Jardine _d._ 1820). _b._ North Hanover st. Edinburgh 23 Feb.
1806; ed. at York and univ. of Edin.; with P. J. Selby commenced
Illustrations of ornithology 1825; edited the Naturalist’s
Library 40 vols. 1833–45 of which he wrote 14 vols.; commenced
with P. J. Selby at Edin. the Magazine of zoology and botany
1837 which became in 1838 the Annals of natural history, and in
1841 the Annals and magazine of natural history; joint editor of
Edinburgh Philosophical Journal 1855; a comr. to enquire into
salmon fisheries of England and Wales 30 July 1860; F.R.S. Edin.
1824; author of Contributions to ornithology 3 vols. 1848–52;
The Ichnology of Annandale 1851–3; The Birds of Great Britain
and Ireland 4 vols. 1876. _d._ Sandown, Isle of Wight 21 Nov.
1874. _Proc. of royal Soc. of Edin. ix_ 20–2 (1878); _Nature 26
Nov. 1874 p._ 74; _Graphic_, _xi_ 68 (1875), _portrait_.
JARMAN, FRANCES ELEANOR (eld. child of John Jarman of York,
actor). _b._ Hull, Feb. 1803; made her first appearance at Bath
23 May 1815 as Edward a child in Mrs. Inchbald’s Every one has
his fault; acted at Bath 1815–22, in Ireland 1824–7; first
appeared in London at Covent Garden 7 Feb. 1827 as Juliet;
played Imogen 10 May 1827 her best tragic part; made a great
success as Amadis in Dimond’s Nymph of the Grotto 15 Jany.
1829; acted in Scotland 1829–34, in America and Canada 1834–7,
at Drury Lane 1837–8, in Dublin 1843; played Paulina in The
Winter’s Tale at Princess’s theatre, London, Oct. 1855; acted
with Charles Dickens in Wilkie Collins’ drama The Frozen Deep,
at Manchester 1857; retired about 1857–8; played at Lyceum
theatre, London 23 Dec. 1865. (_m._ 21 Sep. 1834 Thomas Luke
Ternan, actor and author who _d._ 17 Oct. 1846 aged 47). _d._
The Lawn, Oxford 30 Oct. 1873. _Tallis’s Drawing room table
book_, _part 17_ (1851), _portrait_; _Actors by daylight_, _i_
121 (1838), _portrait_; _J. N. Ireland’s New York stage_, _ii_
107 (1867).
JARMAN, HENRY. _b._ 1819; solicitor in London 1847 to death;
author of New practice of the court of chancery 1853, 3 ed.
1854; Forms of bills of costs in chancery 1857; Index to the
bankruptcy act 1869; Index to the old and new Testaments 1883.
_d._ 6 Sandmere road, Clapham, Surrey 10 Jany. 1889.
JARMAN, THOMAS. _b._ 1800; clerk in office of his uncle a
solicitor at Bristol; barrister M.T. 10 Feb. 1826; conveyancing
counsel to court of chancery to death; edited J. J. Powell’s An
essay on devises 3rd ed. 2 vols. 1827, wrote all the 2nd vol.
himself; W. M. Bythwood’s A selection of precedents forming a
system of conveyancing 1827, vols, 4 to 10 were compiled by T.
Jarman, 2 ed. 11 vols. 1829–36; author of A treatise on wills
2 vols. 1844, 4 ed. 2 vols. 1881; author with W. Hayes of
Concise forms of wills with practical notes 1835, 9 ed. 1883.
_d._ Hadley, Middlesex 26 Feb. 1860. _A brief memorial of the
late Thomas Jarman, Esq. of Lincoln’s Inn._ _By Rev. Professor
Charlton_, _privately printed_; _Law mag. and law review_, _x_
251–62 (1861); _Solicitors’ Journal_, _iv_ 351–3 (1860).
JARMAN, THOMAS. Lived at Clipston, Northamptonshire; prolific
composer of anthems and psalm tunes, some of which were very
popular about 1840; published Devotional melodist 1828; Sacred
music. The Northamptonshire harmony 1835; The church and chapel
melodist 1850. _d._ Jany. 1862.
JARRETT, _Rev. Thomas_. _b._ 1805; ed. at St. Cath. coll. Camb.,
34 wrangler 1827; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; fellow of his college
1828–32, classical and Hebrew lecturer to 1832; professor of
Arabic at Camb. 1831–54; R. of Trunch, Norfolk 4 Feb. 1832
to death; regius professor of Hebrew at Camb., and canon of
Ely, Feb. 1854 to death; lectured on Sanskrit 20 years; knew
20 languages; devised a system for transliterating oriental
languages into the Roman character; author of An Essay on
algebraic development. Cambridge 1831; A new lexicon of the
Hebrew language, Part i. Hebrew and English, Part ii. English
and Hebrew 1848; A new way of marking the sounds of English
words without change of spelling 1858; The Hebrew text of the
old covenant, printed in a modified Roman alphabet 1882. _d._
Trunch rectory 7 March 1882. _The Biograph_, _iv_ 231–33 (1880).
JARROLD, Thomas. _b._ Manningtree, Essex 1 Dec. 1770; ed. at
univ. of Edin.; M.D. Glasgow 1802; physician at Stockport,
Cheshire, then at Manchester; member of Manchester Lit.
and Phil. Soc.; author of Essays in answer to professor
Malthus’ work on population. Stockport 1806; Anthropologia
or dissertations on the form and colour of man 1808; An
enquiry into the cause of the curvature of the spine 1823.
_d._ Greenhill st. Greenheys, Manchester 24 June 1853. _J. P.
Earwaker’s Local Gleanings_ (1876) 137, 143.
JARVIS, SIR LEWIS WHINCOP (only son of Lewis Weston Jarvis of
Lynn, solicitor). _b._ 1816; articled to his father; solicitor
at Lynn 1840 to death; head of bank of Jarvis and Jarvis at Lynn
to death; mayor of Lynn 1860, 61 and 62; steward of the Prince
of Wales’s manors in Norfolk; knighted at Osborne 15 Jany. 1878.
_d._ Middleton Towers, Lynn, Norfolk 2 Nov. 1888.
JARVIS, SIR SAMUEL RAYMOND (son of Samuel Jarvis of Fair Oak
house, Hants.) _b._ about 1790; ensign 18 foot 12 April 1806;
lieut. 25 foot 1807 to 1816 when placed on h.p.; captain 2 life
guards 25 April 1817 to 25 Jany. 1823 when placed on h.p.;
knighted at St. James’s palace 17 Sep. 1834; sheriff of Hants.
1834; lieut. col. in the army 11 Nov. 1851; captain 3 West India
regiment 6 March 1863 but sold out same day. _d._ Cove cottage,
Ventnor, Isle of Wight 5 Dec. 1868.
JARVIS, STEPHEN. _b._ 1834; organist; published a set of Six
trios for male voices to the words of old nursery ditties;
Merrily oh. Song, words by T. Moore 1877; The Inchcape bell.
Scena 1879; Peter Piper. Canon for three voices 1879; Old
England on the lee. Song 1880; Pensées Musicales. A set of
pieces for the piano 1880. _d._ 2 Thornford ter. Lewisham, Kent
27 Nov. 1880.
JAVASU, CARABOO, Princess of, a name taken by Mary Willcocks
(dau. of Thomas Willcocks a cobbler at Witheridge, North Devon).
_b._ Witheridge 11 Nov. 1792; in service at Exeter 1810,
then became a wandering mendicant; assumed male attire and
was a footman in a family 1813; acquired the art of altering
her features so that no one knew her; lost in the snow and
buried during a night near Witheridge; in Magdalen hospital,
London, Feb.-July 1813. (_m._ 1816 John Edward Francis Baker
or Bakerstendt, who soon ran away from her, placed her child
in the Foundling hospital, London, where it died Sep. 1816);
camped with gipsies near Exeter and learnt some of their skill;
pretended to be a Frenchwoman, then a Spaniard; announced
herself to be Caraboo princess of Javasu, and at Bath at the
Pack Horse inn held a reception when the ladies knelt before
her; invented written characters for the Javasu language; went
to America 1817, returned 1824; exhibited herself in New Bond
st. London 1824; living under Pyle Hill, Bedminster, Bristol as
a seller of leeches Dec. 1849. _d._ Bristol, Dec. 1864. _Full
particulars of the life of Caraboo, alias Mary Baker. Bristol_
(1817); _Narrative of an imposition by Mary Willcocks alias
Baker, alias Bakerstendt alias Caraboo, Princess of Javasu.
Bristol_ (1817) _with 2 portraits_; _Temple Bar_, _June 1866
pp._ 420–2; _Whately’s Miscellaneous Remains_ (1864) 249–52;
_Hone’s Everyday book_, _ii_ 1631–4 (1838), 2 _portraits_.
JAY, JOHN. Carpenter at 121 Bunhill Row, London 1835–8, builder
at 65 London Wall 1838–49, contractor at 15 & 16 Macclesfield
st. City road 1848–62, at 9 Euston road 1866–73; constructed
the Great Northern railway station 1852, one of the three
contractors for Metropolitan railway from Paddington to
Farringdon st. 1860–2; completed the houses of parliament,
including the central clock and Victoria towers; built
fortifications for government, and the casemated barracks at
Portland. _d._ Ashford house, Hornsey 28 Dec. 1872.
JAY, REV. WILLIAM (son of a stonecutter and mason). _b._
Tisbury, Wilts. 8 May 1769; a working mason; ed. by rev.
Cornelius Winter at Marlborough to 1788; as ‘Young Jay the boy
preacher’ officiated in Surrey chapel, London 1788; minister
Christian Malford, Wilts. and at Hope chapel, Hotwells, Clifton;
pastor of Argyle Independent chapel, Bath 30 Jany. 1791,
resigned 30 Jany. 1853, voted an annuity of £200; called the
Prince of Preachers; author of The mutual duties of husbands and
wives 1801; Morning exercises in the closet 2 vols. 1829, 5 ed.
1866; Evening exercises for the closet 2 vols. 1831, several
editions; Sermons preached at Cambridge 1837. _d._ 4 Percy
place, Bath 27 Dec. 1853. _European Mag. Jany. 1819 pp._ 5–8,
_portrait_; _Autobiography of W. Jay. Ed. by G. Redford and J.
A. James_ (1854), _portrait_; _Recollections of W. Jay by his
son Cyrus Jay_ (1859), 3 _portraits_; _W. C. Taylor’s National
portrait gallery_, _iv_ 107–8 (1848), _portrait_.
JAY, WILLIAM CHICKALL. _b._ Suffolk 1811; came to London as
a boy and entered a millinery establishment; opened a shawl
warehouse at 217 Regent st. London 1841 and was proprietor of
a mourning warehouse at 247 and 249 Regent st. 1842–68, it was
turned into a limited company 1868; member of hon. artillery co.
1835 and capt. of the troop of horse artillery 1860–9; member of
Victoria rifles 1850; a successful farmer at Tolesbury, Essex.
_d._ 27 April 1888, personalty sworn over £101,000. _Henry
Mayhew’s Shops of London_, _ii_ 217–20 (1865); _Warehouseman and
Draper’s trade journal 4 Sep. 1886 pp._ 735–6, _portrait_, _5
May 1888 p._ 446.
JEANS, HENRY WILLIAM. _b._ Portsea 1804; articled to a
solicitor; had charge of chronometers in observatory, Portsmouth
dockyard 1824; assist. master R. naval coll. Portsmouth, college
abolished 1837; pensioner of St. John’s coll. Camb. 1837–8;
mathematical master in re-established Naval coll. Portsmouth
1839–66; mathematical master R. military acad. Woolwich for some
time; examiner in nautical astronomy for Trinity board; built
and endowed a chapel at Langstone near Havant; F.R.A.S. 13
March 1840; author of Plane and spherical trigonometry. Portsea
2 parts 1842–7, 6 ed. of Part i. 1873; Problems in astronomy,
surveying and navigation 1849; The theory of nautical astronomy
and navigation 1853; Handbook of the stars, 4 ed. 1888. _d._
Langstone house 23 March 1881. _Monthly notices R. Astronom.
Soc. xlii_ 145–6 (1882).
JEBB, REV. JOHN (eld. son of Richard Jebb 1766–1834, justice
of court of King’s Bench, Ireland). _b._ Dublin 1805; ed. at
Winchester and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1829, B.D.
and D.D. 1860; R. of Dunurlin, co. Kerry 1831–32; preb. of
Limerick cath. 1832–43; R. of Peterstow, Herefordshire 1843 to
death; proctor diocese of Hereford 1857 and 1868–74; preb. of
Hereford cath. 1858–70, prælector 1863–70, canon res. 1870 to
death, and chancellor 1878 to death; one of revisers of the Old
Testament for a short time; author of The divine economy of the
church 1840; A literal translation of the book of Psalms 2 vols.
1846; The present state of the church, in six letters 2 ed.
1851. _d._ Peterstow rectory 8 Jany. 1886.
JEBB, SIR JOSHUA (eld. son of Joshua Jebb of Walton, Derbyshire
1769–1845). _b._ Chesterfield 8 May 1793; 2 lieut. R.E. 1 July
1812, served in Canada 1813–20; lieut. col. R.E. 16 April 1847
to 18 Jany. 1850 when placed on retired full pay; M.G. 6 July
1860; surveyor general of prisons 1837–42; inspector general of
military prisons 27 Dec. 1844; a comr. for governing Pentonville
prison 1 May 1849; surveyor general and chairman of directors
of convict prisons 1850 to death; C.B. 27 April 1848, K.C.B.
25 March 1859; author of Modern prisons, their construction
and ventilation 1844; Notes on sinking artesian wells 1844;
Observations on the defence of London 1860; taken ill in an
omnibus, removed to Mr. James Starkie’s, chemist, 4 Strand,
London where he _d._ 26 June 1863. _I.L.N. xliii_ 19, 36 (1863),
_portrait_.
JEBB, RICHARD (brother of Rev. John Jebb 1805–86). _b._ 1806;
ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1832; barrister
King’s inns, Dublin 1830; barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1832; practised
in London; vicar general of Isle of Man, and as such judge of
the ecclesiastical court 1861 to death; the legislature of Isle
of Man agreed to a bill abolishing his office the week before
his death. _d._ Douglas, Isle of Man 8 Feb. 1884.
JEBB, WILLIAM FRANCIS (3 son of lieut. William Francis Jebb,
R.N.). _b._ Corby, Northants. 1828; educ. for the bar; clerk
to Westminster district board to 1867; clerk to Metropolitan
asylums district board from its beginning 1867 to death. _d._ 3
Campden grove, Kensington 4 Oct. 1890. _bur._ Kensington cemet.
Hanwell 9 Oct. _The Metropolitan 11 Oct. 1890 p._ 647; _I.L.N.
18 Oct. 1890 p._ 483, _portrait_.
JECKS, HARRIET (youngest child of Mr. Coveney, actor 1790–1881).
_b._ London 1 Nov. 1827; first appeared on the stage at Adelphi
theatre, Edinburgh 30 June 1834 as Zoe in Buckstone’s burletta
The convent of St. Eloi; played Oliver Twist at T.R. Glasgow;
pupil of Charles Leclercq the ballet master; made her début
in London at Victoria theatre; played in the provinces; at
the Adelphi, London 1841 and 1849–50, at Vauxhall gardens
1842; acted under Chatterton at Drury Lane 1868–79; played the
Marquise in L’Œil Crevé at Opera Comique 21 Oct. 1872; created
the parts of Mrs. Privett in opera of Dorothy at Gaiety 25 Sep.
1886, and of Tabitha in opera of Doris at Lyric 20 April 1889,
Dorothy was played until 6 April 1889, 931 times; played upwards
of 1800 parts during her career. (_m._ Charles A. Jecks, acting
manager of Adelphi theatre, London). _d._ Ramsgate 24 Feb. 1892.
_The Players_, _ii_ 57 (1860), _portrait_.
JEENS, CHARLES HENRY (son of Henry Jeens of Uley, Gloucs.).
_b._ Uley 19 Oct. 1827; engraved postage stamps for English
colonies; engraved many plates for the Art Journal and vignettes
and portraits for publications of Macmillan & Co., including
a series of ‘Scientific Worthies’ in Nature; exhibited 6
engravings at R.A. 1860–76; engraved Joseph and Mary, after
Armitage for Art Union of London 1877; a vol. of proofs of his
vignettes is in print room of British Museum. _d._ 67 St. Paul’s
road, Camden sq. London 22 Oct. 1879.
JEFFCOCK, PARKIN (son of John Jeffcock of Cowley, Derbyshire).
_b._ Cowley manor 27 Oct. 1829; articled to George Hunter of
Durham, engineer 1850; partner with J. T. Woodhouse of Derby,
mining engineer 1857; examined and reported on the Moselle
coalfield near Saarbrück 1863–4; descended the Oaks Pit near
Barnsley which was on fire 12 Dec. 1866 where he was killed by
an explosion 13 Dec. 1866, his body was recovered 5 Oct. 1867
and buried in Ecclesfield churchyard; St. Saviour’s church,
Mortomley near Sheffield was built as a memorial of him 1872.
_Parkin Jeffcock: a memoir by Rev. J. T. Jeffcock_ (1867),
_portrait_; _I.L.N. l_, 21 (1867), _portrait_.
JEFFCOTT, SIR WILLIAM (_son of Wm. Jeffcott of Tralee,
Ireland_). _b._ 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; barrister
King’s inns, Dublin 1828; practised in Dublin; judge of supreme
court of New South Wales, then resident judge in Melbourne of
Port Philip district, Nov. 1842 to Jany. 1845; recorder of
Singapore, Malacca and Prince Edward’s Island 1849 to death;
knighted by patent 29 Dec. 1849; appointed a judge at Bombay,
Oct. 1855. _d._ Bombay 23 Oct. 1855.
JEFFERIES, JOHN RICHARD, but always known as Richard Jefferies
(son of James Jefferies of Coate farm, Liddington near Swindon).
_b._ Coate farm 6 Nov. 1848; ran away to France 11 Nov. 1864; a
reporter on the North Wilts Herald, March 1866; a writer in Pall
Mall Gazette from 1870; author of A memoir of the Goddards of
North Wilts. 1873; The scarlet shawl 1874; Restless human hearts
3 vols. 1875; The world’s end 3 vols. 1877; The gamekeeper at
home. By R. J. 1878, 2 ed. 1880; Wild life in a southern county
1879; Hodge and his master 2 vols. 1880; Wood magic 2 vols.
1881; Bevis, the story of a boy 3 vols. 1882; The story of my
heart 1883, with portrait; The Dewy morn 2 vols. 1884; After
London 1885 and other books. _d._ Goring, Sussex 14 Aug. 1887,
_monu._ in Salisbury cath., _bust_ in Shire hall, Taunton,
_bust_ by Margaret Thomas in Salisbury cath. unveiled 9 March
1892. _W. Besant’s Eulogy of R. Jefferies_ (1888), _portrait_;
_National Review_, _Oct. 1887 pp._ 242–50; _Literary Opinion_,
_April 1892_, _portrait_.
JEFFERINI, JOHN, stage name of John Jeffreys. Made his first
appearance at the Panharmonium theatre, King’s Cross, London
1837 as Desperetta in The Dumb Maid of Genoa; a pupil of Tom
Matthews the clown; tobacconist at 2 Myddelton quadrant, Spa
Fields 1839–47; kept a tobacconist’s shop known as “The Little
Snuff-box,” Garnault place, Clerkenwell 1847–53, it was also a
gambling-house where French hazard and écarté were played; the
sign portraiture which adorned the Clown Tavern, 62 St. John st.
road, Clerkenwell 1842–9 was the face and form of Jefferini;
played clown in E. L. Blanchard’s pantomime King Alfred the
Great, at Olympic theatre 26 Dec. 1846; played clown at Sadler’s
Wells, City of London and Victoria theatres; landlord of the
Rose public house 2 Farringdon st. 1851–3. _d._ 1853. _Life of
E. L. Blanchard_, _i_ 51–2 (1891).
JEFFERIS, CHARLES. _b._ 1789; entered navy 19 Feb. 1801; took
part in Lord Nelson’s victory over the Danes off Copenhagen
2 April 1801 and was ultimately the last survivor of those
present; retired commander 11 March 1860. _d._ 3 July 1875 aged
86. _O’Byrne’s Naval Biog. Dict._ (1849) 579.
JEFFERSON, MARGARET C. (dau. of Mr. Lockyer). _b._ Burnham,
England 11 Sep. 1832. (_m._ 1849 Joseph Jefferson, American
comedian who was _b._ Philadelphia 20 Feb. 1829); first appeared
at Bowery theatre, New York as the Fairy queen in Cinderella
1848; came out at Niblo’s garden as Mrs. Lullaby 23 July 1859; a
pleasing actress in soubrette parts. _d._ Twelfth st. New York
25 Feb. 1861. _Brown’s American stage_ (1870) 194; _Ireland’s
New York stage_, _ii_ 501, 558 (1867); _Autobiography of J.
Jefferson_ (1890) 127–8, 229.
JEFFERY, CHARLES (son of James Reddecliff Jeffery of Liverpool).
_b._ 1839; ed. at Trin. hall, Cam., B.A. 1863; barrister I.T. 9
June 1865; judge of district court of Falmouth in Jamaica 1871
to death; joint editor of J. Chitty’s Precedents in pleading 3
ed. 2 vols. 1868. _d._ Mentone, France 4 Feb. 1875.
JEFFERY, GEORGE ERNEST (eld. son of George Augustus Jeffery,
M.D., of Trinity Home, Eastbourne). _b._ Eastbourne 9 Feb. 1853;
ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Cam.; in the Rugby Eleven, played
at Lord’s against Marlborough 28–9 June 1871; made 116 runs in
one innings in Twenty three gentlemen _v._ Eleven players of
Sussex, the last match ever played on the Old Brunswick cricket
ground, Hove, Brighton 15 Sep. 1871; played in the Cambridge
Eleven against Oxford 1873–4; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1878. _d._
Westholme, Streatham common, London 8 April 1891.
JEFFERY, HENRY MARTYN (only son of John Jeffery of Gwennap,
Cornwall 1798–1874). _b._ Lamorran rectory, Cornwall 5 Jany.
1826; ed. at Falmouth gr. sch. 1833–40 and Sedbergh gr. sch.
1841–5; of St. John’s coll. Camb. Oct. 1845, of St. Catherine’s
coll. 1846; 6 wrangler and B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; lecturer in
coll. of civil engineers, Putney 1850; second master Cheltenham
gram. sch. June 1852 and head master June 1868 to 1882 when
retired on pension; F.R.S. 3 June 1880; wrote on mathematics in
Rep. British Assoc., Quarterly Journal of mathematics and other
scientific journals; one of the ablest exponents of abstract
mathematical science; edited E. R. Humphrey’s Exercitationes
Iambicæ 2 ed. 1854 and Lyra Hellenica 1854 and contributed
additional matter; Two sets of letters of rev. Henry Martyn
1883; Extracts from the religious diary of Miss Lydia Grenfell
1890. _d._ 9 Dunstanville ter. Falmouth 3 Nov. 1891. _Boase and
Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ (1882) 1245–6; _Biograph_, _vi_ 515–17
(1881); _Journal of royal institution of Cornwall_, _xi_ 208–13
(1892).
JEFFERY, JAMES REDDECLIFF. _b._ Devonport 25 Nov. 1809; went to
Liverpool, Feb. 1832 and in partnership with Walden and Bright
commenced business, partnership dissolved July 1832, associated
himself with James Morrish and opened Compton house Nov. 1832,
his brother Wm. Sam. Jeffery being also in the firm, in 1860 the
house covered a space of 16,200 square feet, was three stories
high and employed 300 hands and was one of the four largest
silk and drapery establishments in United Kingdom; Compton
house burnt down 1865 and rebuilt at cost of £250,000; James
Jeffrey had a share in Howell & James 5, 7, 9 Regent st. London,
which share he sold to concentrate his energies in Compton
house; bankrupt 15 March 1871. _d._ Ilkley, Yorkshire 4 July
1871. _bur._ the necropolis, Liverpool. _Puseley’s Commercial
Companion_ (_2 ed._ 1860) 107–8; _The Draper 7 July 1871 p._ 317.
JEFFERYS, CHARLES. _b._ 11 Jany. 1807; music publisher 31
Frith st. Soho, London 1837–40, then at 21A Soho sq. 1840 to
death; had a great legal action with Thomas Boosey respecting
copyright in Italian operas, which he gained on appeal to House
of Lords 1854; author of Esmeralda, an English version of Hugo’s
Ermelinda 1856; Louisa Miller, in English 1860; The Gipsy’s
Vengeance, an English version of Il Trovatore 1856; wrote the
words of The rose of Allandale 1850; Mary of Argyle 1850;
Jeannette’s farewell to Jeannot 1850; composer of Rose Atherton,
Erin, my own native home 1857; published A book of beauty for
the Queen’s boudoir. Musical Annual 1853, 1854; Jeffery’s
Musical journal 1864, seven numbers. _d._ London 9 June 1865.
_C. Clark’s House of Lord’s Cases_, _iv_ 815–996 (1855).
JEFFREY, ALEXANDER. _b._ Lilliesleaf, Roxburghshire 1806; a
solicitor’s clerk at Melrose, then in Edinburgh; assistant
in town clerk’s office, Jedburgh; advocate in the sheriff’s
court, Roxburghshire 1838 to death; F.S.A. Scotland; member of
Berwickshire Naturalist club; author of An historical account of
Roxburghshire. Edinb. 1836; The history of Roxburghshire 4 vols.
1857–64; The age we live in, a lecture 1874. _d._ Jedburgh 29
Nov. 1874. _The Scotsman 30 Nov. 1874 p._ 4.
JEFFREY, ALLEN RONALD MACDONALD. _b._ 1823 or 1824; wrote for
sporting journals in London from about 1850 to death; wrote an
article every week in the Sporting Times signed, the Member for
Tattersall’s 1875 to death; one of the oldest members of the
Victoria club 18 Wellington st. Strand. _d._ 75 Sandmere road,
Clapham 26 March 1891. _bur._ Norwood cemetery 30 March.
JEFFREY, ANDREW. _b._ Foulden, Berwickshire 17 Feb. 1800;
emigrated to Canada 1819 and resided at Cobourg, Canada West
1820 to his death; proprietor of an extensive hardware business;
member for Newcastle division in legislative council of Canada
1860. _d._ Cobourg 29 July 1863. _American Annual Cyclop. for
1863 p._ 725.
JEFFREY, REV. GEORGE. _b._ Leitholm, Berwickshire 1 Oct. 1815;
ed. Edinb. univ. 1830 and at Theological hall of the United
secession presbytery 1833; minister of London road ch. Mile End,
Glasgow 1838 to death; clerk to the presbytery of Glasgow, and
moderator 1879; a very popular preacher and lecturer; author
of The present war, a discourse. Glasgow 1854. _d._ Glasgow 23
May 1887. _bur._ Sighthill cemet. 27 May. _G. Jeffrey’s The
believer’s privilege._ _Sermons Edin._ 1888, _with biographical
sketch by A. Thomson pp._ 1–54, _portrait_; _John Smith’s Our
Scottish Clergy_ (1848) 223–30.
JEFFREYS, EDMUND RICHARD (4 son of rev. John Jeffreys _d._ 1840
aged 69, R. of Barnes 1795–1839). _b._ 29 Aug. 1808; ed. at
Westminster and Sandhurst; ensign 88 foot 16 June 1825, major
12 May 1843 to 16 March 1855; lieut. col. depot battalion 23
March 1855 to 6 March 1868; col. 1 battalion Manchester regiment
1 July 1881 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list
29 Aug. 1878; hon. general 1 July 1881; C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._
Seafield house, Ryde, Isle of Wight 3 April 1889. _Welsh’s
Alumni Westmonasterienses_ (1852) 425.