Modern English biography
1842. _d._ Headington near Oxford 7 March 1852. _William Smith’s
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Old Yorkshire_ (1883) 147–51, _portrait_.
JEWITT, LLEWELLYN FREDERICK WILLIAM (17 and youngest child of
the preceding). _b._ Kimberworth near Rotherham, Yorkshire
24 Nov. 1816; went to London as a drawer and engraver 1838;
illustrated Charles Knight’s publications, Pictorial Times,
Illustrated London News, etc.; managed illustrations of Punch
about 1848; chief librarian of Plymouth public library 1849–53;
started the Derby Telegraph at Derby 1853, editor 1853–68;
started The Reliquary 1860, editor 1860 to death; F.S.A. 27
Jany. 1853; formed a collection of china, sold 1871; granted
civil list pension of £70, 16 June 1885; author of Rifle and
volunteer rifle corps 1860; The Wedgwoods 1865; The life of
William Hutton 1869; A history of Plymouth 1873; The ceramic art
of Great Britain 2 vols. 1878, 2 ed. 1883; The life of Jacob
Thompson 1882. _d._ the Hollies, Duffield, Derby 5 June 1886.
_bur._ Winster 9 June. _W. H. Goss’ Life of Llewellyn Jewitt_
(1889), _portrait_; _Proc. Soc. of Antiq. xi_ 370–1 (1885–7);
_The Biograph_, _Feb. 1882 pp._ 115–24.
JEWITT, THOMAS ORLANDO SHELDON (brother of the preceding). _b._
Derbyshire 1799; wood engraver, illustrated with woodcuts Rev.
A. G. Jewitt’s Wanderings of Memory 1815; while at Oxford 1838
&c. illustrated J. H. Parker’s architectural publications;
employed as an artist by the Archæological Institute; had many
pupils. _d._ 20 Clifton villas, Camden sq. London 30 May 1869.
JEWSBURY, GERALDINE ENDSOR (dau. of Thomas Jewsbury of
Manchester, merchant, _d._ 1840). _b._ Measham, Derbyshire 1812;
her parents removed to Manchester 1818; great friend of Thomas
Carlyle and his wife from 1841, many of Mrs. Carlyle’s letters
are addressed to her, as are also Lady Theodore Martin’s Letters
on Shakspere’s Female characters; lived in Chelsea 1854–66, at
Sevenoaks, Kent 1866–80; granted civil list pension of £40, 19
June 1874; author of Zoe, the history of two lives 3 vols. 1845;
The half-sisters 2 vols. 1848, three editions; Marian Withers
3 vols. 1851; The history of an adopted child 1853; Constance
Herbert 3 vols. 1855; The sorrows of gentility 2 vols. 1856;
Angelo or the pine forest 1856; Right or Wrong 2 vols. 1859.
_d._ in a private hospital at Burwood place, Edgware road,
London 23 Sep. 1880. _bur._ in Lady Morgan’s vault, Brompton
cemet. _J. Evans’ Lancashire authors_ (1850) 140–4.
JEWSON, FREDERICK BOWEN. _b._ Edinburgh 26 July 1823, where he
performed in public from 1828; studied at R. Acad. of music,
London 1834, King’s scholar 1837, professor of pianoforte
1840–89; professor of music, St. Mary’s hall, Brighton; composer
of Overtures for various dramas; Six grand studies for the piano
1869; Douze etudes melodiques et brillantes; Chanson d’ Amour
for piano 1876; The mountain stream, caprice 1876. _d._ 21
Manchester st. Manchester sq. London 28 May 1891. _Cazalet’s
Royal academy of music_ (1854) 298.
JEX, JOHNSON (son of Wm. Jex, blacksmith). _b._ Billingford,
Norfolk about 1778, a blacksmith there and at Letheringsett near
Holt to 1822 when he commenced employing workmen; made a gold
chronometer for sir Jacob Astley, with a detached escapement
and compensating balance before he ever heard of the detached
escapement; learnt French when about 60; invented a lathe by
which he could cut the teeth of wheels mathematically correct
into any number up to 2000 by means of a dividing plate; an
iron and brass founder, a glass blower, a maker of mathematical
instruments, barometers, thermometers, gun barrels, air guns,
&c. _d._ Letheringsett, Norfolk 5 Jany. 1852. _Norfolk News
17 Jany. 1852 p._ 4; _Athenæum 24 Jany. 1852 pp._ 123–4; _A.
Young’s General view of Norfolk_ (1804) 73–4.
JEZREEL, ESTHER, name assumed by Clarissa Rogers (dau. of Edward
Rogers, sawyer, New Brompton, Kent). _b._ 1860; a member of The
New and latter house of Israel, made preaching tours in America
1878 and 1879; (_m._ 1879 James Jershom Jezreel 1840–85);
succeeded her husband as head of the sect 1 March 1885 and was
known as queen Esther the mother of Israel; issued The messenger
of wisdom and Israel’s guide 1887, a monthly publication. _d._
the Woodlands, Gillingham, Rochester 30 June 1888.
JEZREEL, JAMES JERSHOM, name assumed by James White, _b._
1840; a private in 16 regt. at Chatham; joined The New house
of Israel or Joanna Southcottians 15 Oct. 1875, dismissed 26
Dec.; founded The New and latter house of Israel 1875; in India
with his regt. 1876, bought out, returned to England under the
name of James Jershom Jezreel, claiming to have received a
revelation contained in The Flying Scroll. (_m._ 1879 Clarissa
Rogers _i.e._ Esther Jezreel 1860–88); erected a large temple
on Chatham hill, New Brompton; had a numerous following who put
their money into a common fund; published Extracts from the
Flying Roll vol. i three parts 1879–81. _d._ the Woodlands,
Gillingham, Rochester 1 March 1885. _Pall Mall Gazette 6 March
1885 p._ 12, _2 July 1888 p._ 10; _N. and Q. 29 Jany. 1887 p._
98.
JOBBINS, JOHN RICHARD. Surveyor, mechanical draughtsman and
lithographer at 3 Warwick court, Holborn, London about 1836 to
death; invented method of etching with a brush upon stone and
zinc; illustrated Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. with his
new process many years; Assoc. B.A. Assoc. 1852; author with F.
T. Dollman of An analysis of ancient domestic architecture in
Great Britain 1860. _d._ Warwick court, Holborn, London 27 Feb.
1866.
JOBSON, REV. FREDERICK JAMES (son of John Jobson _d._ 1875
aged 88). _b._ Northwich, Cheshire 6 July 1812; Wesleyan
minister at Patrington, Yorkshire 1834, at City road, London
1837–40, 1849–52 and 1861–4, at Spitalfields, London 1840–3, at
Leeds, Manchester, Bradford and Huddersfield 1843–61; attended
Australian conference at Sydney, Jany. 1861; book steward of
W.M. organisation 1864 to death; elected pres. of the conference
5 Aug. 1869; author of Chapel and school architecture 1850;
America and American methodism 1857; Perfect love for Christian
believers 1864. _d._ 21 Highbury place, Holloway road, London
4 Jany. 1881. _Life. By Rev. B. Gregory_ (1884), _portrait_;
_Evans’s Lancashire authors_ (1850) 136–40; _I.L.N. 14 Aug. 1869
p._ 165, _portrait_.
JOBSON, ROBERT. _b._ Sheffield 1 April 1817; an ironfounder
near Dudley about 1840 to death; made a large portion of the
castings for the Great exhibition of 1851 and for the Crystal
palace at Sydenham; invented valuable improvements in mechanical
engineering, including machinery for moulding. _d._ near Dudley
1 Aug. 1872.
JOCELYN, ROBERT (eld. son of 3 earl of Roden 1788–1870). _b._
Pall Mall, London 20 Feb. 1816; styled viscount Jocelyn 29 June
1820 to death; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 24 May 1833; lieut. 15
hussars 1839 to 19 June 1841 when he sold out; military sec. on
staff of lord Saltoun in China 1842; contested Leeds 1841; M.P.
King’s Lynn 10 Feb. 1842 to death; a sec. of board of control 17
Feb. 1845 to 6 July 1846; lieut. col. commandant of East Essex
militia 25 Feb. 1853 to death; published Six months with the
Chinese expedition 2 ed. 1841. _d._ Carlton gardens, London 12
Aug. 1854. _bur._ Sawbridgeworth, Herts.
JODRELL, SIR RICHARD PAUL, 2 Baronet (eld. son of Richard Paul
Jodrell, dramatist 1745–1831). _b._ Marylebone, London 26 June
1781; ed. at Eton and Magd. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1806;
barrister L.I. 26 Nov. 1803; succeeded his maternal grand-uncle
Sir John Lombe 27 May 1817; author of Carmina Selecta 1810;
Dover, ancient and modern, a poem. Dover 1841. _d._ 64 Portland
place, London 14 Jany. 1861.
JOEL, JULIAN VON. _b._ 5 May 1785; German jödler; first appeared
in London as a siffleur or whistler of tunes on walking sticks
at the Sans Souci, Leicester place, Leicester sq. about July
1829; performed at Vauxhall gardens 1830, in the provinces, and
at the Cyder Cellars and Evans’s, Covent Garden; sold cigars at
Evans’s 1852 to death; his name is often mentioned in the first
vol. of Punch 1841, is found in Albert Smith’s The adventures
of Mr. Ledbury 1844 and in Mark Lemon’s comedy The Ladies club.
_d._ 22 July 1865. _Illustrated sporting news_, _iv_ 421, 422
(1865), _portrait_; _Era 30 July 1865 p._ 10.
JOHN, WILLIAM. _b._ Narberth, Pembrokeshire, July 1845; student
in R. sch. of naval architecture and marine engineering 1864;
draughtsman, Admiralty 1867–72; made the calculations for the
first curves of stability for a ship ever produced 1868; pointed
out the dangerous construction of the Captain 1870 and the
Atalanta 18--; assist. chief surveyor Lloyd’s Register 1872–81;
general manager Barrow ship building and engineering co. 1881–8,
when he designed and built the City of Rome 1881 known as the
Atlantic Greyhound, and La Normandie 1882 the largest French
liner; naval architect 101 Leadenhall st. London 1888–90;
contributed papers to Trans. Instit. naval architects 1874 etc.;
author of The masting of vessels. A report to the Committee of
Lloyd’s Register. _d._ Madrid 26 Dec. 1890. _D. Pollock’s Modern
ship-building_ (1884) 124–6 _portrait_.
JOHNES, ARTHUR JAMES (only son of Edward Johnes, M.D. of
Garthmyl Issa near Montgomery). _b._ 4 Feb. 1808; ed. at
Oswestry gr. sch. and London univ. 1828–9; barrister L.I. 30
Jany. 1835; judge of county courts, circuit 28 (Anglesey,
Carnarvon & Merioneth), 13 March 1847, resigned Dec. 1870; a
great supporter of the established ch. in Wales; a promoter of
Cambrian quarterly Mag. 1830 in which he wrote under signature
of Maelog; author of An essay on the causes which have produced
dissent from the established church in Wales 1831, 3 ed.
1870; Suggestions for a reform of the court of chancery 1834;
Philological proofs of the original unity and recent origin
of human race 1843; Should the law of imprisonment for debt
be abolished or amended? 1868; Is credit an evil? 1869. _d._
Garthmyl Issa 23 July 1871. _bur._ Berriew ch. _Law Times_, _li_
245, 263 (1871).
JOHNES, JOHN (only son of John Johnes of Dolancothy near
Llandilo, Carmarthenshire, _d._ 12 Sep. 1815). _b._ Dolancothy
6 Feb. 1800; ed. at Carmarthen and Lampeter gr. schs., at Bath
and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. and M.A. 1829; barrister I.T.
18 Nov. 1831; judge of county courts, circuit 31 (Carmarthen,
Cardigan and Pembroke), 13 March 1847, resigned Nov. 1861;
recorder of Carmarthen, Dec. 1851 to Oct. 1872; chairman of
Carmarthenshire quarter sessions 1853–72; _shot_ by his butler
at Caio, Carmarthenshire 19 Aug. 1876. _Law Times_, _lxi_ 368
(1876).
JOHNS, AMBROSE BOWDEN. _b._ Plymouth 1776; apprentice to
Benjamin Robert Haydon, bookseller, Plymouth; bookseller at
Plymouth; landscape painter, friend and fellow painter with J.
M. W. Turner, some of his paintings have been sold as being
by Turner; member of Plymouth soc. of artists and amateurs;
exhibited 13 pictures at R.A., 3 at B.I. and 4 at Suffolk st.
1814–46; some of his paintings are in the earl of Morley’s
collection at Saltram. _d._ Plymouth 10 Dec. 1858. _Pycroft’s
Art in Devonshire_ (1883) 77–81.
JOHNS, CHARLES ALEXANDER (son of Henry Incledon Johns, banker,
Devonport). _b._ Plymouth 31 Dec. 1811; F.L.S. 1836; ed. Trin.
coll. Dublin, B.A. 1841; chaplain National soc. training schs.
Westminster 1842–4; head master Helston gram. sch. June 1843
to Dec. 1847; C. of Porthleven 1844–7; C. of Beenham, Berks.
1848–56; kept a school at Winton house, Winchester 1856 to
death; first pres. Hampshire and Winchester scientific and lit.
soc. 1870; author of A week at the Lizard 1848, 3 ed. 1874;
Flowers of the field 2 vols. 1853; Birds’ nests. Anon. 1854,
2 ed. 1865; The governess. By A schoolmaster of twenty years
standing 1855; Rambles about Paris 1859; British birds in their
haunts 1862, 2 ed. 1879. _d._ Winton house, Winchester 28 June
1874.
JOHNS, JASPER WILSON (only son of Thomas Evan Johns of
Cardiganshire). _b._ Dublin 1824; a civil engineer to 1854;
captain commandant 3rd Montgomery rifle volunteers 14 Aug.
1860 to 11 Sep. 1865; partner in Bird & Co., iron merchants,
London 1854; took an active part in promoting railways in Wales;
contested Northallerton 1865 and 1868; M.P. North Eastern
Warwickshire 1885–6; author of The Anglican cathedral church of
St. James, Mount Zion, Jerusalem 1844. _d._ 16 Grenville place,
Cromwell road, London 26 July 1889.
JOHNS, RICHARD (son of Wm. Johns, adjutant of Cornwall militia,
_d._ 1834). _b._ Helston, Cornwall 5 Oct. 1805; 2 lieut. R.M. 1
Oct. 1825, captain 7 Aug. 1843 to death; author of Poems 1825;
Legends and romances 3 vols. 1839; The schoolfellows or a
by-way to fame 3 vols. 1841; The calendar of victory, a record
of valour by sea and land 1855; The naval and military heroes of
Great Britain 1860, another ed. of the previous work. _d._ Royal
naval hospital, Stonehouse 6 Nov. 1851. _G.M. xxxvi_ 671 (1851);
_Boase and Courtney’s Bibl Cornub._ 277, 1248.
JOHNSON, ALEXANDER BRYAN. _b._ Gosport 29 May 1786; settled in
Utica, N.Y., U.S. of America 1801; barrister; banker; author of
The nature of value, capital, etc. New York 1813; The philosophy
of human knowledge 1828; Physiology of the senses 1856; An
encyclopædia of instruction 1857; Our monetary condition 1864.
_d._ Utica 9 Sep. 1867. _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_ 436
(1887).
JOHNSON, CHARLES. _b._ about 1793; M.R.C.S. Ireland 1815,
F.R.C.S.I. 1818; F.K.Q.C.P.I. 1841; professor of midwifery in
medical sch. of college of surgeons; founded with Henry Marsh
an institution for diseases of children, in Pitt st. Dublin;
master of the Lying in hospital, Dublin 1840; retired from
practice 1864; author of Essays in Dublin hospital reports and
in Cyclopædia of practical medicine. _d._ 24 Merrion sq. south,
Dublin 19 June 1866.
JOHNSON, CHARLES. _b._ London 5 Oct. 1791; lecturer on botany
1819; professor of botany Guy’s hospital 1830–73; edited sir
J. E. Smith’s English botany 2 ed. 1832; author of British
poisonous plants 1856, 2 ed. 1861; with J. E. Sowerby The ferns
of Great Britain 1855; The fern allies 1856; The grasses of
Great Britain 1857–61. _d._ Camberwell 21 Sep. 1880. _Journal of
botany_, _xviii_ 351 (1880).
JOHNSON, CUTHBERT WILLIAM (son of Wm. Johnson of the
Coalbrookdale china works). _b._ Widmore house, Bromley, Kent
28 Sep. 1799; employed in his father’s salt works at Heybridge,
Essex; barrister G.I. 8 June 1836; F.R.S. 10 March 1842; took
part in agitation on Public Health acts 1848; chairman Croydon
local board of health; published works with his bro. Geo. W.
Johnson; author of The use of crushed bones as manure 1836,
three editions; The life of sir Edward Coke 2 vols. 1837;
The laws of bills of exchange, notes, cheques, etc. 1837,
2 ed. 1839; The farmer’s encyclopædia 1842, his best work;
with W. Shaw The farmer’s almanac and calendar 1840; with J.
Hare The annual register of agricultural implements 1843–45.
_d._ Waldronhurst, Croydon 8 March 1878. _John Donaldson’s
Agricultural Biog._ (1854) 127–8; _Academy_, _i_ 233 (1878).
JOHNSON, DANIEL JAMES. _b._ 1831 or 1832; civil engineer in
London; superintendent of Kensal Green cemetery 1857–73. _d._
170 Hornington road, Burton on Trent 24 Oct. 1885.
JOHNSON, SIR EDWARD (2 son of John Johnson). _b._ Drumgavesy,
Ireland 1785; educ. Edinb. and Glasgow, M.D. Edinb. 1815;
M.R.C.S. Lond. 1807; hospital mate in army July 1807; assist.
surgeon 28 regt. Nov. 1807 and served in Sweden and the
Peninsula where he was severely wounded; surgeon 2 bat. 39 regt.
1815–16; a physician at Weymouth 1816, retired 1821; K.C.S.
1835, K.C.C.S. 1847; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 July
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