Modern English biography

Feb., personalty sworn under £300,000, 1 June 1867. _C. C. F. Greville’s Memoirs_, _i_ 12–13, _ii_ 64, 119, 126 (1874); _Burke’s Portrait gallery_, _ii_ 45 (1833), _portrait_. JERVIS, GEORGE F. _b._ England 1784; appeared at Park theatre, New York as Vanderdecken in The Flying Dutchman 1825; appeared at Arch st. theatre, Philadelphia 1 Sep. 1826 as Marshal Beaumont in The French Spy. _d._ Philadelphia 25 March 1851. JERVIS, GEORGE RITSO. _b._ Madras 8 Oct. 1794; ed. at Marlow, Woolwich and Addiscombe; ensign Bombay engineers 8 June 1811, col. 16 Aug. 1843 to death; founded the Engineers’ Institution in India 1823; held chief command of engineer corps 9 years; active coadjutor of Mountstuart Elphinstone in spreading education in India; A.I.C.E. 1841; edited The works of Hāfiz 1828; translated into Maratha, Lord Brougham’s Preliminary treatise on the objects, advantages and pleasures of science