharine dau. of Henry Baily of London, she was author
of The Irish Flora, and _d._ 1886); originated Dublin Journal
of Medical science 1832, one of the editors to 1834; an editor
of Philosophical mag. 1840; author of Elements of practical
pharmacy 1831; Industrial resources of Ireland 1844, 2 ed. 1845;
The large and small farm question considered 1844; The elements
of chemistry 1846, 2 ed. 1849. _d._ 2 Wellington road, Dublin
16 Feb. 1890. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xlvii pp. xii–xvii_ (1890);
_Muspratt’s Chemistry_, _vol. i_ (1853), _portrait_; _Dublin
Univ. Mag. May 1849 pp._ 626–37, _portrait_.
KARKEEK, WILLIAM FLOYD (son of George Karkeek). _b._ Truro 9
Sep. 1802; passed as a veterinary surgeon 31 Jany. 1825; sec.
Cornwall agricultural assoc.; encouraged scientific farming in
Cornwall; one of the editors of The Veterinarian 1833–41; author
of An essay on artificial and other manures 1844; An essay on
fat and muscle 1844; On the farming of Cornwall 1845; Diseases
of cattle and sheep 1851. _d._ Pentreve, Truro 25 June 1858.
_The Veterinarian_, _xxxi_ 478–80 (1858).
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