Modern English biography

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.