JELLETT, REV. JOHN HEWITT. _b._ Cashel, Tipperary 25 Dec. 1817;
ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, fellow 1840–70; B.A. 1838, M.A. 1843,
B.D. 1866, D.D. 1881; professor of natural philosophy Trin.
coll. 1847–70; commissioner of Irish national education 1868;
president R. Irish Acad. 1869; member of board of Trin. coll.
1870 and provost 2 April 1881 to death; gave annual prizes to
Trin. coll. called Prizes for general answering 24 Nov. 1883
to death; author of An elementary treatise of the calculus of
variations 1850; A treatise on the theory of friction 1872; The
efficacy of prayer 1878; An examination of some of the moral
difficulties of the Old Testament 1867. _d._ the provost’s
house, Trin. coll. Dublin 19 Feb. 1888. _Times 21 Feb. 1888 p._
10, _24 Feb. p._ 5; _I.L.N. lxxviii_ 453 (1881), _portrait_;
_The Graphic 10 March 1888 p._ 240, _portrait_.
JELLICOE, MRS. ANNE W. (dau. of Mr. Mullin). _b._ 1823; a
Friend, joined the Ch. of England; lady superintendent of
Alexandra college, 2 Earlsfort terrace, Dublin (founded for
education of ladies) 1866 to death. _d._ at the residence of her
brother John W. Mullin 13 South road, Birmingham 18 Oct. 1880.
_bur._ Friends’ ground at Rosenallis near Mountmellick 21 Oct.
_Freeman’s Journal 19 Oct. 1880 p._ 1, _22 Oct. p._ 2.
JELLICOE, CHARLES. _b._ 1804 or 1805; clerk Royal Exchange
assurance co. 1825, sec. of life committee 1827; actuary and
sec. Protector life association 1835 with which Eagle co.
amalgamated 1847, sec. of joint companies 1847–70, director and
deputy chairman 1870 to death; president Institute of actuaries
1860–67; edited Assurance Mag. to 1866; F.R.G.S.; F.S.S. _d._
Brighton 13 Nov. 1882. _Journal of Institute of Actuaries_
(_April 1883_) 17–19.
JEMMETT, WILLIAM THOMAS (eld. son of Edward Jemmett of Lincoln’s
inn, barrister). _b._ 1799; ed. at Winchester; barrister M.T. 10
Nov. 1820; recorder of Kingston on Thames 1831 to death; comr.
of bankrupts for Manchester district 21 Oct. 1842 to 31 Dec.
1869 when granted sum of £1800 on abolition of office; author of
The acts relating to the administration of law in the courts of
equity 1830, 2 ed. 1836. _d._ Langhorn gardens, Folkestone 17
May 1875.
JENCKEN, FERDINAND EDWARD. _b._ blind 1823; operated on for
cataract and obtained use of one eye 1841; ed. at King’s
coll. Lond.; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1853; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1853;
M.R.C.S. Eng. 1869; L.K.Q.C.P. Irel. and L.M. 1870; practised
at Londonderry; wrote many papers; author of The cholera, its
origin and treatment 1867; Vaccination impartially reviewed
1868; Essay on Beethoven’s Sonatas with Introductory sketch of
music 1871. _d._ of pyæmia, 22 Anglesey place, Kingston, Ireland
12 Jany. 1881. _Medical Times_, _i_ 112, 335 (1881).
JENCKEN, HENRY DIEDRICH (son of Johann Ferdinand Jencken, who
came to England as physician to Queen Adelaide). _b._ London
1828; barrister L.I. 30 April 1861; practised at Cape Town;
frequently retained in commercial cases; sec. to Association
for reform and codification of the law of nations, July or Aug.
1874 to death; the subject of a correspondence between Foreign
office and Spanish government in regard to outrages on him by
people of Lorca in Spain 20 July 1869, cause of outrages was
a superstition that he was a “tio del sain” or fat-monger who
butchered children to use the fat of their entrails to repair
telegraph wires; translated and wrote prefaces to Treatises
on Light, Colour, Electricity and Magnetism by his father
1869; author of The laws on negotiable securities 1880; A
compendium of the laws of bills of exchange and other negotiable
instruments 1880; author with Frederick Tomkins of A compendium
of modern Roman law 1870. _d._ 16 St. James’s st. Notting Hill,
London 26 Nov. 1881.
JENINGS, ELIZABETH JANET (2 dau. of rev. William Plues of
Ripon, Yorks.) _b._ 1818; (_m._ Edmund John Jenings of Fir
Trees, Hawkhurst, Kent); author of My Good-for-Nothing brother:
a novel. By Wyckliffe Lane [1862], new ed. 1863, which was a
success; Thyra Gascoigne 3 vols. 1863, 3 ed. 1863. Fourth ed.
was under title of John Douglas’s Vow 1867. _d._ Hawkhurst 23
Aug. 1863.
JENKIN, HENRIETTA CAMILLA (only dau. of Robert Jackson, custos
rotulorum of Kingston, Jamaica). _b._ Jamaica 8 Feb. 1807.
(_m._ 1832 Charles Jenkin who entered R.N. 1814, commander 9
Nov. 1846, _d._ 5 Feb. 1885); lived in Paris 1847–8, Genoa
1848–51 and Edinburgh 1868 to death; author of Violet Bank and
its inmates 3 vols. 1856; Cousin Stella 3 vols. 1859, another
ed. 1862; Who breaks pays 2 vols. 1861; Skirmishing 1862; Once
and again 1865; A Psyche of to-day 1868; Madame de Beaufrés
1869, the above are all anonymous; Two French marriages 3 vols.
1868; Within an ace 1869; Jupiter’s daughters 1874, and of Une
vieille fille, in the Revue des deux mondes; was paralysed for
last ten years of her life. _d._ Edinburgh 8 Feb. 1885. _R. L.
Stevenson’s Memoir of F. Jenkin_, _i pp. xxiii etc._, _cliii
etc._, _portrait_; _O’Byrne’s Naval Biog. Dict._ (1849) 580;
_Times 17 Feb. 1885 p._ 10.
JENKIN, HENRY CHARLES FLEEMING (son of preceding). _b._
Stowting court near Dungeness 25 March 1833; ed. at Jedburgh
gram. sch. and Edinburgh academy; studied at Genoa univ. 1849,
M.A.; apprenticed to sir W. Fairbairn, mechanical engineer,
Manchester 1851; engineer in London, in partnership with H. C.
Forde 1861–8, afterwards an electrician; fitted out submarine
telegraph cables 1858–73; professor of engineering in Univ.
coll. London 1865–8, in Univ. of Edin. 1868 to death; F.R.S.
1 June 1865; M.I.C.E. 18 Feb. 1868; invented telpherage or
the automatic transport of heavy goods by electricity 1882,
a telpher line was opened at Glynde near Lewes 17 Nov. 1885;
patented 35 inventions; author of Bridges. A treatise on their
construction and history 1876; Electricity and magnetism 3 ed.
1870; Healthy houses 1878; Scenes from the Agamemnon. Arranged
by F. Jenkin 1880. _d._ 3 Great Stuart st. Edinburgh 12 June