Commons, proctor 1743–1810). _b._ near St. Paul’s, London 4 Feb.
1778; ed. at Reading and Trin. hall, Camb., LL.B. 1798, LL.D.
1803; barrister G.I. 27 Nov. 1800; advocate in ecclesiastical
and admiralty courts, and a fellow of college of Doctors of
Law 8 July 1803; king’s advocate general 28 Feb. 1828 to 21
Oct. 1834; knighted at St. James’s palace 28 June 1828; vicar
general to abp. of Canterbury 1832 to 21 Oct. 1834; official
principal of the arches, and judge of prerogative court of
Canterbury 21 Oct. 1834 to death; P.C. 29 Oct. 1834; assumed
additional name of Fust 14 Jany. 1842 on succeeding to property
of his cousin sir John Fust; master of Trinity hall, Camb., Feb.
1843 to death, but never resided there; tried the Gorham case,
his decree of 2 Aug. 1849 led to the publication of more than
80 pamphlets. _d._ 1 Chesterfield st. Mayfair, London 20 Feb.
1852. _bur._ St. Nicholas, Chislehurst, Kent 26 Feb. _Christian
Observer_, _Dec. 1849 pp._ 809–56, _Oct. 1850 pp._ 698–713.
JENNINGS, GEORGE (eld. son of Joseph Jennings _d._ 1824). _b._
in a village on the borders of the New Forest 10 Nov. 1810;
in employment of Burton, plumbers, Newcastle st. London 1831,
in business Parliament st. 1834, in Charlotte st. Blackfriars
road 1838; introduced indiarubber tube taps 1847; conducted
the sanitary works in Great exhibition of 1851, in Crystal
palace, Sydenham 1852–4, in Great exhibition 1862, and in
Dublin exhibition 1865; invented improved shutter fastener;
put up sanitary fittings in hospitals at Varna and Scutari
1854; purchased clay beds at Parkstone, Dorset where he erected
pottery works and made stoneware and terra-cotta goods; removed
to Holland st. Blackfriars 1857, afterwards to Palace wharf,
Stangate, his works burnt down 22 March 1865; constructed water
works for Wilton; used india rubber for valves, endless elastic
bands and for hermetically sealing capsules; conducted sanitary
works in Paris exhibition 1867, drainage works, etc. in Vienna
exhibition 1873, and Centennial exhibition, Philadelphia 1876;
heated and ventilated buildings on a new principle; thrown
out of a gig 13 April and _d._ from his injuries Ferndale,
Nightingale lane, Clapham 17 April 1882. _The Builder_, _xlii_
497, 530 (1882).
JENNINGS, HARGRAVE. _b._ about 1817; sec. to James Henry
Mapleson manager of the royal Italian opera, many years; said
to be the original of Ezra Jennings in Wilkie Collins’s novel
The Moonstone 1868; author of My marine memorandum book 3 vols.
1845; The ship of glass or the mysterious island 3 vols. 1846;
St. George, a romance 1853; Curious things of the outside world
2 vols. 1861; The Rosicrucians, their rites and mysteries 1870,
3 ed. 2 vols. 1887; One of the Thirty 1873, a story of Judas and
the 30 pieces of silver; The Indian religions 1858, 2 ed. 1890;
Phallicism, celestial and terrestrial 2 vols. 1884. _d._ at
residence of his brother Edward Lawrence Jennings, Ambassador’s
Court, St. James’s palace, London 11 March 1890. _Times 14 March
1890 p._ 9.
JENNINGS, JOHN. _b._ 14 Sep. 1789; hon. secretary of the Star
club, London 1831–39; R. of St. John the Evangelist, Westminster
1832 to death; canon residentiary of Westminster 9 Jany. 1837 to
death; archdeacon of Westminster, Jany. 1869 to death, sub-dean
1881 to death; the sole surviving priest who officiated at
coronation of Victoria 1838. _d._ Dean’s yard, Westminster 26
March 1883. _bur._ Lyne church near Chertsey 3 April. _I.L.N.
xxvi_ 268 (1855) _portrait_, _lxxxii_ 332 (1883), _portrait_.
JENNISON, JOHN. _b._ 1789; a handloom weaver, Stockport;
established Jennison’s Gardens, Stockport 1829; originated the
Belle Vue gardens, Manchester 1836, which became the favourite
resort of pleasure seekers of Lancashire and surrounding
counties; his first great picture The siege of Algiers produced
1852. _d._ at his residence, Bellevue gardens, Manchester 20
Sep. 1869. _The Manchester Guardian 21 Sep. 1869 p._ 5.
JENOUR, ALFRED. R. of Pilton, Northants. 1836–45; P.C. of Regent
sq. chapel, St. Pancras, London 1845–51; R. of Kittisford,
Somerset 1851–4; P.C. of Blackpool, Lancs. 1854 to death; author
of The book of the prophet Isaiah translated from the Hebrew,
with a commentary 2 vols. 1832; A treatise on languages 1832;
Job translated from the Hebrew, with critical notes 1841;
The christian mother, a memoir of Ann Jenour 1840; Rationale
Apocalypticum or exposition of the Apocalypse 2 vols. 1852. _d._
1868.
JENOUR, JOSHUA (eld. son of Joshua Jenour, master of stationers’
co., _d._ 1774). _b._ Serjeants’ inn, Fleet st. London 31 July
1755; liveryman of stationers’ co. 1776; published The Park,
a poem 1778; The wife chase, a monitory poem; Marriage, a
precautionary tale; The horrible revenge 1830; Observations on
the taxation of property 1795, five editions, all his works were
anonymous; John Bull a weekly paper of essays. _d._ Gravesend 23
Jany. 1853. _G.M. xxxix_ 325 (1853).
JENYNS, SOAME GAMBIER. _b._ 1826; cornet 13 hussars 30 Dec.
1845; major 18 hussars 19 Feb. 1858; lieut. col. 13 hussars 24
May 1861 to 4 Feb. 1871 when placed on half pay as colonel; C.B.
5 July 1855; author of System of non-pivot drill as adapted
to the present English cavalry drill book, in G. T. Denison’s
Modern Cavalry (1868) pp. 341–50. _d._ Much Wenlock 26 Nov. 1873.
JEPHSON, HENRY. _b._ near Mansfield, Notts. 4 Oct. 1798; studied
in St. George’s hospital; went to Leamington as assistant to Mr.
Chambers 1818, a partner 1819, sole proprietor of the practice;
M.D. Glasgow 1827; patients from all parts of Great Britain and
from the Continent came to Leamington to be under his care;
had a specially contrived travelling carriage made in which to
attend patients at a distance from Leamington; his income for
many years was over £20,000 a year; became totally blind 1848;
made his patients eat moderately and abstain from stimulants and
prescribed the Leamington waters internally and externally; a
public statue of him erected at Leamington 1848 and the public
gardens called after his name. _d._ Beech Lawn, Leamington 14
May 1878. _Medical Times 25 May 1878 pp._ 575–6; _Leamington
Chronicle 1 June 1878 p._ 8.
JEPHSON, JOHN MOUNTENEY (youngest son of rev. John Jephson
1764–1826, preb. of Armagh). _b._ 16 Dec. 1819; ed. at Trin.
coll. Dublin, B.A. 1843; C. of Monewden, Suffolk 1853–6; C. of
Hutton near Brentwood, Essex 1856–64; V. of Childerditch near
Brentwood 1864; F.S.A. 24 May 1855; author of Narrative of a
walking tour in Brittany 1859; Shakespere, his birthplace, home
and grave 1864; edited the Literary Gazette early in 1858. _d._
Childerditch vicarage 1 Jany. 1865.
JEPHSON-NORREYS, SIR CHARLES DENHAM ORLANDO, 1 Baronet (son
of lieut. col. Wm. Jephson of Egham, Surrey). _b._ Englefield
Green, Surrey 1799; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1827, M.A.
1828; M.P. for Mallow 1826–59, contested Mallow 1859; assumed
additional surname of Norreys by r.l. 18 July 1838; cr. baronet
6 Aug. 1838. _d._ Queenstown 11 July 1888.
JERDAN, WILLIAM (son of John Jerdan, farmer _d._ 1796). _b._
Kelso, Roxburghshire 16 April 1782; clerk to C. Elliott writer
to the signet, Edinb. 1802–5; editor of the Aurora, the
hotelkeepers’ paper, London 1806 and of other papers 1806–13;
while a reporter witnessed murder of Spencer Percival and was
the first to seize Bellingham 11 May 1812; editor of the Sun
11 May 1813 to May 1817; editor of the Literary Gazette from
No. 26 July 1817 to 28 Dec. 1850; chief founder of Royal Soc.
of literature 1823; F.S.A. 1826; lost his money on failure of
Whitehead’s bank 1808 and in the panic of 1826; granted civil
list pension of £100, 23 March 1853; author of Six weeks in
Paris or a cure for the Gallomania by a late Visitant 3 vols.
1817, 2 ed. 1818; National portrait gallery of illustrations and
eminent personages of the nineteenth century 5 vols. 1830–4;
The Autobiography of W. Jerdan 4 vols. 1852–3; Men I have known
1866; a contributor to Notes and Queries under name of Bushey
Heath. _d._ Bushey Heath, Herts. 11 July 1869. _Fraser’s Mag.
i_ 605–6 (1830), _portrait_; _Reg. and Mag. of Biog. ii_ 94–5
(1869); _Maclise Portrait gallery_ (1883) 1–4, _portrait_; _Lord
W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities 2 Ser. ii_ 35–52 (1876).
JERDAN, WILLIAM FREELING (2 son of the preceding). _b._
1818; sec. to Great Northern railway of France; a principal
shareholder in and administrator of the Literary Gazette; a
clerk in secretary’s office, general post office, London to
death. _d._ 6 Feb. 1859.
JERDON, ARCHIBALD (son of Archibald Jerdon). _b._ Bonjedward,
Roxburghshire 21 Sep. 1819; ed. Edin. univ.; communicated facts
respecting birds to Zoologist 1841; acquired much knowledge
about the phanerogamous local flora and cryptogamic botany;
published lists of border fungi in Proc. of Berwickshire
Naturalists’ club; two species of fungi bear his name; F.
Botanical soc. Edin. 1871. _d._ Allerton near Jedburgh, Feb.
1874. _Trans. Botanical Soc. Edin. xii_ 201–2 (1876); _Proc.
Linnean Soc._ (1872–73) 32.
JERDON, THOMAS CAVERHILL (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1811;
ed. Edinb. univ.; assistant surgeon Madras army 11 Sep. 1835,
surgeon 4 light cavalry 12 July 1852 to 1861, surgeon 11 Madras
N.I. 23 March 1861 to 1862; the botanical genus Jerdonia was
called after him; author of Illustrations of Indian ornithology,
Madras 1847; The birds of India, Calcutta 2 vols. 1862–4; The
mammals of India 1867, 2 ed. 1874. _d._ Upper Norwood, Surrey 12
June 1872. _Medical Times and Gazette_, _i_ 745 (1872).
JEREMIE, JAMES AMIRAUX (son of James Jeremie, merchant). _b._
St. Peter’s port, Guernsey 12 April 1802; ed. Blundell’s sch.
Tiverton and Trin. coll. Camb.; B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827, B.D. 1850,
D.D. 1850, D.C.L. 1862; fellow of his coll. 1826–50; professor
of classical and general literature Haileybury 7 April 1830–50,
dean 1838–50; christian advocate in univ. of Camb. 1833–34;
exam. chap. to Dr. Kaye, bp. of Lincoln 1830; preb. of Lincoln
20 Dec. 1834 to 1845; R. of Winwick, Northants. 1843–8; subdean
and canon of Lincoln 1 July 1848 to July 1864; regius prof. of
divinity univ. of Camb. 16 Feb. 1850 to 30 Sep. 1870; R. of
Somersham, Hunts. 1850–70; dean of Lincoln 4 July 1864 to death;
author of The office and mission of St. John the Baptist 1823;
The doctrines of our Saviour in the four gospels in harmony with
St. Paul’s Epistles 1825; The last discourse of our Saviour in
reference to the divine origin of christianity 1833; a writer
in the Encyclopædia Metropolitana. _d._ the Deanery, Lincoln 11
June 1872. _bur._ Guernsey. _I.L.N. xxi_ 341 (1852) _portrait_,
_xxii_ 356 (1853) _portrait_, _lx_ 611, 625, 630 (1872)
_portrait_.
NOTE.--He gave to the University of Cambridge in 1870 the sum of £1000
to found two annual prizes for the encouragement of a critical study
of the lxx version of the Old Testament and such other Hellenistic
literature as may serve to illustrate the New Testament.
JERMYN, GEORGE BITTON (eld. son of Peter Jermyn of Halesworth,
Suffolk, solicitor 1767–97). _b._ Halesworth 2 Nov. 1789; ed.
at Ipswich gr. sch., at Norwich and Caius coll. Camb., removed
to Trinity hall 1813; LLB. 1814, LLD. 1826; C. of Hawkedon,
Suffolk 1814–17; C. of Littleport, Isle of Ely 1817–20; C. of
Swaffham Prior near Newmarket 1820; compiled a history of his
own family, 700 pages folio; made collections for a genealogical
history of Suffolk, now in the museum Bury St. Edmunds. _d._
island of Maddelena, Sardinia 2 March 1857. _Nichols’s Herald
and Genealogist_, _v_ 441–3 (1870).
JERMYN, JAMES (3 son of Robert Jermyn, collector of customs
at Southwold, Suffolk). Barrister; collector of pier dues at
Southwold; author of The Halesworth Review from 14 Sep. to
14 Oct. 1808. Halesworth 1808, anon., and 6 other anonymous
works; also of Prospectus and specimen of an English gradus and
dictionary of ideas 1848, he left 128 MS. volumes of materials
for this work, the labour of 30 years, which were acquired by
Wm. Aldis Wright about 1867; Book of English epithets, literal
and figurative 1849. _d._ Reydon, Southwold, Suffolk 1852.
_Notes and Queries 7 Ser. ii_ 368, 475 (1886), _iii_ 55 (1887).
JERNINGHAM, ARTHUR WILLIAM (2 son of Wm. Charles Jerningham
1770–1820, officer in Austrian army). _b._ 22 Feb. 1807; ed.
Stonyhurst 1818–23; entered R.N. 13 June 1823; engaged training
the coast guard in gunnery 1847–52; commander R. naval coast
volunteers, Ireland 1854–7; commander Plymouth gunnery ship
1857–62; captain 18 Sep. 1851, retired 1 July 1864; retired
admiral 26 Sep. 1878; author of Remarks on the means of
conveying the fire of ships’ broadsides 1851. _d._ 11 Heather
bank, Bournemouth 24 Nov. 1889. _Times 27 Nov. 1889 p._ 7;
_Gillow’s English Catholics_, _iii_ 623–4 (1887).
JERNINGHAM, CHARLES WILLIAM EDWARD (eld. son of Edward
Jerningham 1774–1822, barrister). _b._ 27 Nov. 1805; ed.
Stonyhurst; barrister I.T. 12 Feb. 1830; a frequent contributor
to Dolman’s Magazine; author of A letter to the vicar apostolic
of Great Britain upon the regulations by the holy see, with
respect to mixed marriages 1843. _d._ 26 Feb. 1854. _Gillow’s
English Catholics_, _iii_ 624–5 (1887).
JERNINGHAM, GEORGE SULYARDE STAFFORD (3 son of 8 baron Stafford
1771–1851). _b._ Haughley park, Norfolk 17 Feb. 1806; entered
foreign office 1825; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to king
of Wurtemberg 20 May 1854, to king of Sweden and Norway 11 Nov.
1859 to 11 Sep. 1872 when retired on a pension; C.B. 13 July
1872. _d._ 18 Nov. 1874.
JERNINGHAM, WILLIAM GEORGE STAFFORD (brother of preceding). _b._
Cossey hall, Norwich 15 July 1812; attached to mission at Munich
20 Jany. 1834; chargé d’ affaires and consul general Peru 1 Dec.
1857, minister resident and consul general there 12 Dec. 1872 to
death. _d._ Southampton 16 July 1874.
JERRAM, CHARLES (son of Charles Jerram, farmer, _d._ 1807).
_b._ Blidworth in Sherwood forest 17 Jany. 1770; assistant at
a unitarian school at Highgate 1790; entered Magd. coll. Camb.
1793; B.A. 1797, M.A. 1800; C. of Long Sutton, Lincs. 1797–1805;
C. of Chobham, Surrey 1805–10; V. of Chobham 1810–34; took
private pupils 1797–1822; P.C. of St. John’s, Bedford row,
London 1824–6; R. of Witney, Oxfordshire 3 April 1834 to death;
a very well known member of the evangelical sch.; author of
Letters on the atonement 1804; Conversations on infant baptism
1819, 3 ed. 1838; A treatise on the atonement 1828; Secession
from the church of England considered in a letter 1836. _d._
Witney 20 June 1853. _J. Jerram’s Memoirs of rev. C. Jerram_
(1855), _portrait_.
JERRAM, JANE E. (dau. of Mr. Holme). (_m._ William Jerram of
Derby, then of Bannell’s farm, Etwall, Derby); managed the dairy
and other farm affairs; known by the name of The Pale Star;
author of My three aunts 1838; My father’s house; The pearly
gates; Simple stories 1841; The children’s own story book, 3
ed. 1843; living near Derby 1873. _S. T. Hall’s Biog. sketches_
(1873) 296–7.
JERRARD, GEORGE BIRCH (son of Joseph Jerrard, major general,
_d._ 23 Nov. 1858 aged 85). Published Mathematical researches.
Bristol 1832–5; An essay on the resolution of equations 1858.
_d._ Long Stratton rectory, Norfolk 23 Nov. 1863.
JERROLD, DOUGLAS WILLIAM (only son of Samuel Jerrold, manager
of Sheerness theatre, _d._ Jany. 1820). _b._ Greek st. Soho,
London 3 Jany. 1803; ed. at Sheerness; served on board H.M.S.
Namur guardship 1813–15; apprenticed to Gabriel Sidney of
Northumberland st. Strand, printer 1816; produced More
frightened than hurt, at Sadler’s Wells theatre 30 April 1821;
wrote pieces for the Coburg theatre 1825; wrote Black-eyed
Susan or all in the Downs, best nautical drama ever written,
produced at Surrey theatre 8 June 1829 for which he received
£70 from Elliston, it ran 300 nights; wrote The mutiny at the
Nore, played at Pavilion, Coburg and Queen’s theatres 1830;
joint manager with W. J. Hammond of Strand theatre 1 May 1836
to 17 Sep. 1836; wrote the Bubbles of the day, Covent Garden 25
Feb. 1842; The prisoner of war, Drury Lane 8 Feb. 1842; started
the Illuminated Mag. 1843; wrote Time works wonders, which ran
at the Haymarket from 26 April 1845 for about 90 nights; edited
Douglas Jerrold’s Shilling Magazine 7 vols. 1845–8; editor and
chief proprietor of Douglas Jerrold’s Weekly newspaper 1846, it
became the Weekly News; contributed to Punch from No. 2, 24 July
1841 to death; edited Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper 1852 to death;
founded The Mulberries 1824, The Whittington at 37 Arundel st.
Strand 1846, it ceased 1873, The Museum 1847 and other literary
clubs; author of Men of character 3 vols. 1838; Punch’s Letters
to his son 1843; The story of a feather 1844; Punch’s Complete
letter writer 1845; Mrs. Caudle’s curtain lectures 1846; The
chronicles of Clovernook 1845; A man made of money 1849; Heads
of the people 1852; The writings of D. Jerrold 8 vols. 1854 and
4 vols. 1863–4. _d._ Kilburn priory, St. John’s Wood, London
8 June 1857. _bur._ Norwood cemetery 15 June, portrait by Sir
Daniel Macnee in National portrait gallery. _W. B. Jerrold’s
Life of D. Jerrold_ (1859), _portrait_; _G. Hodder’s Memories of
my time_ (1870) 4–58, 108–20, 126–39; _Illust. Rev. iii_ 673–81
(1872), _portrait_; _R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age_, _i_
291–304 (1844); _Quarterly Mag. of Oddfellows_, _i_ 198–208
(1858); _E. Yates’ Recollections_, _i_ 291–4, _ii_ 351 (1884).
NOTE.--There is a portrait of him by John Leech in his two-page
cartoon, called “Mr. Punch’s fancy ball” in Punch 9 Jany. 1847, where
he is represented as playing the drum in the orchestra. His first
contribution to Punch entitled Punch and Peel appeared in No. 2, 24
July 1841, he first used the signature of Q. on 13 Sep. In Alfred
Bunn’s A word with Punch 1847 Jerrold is spoken of as Wronghead and is
stated to have been hissed off the stage.
JERROLD, EVELYN DOUGLAS (son of the succeeding). _b._ about
1850; correspondent in Paris of a London daily paper; translated
From Paris to Cayenne. By C. Delescluze 1872; edited with S.
Jerrold At home in Paris. By W. B. Jerrold 1884. _d._ St. John’s
road, Highgate hill 16 May 1885.
JERROLD, WILLIAM BLANCHARD (eld. son of Douglas W. Jerrold
1803–57). _b._ London 23 Dec. 1826; ed. at Brompton gr. sch.
and at Boulogne; wrote in Douglas Jerrold’s Weekly Newspaper
1846; wrote papers on The literature of the poor, in Daily News
1846; described the Paris exhibition of 1855 for Daily News,
Illustrated London News and Athenæum; spent half of each year
in Paris 1855 to death; edited Lloyd’s Weekly London News 8
June 1857 to death; wrote Cool as a cucumber, farce produced at
Lyceum theatre 24 March 1851, Beau Brummell the king of Calais,
Lyceum 11 April 1859, Chatterbox drama, St. James’s 30 Nov. 1859
and Cupid in waiting, comedy, Royalty 17 July 1871; founded
English branch of the International literary association; edited
under name of Fin-Bec, Knife and Fork 8 numbers 1871 and new
series 7 numbers 1872; author of Two lives, a novel 2 vols.
1862; A book for the beach 2 vols. 1863; At home in Paris 1864,
several editions; The children of Lutetia 2 vols. 1864; London
a pilgrimage, illustrated by Gustave Doré 1872; The life of
Napoleon III. 4 vols. 1874–82; The life of G. Cruikshank 2 vols.
1882. _d._ 27 Victoria st. Westminster 10 March 1884. _bur._
Norwood cemetery 13 March. _G. Hodder’s Memories of my time_
(1870) 394–418; _J. Hatton’s Journalistic London_ (1882) 196
_portrait_; _Illustrated Review_, _v_ 267–73 (1873), _portrait_;
_Graphic_, _xxix_ 368 (1884), _portrait_.
JERSEY, GEORGE CHILD-VILLIERS, 5 Earl of (elder son of 4 Earl of
Jersey 1735–1805). _b._ Middleton park near Bicester 19 Aug.
1773; styled viscount Villiers 1773 to 1805 when he succeeded;
ed. at Harrow and St. John’s coll. Camb., M.A. 1794, D.C.L.
Oxf. 1810; took name of Child before Villiers 1 Dec. 1819;
lord chamberlain of the household 15 July to 22 Nov. 1830 and
15 Dec. 1834 to 18 April 1835; P.C. 19 July 1830; G.C.H. 1834;
master of the horse 1841–6 and 1 March to 28 Dec. 1852; won the
One thousand guineas and the Oaks with Cobweb 1824, the Derby
with Middleton 1825, with Mameluke 1827 and with Bay Middleton
1836. _d._ 38 Berkeley sq. London 3 Oct. 1859. _bur._ Middleton
Stoney. _Waagen’s Galleries of art_ (1857) 269–74; _New Sporting
Mag._, _x_ 302 (1836), _portrait; Sporting Times 21 Feb. 1885
pp._ 5–6; _J. E. Doyle’s Official baronage_, _ii_ 261 (1886),
_portrait_.
NOTE.--One of the best riders of his time; his name is recorded in
a song called The Billesden Copley Hunt, an account of a run in
Leicestershire 24 Feb. 1800.
JERSEY, GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK CHILD-VILLIERS, 6 Earl of
(eld. son of the preceding). _b._ 38 Berkeley sq. London 4 April
1808; styled viscount Villiers 1808–59 when he succeeded; ed. at
Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1837; lieut. Oxfordshire
yeomanry 16 June 1829, major 5 May 1855 to death; M.P. Rochester
1830–1, Minehead 1831–2, Honiton 1832–5, Weymouth 1837–41,
Cirencester 1844–52; contested Cirencester 1852. _d._ Royal
Crescent hotel, Brighton 24 Oct. 1859. _bur._ Middleton Stoney.
JERSEY, SARAH SOPHIA CHILD-VILLIERS, Countess of (eld. dau.
of 10 earl of Westmoreland 1759–1841). _b._ 4 March 1785;
heiress of Robert Child of Osterley park _d._ 1819; a ruler of
society from 1815 to 1855; one of the leading lady patronesses
of Almacks many years, and a professional beauty; popularly
known as Queen Sarah; the head of Childs’s bank, London 1819
to death; had a scene with lord Durham at the drawing room 24
Feb. 1831; (_m._ at Gretna Green 23 May 1804 George Villiers 5
earl of Jersey 1773–1859). _d._ 38 Berkeley sq. London 26 Jany.
1867. _bur._ in family vault in church of Middleton Stoney 2
Feb., personalty sworn under £300,000, 1 June 1867. _C. C.
F. Greville’s Memoirs_, _i_ 12–13, _ii_ 64, 119, 126 (1874);
_Burke’s Portrait gallery_, _ii_ 45 (1833), _portrait_.
JERVIS, GEORGE F. _b._ England 1784; appeared at Park theatre,
New York as Vanderdecken in The Flying Dutchman 1825; appeared
at Arch st. theatre, Philadelphia 1 Sep. 1826 as Marshal
Beaumont in The French Spy. _d._ Philadelphia 25 March 1851.
JERVIS, GEORGE RITSO. _b._ Madras 8 Oct. 1794; ed. at Marlow,
Woolwich and Addiscombe; ensign Bombay engineers 8 June 1811,
col. 16 Aug. 1843 to death; founded the Engineers’ Institution
in India 1823; held chief command of engineer corps 9 years;
active coadjutor of Mountstuart Elphinstone in spreading
education in India; A.I.C.E. 1841; edited The works of Hāfiz
1828; translated into Maratha, Lord Brougham’s Preliminary
treatise on the objects, advantages and pleasures of science
1829. _d._ Boulogne 14 Oct. 1851. _Min. of proc. of instit. of
C.E._, _xi_ 106–109 (1852).
JERVIS, HENRY. _b._ 1797; ensign 84 foot 19 Dec. 1811; captain
72 foot 1826, major 27 Sep. 1842 to 8 March 1850; lieut. col.
provisional battalion at Chatham 8 March 1850 to 17 May 1864;
col. 94 foot 8 March 1872 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 11
Bloomsbury sq. London 5 Feb. 1879.