JERVIS-WHITE-JERVIS, Marian (3 dau. of Wm. Campbell of Fairfield, Ayrshire). (m. 16 Dec. 1818 Sir Henry Meredyth Jervis-White-Jervis, 2 baronet, commander R.N. b. 1793, d. 1869); edited Paintings and celebrated painters 2 vols. 1854; author of Gleanings, poems. Paris 1840; Tales of the boyhood of great painters 1853. d. Blackgang, Isle of Wight 8 March 1861. Reg. and Mag. of Biography, May 1869 p. 390.
JERVISE, Andrew (son of Andrew Jarvis, coachman and soldier). b. Brechin, Forfarshire 28 July 1820; a compositor at Brechin 1833 and at Edinburgh 1837–41; a student in painting Edinb. 1842; a teacher of drawing at Brechin 1846; sold 20 of his pictures at Brechin 1847 for £75; examiner of registers under Registration act of 1854, from 1 Jany. 1856 to death at £200 a year; author of The history and traditions of the land of the Lindsays 1853, 2 ed. 1882; Memorials of Angus and the Mearns 1861, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1885; Epitaphs and inscriptions from burial grounds and old buildings in the north-east of Scotland 2 vols. 1875–9. d. Brechin 12 April 1878. A. Jervise’s Epitaphs, vol. ii (1879), Memoir pp. ix–lxx.
JERVOIS, William. b. 1784; ensign 89 foot 7 April 1804; captain 53 foot 26 Dec. 1822 to 17 Sep. 1823 when placed on h.p.; colonel 76 foot 10 May 1853 to death; general 3 Aug. 1860; K.H. 1835. d. Portland place, Bath 5 Nov. 1862.
JERVOISE, Sir Jervoise Clarke Clarke-, 2 Baronet (son of rev. sir S. Clarke-Jervoise d. 1852). b. Kensington 28 April 1804; M.P. South Hants. 1857–68. d. Idsworth park, Horndean, Hants. 1 April 1889.
JERWOOD, James (son of Mr. Jerwood of Poughill, Devon, blacksmith). Usher at Honiton gr. sch.; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1842; barrister M.T. 10 June 1836; assistant tithe commissioner for Devon; recorder of South Molton 7 Feb. 1860 to death; practised at Exeter to death; published A lecture on the new planet Neptune and its discovery 1849; A dissertation on the rights to the sea shore and to the soil and beds of tidal harbours 1850. d. 1 Bedford circus, Exeter 19 Jany. 1877. Solicitors’ Journal, xxi 282 (1877).
JESSE, Edward (3 son of rev. Wm. Jesse, V. of Hutton-Cranswick, Yorkshire 1738–1814). b. Hutton-Cranswick parsonage 14 Jany. 1780; clerk in the San Domingo office 1798; private sec. to lord Dartmouth president of board of control 1801; comr. of hackney coaches 1815–31 when office abolished; gentleman of the Ewery at Windsor castle 1821–31 when office abolished; deputy surveyor of woods and forests 1822–31; author of Gleanings in natural history 1 Ser. 1832, 2 Ser. 1834, 3 Ser. 1835; Scenes and tales of country life 1844, 5 ed. 1853; Anecdotes of dogs 1846, 2 ed. 1858; Favourite haunts and rural studies 1847; Lectures on natural history 1861, 2 ed. 1863. d. 16 Belgrave place, Brighton 28 March 1868, bust placed in the Pavilion, Brighton 1865. Sylvanus Redivivus. By M. Houstoun (1889) 1 et seq., portrait; F. Ross’s Celebrities of the Yorkshire Wolds (1878) 88–9.
JESSE, John (elder son of John Jesse 1759–1817). b. Manchester 6 Jany. 1801; sheriff of co. Denbigh 1856; F.L.S. 21 Jany. 1823; F.R.S. 5 May 1842, F.R.A.S. d. Llanbedr hall near Ruthin, Denbigh 23 Sep. 1863.
JESSE, John Heneage (only son of Edward Jesse 1780–1868). b. 1815; ed. at Eton 1820–6; clerk in secretary’s department of the admiralty, Whitehall, London 1830–67; published Memoirs of the court of England during the reign of the Stuarts 4 vols. 1840, new ed. 1855 and 1857; Memoirs of the court of England from the revolution in 1688 to the death of George the Second 3 vols. 1843; George Selwyn and his contemporaries 4 vols. 1843–44; Memoirs of the Pretenders and their adherents 2 vols. 1845; Literary and historical memorials of London 2 vols. 1847; London and its celebrities 2 vols. 1850; Memoirs of King Richard the 3rd and some of his contemporaries 1862; Memoirs of the life and reign of king George the third 3 vols. 1867. d. the Albany, Piccadilly, London 7 July 1874. Sylvanus Redivivus. By M. Houston (1889) p. 24 et seq.
JESSE, William (only son of W. Jesse, V. of Margarelting, Essex). b. 27 March 1809; ensign 59 foot 9 April 1825; lieut. 46 foot 24 July 1835; captain 75 foot 26 Aug. 1837 to 6 April 1838 when placed on h.p.; sold out 1844; translator of H. de Crignelle’s Le Morvan, its wild sports, vineyards and forests 1851; J. P. Ferrier’s Caravan journeys and wanderings in Persia 1856; J. P. Ferrier’s History of the Afghans 1858; author of Notes of a half-pay in search of health, or Russia, Circassia and the Crimea 2 vols. 1841; The life of George Brummell, esq. 2 vols. 1844, new ed. 1854, new ed. 2 vols. 1885; Russia and the war 1854; resided at Maisonette, Ingatestone near Chelmsford. d. 1871.
JESSEL, Sir George (youngest son of Zadok Aaron Jessel of 1 Savile row, London, diamond merchant, d. 1865). b. London 13 Feb. 1824; ed. at Kew and Univ. coll. London, fellow 1846; B.A. London 1843, M.A. 1844, a senator 1862 to death, vice chancellor 26 May 1880 to death; barrister L.I. 4 May 1847, bencher 19 April 1865 to death, treasurer 1883; leading junior in the Rolls court; Q.C. 30 March 1865; M.P. for Dover 1868–73; solicitor general 10 Nov. 1871 to 30 Aug. 1873 when he made about £20,000 a year; knighted at Osborne 21 Feb. 1872; master of the Rolls 30 Aug. 1873 to 1 Nov. 1875, being the first Jewish judge; a judge of high court of judicature, chancery division 1 Nov. 1875 to 27 Aug. 1881; member of court of appeal 1 Nov. 1875 to death; P.C. 30 Aug. 1873; a comr. of patents 1873 to death; F.R.S. 25 Nov. 1880; sat in court 16 March 1883. d. 10 Hyde park gardens, London 21 March 1883. bur. Willesden cemet. 23 March, bust by W. R. Ingram outside lord chief justice’s court in courts of justice, unveiled by lord chancellor 28 Nov. 1888. A generation of judges (1886) 171–82; Analysis and digest of the decisions of Sir G. Jessel. By A. P. Peter (1883); Times 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 30 March 1883; I.L.N. lix 483, 484 (1871) portrait, lxxxii 317 (1883) portrait.