JACOMB, WILLIAM (probably son of Thomas Jacomb, surgeon). _b._
51 Upper York st. Portman sq. London 1832; pupil of I. K. Brunel
1851–9, assistant to Gainsford in construction of Paddington
terminus and in supervision of building of Great Eastern
steamship; under sir J. Fowler took part in construction of
Metropolitan railway 1864–8; assisted Jacomb Hood in works on
the South London and Suburban lines; chief resident engineer
London and South Western railway 1870 to death. _d._ of apoplexy
in his office at Waterloo terminus 26 May 1887. _Min. of Proc.
of I.C.E. xc_ 434–5 (1887).
JACQUES, JAMES. _b._ 1792; well known jockey on the Borders and
at Carlisle and Penrith; kept a public house at Penrith; trained
and rode for Mr. Ferguson in Ireland; rode Fire-away for the St.
Leger in Blue Bonnett’s year 1842; had a pension on the Bentinck
fund. _d._ from an overdose of laudanum at West Laith gate,
Doncaster 17 Feb. 1868. _Sporting Review_, _March 1868 pp._
154–5; _Doncaster Gazette 21 Feb. 1868 p._ 5.
JAFFRAY, JOHN. Free church minister; editor of Home and foreign
missionary record of the church of Scotland 1839; a writer
in the Aberdeen Censor 1825 of two dramatic articles The
Traveller’s Talk and The Symposium; author of Hiltown church.
Statement. Dundee 1836. _d._ Edinburgh 29 Oct. 1858. _R. Inglis’
Dramatic writers of Scotland_ (1868) 57.
JAFFRAY, JOHN. _b._ Carse of Stirling 1792; presbyterian
minister Dunbar, Nov. 1820 to death; an authority on
agriculture, made improvements in implements and in the
cultivation of the soil; printed in Transactions of Highland
Soc., Account of an experiment on deep ploughing. _d._ Dunbar 13
Feb. 1862. _H. Scott’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ_, _vol. i_, _pt.
i_, _p._ 370.
JAGO, CHARLES TRELAWNY-(2 son of Edward Jago by Ann Darell dau.
of Edward Trelawny). _b._ 9 Nov. 1829; entered R.N. 1843, lieut.
23 Oct. 1849; 3 lieut. of the Enterprise, Capt. R. Collinson, in
the Arctic expedition 1850–4 in search of sir John Franklin; in
the sledge travelling in the spring of 1852 he was away from the
ship 49 days; spent 3 winters on the ice; Arctic medal; captain
11 April 1866; good service pension 30 Jany. 1880; rear admiral
20 March 1883, retired 27 Dec. 1886; retired V.A. 14 July