JERDAN, William (son of John Jerdan, farmer d. 1796). b. Kelso, Roxburghshire 16 April 1782; clerk to C. Elliott writer to the signet, Edinb. 1802–5; editor of the Aurora, the hotelkeepers’ paper, London 1806 and of other papers 1806–13; while a reporter witnessed murder of Spencer Percival and was the first to seize Bellingham 11 May 1812; editor of the Sun 11 May 1813 to May 1817; editor of the Literary Gazette from No. 26 July 1817 to 28 Dec. 1850; chief founder of Royal Soc. of literature 1823; F.S.A. 1826; lost his money on failure of Whitehead’s bank 1808 and in the panic of 1826; granted civil list pension of £100, 23 March 1853; author of Six weeks in Paris or a cure for the Gallomania by a late Visitant 3 vols. 1817, 2 ed. 1818; National portrait gallery of illustrations and eminent personages of the nineteenth century 5 vols. 1830–4; The Autobiography of W. Jerdan 4 vols. 1852–3; Men I have known 1866; a contributor to Notes and Queries under name of Bushey Heath. d. Bushey Heath, Herts. 11 July 1869. Fraser’s Mag. i 605–6 (1830), portrait; Reg. and Mag. of Biog. ii 94–5 (1869); Maclise Portrait gallery (1883) 1–4, portrait; Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities 2 Ser. ii 35–52 (1876).
JERDAN, William Freeling (2 son of the preceding). b. 1818; sec. to Great Northern railway of France; a principal shareholder in and administrator of the Literary Gazette; a clerk in secretary’s office, general post office, London to death. d. 6 Feb. 1859.
JERDON, Archibald (son of Archibald Jerdon). b. Bonjedward, Roxburghshire 21 Sep. 1819; ed. Edin. univ.; communicated facts respecting birds to Zoologist 1841; acquired much knowledge about the phanerogamous local flora and cryptogamic botany; published lists of border fungi in Proc. of Berwickshire Naturalists’ club; two species of fungi bear his name; F. Botanical soc. Edin. 1871. d. Allerton near Jedburgh, Feb. 1874. Trans. Botanical Soc. Edin. xii 201–2 (1876); Proc. Linnean Soc. (1872–73) 32.
JERDON, Thomas Caverhill (brother of the preceding). b. 1811; ed. Edinb. univ.; assistant surgeon Madras army 11 Sep. 1835, surgeon 4 light cavalry 12 July 1852 to 1861, surgeon 11 Madras N.I. 23 March 1861 to 1862; the botanical genus Jerdonia was called after him; author of Illustrations of Indian ornithology, Madras 1847; The birds of India, Calcutta 2 vols. 1862–4; The mammals of India 1867, 2 ed. 1874. d. Upper Norwood, Surrey 12 June 1872. Medical Times and Gazette, i 745 (1872).
JEREMIE, James Amiraux (son of James Jeremie, merchant). b. St. Peter’s port, Guernsey 12 April 1802; ed. Blundell’s sch. Tiverton and Trin. coll. Camb.; B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827, B.D. 1850, D.D. 1850, D.C.L. 1862; fellow of his coll. 1826–50; professor of classical and general literature Haileybury 7 April 1830–50, dean 1838–50; christian advocate in univ. of Camb. 1833–34; exam. chap. to Dr. Kaye, bp. of Lincoln 1830; preb. of Lincoln 20 Dec. 1834 to 1845; R. of Winwick, Northants. 1843–8; subdean and canon of Lincoln 1 July 1848 to July 1864; regius prof. of divinity univ. of Camb. 16 Feb. 1850 to 30 Sep. 1870; R. of Somersham, Hunts. 1850–70; dean of Lincoln 4 July 1864 to death; author of The office and mission of St. John the Baptist 1823; The doctrines of our Saviour in the four gospels in harmony with St. Paul’s Epistles 1825; The last discourse of our Saviour in reference to the divine origin of christianity 1833; a writer in the Encyclopædia Metropolitana. d. the Deanery, Lincoln 11 June 1872. bur. Guernsey. I.L.N. xxi 341 (1852) portrait, xxii 356 (1853) portrait, lx 611, 625, 630 (1872) portrait.
Note.—He gave to the University of Cambridge in 1870 the sum of £1000 to found two annual prizes for the encouragement of a critical study of the lxx version of the Old Testament and such other Hellenistic literature as may serve to illustrate the New Testament.
JERMYN, George Bitton (eld. son of Peter Jermyn of Halesworth, Suffolk, solicitor 1767–97). b. Halesworth 2 Nov. 1789; ed. at Ipswich gr. sch., at Norwich and Caius coll. Camb., removed to Trinity hall 1813; LLB. 1814, LLD. 1826; C. of Hawkedon, Suffolk 1814–17; C. of Littleport, Isle of Ely 1817–20; C. of Swaffham Prior near Newmarket 1820; compiled a history of his own family, 700 pages folio; made collections for a genealogical history of Suffolk, now in the museum Bury St. Edmunds. d. island of Maddelena, Sardinia 2 March 1857. Nichols’s Herald and Genealogist, v 441–3 (1870).
JERMYN, James (3 son of Robert Jermyn, collector of customs at Southwold, Suffolk). Barrister; collector of pier dues at Southwold; author of The Halesworth Review from 14 Sep. to 14 Oct. 1808. Halesworth 1808, anon., and 6 other anonymous works; also of Prospectus and specimen of an English gradus and dictionary of ideas 1848, he left 128 MS. volumes of materials for this work, the labour of 30 years, which were acquired by Wm. Aldis Wright about 1867; Book of English epithets, literal and figurative 1849. d. Reydon, Southwold, Suffolk 1852. Notes and Queries 7 Ser. ii 368, 475 (1886), iii 55 (1887).
JERNINGHAM, Arthur William (2 son of Wm. Charles Jerningham 1770–1820, officer in Austrian army). b. 22 Feb. 1807; ed. Stonyhurst 1818–23; entered R.N. 13 June 1823; engaged training the coast guard in gunnery 1847–52; commander R. naval coast volunteers, Ireland 1854–7; commander Plymouth gunnery ship 1857–62; captain 18 Sep. 1851, retired 1 July 1864; retired admiral 26 Sep. 1878; author of Remarks on the means of conveying the fire of ships’ broadsides 1851. d. 11 Heather bank, Bournemouth 24 Nov. 1889. Times 27 Nov. 1889 p. 7; Gillow’s English Catholics, iii 623–4 (1887).
JERNINGHAM, Charles William Edward (eld. son of Edward Jerningham 1774–1822, barrister). b. 27 Nov. 1805; ed. Stonyhurst; barrister I.T. 12 Feb. 1830; a frequent contributor to Dolman’s Magazine; author of A letter to the vicar apostolic of Great Britain upon the regulations by the holy see, with respect to mixed marriages 1843. d. 26 Feb. 1854. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii 624–5 (1887).