JEFFERY, Charles (son of James Reddecliff Jeffery of Liverpool). b. 1839; ed. at Trin. hall, Cam., B.A. 1863; barrister I.T. 9 June 1865; judge of district court of Falmouth in Jamaica 1871 to death; joint editor of J. Chitty’s Precedents in pleading 3 ed. 2 vols. 1868. d. Mentone, France 4 Feb. 1875.
JEFFERY, George Ernest (eld. son of George Augustus Jeffery, M.D., of Trinity Home, Eastbourne). b. Eastbourne 9 Feb. 1853; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Cam.; in the Rugby Eleven, played at Lord’s against Marlborough 28–9 June 1871; made 116 runs in one innings in Twenty three gentlemen v. Eleven players of Sussex, the last match ever played on the Old Brunswick cricket ground, Hove, Brighton 15 Sep. 1871; played in the Cambridge Eleven against Oxford 1873–4; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1878. d. Westholme, Streatham common, London 8 April 1891.
JEFFERY, Henry Martyn (only son of John Jeffery of Gwennap, Cornwall 1798–1874). b. Lamorran rectory, Cornwall 5 Jany. 1826; ed. at Falmouth gr. sch. 1833–40 and Sedbergh gr. sch. 1841–5; of St. John’s coll. Camb. Oct. 1845, of St. Catherine’s coll. 1846; 6 wrangler and B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; lecturer in coll. of civil engineers, Putney 1850; second master Cheltenham gram. sch. June 1852 and head master June 1868 to 1882 when retired on pension; F.R.S. 3 June 1880; wrote on mathematics in Rep. British Assoc., Quarterly Journal of mathematics and other scientific journals; one of the ablest exponents of abstract mathematical science; edited E. R. Humphrey’s Exercitationes Iambicæ 2 ed. 1854 and Lyra Hellenica 1854 and contributed additional matter; Two sets of letters of rev. Henry Martyn 1883; Extracts from the religious diary of Miss Lydia Grenfell 1890. d. 9 Dunstanville ter. Falmouth 3 Nov. 1891. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. (1882) 1245–6; Biograph, vi 515–17 (1881); Journal of royal institution of Cornwall, xi 208–13 (1892).
JEFFERY, James Reddecliff. b. Devonport 25 Nov. 1809; went to Liverpool, Feb. 1832 and in partnership with Walden and Bright commenced business, partnership dissolved July 1832, associated himself with James Morrish and opened Compton house Nov. 1832, his brother Wm. Sam. Jeffery being also in the firm, in 1860 the house covered a space of 16,200 square feet, was three stories high and employed 300 hands and was one of the four largest silk and drapery establishments in United Kingdom; Compton house burnt down 1865 and rebuilt at cost of £250,000; James Jeffrey had a share in Howell & James 5, 7, 9 Regent st. London, which share he sold to concentrate his energies in Compton house; bankrupt 15 March 1871. d. Ilkley, Yorkshire 4 July 1871. bur. the necropolis, Liverpool. Puseley’s Commercial Companion (2 ed. 1860) 107–8; The Draper 7 July 1871 p. 317.
JEFFERYS, Charles. b. 11 Jany. 1807; music publisher 31 Frith st. Soho, London 1837–40, then at 21A Soho sq. 1840 to death; had a great legal action with Thomas Boosey respecting copyright in Italian operas, which he gained on appeal to House of Lords 1854; author of Esmeralda, an English version of Hugo’s Ermelinda 1856; Louisa Miller, in English 1860; The Gipsy’s Vengeance, an English version of Il Trovatore 1856; wrote the words of The rose of Allandale 1850; Mary of Argyle 1850; Jeannette’s farewell to Jeannot 1850; composer of Rose Atherton, Erin, my own native home 1857; published A book of beauty for the Queen’s boudoir. Musical Annual 1853, 1854; Jeffery’s Musical journal 1864, seven numbers. d. London 9 June 1865. C. Clark’s House of Lord’s Cases, iv 815–996 (1855).
JEFFREY, Alexander. b. Lilliesleaf, Roxburghshire 1806; a solicitor’s clerk at Melrose, then in Edinburgh; assistant in town clerk’s office, Jedburgh; advocate in the sheriff’s court, Roxburghshire 1838 to death; F.S.A. Scotland; member of Berwickshire Naturalist club; author of An historical account of Roxburghshire. Edinb. 1836; The history of Roxburghshire 4 vols. 1857–64; The age we live in, a lecture 1874. d. Jedburgh 29 Nov. 1874. The Scotsman 30 Nov. 1874 p. 4.
JEFFREY, Allen Ronald Macdonald. b. 1823 or 1824; wrote for sporting journals in London from about 1850 to death; wrote an article every week in the Sporting Times signed, the Member for Tattersall’s 1875 to death; one of the oldest members of the Victoria club 18 Wellington st. Strand. d. 75 Sandmere road, Clapham 26 March 1891. bur. Norwood cemetery 30 March.
JEFFREY, Andrew. b. Foulden, Berwickshire 17 Feb. 1800; emigrated to Canada 1819 and resided at Cobourg, Canada West 1820 to his death; proprietor of an extensive hardware business; member for Newcastle division in legislative council of Canada 1860. d. Cobourg 29 July 1863. American Annual Cyclop. for 1863 p. 725.
JEFFREY, Rev. George. b. Leitholm, Berwickshire 1 Oct. 1815; ed. Edinb. univ. 1830 and at Theological hall of the United secession presbytery 1833; minister of London road ch. Mile End, Glasgow 1838 to death; clerk to the presbytery of Glasgow, and moderator 1879; a very popular preacher and lecturer; author of The present war, a discourse. Glasgow 1854. d. Glasgow 23 May 1887. bur. Sighthill cemet. 27 May. G. Jeffrey’s The believer’s privilege. Sermons Edin. 1888, with biographical sketch by A. Thomson pp. 1–54, portrait; John Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy (1848) 223–30.
JEFFREYS, Edmund Richard (4 son of rev. John Jeffreys d. 1840 aged 69, R. of Barnes 1795–1839). b. 29 Aug. 1808; ed. at Westminster and Sandhurst; ensign 88 foot 16 June 1825, major 12 May 1843 to 16 March 1855; lieut. col. depot battalion 23 March 1855 to 6 March 1868; col. 1 battalion Manchester regiment 1 July 1881 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 29 Aug. 1878; hon. general 1 July 1881; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Seafield house, Ryde, Isle of Wight 3 April 1889. Welsh’s Alumni Westmonasterienses (1852) 425.