JENNINGS, George (eld. son of Joseph Jennings d. 1824). b. in a village on the borders of the New Forest 10 Nov. 1810; in employment of Burton, plumbers, Newcastle st. London 1831, in business Parliament st. 1834, in Charlotte st. Blackfriars road 1838; introduced indiarubber tube taps 1847; conducted the sanitary works in Great exhibition of 1851, in Crystal palace, Sydenham 1852–4, in Great exhibition 1862, and in Dublin exhibition 1865; invented improved shutter fastener; put up sanitary fittings in hospitals at Varna and Scutari 1854; purchased clay beds at Parkstone, Dorset where he erected pottery works and made stoneware and terra-cotta goods; removed to Holland st. Blackfriars 1857, afterwards to Palace wharf, Stangate, his works burnt down 22 March 1865; constructed water works for Wilton; used india rubber for valves, endless elastic bands and for hermetically sealing capsules; conducted sanitary works in Paris exhibition 1867, drainage works, etc. in Vienna exhibition 1873, and Centennial exhibition, Philadelphia 1876; heated and ventilated buildings on a new principle; thrown out of a gig 13 April and d. from his injuries Ferndale, Nightingale lane, Clapham 17 April 1882. The Builder, xlii 497, 530 (1882).
JENNINGS, Hargrave. b. about 1817; sec. to James Henry Mapleson manager of the royal Italian opera, many years; said to be the original of Ezra Jennings in Wilkie Collins’s novel The Moonstone 1868; author of My marine memorandum book 3 vols. 1845; The ship of glass or the mysterious island 3 vols. 1846; St. George, a romance 1853; Curious things of the outside world 2 vols. 1861; The Rosicrucians, their rites and mysteries 1870, 3 ed. 2 vols. 1887; One of the Thirty 1873, a story of Judas and the 30 pieces of silver; The Indian religions 1858, 2 ed. 1890; Phallicism, celestial and terrestrial 2 vols. 1884. d. at residence of his brother Edward Lawrence Jennings, Ambassador’s Court, St. James’s palace, London 11 March 1890. Times 14 March 1890 p. 9.
JENNINGS, John. b. 14 Sep. 1789; hon. secretary of the Star club, London 1831–39; R. of St. John the Evangelist, Westminster 1832 to death; canon residentiary of Westminster 9 Jany. 1837 to death; archdeacon of Westminster, Jany. 1869 to death, sub-dean 1881 to death; the sole surviving priest who officiated at coronation of Victoria 1838. d. Dean’s yard, Westminster 26 March 1883. bur. Lyne church near Chertsey 3 April. I.L.N. xxvi 268 (1855) portrait, lxxxii 332 (1883), portrait.
JENNISON, John. b. 1789; a handloom weaver, Stockport; established Jennison’s Gardens, Stockport 1829; originated the Belle Vue gardens, Manchester 1836, which became the favourite resort of pleasure seekers of Lancashire and surrounding counties; his first great picture The siege of Algiers produced 1852. d. at his residence, Bellevue gardens, Manchester 20 Sep. 1869. The Manchester Guardian 21 Sep. 1869 p. 5.
JENOUR, Alfred. R. of Pilton, Northants. 1836–45; P.C. of Regent sq. chapel, St. Pancras, London 1845–51; R. of Kittisford, Somerset 1851–4; P.C. of Blackpool, Lancs. 1854 to death; author of The book of the prophet Isaiah translated from the Hebrew, with a commentary 2 vols. 1832; A treatise on languages 1832; Job translated from the Hebrew, with critical notes 1841; The christian mother, a memoir of Ann Jenour 1840; Rationale Apocalypticum or exposition of the Apocalypse 2 vols. 1852. d. 1868.
JENOUR, Joshua (eld. son of Joshua Jenour, master of stationers’ co., d. 1774). b. Serjeants’ inn, Fleet st. London 31 July 1755; liveryman of stationers’ co. 1776; published The Park, a poem 1778; The wife chase, a monitory poem; Marriage, a precautionary tale; The horrible revenge 1830; Observations on the taxation of property 1795, five editions, all his works were anonymous; John Bull a weekly paper of essays. d. Gravesend 23 Jany. 1853. G.M. xxxix 325 (1853).
JENYNS, Soame Gambier. b. 1826; cornet 13 hussars 30 Dec. 1845; major 18 hussars 19 Feb. 1858; lieut. col. 13 hussars 24 May 1861 to 4 Feb. 1871 when placed on half pay as colonel; C.B. 5 July 1855; author of System of non-pivot drill as adapted to the present English cavalry drill book, in G. T. Denison’s Modern Cavalry (1868) pp. 341–50. d. Much Wenlock 26 Nov. 1873.
JEPHSON, Henry. b. near Mansfield, Notts. 4 Oct. 1798; studied in St. George’s hospital; went to Leamington as assistant to Mr. Chambers 1818, a partner 1819, sole proprietor of the practice; M.D. Glasgow 1827; patients from all parts of Great Britain and from the Continent came to Leamington to be under his care; had a specially contrived travelling carriage made in which to attend patients at a distance from Leamington; his income for many years was over £20,000 a year; became totally blind 1848; made his patients eat moderately and abstain from stimulants and prescribed the Leamington waters internally and externally; a public statue of him erected at Leamington 1848 and the public gardens called after his name. d. Beech Lawn, Leamington 14 May 1878. Medical Times 25 May 1878 pp. 575–6; Leamington Chronicle 1 June 1878 p. 8.
JEPHSON, John Mounteney (youngest son of rev. John Jephson 1764–1826, preb. of Armagh). b. 16 Dec. 1819; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1843; C. of Monewden, Suffolk 1853–6; C. of Hutton near Brentwood, Essex 1856–64; V. of Childerditch near Brentwood 1864; F.S.A. 24 May 1855; author of Narrative of a walking tour in Brittany 1859; Shakespere, his birthplace, home and grave 1864; edited the Literary Gazette early in 1858. d. Childerditch vicarage 1 Jany. 1865.
JEPHSON-NORREYS, Sir Charles Denham Orlando, 1 Baronet (son of lieut. col. Wm. Jephson of Egham, Surrey). b. Englefield Green, Surrey 1799; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1828; M.P. for Mallow 1826–59, contested Mallow 1859; assumed additional surname of Norreys by r.l. 18 July 1838; cr. baronet 6 Aug. 1838. d. Queenstown 11 July 1888.