JOPLING, Joseph Midleton (son of Joseph Jopling, clerk in the Horse Guards, Whitehall, London). b. 1831; clerk in adjutant general’s department Horse Guards 1848–70; associate of New Soc. of Painters in water colours 1859–76; exhibited 27 pictures at R.A. and 21 at Suffolk st. 1848–76; an early member of the Arts club, Hanover sq.; director of fine art section of Philadelphia international exhibition 1876; member of 3rd Middlesex rifle corps, won the queen’s prize at Wimbledon 1861. d. 28 Beaufort st. Chelsea, Dec. 1884.
JORDAN, John. Ed. at Clare coll. Camb., B.A. 1826; C. of Little Dean 1827–30; C. of Handborough 1830–6; C. of Somerton 1836–40; V. of Church-Enstone, Oxfordshire 15 Aug. 1840 to death; author of Review of tradition as taught by the writers of tracts for the times 1840; The Holy Baptist 1843, poem in 5 cantos; Scriptural views of the Sabbath of God 1848; A parochial history of Enstone 1857, and of many pamphlets. d. 16 May 1874 aged 70.
JORDAN, Robert Jacob. M.R.C.S. Eng. 1859; L.R.C.P. Edin. 1859; practised at 19 Berner’s st. Oxford st. London 1859–60, his name struck off the Medical Register 1864; kept anatomical museum 29 George st. Hanover square 1860–9; lived at 6 Bedford sq. London; proprietor of the Cordial balm of Rakasira; author of Diseases of the skin 1860; Skin diseases and their remedies 1860; Exposure of quackery and quacks. By Protector. d. London 14 April 1874, will which is signed Lewis Jacob Jordan proved 11 July 1874, personalty under £90,000. F. B. Courtenay’s Revelations of quacks and quackery 3 ed. (1871) 19, 98–110.
JORDAN, Thomas Brown (son of Thomas Jordan). b. Bristol 24 Oct. 1807; an artist at Falmouth 1827, a mathematical instrument maker there; made improvements in the miners’ dial, and aided R. W. Fox in the construction of his dipping needle 1834; devised instrument for recording variations of barometer by photography 1838; sec. of R. Polytechnic soc. Falmouth 1835–40; first keeper of mining records, London 1840–5; invented wood carving by machinery and established works at Lambeth 1845; mechanical engineer at Manchester, then at Glasgow to 1870; mining engineer London 1871 to death. d. London 30 May 1890. Iron 20 June 1890 p. 541.
Note.—He experimented in electro-metallurgy, and in 1841 made an egg cup of electro deposited copper, plated with silver outside and gold inside. This is now in Museum of practical geology, London.
JORDEN, George (son of a labourer, his mother was a herb-doctress). b. Clee Hills, in Farlow parish, Shropshire 1783; came to Bewdley as an errand boy; servant to James Fryer, M.D. 1806–56; botanist, his Flora Bellus Locus is in the Worcester museum; he collected, mounted and named every plant he was able to find; accumulated antiquarian lore including ballads and electioneering songs, which he bequeathed to Worcester museum. d. Bewdley 1871. J. R. Burton’s Bewdley (1883) 60.
JORDON, Edward. b. Jamaica 1801; a quadroon; agitated for the free political right of the coloured population, and then for the abolition of slavery in Jamaica; edited a newspaper in Jamaica, for an article in which he was tried for high treason but acquitted; prime minister in first executive committee, Jamaica 1860, member of the committee again April 1863 to Oct. 1864; receiver general Oct. 1864 to Aug. 1865; island secretary and governor’s secretary Aug. 1865 to death; C.B. 18 May 1860, the first coloured man so honoured. d. Kingston, Jamaica 8 Feb. 1869. American Annual Cyclop. for 1869 p. 529.
JOSEPH, Felix (eld. son of Abraham Joseph of 3 Woodstock st. Oxford st. London, curiosity dealer, d. 1872). b. London 1840; ed. at Ghent; in business with his father to 1872 when he retired; made a collection of old Wedgwood ware, now in the Nottingham castle museum; a selection from his best examples was on loan at the Guelph exhibition in London; a benefactor to the museums of Nottingham, Maidstone, Norwich, Sandgate and Derby; a full length portrait of him by Knighton Warren is in Nottingham castle museum. d. Southsea 19 Aug. 1892. Daily Graphic 18 Dec. 1891 p. 9, col. 1, portrait.
JOSEPH, Henry Samuel. b. 1801; Jewish rabbi at Bedford; ordained as a literate in the ch. of England 1835; travelling sec. to society for promoting christianity among the Jews; chaplain to Chester castle 1847–56; author of Reason for embracing christianity 1834; Memoirs of convicted prisoners. Chester 1853. d. Strasburg, France 28 Jany. 1864.
JOSEPH, John Charles. b. 1810; proprietor of Northumberland hotel, Dublin; patentee and owner of Queen’s theatre, Great Brunswick st. Dublin 29 June 1844 to death; a guardian of the poor of the North Union; member of municipal council of Dublin, representing the North Dock ward 15 years. d. Northumberland buildings, Eden quay, Dublin 8 Nov. 1871. The Freeman’s Journal 9 Nov. 1871 pp. 3, 4, 14 Nov. p. 3.