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_.
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.
JEWERS, RICHARD FRANCIS. Entered navy June 1803; severely wounded in a fire ship in Aix roads, April 1809; retired commander 7 Aug. 1861; had a grant from Patriotic soc.; naval knight of Windsor 21 Jany. 1846, governor of the naval knights 7 May 1860 to death. _d._ Traver’s college, Windsor castle 14 Nov. 1872.
JEWISON, CHRISTOPHER. _b._ 1785; L.S.A. 1836, M.R.C.S. 1844; coroner for liberty of honour of Pontefract 1817 to death. _d._ Rothwell, Leeds 5 March 1870.
JEWITT, ARTHUR (eld. son of Arthur Jewitt, cutler). _b._ Sheffield 7 March 1772; apprentice to his father as a cutler 1786–93; master of schools at Sheffield 1793, at Chesterfield 1794 and at Kimberworth 1814–18; resided at Duffield near Derby 1818–38; author of The history of Lincoln 1810; The history of Buxton 1811; The Northern star, or Yorkshire magazine 3 vols. 1817–18; The Sylph, or Lady’s magazine for Yorkshire 1818; The handbook of practical perspective 1840; Handbook of geometry 1842. _d._ Headington near Oxford 7 March 1852. _William Smith’s Old Yorkshire_ (1883) 147–51, _portrait_.
JEWITT, LLEWELLYN FREDERICK WILLIAM (17 and youngest child of the preceding). _b._ Kimberworth near Rotherham, Yorkshire 24 Nov. 1816; went to London as a drawer and engraver 1838; illustrated Charles Knight’s publications, Pictorial Times, Illustrated London News, etc.; managed illustrations of Punch about 1848; chief librarian of Plymouth public library 1849–53; started the Derby Telegraph at Derby 1853, editor 1853–68; started The Reliquary 1860, editor 1860 to death; F.S.A. 27 Jany. 1853; formed a collection of china, sold 1871; granted civil list pension of £70, 16 June 1885; author of Rifle and volunteer rifle corps 1860; The Wedgwoods 1865; The life of William Hutton 1869; A history of Plymouth 1873; The ceramic art of Great Britain 2 vols. 1878, 2 ed. 1883; The life of Jacob Thompson 1882. _d._ the Hollies, Duffield, Derby 5 June 1886. _bur._ Winster 9 June. _W. H. Goss’ Life of Llewellyn Jewitt_ (1889), _portrait_; _Proc. Soc. of Antiq. xi_ 370–1 (1885–7); _The Biograph_, _Feb. 1882 pp._ 115–24.
JEWITT, THOMAS ORLANDO SHELDON (brother of the preceding). _b._ Derbyshire 1799; wood engraver, illustrated with woodcuts Rev. A. G. Jewitt’s Wanderings of Memory 1815; while at Oxford 1838 &c. illustrated J. H. Parker’s architectural publications; employed as an artist by the Archæological Institute; had many pupils. _d._ 20 Clifton villas, Camden sq. London 30 May 1869.