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.