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.
JARDINE, Sir William, 7 Baronet (eld. son of sir Alexander 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.