JARDINE, JAMES. _b._ Applegarth, Dumfriesshire 30 Nov. 1776; taught mathematics in Edin. 1796–1806; a civil engineer in Edin. 1806 to death; introduced the Crawley water into Edin. 1820; constructed the Union canal 1822; the first to determine the mean level of the sea 1809; engineer of the Dalkeith railway. _d._ 18 Queen st. Edinburgh 20 June 1858.
JARDINE, SIR WILLIAM, 7 Baronet (eld. son of sir Alexander Jardine _d._ 1820). _b._ North Hanover st. Edinburgh 23 Feb. 1806; ed. at York and univ. of Edin.; with P. J. Selby commenced Illustrations of ornithology 1825; edited the Naturalist’s Library 40 vols. 1833–45 of which he wrote 14 vols.; commenced with P. J. Selby at Edin. the Magazine of zoology and botany 1837 which became in 1838 the Annals of natural history, and in 1841 the Annals and magazine of natural history; joint editor of Edinburgh Philosophical Journal 1855; a comr. to enquire into salmon fisheries of England and Wales 30 July 1860; F.R.S. Edin. 1824; author of Contributions to ornithology 3 vols. 1848–52; The Ichnology of Annandale 1851–3; The Birds of Great Britain and Ireland 4 vols. 1876. _d._ Sandown, Isle of Wight 21 Nov. 1874. _Proc. of royal Soc. of Edin. ix_ 20–2 (1878); _Nature 26 Nov. 1874 p._ 74; _Graphic_, _xi_ 68 (1875), _portrait_.
JARMAN, FRANCES ELEANOR (eld. child of John Jarman of York, actor). _b._ Hull, Feb. 1803; made her first appearance at Bath 23 May 1815 as Edward a child in Mrs. Inchbald’s Every one has his fault; acted at Bath 1815–22, in Ireland 1824–7; first appeared in London at Covent Garden 7 Feb. 1827 as Juliet; played Imogen 10 May 1827 her best tragic part; made a great success as Amadis in Dimond’s Nymph of the Grotto 15 Jany. 1829; acted in Scotland 1829–34, in America and Canada 1834–7, at Drury Lane 1837–8, in Dublin 1843; played Paulina in The Winter’s Tale at Princess’s theatre, London, Oct. 1855; acted with Charles Dickens in Wilkie Collins’ drama The Frozen Deep, at Manchester 1857; retired about 1857–8; played at Lyceum theatre, London 23 Dec. 1865. (_m._ 21 Sep. 1834 Thomas Luke Ternan, actor and author who _d._ 17 Oct. 1846 aged 47). _d._ The Lawn, Oxford 30 Oct. 1873. _Tallis’s Drawing room table book_, _part 17_ (1851), _portrait_; _Actors by daylight_, _i_ 121 (1838), _portrait_; _J. N. Ireland’s New York stage_, _ii_ 107 (1867).
JARMAN, HENRY. _b._ 1819; solicitor in London 1847 to death; author of New practice of the court of chancery 1853, 3 ed. 1854; Forms of bills of costs in chancery 1857; Index to the bankruptcy act 1869; Index to the old and new Testaments 1883. _d._ 6 Sandmere road, Clapham, Surrey 10 Jany. 1889.
JARMAN, THOMAS. _b._ 1800; clerk in office of his uncle a solicitor at Bristol; barrister M.T. 10 Feb. 1826; conveyancing counsel to court of chancery to death; edited J. J. Powell’s An essay on devises 3rd ed. 2 vols. 1827, wrote all the 2nd vol. himself; W. M. Bythwood’s A selection of precedents forming a system of conveyancing 1827, vols, 4 to 10 were compiled by T. Jarman, 2 ed. 11 vols. 1829–36; author of A treatise on wills 2 vols. 1844, 4 ed. 2 vols. 1881; author with W. Hayes of Concise forms of wills with practical notes 1835, 9 ed. 1883. _d._ Hadley, Middlesex 26 Feb. 1860. _A brief memorial of the late Thomas Jarman, Esq. of Lincoln’s Inn._ _By Rev. Professor Charlton_, _privately printed_; _Law mag. and law review_, _x_ 251–62 (1861); _Solicitors’ Journal_, _iv_ 351–3 (1860).
JARMAN, THOMAS. Lived at Clipston, Northamptonshire; prolific composer of anthems and psalm tunes, some of which were very popular about 1840; published Devotional melodist 1828; Sacred music. The Northamptonshire harmony 1835; The church and chapel melodist 1850. _d._ Jany. 1862.
JARRETT, _Rev. Thomas_. _b._ 1805; ed. at St. Cath. coll. Camb., 34 wrangler 1827; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; fellow of his college 1828–32, classical and Hebrew lecturer to 1832; professor of Arabic at Camb. 1831–54; R. of Trunch, Norfolk 4 Feb. 1832 to death; regius professor of Hebrew at Camb., and canon of Ely, Feb. 1854 to death; lectured on Sanskrit 20 years; knew 20 languages; devised a system for transliterating oriental languages into the Roman character; author of An Essay on algebraic development. Cambridge 1831; A new lexicon of the Hebrew language, Part i. Hebrew and English, Part ii. English and Hebrew 1848; A new way of marking the sounds of English words without change of spelling 1858; The Hebrew text of the old covenant, printed in a modified Roman alphabet 1882. _d._ Trunch rectory 7 March 1882. _The Biograph_, _iv_ 231–33 (1880).
JARROLD, Thomas. _b._ Manningtree, Essex 1 Dec. 1770; ed. at univ. of Edin.; M.D. Glasgow 1802; physician at Stockport, Cheshire, then at Manchester; member of Manchester Lit. and Phil. Soc.; author of Essays in answer to professor Malthus’ work on population. Stockport 1806; Anthropologia or dissertations on the form and colour of man 1808; An enquiry into the cause of the curvature of the spine 1823. _d._ Greenhill st. Greenheys, Manchester 24 June 1853. _J. P. Earwaker’s Local Gleanings_ (1876) 137, 143.
JARVIS, SIR LEWIS WHINCOP (only son of Lewis Weston Jarvis of Lynn, solicitor). _b._ 1816; articled to his father; solicitor at Lynn 1840 to death; head of bank of Jarvis and Jarvis at Lynn to death; mayor of Lynn 1860, 61 and 62; steward of the Prince of Wales’s manors in Norfolk; knighted at Osborne 15 Jany. 1878. _d._ Middleton Towers, Lynn, Norfolk 2 Nov. 1888.
JARVIS, SIR SAMUEL RAYMOND (son of Samuel Jarvis of Fair Oak house, Hants.) _b._ about 1790; ensign 18 foot 12 April 1806; lieut. 25 foot 1807 to 1816 when placed on h.p.; captain 2 life guards 25 April 1817 to 25 Jany. 1823 when placed on h.p.; knighted at St. James’s palace 17 Sep. 1834; sheriff of Hants. 1834; lieut. col. in the army 11 Nov. 1851; captain 3 West India regiment 6 March 1863 but sold out same day. _d._ Cove cottage, Ventnor, Isle of Wight 5 Dec. 1868.
JARVIS, STEPHEN. _b._ 1834; organist; published a set of Six trios for male voices to the words of old nursery ditties; Merrily oh. Song, words by T. Moore 1877; The Inchcape bell. Scena 1879; Peter Piper. Canon for three voices 1879; Old England on the lee. Song 1880; Pensées Musicales. A set of pieces for the piano 1880. _d._ 2 Thornford ter. Lewisham, Kent 27 Nov. 1880.
JAVASU, CARABOO, Princess of, a name taken by Mary Willcocks (dau. of Thomas Willcocks a cobbler at Witheridge, North Devon). _b._ Witheridge 11 Nov. 1792; in service at Exeter 1810, then became a wandering mendicant; assumed male attire and was a footman in a family 1813; acquired the art of altering her features so that no one knew her; lost in the snow and buried during a night near Witheridge; in Magdalen hospital, London, Feb.-July 1813. (_m._ 1816 John Edward Francis Baker or Bakerstendt, who soon ran away from her, placed her child in the Foundling hospital, London, where it died Sep. 1816); camped with gipsies near Exeter and learnt some of their skill; pretended to be a Frenchwoman, then a Spaniard; announced herself to be Caraboo princess of Javasu, and at Bath at the Pack Horse inn held a reception when the ladies knelt before her; invented written characters for the Javasu language; went to America 1817, returned 1824; exhibited herself in New Bond st. London 1824; living under Pyle Hill, Bedminster, Bristol as a seller of leeches Dec. 1849. _d._ Bristol, Dec. 1864. _Full particulars of the life of Caraboo, alias Mary Baker. Bristol_ (1817); _Narrative of an imposition by Mary Willcocks alias Baker, alias Bakerstendt alias Caraboo, Princess of Javasu. Bristol_ (1817) _with 2 portraits_; _Temple Bar_, _June 1866 pp._ 420–2; _Whately’s Miscellaneous Remains_ (1864) 249–52; _Hone’s Everyday book_, _ii_ 1631–4 (1838), 2 _portraits_.
JAY, JOHN. Carpenter at 121 Bunhill Row, London 1835–8, builder at 65 London Wall 1838–49, contractor at 15 & 16 Macclesfield st. City road 1848–62, at 9 Euston road 1866–73; constructed the Great Northern railway station 1852, one of the three contractors for Metropolitan railway from Paddington to Farringdon st. 1860–2; completed the houses of parliament, including the central clock and Victoria towers; built fortifications for government, and the casemated barracks at Portland. _d._ Ashford house, Hornsey 28 Dec. 1872.
JAY, REV. WILLIAM (son of a stonecutter and mason). _b._ Tisbury, Wilts. 8 May 1769; a working mason; ed. by rev. Cornelius Winter at Marlborough to 1788; as ‘Young Jay the boy preacher’ officiated in Surrey chapel, London 1788; minister Christian Malford, Wilts. and at Hope chapel, Hotwells, Clifton; pastor of Argyle Independent chapel, Bath 30 Jany. 1791, resigned 30 Jany. 1853, voted an annuity of £200; called the Prince of Preachers; author of The mutual duties of husbands and wives 1801; Morning exercises in the closet 2 vols. 1829, 5 ed. 1866; Evening exercises for the closet 2 vols. 1831, several editions; Sermons preached at Cambridge 1837. _d._ 4 Percy place, Bath 27 Dec. 1853. _European Mag. Jany. 1819 pp._ 5–8, _portrait_; _Autobiography of W. Jay. Ed. by G. Redford and J. A. James_ (1854), _portrait_; _Recollections of W. Jay by his son Cyrus Jay_ (1859), 3 _portraits_; _W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery_, _iv_ 107–8 (1848), _portrait_.