Note.—One of the best riders of his time; his name is recorded in a song called The Billesden Copley Hunt, an account of a run in Leicestershire 24 Feb. 1800.
JERSEY, George Augustus Frederick Child-Villiers, 6 Earl of (eld. son of the preceding). b. 38 Berkeley sq. London 4 April 1808; styled viscount Villiers 1808–59 when he succeeded; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1837; lieut. Oxfordshire yeomanry 16 June 1829, major 5 May 1855 to death; M.P. Rochester 1830–1, Minehead 1831–2, Honiton 1832–5, Weymouth 1837–41, Cirencester 1844–52; contested Cirencester 1852. d. Royal Crescent hotel, Brighton 24 Oct. 1859. bur. Middleton Stoney.
JERSEY, Sarah Sophia Child-Villiers, Countess of (eld. dau. of 10 earl of Westmoreland 1759–1841). b. 4 March 1785; heiress of Robert Child of Osterley park d. 1819; a ruler of society from 1815 to 1855; one of the leading lady patronesses of Almacks many years, and a professional beauty; popularly known as Queen Sarah; the head of Childs’s bank, London 1819 to death; had a scene with lord Durham at the drawing room 24 Feb. 1831; (m. at Gretna Green 23 May 1804 George Villiers 5 earl of Jersey 1773–1859). d. 38 Berkeley sq. London 26 Jany. 1867. bur. in family vault in church of Middleton Stoney 2 Feb., personalty sworn under £300,000, 1 June 1867. C. C. F. Greville’s Memoirs, i 12–13, ii 64, 119, 126 (1874); Burke’s Portrait gallery, ii 45 (1833), portrait.
JERVIS, George F. b. England 1784; appeared at Park theatre, New York as Vanderdecken in The Flying Dutchman 1825; appeared at Arch st. theatre, Philadelphia 1 Sep. 1826 as Marshal Beaumont in The French Spy. d. Philadelphia 25 March 1851.
JERVIS, George Ritso. b. Madras 8 Oct. 1794; ed. at Marlow, Woolwich and Addiscombe; ensign Bombay engineers 8 June 1811, col. 16 Aug. 1843 to death; founded the Engineers’ Institution in India 1823; held chief command of engineer corps 9 years; active coadjutor of Mountstuart Elphinstone in spreading education in India; A.I.C.E. 1841; edited The works of Hāfiz 1828; translated into Maratha, Lord Brougham’s Preliminary treatise on the objects, advantages and pleasures of science 1829. d. Boulogne 14 Oct. 1851. Min. of proc. of instit. of C.E., xi 106–109 (1852).
JERVIS, Henry. b. 1797; ensign 84 foot 19 Dec. 1811; captain 72 foot 1826, major 27 Sep. 1842 to 8 March 1850; lieut. col. provisional battalion at Chatham 8 March 1850 to 17 May 1864; col. 94 foot 8 March 1872 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. 11 Bloomsbury sq. London 5 Feb. 1879.
JERVIS, Sir John (2 son of Thomas Jervis, chief justice of Chester, d. 6 Aug. 1838 aged 69). b. 12 Jany. 1802; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb.; barrister M.T. 6 Feb. 1824, bencher 1837–50; leader of North Wales and Chester circuit; M.P. Chester 1832–50; granted a patent of precedence 1837; solicitor general 4 July 1846; attorney general 7 July 1846 to 15 July 1850; knighted at Buckingham palace 1 Aug. 1846; the acts 11 & 12 Vict. cc. 42, 43, 44, referring to justices of the peace are known as Jervis’s acts; serjeant at law 16 July 1850; chief justice of common pleas 16 July 1850 to death; P.C. 14 Aug. 1850; an originator of The Jurist weekly paper 14 Jany. 1837 and a principal contributor to it; pres. of commission for inquiring into system of pleading in common law courts 13 May 1850; edited Archbold’s Summary of the law relative to pleading and evidence in criminal cases, 4 ed. 1831, also the 5, 6, 7 and 8 eds.; author of A practical treatise on the office and duties of coroners 1829, 5 ed. 1888; author with Edward Young of Reports of cases in the courts of exchequer and exchequer chamber 3 vols. 1828–30; with C. Crompton of Reports of cases in the courts of exchequer and exchequer chamber 2 vols. 1832–3. d. 47 Eaton sq. London 1 Nov. 1856. Law Mag. and Review, ii 302–7 (1857).
JERVIS, Thomas Best (2 son of John Jervis of H.E.I.C.S.) b. Jaffnapatam, Ceylon 2 Aug. 1796; ed. Addiscombe; learnt Hindustani and Mahratta; ensign Bombay Engineers 1 June 1813; surveyed South Concan 1820; superintendent engineer Bombay presidency May 1835–9 and of Northern provinces 1839–41; retired from H.E.I.C. service 31 Dec. 1841; established a private lithographic press for printing maps of India, etc. 1843; produced with rapidity map of Russia for Crimean expedition 1854; the originator of the Topographical and statistical depot of the war office, of which he was the first director March 1855; conducted first topographical corps and surveyed the Euphrates valley, etc. F.R.S. 15 March 1838, F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.A.S.; edited C. A. A. von Huegel’s Travels in Kashmir 1845; author of Geographical and statistical memoir of the Konkun. Calcutta 1840; India in relation to Great Britain, its future administration 1853. d. 9 Adelphi ter. Strand, London 3 April 1857. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xiv pp. liv–lx (1858); English Cyclop. Suppl. (1872) 719.
JERVIS, William Henley (2 son of Hugh Nicholas Pearson, dean of Salisbury, d. 1856 aged 79). b. Oxford 29 June 1813; ed. at Mitcham, Harrow and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838; R. of St. Nicholas, Guildford 1837–56; preb. of collegiate church of Heytesbury, Wilts. 1844 to death; lived in France 1856–62; assumed surname of Jervis in lieu of Pearson by r.l. 22 May 1865; author of The student’s France 1862, 2 ed. 1884; The Gallican church, a history of the church of France from the concordat of Bologna to the revolution 2 vols. 1872; The Gallican church and the revolution 1882. d. 28 Holland park, London 27 Jany. 1883. bur. in Sonning churchyard.
JERVIS-WHITE-JERVIS, Henry (3 son of sir Henry Meredyth Jervis-White-Jervis, 2 baronet 1793–1869). b. 15 March 1825; ed. at Harrow and R.M. academy, Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. Dec. 1844, lieut. col. 30 Dec. 1867 to 24 Dec. 1870 when he retired; contested Harwich 1857; M.P. for Harwich 18 March 1859 to 24 March 1880; author of History of Corfu and of the Ionian islands 1852; Manual of field operations, for officers in the army 1852; The rifle-musket, a treatise on the Enfield-Pritchett-rifle 1854; Ireland under British rule 1868. d. Felixstowe, Suffolk 22 Sep. 1881.