Note.—He was shot at by rev. Henry John Dodwell as he was entering the Rolls court 22 Feb. 1878, Dodwell was tried 15 March and acquitted on the ground of insanity.
JESSOP, John. b. 1779; ensign 44 foot 1798; captain 15 June 1804 to 1 June 1821 when placed on half pay; served through Peninsular war; major in the army 4 June 1814; C.B. 22 June 1815. d. Butterley hall, Derbyshire 13 Sep. 1869 aged 90.
JESSOP, Thomas (son of Wm. Jessop of Sheffield, steel smelter). b. Sheffield 31 Jany. 1804; iron and steel manufacturer with his father and brothers at Sheffield 1830, the business became one of the largest in England, was left sole surviving partner 1871; converted business into a limited liability co. at Brightside works, Sheffield 1875, chairman of the co. 1875 to death; works stood on 27 acres of ground; built and furnished at cost of £30,000 the Jessop hospital for women 1878; mayor and master cutler of Sheffield 1863; president Sheffield Birthday club. d. Endcliffe grange, Sheffield 30 Nov. 1887. bur. Eccleshall ch. 3 Dec.; gross value of personal estate in England sworn at £656,449. Sheffield Independent 1 Dec. 1887 p. 2, 5 Dec. p. 2.
JESSOP, William Henry Bowlestone (eld. son of James Jessop of Crayford, Kent). Ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857; published A complete decimal system of money and measures 1855; author of Flindersland and Sturtland, or the inside and outside of Australia 2 vols. 1862. d. Doreh, Papua 3 Feb. 1862. G.M. xix 652 (1865).
Note.—His death was not announced in the Times until 26 Aug. 1865.
JESTON, Thomas Ward. b. Royal gram. sch. Henley-on-Thames 3 July 1790; studied at Guy’s hospital; assistant surgeon second battalion of 36 foot 9 Sep. 1813 to 1814 when battalion disbanded; served in the Peninsula and France 1813–14, medals for 4 battles; surgeon in practice at Henley 1817, retired 1883; invented improved method of collecting juice of opium poppy 1823; mayor of Henley 5 times 1834–81. d. Henley 17 July 1886. Midland Medical Miscellany 1 Dec. 1883 pp. 353–5, portrait.
JEUNE, Francis (eld. son of Francis Jeune of Jersey). b. St. Brelade, Jersey 22 May 1806; ed. at St. Servan’s coll. Rennes and Pemb. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830, B.C.L. and D.C.L. 1834; scholar of his coll. 1822, fellow 1830–7, tutor 1830–4, master 22 Dec. 1843 to Jany. 1864, admitted master 26 Dec. 1843, the validity of his election to the mastership was afterwards disputed; master King Edward’s sch. Birmingham 1834–8; dean of Jersey and R. of St. Heliers 1838–44; Victoria college, St. Heliers, was built on a plan recommended by him; canon of Gloucester 1843–64; V. of Taynton, Gloucs. 1843–64; comr. for inquiring into state of univ. and colleges of Oxford 31 Aug. 1850, wrote greater part of the report; member of hebdomadal council 1854–64; vice chancellor of univ. of Oxf. 1858–9; dean of Lincoln 18 Jany. 1864; bishop of Peterborough 21 May 1864 to death, consecrated 29 June; author of Was Christ crucified for you? a sermon 1863, 3 ed. 1864. d. Whitby 21 Aug. 1868. bur. Peterborough cath. yard 28 Aug. Guardian 26 Aug. 1868 p. 956, 2 Sep. p. 979; Times 22 Aug. 1868 p. 7; I.L.N. 28 May 1864 p. 512, portrait.
JEVONS, William. b. Staffordshire 1794; Unitarian minister; author of Systematic morality 1827; Elements of astronomy 1828 and other books. d. Liverpool 1873.
JEVONS, William Stanley (9 child of Thomas Jevons, iron merchant at Liverpool). b. 14 Alfred st. Liverpool 1 Sep. 1835; ed. at univ. coll. London, fellow 1864; M.A. univ. of London 1862; LLD. Edinb. 1876; assayer to the Sydney mint, N.S.W. 1854–9; tutor at Owen’s college, Manchester 1863; professor of logic, mental and moral philosophy and Cobden lecturer in political economy, Owen’s coll. Manchester, May 1866 to Oct. 1876; professor of political economy at univ. coll. London 1876–80; F.R.S. 6 June 1872; lived at 2 The Chestnuts, West Heath road, Hampstead 1876 to death; author of Remarks on the Australian gold fields 1859; Pure logic or the logic of quality apart from quantity 1864; Value of gold 1863; The coal question 1865, 2 ed. 1866; The principles of science, a treatise on logic 2 vols. 1874, 2 ed. 1877; Money and the mechanism of exchange 1875; Primer of political economy 1878; Investigations in currency and finance 1884; drowned when bathing at Galley Hill, Belverhythe near Hastings 13 Aug. 1882. bur. Hampstead cemetery 18 Aug. Letters of W. S. Jevons ed. by his wife (1886), portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxv, pp. i–xi (1883); Baines’s Hampstead (1890) 369–70; Biograph, v 426 (1881).
JEWELL, Jacob. Owner of the largest travelling bazaar; a tenant under Wm. Holland at North Woolwich gardens about 15 years; the only Israelite itinerant showman travelling the English and continental fairs for over 60 years. d. Sep. 1884. bur. Jewish cemetery, West Ham.