_b._ Salisbury st. Blandford, Dorset 6 June 1785; apprentice to
a draper at Poole 1798; ed. at Gosport acad. 1802; pastor Carr’s
lane chapel, Birmingham 11 Jany. 1805 to death, rebuilt the
chapel at cost of £11,000, 1819 and erected six other chapels as
offshoots of his congregation; chairman of board of education
Spring Hill coll. (now Mansfield coll. Oxf.) 1838 to death; a
projector of the Evangelical alliance May 1842; presented with
£500 on jubilee of his pastorate 1855 which he made nucleus of a
pastors’ retiring fund; D.D. of Glasgow univ.; D.D. of Princeton
coll. New Jersey; author of The Sunday school teacher’s guide
1816; Christian charity explained or the influence of religion
upon the temper 1828, many editions; The anxious enquirer after
salvation 1834 many editions, translated into Welsh, Gaelic and
Malagasy; Collected Works 17 vols. 1860–64. _d._ 283 Hagley
road, Edgbaston, Birmingham 1 Oct. 1859. _G. Redford’s True
greatness, A memoir_ (1860); _R. W. Dale’s Life and letters of
J. A. James 2 ed._ (1861), _portrait_; _Drawing room portrait
gallery 3 ser._ (1860), _portrait_; _S. Couling’s History of
temperance movement_ (1862) 312–14; _R. K. Dent’s Birmingham_
(1880) 362, _portrait_.
JAMES, JOHN HADDY (son of a merchant at Bristol). _b._ Exeter
6 July 1788; ed. at Exeter gram. sch.; apprentice to B. W.
Johnson surgeon 1805, and to Mr. Patch 1806–8; studied at St.
Bartholomew’s 1808–12; M.R.C.S. 1811, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843;
assist. surgeon first life guards 27 Oct. 1812, placed on
h.p. 30 July 1816; present at Waterloo and in garrison in
France; surgeon Devon and Exeter hospital, Aug. 1816 to 1858; a
general practitioner in Cathedral close, Exeter 1816 to death;
president Exeter meeting of Provincial medical and surgical
assoc. 1842; sheriff of Exeter 1826, mayor 1828; one of the
few surgeons who tied the abdominal aorta for aneurism of the
internal iliac; author of Observations on some of the general
principles and treatment of inflammation 1821; Chloroform versus
pain and paracentisis of the bladder above the pubes 1870.
_d._ Southernhay, Exeter 17 March 1869. _Register and Mag. of
Biography_, _May 1869 pp._ 402–404; _Medical Times_, _i_ 369–71
(1869).
JAMES, JOHN HUTCHISON (son of John James, Wesleyan minister,
_d._ 1832). _b._ Macclesfield 1 _Jany._ 1816; Wesleyan M.
minister in London 1839–42, 1854–7, 1871–7, in Sheffield 1860–2
and at many other places; D.D.; assist. tutor Hoxton coll.
1838–9; governor of Wesleyan coll. Sheffield 1862–8; sec. of
conference 1870 and president 1871; author of A false witness
unmasked 1847; A sermon on the Russian war 1854. _d._ suddenly
at res. of Bickford Smith, M.P., Trevarno, Helston 26 Sep. 1891.
_I.L.N. lix_ 157, 158 (1871), _portrait_.
JAMES, SIR JOHN KINGSTON, 1 Baronet (son of Francis James).
_b._ 28 April 1784; a wine and West India merchant in Dublin;
sheriff of Dublin 1812, alderman 25 June 1817 to 1840, lord
mayor 1821–22 and 1840–41; knighted by marquess Wellesley 29
Dec. 1821; cr. a baronet 19 March 1823; a director of bank of
Ireland to death; M.R.I.A. _d._ 9 Cavendish row, Rutland sq.
Dublin 28 Jany. 1869. _Reg. and mag. of biog._, _i_ 200 (1869).
JAMES, JOHN POLGLASE. _b._ 1791; entered Madras army 1806;
lieut. col. 45 Madras N.I. 1833; col. 32 Madras N.I. 3 Nov. 1844
to 1853; col. 20 Madras N.I. 1853 to death; commanded Hydrabad
subsidiary force 11 Jany. 1848 to 26 Jany. 1852; brigadier
general northern division 16 Feb. 1852 to death. _d._ George st.
Devonport 5 July 1854.
JAMES, MARIA. _b._ Wales 11 Oct. 1793; emigrated to U.S. of
America 1803 when she learnt English; lived at domestic service
in the Garrison family of Dutchess county, N.Y.; author of Wales
and other poems. New York 1839. _d._ Rhinebeck, N.Y. 11 Sep.
1868. _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_ 399 (1887); _Griswold’s
Female poets of America, Stoddard’s ed._ (1874) _pp._ 66–8.
JAMES, PAUL MOON. _b._ Exeter 1780; manager of Galton’s bank
at Birmingham, afterwards a partner; manager of the Birmingham
banking company 1829; managing director of Manchester and
Salford bank 10 Mosley st. Manchester, Aug. 1836 to death;
author of Poems 1821. _d._ Summerville, Pendleton 13 July 1854.
_R. W. Procter’s Memorials of bygone Manchester_ (1880) 12–20.
JAMES, THOMAS (eld. son of rev. Thomas James, preb. of
Worcester, _d._ 1804). _b._ 1781 or 1782; barrister G.I. 23 Nov.
1810, bencher 1834 to death; practised as conveyancer. _d._ 21
Burton crescent, London 5 Oct. 1853.
JAMES, THOMAS (2 son of Thomas James of Croydon). _b._ Croydon,
Feb. 1809; ed. at Eton, univ. of Glasgow and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A.
1832, M.A. 1835; assist. master Charterhouse 1832; chap. to
Bp. of Peterborough; V. of Sibbertoft, Northamptonshire 23 May
1838 to death; V. of Theddingworth, Leics. 1842 to death; hon.
canon of Peterborough, Sep. 1852 to death; rural dean Dec. 1853
to death; author of Æsop’s Fables, a new version 1848, 3 ed.
1858; The history and antiquities of Northamptonshire 1864. _d._
Theddingworth 18 Oct. 1863.
JAMES, THOMAS SMITH (son of rev. John Angell James 1785–1859).
_b._ 1809; solicitor in Birmingham 1831 to death; edited a
collected edition of his Father’s works 17 vols. 1860–4; author
of The history of the litigation and legislation respecting
Presbyterian chapels and charities in England and Ireland 1867,
with an Addendum [1868]. _d._ Hagley road, Edgbaston 3 Feb. 1874.
JAMES, WILLIAM (son of William Evans James 1763–95). _b._
Liverpool 29 March 1791; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A.
1813, M.A. 1816; contested Carlisle 1820 and 1826; M.P. Carlisle
1820–26, 1831–35, the 1820 election cost him £13,000; sheriff of
Cumberland 1827; M.P. East Cumberland 1836–47; opposed the grant
of £50,000 for coronation of George IV. 1821. _d._ Barrock park
near Carlisle 4 May 1861. _Saunders’ Portraits of reformers_
(1840) 154–6, _portrait_; _Bean’s Representation of six northern
counties_ (1890) 39–45.
JAMES, WILLIAM HENRY (eldest son of Wm. James, railway projector
1771–1837). _b._ Henley-in-Arden, March 1796; assisted his
father in survey of Liverpool and Manchester railway; an
engineer in Birmingham; took out patents for locomotives, steam
engines, railway carriages, diving apparatus, &c. _d._ Dulwich
college almshouses 16 Dec. 1873.
JAMES, SIR WILLIAM MILBOURNE (2 son of Christopher James of
Swansea). _b._ Merthyr-Tydvil, Glamorganshire 29 June 1807; ed.
at univ. of Glasgow, M.A. 1828, hon. D.C.L. 1873; barrister L.I.
10 June 1831, bencher 15 April 1853 to death, treasurer 1873–4;
vice chancellor of county palatine of Lancaster at Liverpool 4
Jany. 1853 to 6 Jany. 1869; Q.C. Feb. 1853; contested Derby 30
April 1859; counsel for Bishop of Natal 1864; leading counsel
for plaintiff in spiritualist case of Lyon v. Home 1868; vice
chancellor 11 Jany. 1869 to 2 July 1870; knighted at Osborne
4 Feb. 1869; lord justice of appeal 4 July 1870 to death;
P.C. 6 July 1870; arbitrator under European Assurance society
arbitration acts 1872 and 1873, 20 Jany. 1875; author of The
British in India 1882. _d._ 47 Wimpole st. London 7 June 1881.
_A generation of judges by their reporter_ (1886) 95–111; _Red
Dragon_, _i_ 483–93 (1882), _portrait_; _I.L.N. liv_ 304 (1869),
_portrait_.
JAMES, WILLIAM POWELL (1 son of rev. Wm. Henry James). _b._
1837; ed. at Oriel coll. Oxf., scholar 1854–8; B.A. 1858, M.A.
1862; author of King Alfred surveying Oxford at the present
time: Newdigate prize poem 1856; Scenes from Plautus, with notes
1879; Guesses at purpose in nature, with especial reference to
plants 1882; From source to sea, or gleanings about rivers in
many fields 1884. _d._ 1885.
JAMES, WILLIAM WITHALL (eld. son of John Haddy James 1788–1869).
_b._ Exeter 1823; studied King’s coll. London; M.R.C.S. 1844,
F.R.C.S. 1848; L.S.A. 1845; in practice at Exeter 1846 to death;
surgeon Devon and Exeter hospital 1858 to death, to which he
left £2000, the interest to be divided among its four surgeons;
fellow Med. Chir. soc. _d._ Exmouth 17 March 1865. _Proc. Med.
and Chir. Soc. iv._ 148–9, 156–9 (1865).
JAMESON, ANDREW (son of Andrew Jameson, sheriff substitute
of Fifeshire). _b._ 1811; called to Scotch bar 1835; sheriff
substitute of Ayrshire 1843–5; sheriff substitute of Midlothian
1845–65; sheriff of Aberdeen 6 Nov. 1865 to death; reported
on the laws of Malta and framed a civil and criminal code for
that island 1854. _d._ Edinburgh 30 Oct. 1870. _Journal of
jurisprudence_, _xv_ 666–8 (1870); _Law magazine and review_,
_xxx_ 345–47 (1871).
JAMESON, ANNA BROWNELL (eld. dau. of Dudley Brownell Murphy,
miniature painter, _d._ March 1842). _b._ Dublin 19 May 1794;
governess to children of marquess of Winchester 1810–14, to
children of E. J. W. Littleton afterwards lord Hatherton 1821–5.
(_m._ 1825 Robert Sympson Jameson, barrister of M.T. 28 Nov.
1823, vice chancellor of Upper Canada 1837, _d._ Toronto 1 Aug.
1854); resided in Germany 1833–6, 1845 etc.; lived with her
husband in Canada, Sep. 1836 to March 1838; great friend of
lady Byron from 1846, disagreed with her about 1853; resided in
Italy 1847 etc. studying art; granted civil list pension of £100
Aug. 30, 1851; her friends gave her an annuity of £100, 1854;
author of The Diary of an Ennuyée. By A Lady 1826; Companion
to the private galleries of art in London 1842; Memoirs of
the early Italian painters 2 vols. 1845, 4 ed. 1868; Sacred
and legendary art 2 vols. 1848, 3 ed. 1857; Legends of the
monastic orders as represented in the fine arts 1850, 2 ed.
1852; Legends of the Madonna 1852, 2 ed. 1857; The history of
our Lord and of his life as exemplified in works of art 2 vols.
1864. _d._ 57 Conduit st. Regent st. London 17 March 1860. _G.
Macpherson’s Memoirs of life of A. Jameson_ (1878), _portrait_;
_Winter studies by Mrs. Jameson 3 vols._ (1838); _B. R. Parkes’
Vignettes_ (1866) 441–8; _I.L.N. xxxvi_ 300, 309 (1860),
_portrait_; _Martineau’s Biog. sketches 4 ed._ (1876) 429–36;
_Powell’s Pictures of living authors_ (1851) 165–77.
JAMESON, FRANCIS JAMES (2 son of Robert Francis Jameson,
barrister I.T. 1815, judge at Havannah 1819). _b._ Hampstead
13 Sep. 1828; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., 6 wrangler and B.A.
1850, M.A. 1853; fellow of Caius March 1852; fellow and tutor
of St. Cath. coll. June 1855–62; C. of St. Sepulchre’s, Camb.
1852–62; pro-proctor at Camb. 1858–9, select preacher 1862; R.
of Coton near Camb. 1862 to death; author of The principles of
the solutions of Senate-house riders, Camb. 1851; The analogy
between the miracles and doctrines of scripture: Norrisian
prize essay 1852. _d._ Bournemouth 6 Feb. 1869. _Correspondence
between the vice chancellor and the pro-proctors G. Williams and
F. J. Jameson_ (1859); _F. J. Jameson’s Heaven’s whisper in the
storm_ (1869), _Memoir pp. ix–xx_.
JAMESON, SIR GEORGE INGLIS. Entered Bombay army 1819; lieut.
col. 3 European regiment 17 Sep. 1855 to 29 Sep. 1860; colonel
30 Bombay N.I. 29 Sep. 1860 to 1863; col. 23 N.I. 1863–9; M.G.
15 June 1862; K.C.S.I. 20 May 1871. _d._ Heathville, 1 Vanbrugh
park road east, Blackheath 24 Oct. 1871.
JAMESON, JAMES SLIGO (son of Andrew Jameson, land agent, sheriff
clerk Clackmannanshire). _b._ Walk house, Alloa 17 Aug. 1856;
ed. at International coll. Isleworth 1868–77; read for the army
but in 1877 devoted himself to travel; in Borneo 1877 where he
discovered the black pern, a honey buzzard; hunted big game in
Africa and discovered the junction of the Umvuli and the Umnyati
1879–81; naturalist to Emin Pacha relief expedition under H.
M. Stanley 1887, contributing £1000 to the expenses; second in
command of rear column under major Walter Barttelot in June
1877 at Yambuya where a third of the company died; witnessed
the massacre and eating of a girl and made sketches of the
scenes May 1888. _d._ of fever at Bangala on the Congo 17 Aug.
1888. Some of his collections exhibited at Rowland Ward’s, 166
Piccadilly, London, Nov. 1888. _H. M. Stanley’s Darkest Africa_
(1890); _J. S. Jameson’s Story of the rear column_ (1890),
_portrait_; _Times 22 Sep. 1888 p._ 6.
JAMESON, JOHN (eld. son of John Jameson of Dublin, distiller
1773–1851). _b._ 1804; distiller at 50 Bow st. and 11 and 12
Smithfield, Dublin to his death, the business was founded in
1780 and is noted for its John Jameson whisky; sheriff of Dublin
1879. _d._ St. Marnocks, Malahide, co. Dublin 19 Dec. 1881.
JAMESON, ROBERT (3 son of Thomas Jameson, soap maker). _b._
Leith 11 July 1774; ed. at Edin. univ.; assistant to John
Cheyney, surgeon, Leith; studied under A. G. Werner at Freiberg,
Saxony 1800–1802; regius professor of natural history and
keeper of univ. museum, Edinb. 30 March 1804 to death; founded
Wernerian natural history soc. 1808 and was the perpetual
president; with sir D. Brewster originated Edinb. Philosophical
journal 1819 and was sole editor from vol. x. to his death;
F.L.S. 1797, F.R.S. 25 May 1826; hon. member of upwards of
50 societies in Europe and America; author of Mineralogy of
the Scottish isles 2 vols. 1800; System of mineralogy 3 vols.
1804–8, 3 ed. 1820; A treatise on the external characters of
minerals 1805, 2 ed. 1816; with Hugh Murray, Encyclopædia of
geography 1834; Historical account of British India 1843, 2 ed.
1844. _d._ 21 Royal circus, Edinburgh 19 April 1854. _Quarterly
Journal Geol. Soc. xi_ 38–41 (1855); _Proc. Linnean Soc. ii_
306–9 (1855); _Jerdan’s National portrait gallery_, _iv_ (1833),
_portrait_; _W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery_, _iii_
126–27, _portrait_.
JAMESON, ROBERT WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). _b._ Leith
1805; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edin.; a writer to the
signet in Edin.; an original member of reformed town council
of Edin. 1832; the best hustings speaker of his time; edited
Wigtownshire Free Press at Stranraer 1855–61; his tragedy
Timoleon 2 ed. 1852 was produced at the T.R. Edin.; proprietor
of a newspaper at Sudbury 1861, then in residence in London;
author of Nimrod, a poem 1848; The curse of gold, a novel 1854.
_d._ 12 Earl’s Court terrace, Kensington, London 10 Dec. 1868.
_Reg. and Mag. of Biog. Feb. 1869 pp._ 124–5.
JAMESON, WILLIAM (son of Wm. Jameson, writer to the signet).
_b._ Edinburgh 3 Oct. 1796; ed. at univ. of Edin.; M.R.C.S.
Edin. 17 Feb. 1818; surgeon at Guayaquil, Peru 1822–6, at Quito
1826–7; professor of chemistry and botany in univ. of Quito
1827–32; assayer to the mint, Quito 1832, director 1861 to Nov.
1869; joined Church of Rome; created a caballero of Spain by
Queen Isabella 1867; sent to England many new species of plants,
among which species of anemone, gentian and the moss Dicranum
bear his name; a genus of ferns is also called Jamesonia; author
of Synopsis plantarum Æquatoriensium 2 vols. and part i. of vol.
3. Quito 1865. _d._ Quito 22 June 1873. _Trans. Botanical Soc.
Edin. xii_ 19–28 (1876).
JAMESON, WILLIAM. _b._ Leith 1815; ed. at high sch. and univ.
of Edin.; of H.E.I.C. medical service 30 Aug. 1838; curator
of museum of Asiatic Society of Bengal 1838; taken prisoner
while examining the course of the Indus and imprisoned in Kohat
fort 1841; superintendent of the Saharunpore botanical garden
1842 to 31 Dec. 1875; procured tea plants and distributed
them in various parts of India 1843 etc., the development of
tea-planting in India was entirely due to him, tea has now
become a staple commodity on the lower Himalaya; surgeon major
10 April 1852, retired as deputy surgeon general 31 Dec. 1875;
C.I.E. 1 Jany. 1878. _d._ Deyrah Doon a tea garden 18 March
1882. _Proc. of Botanical Soc. of Edin. xiv_ 288–95 (1882).
JAMESON, WILLIAM. _b._ Penrith 1839; apprenticed to a joiner
there; a pole leaper; won the first prize for wrestling from 23
picked men at Talkin Tarn regatta 1858; wrestled Dick Wright
for £25 a side at Carlisle, Dec. 1859 when he was thrown 3
times; first appeared in the London ring at Hornsey Wood House,
Good Friday 1861 when he won first prize for heavy weights and
divided first prize for pole leaping; won the London heavy
weight prize 1862, 67 and 70, won the second prize 1863, 66 and
68; won the first prize at Carlisle 5 times; thrown by Dubois,
French wrestler at Agricultural hall, London 1870; performed in
the country with English and French wrestlers 1870; landlord of
Griffin inn, Penrith 1871 to death; the best wrestler in North
of England 1860–70, had no superior at hiping and buttocking;
nearly 6 feet high and weighed 17 stone. _d._ Griffin inn,
Penrith 23 Nov. 1888. _Walter Armstrong’s Wrestliana_ (1870)
_passim_.
JAMIE, WILLIAM. _b._ Marykirk, Kincardineshire 25 Dec. 1818; a
blacksmith; a teacher; author of The Jacobite’s son, a tale;
The emigrant’s family. Glasgow 1854; The musings of a wanderer,
being poems and songs in the Scottish dialect. Glasgow 1856.
_d._ Pollockshaws near Glasgow 186-. _R. Inglis’ Dramatic
writers_ (1868) 58.
JAMIESON, JOHN LENNOX KINCAID. _b._ Milton of Campsie near
Glasgow 27 March 1826; 3 class assist. engineer R.N.; at
bombardment of Bomarsund, Crimean medal; superintendent engineer
for Pacific steam navigation co. at Tobago 1856–66; connected
with improvement of the compound marine engine 1857 etc.;
manager for Randolph, Elder & Co. Glasgow 1866 and partner
1870–79, removed the works to Fairfield; introduced the three
cylinder compound marine engine in the Iberia and Liguria 1872;
town councillor Glasgow 1880 to death; president of Anderson’s
coll. 1879; M.I.M.E. 1870. _d._ at his sister’s res. 38 Wickham
road, St. John’s, Kent 2 July 1883. _Proc. Instit. Mechanical
engineers_ (1884) 65–6; _Glasgow Herald 3 July 1883 p._ 4.
JAMIESON, ROBERT. Merchant in connection with South America,
Brazil, India and China, at 33 Great Winchester st. city of
London 1836 to death; equipped at his own expense the Ethiope
steamship, whose commander captain Beecroft explored several
West African rivers 1839 and helped to rescue H.M.S. Albert and
the government Niger expedition 1841; declined vice presidency
of Institut d’Afrique of France 1840; sought to civilise Africa
by opening up the rivers and suppressing slave trade; author
of An appeal to the government against the proposed Niger
expedition 1840, A further appeal 1841, and Sequel to appeals
1843; Commerce with Africa 1859. _d._ 18 Gloucester sq. Hyde
park, London 5 April 1861. _Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. v_ 160
(1860–61); _Times 8 April 1861 p._ 9.
JAMIESON, REV. ROBERT (son of Mr. Jamieson of Edinburgh,
baker). _b._ Edin. 3 Jany. 1802; ed. at high sch. and univ. of
Edin.; licensed as a preacher 1827; minister of Weststruther
in presbytery of Lauder 1830–7; minister of Currie, Edin.
1837–44; minister of St. Paul’s, Glasgow 14 March 1844 to
death; D.D. Glasgow 17 April 1848; moderator of general
assembly 1872; author of Eastern manners illustrative of the
Old Testament 1836, 4 ed. 1854; Eastern manners illustrative of
the New Testament, 3 ed. 1851; Manners and trials of primitive
christians 1839; with E. H. Bickersteth and Brown, The Holy
Bible with a commentary 1861–5. _d._ 156 Randolph terrace,
Glasgow 26 Oct. 1880. _John Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy_ (1848)
259–65.
JAMIESON, THOMAS HILL. _b._ Bonnington near Arbroath, Aug.
1843; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edin.; assistant librarian
of the Advocates’ library, Edin., and librarian June 1871 to
death; edited a reprint of Barclay’s translation of Brandt’s
Ship of Fools 1874; author of Notice of the life and writings
of Alexander Barclay 1874; over-exerted himself at time of fire
in Advocates’ Lib. 3 March 1875. _d._ 7 Gillespie crescent,
Edinburgh 9 Jany. 1876.
JAMRACH, _Johann Christian Carl_ (son of Johann Gottlieb
Jamrach, chief of the Hamburg river police). _b._ Hamburg, March
1815; dealer in wild animals 86 Upper East Smithfield 1843,
removed to an establishment in Ratcliffe Highway known as 179 &
180 St. George st.; naturalised 12 March 1856; well known among
naturalists, he supplied menageries and zoological gardens with
many of their animals; imported eastern curiosities and had a
collection of Japanese idols; a breeder of Persian greyhounds,
Japanese pugs and Madagascar cats; had encounter with a runaway
tiger in 1857. _d._ Beaufort cottage, Wellington road, Bow 6
Sep. 1891. _Strand Mag. April 1891 pp._ 429–36; _Good Words_
(1879) 1865–9; _Times 8 Sep. 1891 p._ 7; _Pall Mall Budget 10
Sep. 1891_.
NOTE.--Anton Herman Jamrach junior, naturalist, eld. son of above _d._
355 East India dock road, Poplar 14 Nov. 1855.
JANISCH, HUDSON RALPH. Entered colonial service 1838; police
magistrate St. Helena 1851, acting queen’s advocate there 1856,
1857, acting colonial sec. 1861, 1868, colonial sec. and auditor
general; governor of St. Helena 1 Oct. 1873 to death; author of
The exhumation of the remains of Napoleon Bonaparte. St. Helena
1840. _d._ St. Helena, April 1884.
JANSON, AILSA (son of Henry Etienne Janson tutor to George V. of
Hanover). _b._ Richmond, Surrey, Jany. 1844; ed. at Polytechnic
sch. Hanover; under Tolmé, C.E. employed on Gellivara canals,
Sweden 1865–6; resident engineer East Hungarian railway 1871
etc.; A.I.C.E. 3 Dec. 1872 and member 14 May 1878; constructor
of the Soudan railway 1875, director of works in the Soudan
1878; engineer and general manager of Great Western railway,
Brazil 1879 to death. _d._ of yellow fever, Pernambuco 28 April
1885. _Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. lxxxi_ 324–7 (1885).
JANSON, THOMAS CORBYN (son of Mr. Janson of Tunbridge Wells,
banker). _b._ 1 July 1809; ed. at Hove near Brighton; partner in
Brown, Janson & Co. bankers 32 Abchurch lane, London to death;
F.L.S. March 1843. _d._ Stamford hill, Middlesex 23 June 1863.
JAQUES, RICHARD MACHELL (son of Robert Jaques founder of the
Easby stud, _d._ 1842). _b._ 31 March 1809; ed. at Trin. coll.
Camb.; well known agriculturalist; steward at many race meetings
and the reviver of the York meetings 1843; owner of many horses,
chiefly trained by John Scott, very unlucky in racing, ran
second for the St. Leger with High Treason 1860; had a stud at
Easby abbey, Richmond, Yorkshire, including Irish Birdcatcher,
Pyrrhus the First and other famous sires; sold his yearlings
at Doncaster; a breeder of cattle particularly of shorthorns;
president Richmond Farmers’ club 1873. _d._ 30 June 1889.
_Sporting Review_, _xv_ 7–10 (1846), _portrait_.
JARACZEWSKI, MIECISLAS, Count, great friend of Prince of Wales;
a well known man in fashionable and racing circles, member of
Turf club. _d._ at his lodgings 4 Bennett st. St. James’s,
London 11 March 1881. _bur._ R.C. cemetery, Kensal green 17
March.
JARDINE, ALEXANDER (2 son of Sir Alexander Jardine 6 baronet,
_d._ 1821). _b._ 2 Oct. 1803; ensign 75 foot 22 April 1826,
lieut. col. 1 June 1849, retired on full pay 7 Oct. 1859; M.G. 7
Oct. 1859. _d._ Brighton 23 June 1869.
JARDINE, DAVID (son of rev. David B. Jardine 1766–97, unitarian
minister). _b._ 1792; barrister M.T. 7 Feb. 1823, went western
circuit; one of the 20 municipal corporation comrs. for England
and Wales 18 July 1833 to 1835; recorder of Bath, March 1837
to death; stipendiary magistrate Bow st. London 1839 to death;
author of General index to Howell’s Collection of state trials
1828; A reading on the use of torture 1837; A narrative of the
gunpowder plot 1857. _d._ The Heath, Weybridge, Surrey 13 Sep.
1860.
JARDINE, SIR HENRY (son of Rev. Dr. John Jardine, dean of chapel
royal in Scotland 1763–6). _b._ 1766; a writer to the signet
1790; king’s remembrancer of court of exchequer in Scotland
1820–37; knighted at Carlton house, London 20 April 1825; F.S.A.
Scot. and V.P.; F.R.S. Edin. _d._ Belleville lodge, Newington,
Edinburgh 11 Aug. 1851.
JARDINE, JAMES. _b._ Applegarth, Dumfriesshire 30 Nov. 1776;
taught mathematics in Edin. 1796–1806; a civil engineer in Edin.
1806 to death; introduced the Crawley water into Edin. 1820;
constructed the Union canal 1822; the first to determine the
mean level of the sea 1809; engineer of the Dalkeith railway.
_d._ 18 Queen st. Edinburgh 20 June 1858.