Modern English biography

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