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C.E._, _xi_ 106–109 (1852). JERVIS, HENRY. _b._ 1797; ensign 84 foot 19 Dec. 1811; captain 72 foot 1826, major 27 Sep. 1842 to 8 March 1850; lieut. col. provisional battalion at Chatham 8 March 1850 to 17 May 1864; col. 94 foot 8 March 1872 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 11 Bloomsbury sq. London 5 Feb. 1879. JERVIS, SIR JOHN (2 son of Thomas Jervis, chief justice of Chester, _d._ 6 Aug. 1838 aged 69). _b._ 12 Jany. 1802; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb.; barrister M.T. 6 Feb. 1824, bencher 1837–50; leader of North Wales and Chester circuit; M.P. Chester 1832–50; granted a patent of precedence 1837; solicitor general 4 July 1846; attorney general 7 July 1846 to 15 July 1850; knighted at Buckingham palace 1 Aug. 1846; the acts 11 & 12 Vict. cc. 42, 43, 44, referring to justices of the peace are known as Jervis’s acts; serjeant at law 16 July 1850; chief justice of common pleas 16 July 1850 to death; P.C. 14 Aug. 1850; an originator of The Jurist weekly paper 14 Jany. 1837 and a principal contributor to it; pres. of commission for inquiring into system of pleading in common law courts 13 May 1850; edited Archbold’s Summary of the law relative to pleading and evidence in criminal cases, 4 ed. 1831, also the 5, 6, 7 and 8 eds.; author of A practical treatise on the office and duties of coroners 1829, 5 ed. 1888; author with Edward Young of Reports of cases in the courts of exchequer and exchequer chamber 3 vols. 1828–30; with C. Crompton of Reports of cases in the courts of exchequer and exchequer chamber 2 vols. 1832–3. _d._ 47 Eaton sq. London 1 Nov. 1856. _Law Mag. and Review_, _ii_ 302–7 (1857). JERVIS, THOMAS BEST (2 son of John Jervis of H.E.I.C.S.) _b._ Jaffnapatam, Ceylon 2 Aug. 1796; ed. Addiscombe; learnt Hindustani and Mahratta; ensign Bombay Engineers 1 June 1813; surveyed South Concan 1820; superintendent engineer Bombay presidency May 1835–9 and of Northern provinces 1839–41; retired from H.E.I.C. service 31 Dec. 1841; established a private lithographic press for printing maps of India, etc. 1843; produced with rapidity map of Russia for Crimean expedition 1854; the originator of the Topographical and statistical depot of the war office, of which he was the first director March 1855; conducted first topographical corps and surveyed the Euphrates valley, etc. F.R.S. 15 March 1838, F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.A.S.; edited C. A. A. von Huegel’s Travels in Kashmir 1845; author of Geographical and statistical memoir of the Konkun. Calcutta 1840; India in relation to Great Britain, its future administration 1853. _d._ 9 Adelphi ter. Strand, London 3 April 1857. _Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xiv pp. liv–lx_ (1858); _English Cyclop. Suppl._ (1872) 719. JERVIS, WILLIAM HENLEY (2 son of Hugh Nicholas Pearson, dean of Salisbury, _d._ 1856 aged 79). _b._ Oxford 29 June 1813; ed. at Mitcham, Harrow and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838; R. of St. Nicholas, Guildford 1837–56; preb. of collegiate church of Heytesbury, Wilts. 1844 to death; lived in France 1856–62; assumed surname of Jervis in lieu of Pearson by r.l. 22 May 1865; author of The student’s France 1862, 2 ed. 1884; The Gallican church, a history of the church of France from the concordat of Bologna to the revolution 2 vols. 1872; The Gallican church and the revolution 1882. _d._ 28 Holland park, London 27 Jany. 1883. _bur._ in Sonning churchyard. JERVIS-WHITE-JERVIS, HENRY (3 son of sir Henry Meredyth Jervis-White-Jervis, 2 baronet 1793–1869). _b._ 15 March 1825; ed. at Harrow and R.M. academy, Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. Dec. 1844, lieut. col. 30 Dec. 1867 to 24 Dec. 1870 when he retired; contested Harwich 1857; M.P. for Harwich 18 March 1859 to 24 March 1880; author of History of Corfu and of the Ionian islands 1852; Manual of field operations, for officers in the army 1852; The rifle-musket, a treatise on the Enfield-Pritchett-rifle 1854; Ireland under British rule 1868. _d._ Felixstowe, Suffolk 22 Sep. 1881. JERVIS-WHITE-JERVIS, MARIAN (3 dau. of Wm. Campbell of Fairfield, Ayrshire). (_m._ 16 Dec. 1818 Sir Henry Meredyth Jervis-White-Jervis, 2 baronet, commander R.N. _b._ 1793, _d._ 1869); edited Paintings and celebrated painters 2 vols. 1854; author of Gleanings, poems. Paris 1840; Tales of the boyhood of great painters 1853. _d._ Blackgang, Isle of Wight 8 March 1861. _Reg. and Mag. of Biography, May 1869 p._ 390. JERVISE, ANDREW (son of Andrew Jarvis, coachman and soldier). _b._ Brechin, Forfarshire 28 July 1820; a compositor at Brechin 1833 and at Edinburgh 1837–41; a student in painting Edinb. 1842; a teacher of drawing at Brechin 1846; sold 20 of his pictures at Brechin 1847 for £75; examiner of registers under Registration act of 1854, from 1 Jany. 1856 to death at £200 a year; author of The history and traditions of the land of the Lindsays 1853, 2 ed. 1882; Memorials of Angus and the Mearns 1861, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1885; Epitaphs and inscriptions from burial grounds and old buildings in the north-east of Scotland 2 vols. 1875–9. _d._ Brechin 12 April 1878. _A. Jervise’s Epitaphs_, _vol. ii_ (1879), _Memoir pp. ix–lxx_. JERVOIS, WILLIAM. _b._ 1784; ensign 89 foot 7 April 1804; captain 53 foot 26 Dec. 1822 to 17 Sep. 1823 when placed on h.p.; colonel 76 foot 10 May 1853 to death; general 3 Aug. 1860; K.H. 1835. _d._ Portland place, Bath 5 Nov. 1862. JERVOISE, SIR JERVOISE CLARKE CLARKE-, 2 Baronet (son of rev. sir S. Clarke-Jervoise _d._ 1852). _b._ Kensington 28 April 1804; M.P. South Hants. 1857–68. _d._ Idsworth park, Horndean, Hants. 1 April 1889. JERWOOD, JAMES (son of Mr. Jerwood of Poughill, Devon, blacksmith). Usher at Honiton gr. sch.; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1842; barrister M.T. 10 June 1836; assistant tithe commissioner for Devon; recorder of South Molton 7 Feb. 1860 to death; practised at Exeter to death; published A lecture on the new planet Neptune and its discovery 1849; A dissertation on the rights to the sea shore and to the soil and beds of tidal harbours 1850. _d._ 1 Bedford circus, Exeter 19 Jany. 1877. _Solicitors’ Journal_, _xxi_ 282 (1877). JESSE, EDWARD (3 son of rev. Wm. Jesse, V. of Hutton-Cranswick, Yorkshire 1738–1814). _b._ Hutton-Cranswick parsonage 14 Jany. 1780; clerk in the San Domingo office 1798; private sec. to lord Dartmouth president of board of control 1801; comr. of hackney coaches 1815–31 when office abolished; gentleman of the Ewery at Windsor castle 1821–31 when office abolished; deputy surveyor of woods and forests 1822–31; author of Gleanings in natural history 1 Ser. 1832, 2 Ser. 1834, 3 Ser. 1835; Scenes and tales of country life 1844, 5 ed. 1853; Anecdotes of dogs 1846, 2 ed. 1858; Favourite haunts and rural studies 1847; Lectures on natural history 1861, 2 ed. 1863. _d._ 16 Belgrave place, Brighton 28 March 1868, bust placed in the Pavilion, Brighton