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.