Modern English biography

JANSON, THOMAS CORBYN (son of Mr. Janson of Tunbridge Wells, banker). _b._ 1 July 1809; ed. at Hove near Brighton; partner in Brown, Janson & Co. bankers 32 Abchurch lane, London to death; F.L.S. March 1843. _d._ Stamford hill, Middlesex 23 June 1863. JAQUES, RICHARD MACHELL (son of Robert Jaques founder of the Easby stud, _d._ 1842). _b._ 31 March 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.; well known agriculturalist; steward at many race meetings and the reviver of the York meetings 1843; owner of many horses, chiefly trained by John Scott, very unlucky in racing, ran second for the St. Leger with High Treason 1860; had a stud at Easby abbey, Richmond, Yorkshire, including Irish Birdcatcher, Pyrrhus the First and other famous sires; sold his yearlings at Doncaster; a breeder of cattle particularly of shorthorns; president Richmond Farmers’ club 1873. _d._ 30 June 1889. _Sporting Review_, _xv_ 7–10 (1846), _portrait_. JARACZEWSKI, MIECISLAS, Count, great friend of Prince of Wales; a well known man in fashionable and racing circles, member of Turf club. _d._ at his lodgings 4 Bennett st. St. James’s, London 11 March 1881. _bur._ R.C. cemetery, Kensal green 17 March. JARDINE, ALEXANDER (2 son of Sir Alexander Jardine 6 baronet, _d._ 1821). _b._ 2 Oct. 1803; ensign 75 foot 22 April 1826, lieut. col. 1 June 1849, retired on full pay 7 Oct. 1859; M.G. 7 Oct. 1859. _d._ Brighton 23 June 1869. JARDINE, DAVID (son of rev. David B. Jardine 1766–97, unitarian minister). _b._ 1792; barrister M.T. 7 Feb. 1823, went western circuit; one of the 20 municipal corporation comrs. for England and Wales 18 July 1833 to 1835; recorder of Bath, March 1837 to death; stipendiary magistrate Bow st. London 1839 to death; author of General index to Howell’s Collection of state trials 1828; A reading on the use of torture 1837; A narrative of the gunpowder plot 1857. _d._ The Heath, Weybridge, Surrey 13 Sep. 1860. JARDINE, SIR HENRY (son of Rev. Dr. John Jardine, dean of chapel royal in Scotland 1763–6). _b._ 1766; a writer to the signet 1790; king’s remembrancer of court of exchequer in Scotland 1820–37; knighted at Carlton house, London 20 April 1825; F.S.A. Scot. and V.P.; F.R.S. Edin. _d._ Belleville lodge, Newington, Edinburgh 11 Aug. 1851. JARDINE, JAMES. _b._ Applegarth, Dumfriesshire 30 Nov. 1776; taught mathematics in Edin. 1796–1806; a civil engineer in Edin. 1806 to death; introduced the Crawley water into Edin. 1820; constructed the Union canal 1822; the first to determine the mean level of the sea 1809; engineer of the Dalkeith railway. _d._ 18 Queen st. Edinburgh 20 June 1858. JARDINE, SIR WILLIAM, 7 Baronet (eld. son of sir Alexander Jardine _d._ 1820). _b._ North Hanover st. Edinburgh 23 Feb. 1806; ed. at York and univ. of Edin.; with P. J. Selby commenced Illustrations of ornithology 1825; edited the Naturalist’s Library 40 vols. 1833–45 of which he wrote 14 vols.; commenced with P. J. Selby at Edin. the Magazine of zoology and botany 1837 which became in 1838 the Annals of natural history, and in 1841 the Annals and magazine of natural history; joint editor of Edinburgh Philosophical Journal 1855; a comr. to enquire into salmon fisheries of England and Wales 30 July 1860; F.R.S. Edin. 1824; author of Contributions to ornithology 3 vols. 1848–52; The Ichnology of Annandale 1851–3; The Birds of Great Britain and Ireland 4 vols. 1876. _d._ Sandown, Isle of Wight 21 Nov.