JOSEPHS, Frances Adeline, known as Fanny Josephs (dau. of W. H. Josephs, manager of Sadler’s Wells theatre, London). b. 1842; first appeared in London at Sadler’s Wells as Celia in As you like it 8 Sep. 1860; a member of the Strand burlesque co. 1861; played Lord Woodbie in The Flying Scud, on opening night of Holborn theatre 6 Oct. 1866 and 200 nights afterwards; manager of the Holborn theatre April 1868 to 29 March 1869; the original Emily Mervyn in Byron’s comedy Partners for life, at Globe theatre 7 Oct. 1871; acted Bella in School, at Prince of Wales’ 20 Sep. 1873 to 1 April 1874, and Lady Sneerwell in School for Scandal 4 April to 7 Aug. 1874; the original Lady Marie Wagstaff in The Pink Dominos, Criterion theatre 31 March to Dec. 1877; lessee of the Olympic, Easter 1879; played Mary Blythe in The World, at Drury Lane 31 July 1880; lessee and manager of Prince of Wales’, Liverpool 1884–90. (m. captain George Wombwell). d. Margate 17 June 1890. bur. Brompton cemet. Illust. sport. and dram. news, i 649, 674 (1874) portrait, xiii 565, 570 (1880) portrait; Era 21 June 1890 p. 8; Pascoe’s Dramatic list (1880) 215–6; Saturday Programme 11 March 1876 pp. 7–8, portrait.
Note.—Her sister Eliza Stuart Patti Josephs, always known as Patti Josephs, was b. 1849, acted in England and America, d. Philadelphia 5 Oct. 1876, m. John Fitzpatrick, actor.
JOSSELYN, George (younger son of John Josselyn of Sproughton near Ipswich, land agent). b. 1 Jany. 1807; solicitor at Ipswich 1828–86; member of Ipswich town council 1840, mayor 1842, 1851, 1859, alderman 1846–78; a director of Eastern Union and Great Eastern railway companies. d. Sproughton near Ipswich 27 May 1888. Public men of Ipswich (1875) 110–6.
JOSSELYN, John (son of John Josselyn of Boxted, Essex, d. 1819). b. 1816; ed. C.C. coll. Camb.; sheriff of Suffolk 1855; master of Suffolk fox hounds 20 years. d. St. Edmund’s hill, Bury St. Edmunds 19 Feb. 1884.
JOULE, James Prescott (son of Benjamin Joule of Salford, brewer 1784–1858). b. New Bailey st. Salford 24 Dec. 1818; pupil of John Dalton the chemist at Manchester; member of Manchester literary and philosophical soc. 1842, librarian 1844, hon. sec. 1846, vice pres. 1851, pres. 1860; F.R.S. 6 June 1850, royal medal 1852, Copley medal 1870; LL.D. Dublin 1857, D.C.L. Oxf. 1860, LL.D. Edin. 1871; granted civil list pension of £200, 19 June 1878; received Albert medal of Society of Arts 1880; experimented on electro-magnetism with view of applying it as a motive power; discovered that the attractive force exercised by two electric magnets is proportioned to the square of the strength of the magnetising current 1840; established the relation between heat and chemical affinity 1840; established the mechanical equivalent of heat by experiments 1842–9; had a laboratory at Whalley Range 1844; wrote upwards of 100 scientific papers; author of New theory of heat 1846; Mechanical equivalent of heat 1859; The scientific papers of J. P. Joule. Published by The Physical society of London 2 vols. 1884–7, with portrait. d. 12 Wardle road, Sale near Manchester 11 Oct. 1889. Popular Science Monthly, v 103–7, portrait; Leisure Hour, Aug. 1873 pp. 549–52; Nature 26 Oct. 1882 pp. 617–20, portrait; Graphic 2 Nov. 1869 pp. 530, 532, portrait.
JOWETT, Joseph. b. 1784; ed. Queen’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1806, M.A. 1823; R. of Silk Willoughby near Sleaford 1810 to death; composer of Musæ Solitariæ. A collection of original melodies adapted to various measures of psalms and hymns 2 vols. 1823–7; Lyra Sacra. Select extracts from the cathedral music of the Church of England 1825; A manual of parochial psalmody 1832; Pocket index to the final key note in any piece of music 1842. d. Silk Willoughby 13 May 1856.
JOWETT, William (son of J. Jowett of Newington, Surrey). b. 1787; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., fellow 1811–16; twelfth wrangler 1810; B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813, Hulsean prizeman 1810; first Anglican clergyman who volunteered for foreign service of Church missionary soc. 1813; missionary of Church Missionary Soc. in Mediterranean 1815–20, in Syria and Holy Land 1823–4; clerical sec. of the C.M. Soc. 1832–40; Sunday evening lecturer at St. Mary, Aldermanbury to 1851; Inc. of St. John, Clapham Rise, London 1851 to death; author of An essay to prove that the propensity of the Jews to idolatry affords no grounds for disbelieving miracles 1811; Christian researches in the Mediterranean 1822; Christian researches in Syria and the Holy Land 1825, 2 ed. 1826; Scripture characters from the Old Testament, three series 1847–8; Scripture characters from the New Testament 1850. d. 4 The Rise, Larkhall lane, Clapham 20 Feb. 1855. bur. Lewisham churchyard.
JOY, Henry Holmes (3 son of Henry Joy of Belfast). b. the Lodge, Belfast 1805; ed. at Belfast academy and Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1841, LL.B. and LL.D. 1856; called to Irish bar 1827, Q.C. 13 Feb. 1849. d. Tunbridge Wells 28 Feb. 1875.
JOY, John Cantiloe (son of Mr. Joy, guard to mail coach between Yarmouth and Ipswich). b. Yarmouth 1806; employed by the government as draughtsman at Portsmouth about 1832; marine painter with his brother Wm. Joy at Chichester, Putney and London, the two brothers always worked together on the same pictures; exhibited 6 sea pieces at Suffolk st. London 1826–7. d. London 1866.
JOY, Thomas Musgrave (only son of Thomas Joy). b. Boughton-Monchelsea, Kent 1812; pupil of Samuel Drummond, A.R.A.; exhibited 67 pictures at R.A., 82 at B.I. and 50 at Suffolk st. 1831–67; painted subject pictures and portraits of the prince of Wales and princess Royal 1841–3, sir Charles Napier and duke of Cambridge; his best picture Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme was in R.A. 1853; painted a picture of the Meeting of the subscribers to Tattersall’s before the races 1864; his pictures were sold at Christie’s on the Ascot settling day after his death. d. of bronchitis, 32 St. George’s sq. Pimlico, London 7 April 1866. Art Journal, Aug. 1866 p. 240.