Modern English biography

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