Modern English biography

JEFFERSON, MARGARET C. (dau. of Mr. Lockyer). _b._ Burnham, England 11 Sep. 1832. (_m._ 1849 Joseph Jefferson, American comedian who was _b._ Philadelphia 20 Feb. 1829); first appeared at Bowery theatre, New York as the Fairy queen in Cinderella 1848; came out at Niblo’s garden as Mrs. Lullaby 23 July 1859; a pleasing actress in soubrette parts. _d._ Twelfth st. New York 25 Feb. 1861. _Brown’s American stage_ (1870) 194; _Ireland’s New York stage_, _ii_ 501, 558 (1867); _Autobiography of J. Jefferson_ (1890) 127–8, 229. JEFFERY, CHARLES (son of James Reddecliff Jeffery of Liverpool). _b._ 1839; ed. at Trin. hall, Cam., B.A. 1863; barrister I.T. 9 June 1865; judge of district court of Falmouth in Jamaica 1871 to death; joint editor of J. Chitty’s Precedents in pleading 3 ed. 2 vols. 1868. _d._ Mentone, France 4 Feb. 1875. JEFFERY, GEORGE ERNEST (eld. son of George Augustus Jeffery, M.D., of Trinity Home, Eastbourne). _b._ Eastbourne 9 Feb. 1853; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Cam.; in the Rugby Eleven, played at Lord’s against Marlborough 28–9 June 1871; made 116 runs in one innings in Twenty three gentlemen _v._ Eleven players of Sussex, the last match ever played on the Old Brunswick cricket ground, Hove, Brighton 15 Sep. 1871; played in the Cambridge Eleven against Oxford 1873–4; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1878. _d._ Westholme, Streatham common, London 8 April 1891. JEFFERY, HENRY MARTYN (only son of John Jeffery of Gwennap, Cornwall 1798–1874). _b._ Lamorran rectory, Cornwall 5 Jany. 1826; ed. at Falmouth gr. sch. 1833–40 and Sedbergh gr. sch. 1841–5; of St. John’s coll. Camb. Oct. 1845, of St. Catherine’s coll. 1846; 6 wrangler and B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; lecturer in coll. of civil engineers, Putney 1850; second master Cheltenham gram. sch. June 1852 and head master June 1868 to 1882 when retired on pension; F.R.S. 3 June 1880; wrote on mathematics in Rep. British Assoc., Quarterly Journal of mathematics and other scientific journals; one of the ablest exponents of abstract mathematical science; edited E. R. Humphrey’s Exercitationes Iambicæ 2 ed. 1854 and Lyra Hellenica 1854 and contributed additional matter; Two sets of letters of rev. Henry Martyn 1883; Extracts from the religious diary of Miss Lydia Grenfell