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.
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.