Sep. 1869. _The Manchester Guardian 21 Sep. 1869 p._ 5.
JENOUR, ALFRED. R. of Pilton, Northants. 1836–45; P.C. of Regent
sq. chapel, St. Pancras, London 1845–51; R. of Kittisford,
Somerset 1851–4; P.C. of Blackpool, Lancs. 1854 to death; author
of The book of the prophet Isaiah translated from the Hebrew,
with a commentary 2 vols. 1832; A treatise on languages 1832;
Job translated from the Hebrew, with critical notes 1841;
The christian mother, a memoir of Ann Jenour 1840; Rationale
Apocalypticum or exposition of the Apocalypse 2 vols. 1852. _d._
1868.
JENOUR, JOSHUA (eld. son of Joshua Jenour, master of stationers’
co., _d._ 1774). _b._ Serjeants’ inn, Fleet st. London 31 July
1755; liveryman of stationers’ co. 1776; published The Park,
a poem 1778; The wife chase, a monitory poem; Marriage, a
precautionary tale; The horrible revenge 1830; Observations on
the taxation of property 1795, five editions, all his works were
anonymous; John Bull a weekly paper of essays. _d._ Gravesend 23
Jany. 1853. _G.M. xxxix_ 325 (1853).
JENYNS, SOAME GAMBIER. _b._ 1826; cornet 13 hussars 30 Dec.
1845; major 18 hussars 19 Feb. 1858; lieut. col. 13 hussars 24
May 1861 to 4 Feb. 1871 when placed on half pay as colonel; C.B.
5 July 1855; author of System of non-pivot drill as adapted
to the present English cavalry drill book, in G. T. Denison’s
Modern Cavalry (1868) pp. 341–50. _d._ Much Wenlock 26 Nov. 1873.
JEPHSON, HENRY. _b._ near Mansfield, Notts. 4 Oct. 1798; studied
in St. George’s hospital; went to Leamington as assistant to Mr.
Chambers 1818, a partner 1819, sole proprietor of the practice;
M.D. Glasgow 1827; patients from all parts of Great Britain and
from the Continent came to Leamington to be under his care;
had a specially contrived travelling carriage made in which to
attend patients at a distance from Leamington; his income for
many years was over £20,000 a year; became totally blind 1848;
made his patients eat moderately and abstain from stimulants and
prescribed the Leamington waters internally and externally; a
public statue of him erected at Leamington 1848 and the public
gardens called after his name. _d._ Beech Lawn, Leamington 14
May 1878. _Medical Times 25 May 1878 pp._ 575–6; _Leamington
Chronicle 1 June 1878 p._ 8.
JEPHSON, JOHN MOUNTENEY (youngest son of rev. John Jephson
1764–1826, preb. of Armagh). _b._ 16 Dec. 1819; ed. at Trin.
coll. Dublin, B.A. 1843; C. of Monewden, Suffolk 1853–6; C. of
Hutton near Brentwood, Essex 1856–64; V. of Childerditch near
Brentwood 1864; F.S.A. 24 May 1855; author of Narrative of a
walking tour in Brittany 1859; Shakespere, his birthplace, home
and grave 1864; edited the Literary Gazette early in 1858. _d._
Childerditch vicarage 1 Jany. 1865.
JEPHSON-NORREYS, SIR CHARLES DENHAM ORLANDO, 1 Baronet (son
of lieut. col. Wm. Jephson of Egham, Surrey). _b._ Englefield
Green, Surrey 1799; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1827, M.A.
1828; M.P. for Mallow 1826–59, contested Mallow 1859; assumed
additional surname of Norreys by r.l. 18 July 1838; cr. baronet
6 Aug. 1838. _d._ Queenstown 11 July 1888.
JERDAN, WILLIAM (son of John Jerdan, farmer _d._ 1796). _b._
Kelso, Roxburghshire 16 April 1782; clerk to C. Elliott writer
to the signet, Edinb. 1802–5; editor of the Aurora, the
hotelkeepers’ paper, London 1806 and of other papers 1806–13;
while a reporter witnessed murder of Spencer Percival and was
the first to seize Bellingham 11 May 1812; editor of the Sun
11 May 1813 to May 1817; editor of the Literary Gazette from
No. 26 July 1817 to 28 Dec. 1850; chief founder of Royal Soc.
of literature 1823; F.S.A. 1826; lost his money on failure of
Whitehead’s bank 1808 and in the panic of 1826; granted civil
list pension of £100, 23 March 1853; author of Six weeks in
Paris or a cure for the Gallomania by a late Visitant 3 vols.
1817, 2 ed. 1818; National portrait gallery of illustrations and
eminent personages of the nineteenth century 5 vols. 1830–4;
The Autobiography of W. Jerdan 4 vols. 1852–3; Men I have known
1866; a contributor to Notes and Queries under name of Bushey
Heath. _d._ Bushey Heath, Herts. 11 July 1869. _Fraser’s Mag.
i_ 605–6 (1830), _portrait_; _Reg. and Mag. of Biog. ii_ 94–5
(1869); _Maclise Portrait gallery_ (1883) 1–4, _portrait_; _Lord
W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities 2 Ser. ii_ 35–52 (1876).
JERDAN, WILLIAM FREELING (2 son of the preceding). _b._
1818; sec. to Great Northern railway of France; a principal
shareholder in and administrator of the Literary Gazette; a
clerk in secretary’s office, general post office, London to
death. _d._ 6 Feb. 1859.
JERDON, ARCHIBALD (son of Archibald Jerdon). _b._ Bonjedward,
Roxburghshire 21 Sep. 1819; ed. Edin. univ.; communicated facts
respecting birds to Zoologist 1841; acquired much knowledge
about the phanerogamous local flora and cryptogamic botany;
published lists of border fungi in Proc. of Berwickshire
Naturalists’ club; two species of fungi bear his name; F.
Botanical soc. Edin. 1871. _d._ Allerton near Jedburgh, Feb.