Knockfin, Maryborough, June 1790; ed. at Steevens’s hospital,
Dublin and univ. of Edin., M.D. 1814; demonstrator of anatomy
at Trin. coll. Dublin 1819; discovered a previously unknown
membrane of the eye 1819 since known as membrana Jacobi; founded
with R. J. Graves and others Park street school of medicine
1821; professor of anatomy Royal college of surgeons in Ireland
1826–69, pres. of the college 3 times, his portrait, bust and
library were afterwards placed in the college; edited The Dublin
Medical Press 42 vols. 1838–59; a medal bearing his likeness
was struck and presented to him Dec. 1860; author of A treatise
on the inflammation of the eyeball 1849; On cataract and the
operation for its removal by absorption 1851. _d._ Newbarnes,
Barrow-in-Furness 21 Sep. 1874. _Jacob and Glascott’s Families
of Jacob_ (1875) 63 _&c._; _Medical Times 3 Oct. 1874 pp._
405–6; _Graphic 17 Oct. 1874 pp._ 367, 372, _portrait_.
JACOB, EDWIN (son of John Jacob of Painswick, Gloucs.). _b._
Gloucs. 1794; ed. at Lincoln coll. Oxf. 1810–12, scholar of
Corpus Christi 1812–21; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818, B. and D.D.
1829; R. of St. Pancras, Chichester 1827–9; vice president and
professor of classics King’s coll. Frederickton, New Brunswick
1829–60; author of Sermons intended for the propagation of the
gospel 1835; An oration at the 14th encænia in King’s college
1844. _d._ Cardigan, York county, New Brunswick 31 July 1868.
_Appleton’s American Biog. iii_ 393 (1887).
JACOB, _Sir George Le Grand_ (5 son of John Jacob of Guernsey
1765–1840). _b._ Roath court near Cardiff 24 April 1805; ed.
at Elizabeth coll. Guernsey; ensign 2 regt. Bombay N.I. 9 June
1821, major 1848–54; political agent in Cutch 1851–9; lieut.
col. 8 Bombay N.I. 1854–6, 27 Bombay N.I. 1856–8; commanded a
native battalion in Persian expedition 1857; put down the mutiny
in Kolapore Dec. 1857; special commissioner of South Mahratta
country 1858; lieut. col. of 31 Bombay N.I. 1858–60, of 5 light
infantry 1860 to 31 Dec. 1861 when he retired as major-general;
C.B. 21 March 1859; K.C.S.I. 4 June 1869; wrote numerous papers
on Indian history, etc.; author of Report upon the general
condition of Kattewar in 1842, 1845; Western India before and
during the mutinies 1871. _d._ 12 Queensborough ter. Kensington
gardens, London 27 Jany. 1881. _Overland Mail 6 May 1881 pp._
17–18; _Holme’s Indian mutiny 3 ed._ (1888) 450, 454–57.
JACOB, JOHN (5 son of Stephen Long Jacob, V. of Woolavington,
Somerset, _d._ 1851 aged 86). _b._ Woolavington 11 Jany. 1812;
ed. at Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bombay artillery 11 Jany. 1828;
raised the Sind irregular horse 1841 usually called Jacob’s
horse, in command of which he continually harassed the enemy 17
Feb. 1843 to death; called by sir W. Napier the Seidlitz of the
Sind army; political superintendent and commandant of frontier
of Upper Sind 1847; C.B. 10 Sep. 1850; commanded the troops at
Koree for service in Upper Sind 1852; the town of Kanghur was
called Jacobabad in his honour 1851; acting comr. in Sind 1856
to death; A.D.C. to the Queen 20 March 1857; commanded cavalry
division in Persian war 1857; invented a greatly improved rifle
1858; raised 2 regiments of infantry called Jacob’s rifles
1858; author of Rifle practice 1855, 4 ed. 1858; Tracts on the
native army of India 1857; A few remarks on the Bengal army and
furlough regulations. By a Bombay officer 1857. _d._ Jacobabad
5 Dec. 1858, bust placed in shire hall at Taunton. _L. Pelly’s
Views and opinions of J. Jacob_, _2 ed._ (1858); _I.L.N. xxxiii_
227 (1858), _portrait_.
JACOB, JOSHUA. _b._ Clonmel, co. Tipperary about 1805; a grocer
Nicholas st. Dublin; disowned by Society of Friends 1838; formed
a society of his own in Dublin commonly called White Quakers
from the members wearing white garments 1838, with stations in
other places; established a community at Newlands, Clondalkin,
co. Dublin about 1849 which lasted but a short time; a grocer
at Celbridge, co. Kildare; became a Roman catholic; author of
Some account of the progress of the truth. Mountmellick 1843 and
other small works. _d._ Wales 15 Feb. 1877. _bur._ Glasnevin
cemetery, Dublin. _Joseph Smith’s Friends’ books_, _ii_ 4 (1867).
JACOB, PHILIP (brother of sir George Le Grand Jacob _d._ 1881).
_b._ 1803; ed. at C.C. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; C. of
Newport, Monmouth 1827–31; R. of Crawley with Hunton, Wilts. 31
May 1831 to death; canon residentiary of Winchester cath. 19
July 1834 to death; archdeacon of Winchester 28 June 1860 to
death. _d._ The Close, Winchester 20 Dec. 1884.
JACOB, PHILIP WHITTINGTON. _b._ 1805; alderman of Guildford many
years, mayor about 1866 when he stamped out the usual 5 Nov.
riots; an eminent linguist in Eastern and European languages;
a sub-editor of Dr. J. A. H. Murray’s A new English dictionary
1884 etc.; author of Hindoo tales: adventures of ten princes
freely translated from the Sanskrit 1873. _d._ 6 Wellington
place, Woodbridge road, Guildford 26 Dec. 1889.
JACOB, SARAH (3 dau. of Evan Jacob, farmer, and Hannah his
wife). _b._ Llethernoyadd-ucha farm, Carmarthenshire 12 May
1857; fell ill in Feb. 1867 with attacks of convulsions and
lost all her hair; reported not to have eaten anything after
10 Oct. 1867, nor drank after Dec. 1867; in Oct. 1867 people
commenced visiting her as The Welsh fasting girl and gave her
presents of money and clothes; was watched by 3 nurses from
Guy’s hospital 9 to 17 Dec. 1869 when she died having lived, as
stated, without food for two years; Evan and Hannah Jacob tried
for manslaughter at Carmarthen 14–15 July 1870, Evan condemned
to 12 months hard labour and Hannah to six months hard labour,
the cost of this prosecution to the country was about £800. _R.
Fowler’s Complete history of Welsh fasting-girl_ (1871).
JACOB, WILLIAM. _b._ 1762; South American merchant in Newgate
st. London; F.R.S. 23 April 1807; M.P. Rye 1808–12; alderman for
ward of Lime st. London 1810, resigned 1811; comptroller of corn
returns in board of trade 1822, retired Jany. 1842; author of
Travels in the south of Spain 1811; A view of the agriculture,
manufacture, statistics and state of society of Germany and
parts of Holland and France 1820; An historical enquiry into the
production and consumption of the precious metals 2 vols. 1831.
_d._ 31 Cadogan place, Sloane st. London 17 Dec. 1851.
JACOB, WILLIAM STEPHEN (brother of John Jacob 1812–58).
_b._ Woolavington vicarage 19 Nov. 1813; ed. at Addiscombe
and Chatham; lieut. Bombay engineers 1 July 1833 to 1848;
established a private observatory at Poonah 1842; director
of Madras observatory Dec. 1848 to 13 Oct. 1859; projected
erection of a mountain observatory on the Mahratta hills 5000
feet above the sea for which parliament voted £1000 in 1862;
made observations on double stars, on satellites of Saturn and
on Jupiter; F.R.A.S. 1849; author of A few more words on the
plurality of worlds 1855; Meteorological observations made at
Dodabetta bungalow 1851–5, 1857. _d._ Poonah 16 Aug. 1862.
_Monthly notices of Astronomical Soc. xxiii_ 128–9 (1863).
JACOBS, MR. _b._ Canterbury 1813; came out at Dover as an
improvisatore, ventriloquist and conjuror 1834; first appeared
in London at Horns tavern, Kennington 1835 when he introduced
the Chinese ring trick; at Strand theatre 1841 when in imitation
of J. H. Anderson he made a great show of expensive apparatus;
brought out the trick of producing from under a shawl, bowls
of water containing gold fish 1850; at Adelaide gallery 1853,
in America 1854, in Australia and New Zealand 1860; opened
Polygraphic hall, London 1860; his brother as a page named
Sprightly was his assistant in his entertainments. _d._ 13 Oct.
1870 aged 57. _Frost’s Lives of Conjurors_ (1876) 214–20.
JACOBS, SIMEON (son of Jacob or Lewis Jacobs of London,
solicitor). _b._ 1830; ed. at City of London school; licensed
by I.T. to practise as special pleader Nov. 1851; barrister
I.T. 17 Nov. 1852; advocate of supreme court, Cape of Good Hope,
Dec. 1860; attorney general of British Kaffraria 4 April 1861;
solicitor general Cape of Good Hope 1866, attorney general
1874–82, puisne judge 1882, member of the executive council;
C.M.G. 17 Nov. 1882. _d._ 22 Holland park gardens, London 15
June 1883.
JACOBSON, William. _b._ about 1785; solicitor at Plymouth
1815–50; chief founder of the small debts court, which became
the County Court 1847; chief founder and prior of The order
of Blue Friars at Plymouth and known as Father Tuck 17 May
1829, wrote many articles for the Blue Box of the fraternity,
which have since been printed. _d._ 5 Regent’s park, Exeter 25
April 1866. _W. H. K. Wright’s The Blue Friars_ (1889) 66–73,
_portrait_, _and Pleasantries from the Blue Box_ (1891) _passim_.
JACOBSON, WILLIAM (son of Wm. Jacobson a merchant’s clerk).
_b._ Great Yarmouth 18 July 1803; ed. at Homerton college and
Glasgow univ.; commoner St. Edmund hall, Oxf. 1823; scholar
of Lincoln college 1825; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1829, D.D. 1848;
Ellerton theological prizeman 1829; fellow of Exeter college
1829–36, hon. fellow 9 Dec. 1882; vice principal of Magdalen
hall 1832–48; select preacher at univ. 1833, 1842, public orator
1842–8; regius professor of divinity, canon of Ch. Ch. and
R. of Ewelme, Oxf. 1 April 1848 to 1865; bishop of Chester 8
July 1865, consecrated in York minster 24 Aug. 1865, enthroned
13 Sep., resigned Feb. 1884; promoted the division of his
diocese made by foundation of bishopric of Liverpool 9 April
1880; edited S. Clementis Romani S. Ignatii, S. Polycarpi quæ
supersunt 2 vols. 1838, several editions; The works of Robert
Sanderson 6 vols. 1854; author of Sixteen sermons preached
in the church of Iffley 1840, 2 ed. 1846. _d._ the palace,
Deeside 13 July 1884. _Burgon’s Lives of Twelve Good Men_ (1891)
367–401, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xlvii_ 217 (1865), _portrait_.
JACOBSON, WILLIAM BOWSTEAD RICHARDS (1 son of the preceding).
_b._ St. Peter in the East, Oxford 3 Aug. 1838; scholar of
Winchester 1851–9; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 13 June 1859; rowed
in the Oxford boat against Cambridge 1862–4; C. of St. Mary,
Golden lane, London 1864–7, and vicar 1870–7; C. of St. George,
Bloomsbury, London 1867–70. _d._ 22 The Beacon, Exmouth 26 April
1880. _Treherne & Goldie’s University Boat Race_ (1884) 241–2.
JACOMB, WILLIAM (probably son of Thomas Jacomb, surgeon). _b._
51 Upper York st. Portman sq. London 1832; pupil of I. K. Brunel
1851–9, assistant to Gainsford in construction of Paddington
terminus and in supervision of building of Great Eastern
steamship; under sir J. Fowler took part in construction of
Metropolitan railway 1864–8; assisted Jacomb Hood in works on
the South London and Suburban lines; chief resident engineer
London and South Western railway 1870 to death. _d._ of apoplexy
in his office at Waterloo terminus 26 May 1887. _Min. of Proc.
of I.C.E. xc_ 434–5 (1887).
JACQUES, JAMES. _b._ 1792; well known jockey on the Borders and
at Carlisle and Penrith; kept a public house at Penrith; trained
and rode for Mr. Ferguson in Ireland; rode Fire-away for the St.
Leger in Blue Bonnett’s year 1842; had a pension on the Bentinck
fund. _d._ from an overdose of laudanum at West Laith gate,
Doncaster 17 Feb. 1868. _Sporting Review_, _March 1868 pp._
154–5; _Doncaster Gazette 21 Feb. 1868 p._ 5.
JAFFRAY, JOHN. Free church minister; editor of Home and foreign
missionary record of the church of Scotland 1839; a writer
in the Aberdeen Censor 1825 of two dramatic articles The
Traveller’s Talk and The Symposium; author of Hiltown church.
Statement. Dundee 1836. _d._ Edinburgh 29 Oct. 1858. _R. Inglis’
Dramatic writers of Scotland_ (1868) 57.
JAFFRAY, JOHN. _b._ Carse of Stirling 1792; presbyterian
minister Dunbar, Nov. 1820 to death; an authority on
agriculture, made improvements in implements and in the
cultivation of the soil; printed in Transactions of Highland
Soc., Account of an experiment on deep ploughing. _d._ Dunbar 13
Feb. 1862. _H. Scott’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ_, _vol. i_, _pt.
i_, _p._ 370.
JAGO, CHARLES TRELAWNY-(2 son of Edward Jago by Ann Darell dau.
of Edward Trelawny). _b._ 9 Nov. 1829; entered R.N. 1843, lieut.
23 Oct. 1849; 3 lieut. of the Enterprise, Capt. R. Collinson, in
the Arctic expedition 1850–4 in search of sir John Franklin; in
the sledge travelling in the spring of 1852 he was away from the
ship 49 days; spent 3 winters on the ice; Arctic medal; captain
11 April 1866; good service pension 30 Jany. 1880; rear admiral
20 March 1883, retired 27 Dec. 1886; retired V.A. 14 July
1889. _d._ at res. of his brother, general John Jago Trelawny,
Coldrenick, Menheniot, Cornwall 15 Nov. 1891.
JAMES, ABRAHAM (son of Joseph James, schoolmaster). _b._ South
Wingfield, Derbyshire 22 Dec. 1799; a stocking frame weaver;
taught himself to write; learnt trade of a stonemason; a writer
of fugitive verses chiefly on local subjects. _d._ South
Wingfield 6 June 1864. _J. B. Robinson’s Derbyshire gatherings_
(1866) 93–7.
JAMES, BENJAMIN FULLER (2 son of John Haddy James 1788–1869).
Matric. from Ex. coll. Oxf. 11 Nov. 1841 aged 17, B.A. 1846,
M.A. 1848; assistant master at Westminster school 1846–84
where he also kept a boarding house. _d._ 6 Hungershall park,
Tunbridge Wells 29 Jany. 1892 aged 67.
JAMES, CHARLES BUTLER. Entered Bombay army 1800; lieut. col. 16
Bombay N.I. 1842–3; lieut. col. 8 Bombay N.I. 1843 to 2 March
1846; commander at Candeish 27 Dec. 1842, at Rajcote 20 March
1846, at Deesa 1 Nov. 1848 to 1 Oct. 1849, of Northern division
3 April 1850, of Southern division 21 March 1851 to 16 Oct.
1853; col. of 4 Bombay N.I. 2 March 1846 to 1869; general 6 Nov.
1866. _d._ Plymouth 21 Feb. 1870.
JAMES, CHARLES HERBERT (youngest son of Wm. James, maltster).
_b._ Merthyr Tydfil 1817; took prize for law at Univ. coll.
London by public competition; solicitor at Merthyr Tydfil
1838–79; M.P. for Merthyr Tydfil 1880–1888. _d._ Brynteg,
Merthyr Tydfil 3 Oct. 1890.
JAMES, CHARLES JAMES (son of Mr. James, artist in glass
painting). _b._ 1804; with his father made transparent views of
John Martin’s pictures, the view of ‘Joshua commanding the sun
to stand still’ was exhibited in London 1830 and with others
was shown in America 1831–34; scene painter for Madame Vestris
at Olympic 1834–6 and at Victoria theatre 1836; lessee and
manager of Queen’s theatre, Tottenham court road, Sep. 1839–65;
acting manager for Marie Wilton when she opened the house as the
Prince of Wales’s 15 April 1865 to 4 Aug. 1876; reported to have
died 8 April 1864. _d._ 244 Camden road, London 2 Oct. 1888.
_E. L. Blanchard’s Life_, _i_ 28, 289, _ii_ 500, 623 (1891);
_Theatrical Times_, _iii_ 161 (1848), _portrait_.
JAMES, CHARLES STANFIELD (only son of the preceding). _b._ 1832
or 1833; wrote Christmas and Easter extravaganzas for Queen’s
theatre for some years; scene painter at Drury Lane theatre, at
Sadler’s Wells, at Prince of Wales’s; painted the act drop for
Holborn T.R. London, opened by Sefton Parry 6 Oct. 1866. _d._
Setubal near Lisbon 23 March 1868. _Era 5 April 1868 p._ 10.
JAMES, DAVID. _b._ Manor-Deify near Cardigan 6 Jany. 1803; ed.
at Cardigan and Ystrad Meurig gram. schools; C. of Almondbury,
Yorkshire 1829–36; V. of St. Mary, Kirkdale, Liverpool 1836–53;
F.S.A. 1844; M.A. of Lambeth 1849; D. Philos. of Heidelberg
1853; warden of Welsh educational institution, Llandovery
1853–4; P.C. of Marsden 1854–6; R. of Panteg, Monmouthshire 1856
to death; author of Patriarchal religion of Britain, a manual
of British Druidism 1836; The apostolic origin and scripture
character of confirmation 1850; The Pope’s supremacy disproved
1854. d. Panteg 2 Aug. 1871. _Hulbert’s Annals of Almondbury_
(1882) 29, 457–61, 592.
JAMES, EDWARD (2 son of Frederick Wm. James, merchant). _b._
Manchester 1807; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A.
1834; barrister L.I. 16 June 1835, bencher 1853 to death;
went Northern circuit, leader of it 1860 to death; assessor
of the court of passage, Liverpool 1852 to death; Q.C. Nov.
1853; attorney general and queen’s serjeant of co. palatine of
Lancashire 1863 to death; M.P. for Manchester 13 July 1865 to
death; author of Has Dr. Wiseman violated the law? 1851. _d._
Hotel du Louvre, Paris 3 Nov. 1867. _bur._ Highgate cemetery,
London 9 Nov. _Law mag. and law review_, _Feb. 1868 pp._ 293–300.
JAMES, EDWIN JOHN (eld. son of John James 1783–1852). _b._
1812; on the stage for a time but not successful; barrister
I.T. 30 Jany. 1836; Q.C. 28 Feb. 1850 to 15 July 1862 when name
removed; recorder of Brighton, Jany. 1855 to March or April
1861; M.P. Marylebone, London 25 Feb. 1859 to 10 April 1861;
visited Garibaldi, present at skirmish before Capua 10 Sep.
1860; his call to bar vacated and he was disbarred 18 July 1861;
his debts amounted to £100,000; went to New York, Aug. 1861,
admitted to bar of state of New York 5 Nov. 1861, practised
there short time; played at Winter garden theatre, New York,
April 1865; returned to London 1872; lectured on subject of
America, at St. George’s hall, London 17 April 1872; articled to
Wm. Henry Roberts, 46 Moorgate st. solicitor, May 1873; author
of The bankrupt law of the United States 1867; The political
institutions of England and America 1872. _d._ 11 Bayley st.
Bedford sq. London 4 March 1882. _Law magazine and law review_,
_xii_ 263–86 (1882), _xiii_ 335–45; _I.L.N. xxxiv_ 429, 430
(1859), _portrait_; _A.R._ (1862) 140–43; _Law Times_, _lxxii_
358 (1882); _Daily News 7 March 1882 p._ 5 _col._ 2.
JAMES, FRANK LINSLY (eld. son of Daniel James of Liverpool,
metal merchant). _b._ Liverpool 21 April 1851; ed. at Caius and
Downing colls. Cam., B.A. 1877, M.A. 1881; explored the Basé
country in the Soudan winters of 1879–80 and 1880–1; explored
interior of the Somali country 1885; author of The wild tribes
of the Soudan 1883, 2 ed. 1884; The unknown horn of Africa, an
expedition from Berbera to the Leopard river 1888, 2 ed. 1890;
_killed_ by an elephant at San Benite about 100 miles north of
the Gaboon river 21 April 1890. _F. L. James’s Unknown horn of
Africa_ (1890), _portrait_.
JAMES, GEORGE. _b._ 30 June 1791; 2 lieut. R.A. 5 March 1810,
lieut. col. 1 Nov. 1848, retired on full pay 27 May 1850; L.G. 2
Feb. 1868. _d._ Hersham, Surrey 1 Nov. 1875.
JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFORD (son of Pinkstan James 1766–1830,
physician, London). _b._ 1 George st. Hanover sq. 9 Aug.
1801; encouraged to write by sir Walter Scott and Washington
Irving; wrote his first novel Richelieu 1825, published 1829;
historiographer royal to William iv. 20 May 1837; produced
Blanche of Navarre, drama 5 acts 1839 and Camaralzaman, fairy
drama 3 acts 1848; British consul in Massachusetts 12 Oct.
1852–5, Richmond, Virginia 1855–8 and for the Austrian ports in
the Adriatic 24 July 1858 to death; wrote 77 novels and other
works in 198 vols. including Darnley 1830; Philip Augustus 1831;
Henry Masterton 1832; The Huguenot 3 vols. 1845; The Smuggler 3
vols. 1845; a collected edition of his novels 1844–9, 21 vols.;
his style caricatured by Thackeray in his Barbazure by G. R. P.
Jeames, Esq., in Punch July 1847, in Novels by Eminent Hands,
and in The Book of Snobs, chapters 2 and 16; published Memoirs
of Great commanders 3 vols. 1832; Life of the Black prince 2
vols. 1836; The Life and times of Louis xiv. 4 vols. 1838. _d._
of apoplexy at Venice 9 June 1860. _R. H. Horne’s A new spirit
of the age_, _i_ 215–32 (1844); _Maunsell B. Field’s Memories of
many men_ (1874) 186–210; _Bentley’s Miscellany_, _xlix_ 192–5
(1861); _Notes and Queries 8 Nov. 1862 p._ 366; _The work of G.
P. R. James_ (1844) _vol. i_, _portrait_.
NOTE.--The copyright of 46 of his novels, of which 43 were stereotyped,
was sold to Routledge & Co. for £2075 in March 1858. James’ widow
Frances _d._ Eau Claire, Wisconsin, U.S. America 9 June 1891 in 91 year.
JAMES, SIR HENRY (5 son of John James, attorney, Truro, _d._
1819). _b._ Rose-in-Vale near St. Agnes, Cornwall 8 June 1803;
ed. at Exeter gram. sch. and Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 22 Sep.
1826, colonel 9 Feb. 1862, colonel commandant 21 Nov. 1874 to
death; L.G. 21 Nov. 1874; local superintendent of geological
survey, Ireland 1842–6; superintendent of dockyard construction
works, Portsmouth 1846–50; superintendent of ordnance survey,
Scotland 1850; director of ordnance survey of United Kingdom 21
Aug. 1854 to Aug. 1875; reduced plans from larger to smaller
scale by photography 1855; director of topographical and
statistical department of war office 22 Aug. 1857 to 1870;
F.R.S. 9 June 1848; A.I.C.E. 1 May 1849; knighted at St. James’
palace 28 March 1860; arranged for a survey of Jerusalem 1864–5;
mainly instrumental in invention of photozincography 1859,
now much used in ordnance office; author of On the figure,
dimensions and specific gravity of the earth 1856; Principal
triangulations of the earth 2 vols. 1858; Extension of the
triangulations of the survey with France and Belgium and
measurement of an arc of parallel 1863. _d._ 3 Cumberland ter.
Southampton 14 June 1877. _I.L.N. lxx_ 595 (1877); _Palmer’s
Ordnance survey of United Kingdom_ (1873) _passim_; _Boase and
Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ 266–8, 1243–4; _Boase’s Collect.
Cornub._ (1890) 414, 415.
JAMES, HOUGHTON. Entered Bombay army 1819; major 18 Bombay N.I.
23 March 1847, lieut. col. 17 Feb. 1852 to 1856; lieut. col. 15
N.I. 1856–7; lieut. col. 6 N.I. 1857 to 30 Sep. 1862; L.G. 14
Dec. 1871. _d._ Brighton 9 March 1875.
JAMES, JABEZ. _b._ 1810; a locksmith and bell hanger 1837, then
an engineer and model maker; had large contracts in connection
with the palace at Westminster, hung the bells in the clock
tower 1859; established a factory 28A Broadwall, Blackfriars,
London and afterwards at 40 Princes st. Commercial road where
he manufactured engines and constructed special machinery for
the bank of England, the royal mint, the royal arsenal and
the inland revenue department; name became associated with
mechanical excellence; for government small arms he made exact
gauges and machines; A.I.C.E. 1852, M.I.C.E. 1878; M.I.M.E.
1856. _d._ 9 Jany. 1883. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E.
lxxiii_ 358–60 (1882–3); _Proc. Instit. Mechanical engineers_
(1884) 64.
JAMES, JOHN. _b._ 1783; attorney in city of London 1806 to
death; secondary of the Giltspur st. Compter, city of London
1831 to death. _d._ 11 Artillery place, Finsbury sq. 21 July
1852.
JAMES, JOHN (son of John James _d._ about 1814). _b._ West
Witton, Wensleydale, Yorkshire 22 Jany. 1811; ed. at West
Witton; worked at a lime kiln for 10d. a day; clerk to Ottiwell
Tomlin, solicitor, Richmond, then in London; clerk to Richard
Tolson, solicitor, Bradford to his decease 1847; correspondent
of Leeds Times, York Herald and of Bradford Observer 1834;
author of The history of Bradford 2 vols. 1841–66; The history
of the worsted manufacture in England 1857; F.S.A. _d._
Netheredge, Sheffield 4 July 1867. _bur._ West Witton ch. 8
July. _William Smith’s Old Yorkshire_ (1883) 131–33.
JAMES, JOHN (eld. son of John James of St. Andrew’s, Cambridge).
_b._ 1783; ed. at Rugby 1792–9; probationary fellow of St.
John’s coll. Oxf. 1799; B.A. 1803, M.A. 1807, B.D. and D.D.
1834; master of Oundle gr. sch.; C. of Oundle; V. of Southwick,
Northamptonshire 1828–34; canon res. of Peterborough 9 Feb.
1829 to death; V. of Maxey 1832–50; V. of St. John the Baptist,
Peterborough 1833–50; R. of Peakirk with Glinton 1850–65; V.
of Glinton 1865 to death, all in Northants.; author of The
happy communicant 1849, 2 ed. 1883; A devotional comment on
the morning and evening services in the book of common prayer
2 vols. 1851; A harmonized summary of the four gospels 1853;
Spiritual life 1869. _d._ at 12.15 p.m. 15 Dec. 1868 in the
Minster precincts, Peterborough. _Reg. and Mag. of Biog. Feb.
1869 pp._ 116–7.
JAMES, JOHN (2 son of John James of Redbrook Newland, Gloucs.)
_b._ 1806; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; R.
of Rawmarsh, Yorkshire 1831–43; V. of Pinhoe, Devon 1844; P.C.
of Tor-Mohun and Cockington, Devon 1844–8; V. of Headington
Quarry, Oxf. 1851–3; R. of Avington near Hungerford 1853–79;
author of A comment upon the collects 1824,16 ed. 1866;
Christian watchfulness in the prospect of sickness 1839, 2 ed.
1840; A harmonized summary of the four gospels 1853; The happy
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