JOHNSON, Peter. Professional swimmer. d. of inflammation of lungs in a cab whilst going to the hospital at Prague 4 Jany. 1890.

JOHNSON, Robert James. b. about 1832; architect at Newcastle; had a very large practice; A.R.I.B.A. 1861, F.R.I.B.A. 1865; F.S.A. d. Rock villa, Tunbridge Wells 18 April 1892.

JOHNSON, Thomas Marr. b. Appleby, Lincs. 29 June 1826; ed. Winterton, Lincs. and at Ripon; A.I.C.E. 6 April 1852, M.I.C.E. 7 Feb. 1863; res. engineer river Nene and Norfolk estuary works; with B. Baker (under J. Fowler’s instructions) res. engineer of Metropolitan railway, superintended design and execution 1860–9; member of firm of G. Smith & Co. builders and contractors, Feb. 1870 to death; with W. Mills superintended construction of Holborn viaduct station, London. d. 14 Westbourne st. Hyde park, London 20 July 1874. Min. of Proc. I.C.E. xxxix 268–9 (1875).

JOHNSON, Joseph Towers, stage name of Edward Joseph Towers. b. Kentish town, London 26 March 1815; clerk to Goding and Broadwood, ale brewers; made first appearance as Claude in The Bear hunt, Marylebone theatre 1835; at the Pavilion 1835–7, at the Garrick 1839, at Surrey 1840–7, at Lyceum 1847, at Sadler’s Wells; lessee Victoria theatre Nov. 1856 to 1866; stage manager for John Coleman on the Northern circuit 7 or 8 years; the Isaac Levi and Mr. Eden in the original cast of ‘Never too late to mend,’ produced at Royal theatre, Leeds 1864. d. 37 Mitford place, Upper Kennington lane, London 8 July 1891. bur. Tooting cemetery 13 July. Theatrical Times, ii 225, 242 (1847), portrait; The Players, iii 311 (1860), portrait.

JOHNSON, William (3 son of James Johnson of Kendal, attorney, who d. 1828). b. Kendal 1823; sub-editor of the Glasgow Practical mechanics’ and engineers’ magazine 1845–48; started The Practical Mechanics’ Journal, Glasgow 1848, edited it 1848 to death, 16 vols.; patent agent at Glasgow; A.I.C.E. 1850; edited Practical draughtsman’s book of industrial design 1861; author of The imperial cyclopædia of machinery 1852–6; with J. H. Johnson of Abstract of the patent law amendment act 1852. d. Glasgow 10 June 1864.

JOHNSON, William. b. Cumberland 1784; ed. St. John’s coll. Camb. 1810, B.D. 1827; C. of Grasmere 1811, teacher at Grasmere sch., and a friend of Wordsworth; in charge of National society’s sch. Holborn, taught on the Bell system 1812, school removed to Baldwin’s gardens 1814; trainer of masters, travelling organiser, inspector of schools, and later on cashier and comptroller of accounts of National Soc. to 1840; called the Patriarch of National Education; R. of St. Clement’s Eastcheap with St. Martin’s Orgar, London 19 Oct. 1820 to death. d. 29 Martin’s lane, Cannon st. London 20 Sep. 1864. G.M. xvii 526, 661 (1864).

JOHNSON, William. b. Hindley near Wigan, Lancs. 7 March 1831; ed. at Stonyhurst, Ampleforth and Prior park, Bath; missioner at St. Mary’s on the Quay, Bristol 1853–6 and at Chippenham, Wilts. 1856–9; assist. priest at pro-cathedral, Liverpool 1859–62; priest at Breck, Poulton-le-Fylde 1862–79 and at Lydiate 1879 to death; composer of Litany of B.V.M. for four voices 1872; Hail! holy Joseph hail! for four voices 1874; Missa de Sancta Maria 1880; Hail, thou resplendent star. Chorus with solo 1881; The lion and the bear 1878 and his other comic song obtained popularity. d. Lydiate 9 Oct. 1885. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii 641 (1887); Liverpool Catholic Almanac (1886) p. 96, portrait.

JOHNSON, William Augustus. b. 1776; ensign of a new independent company of foot 18 Sep. 1793; captain 32 foot 7 Jany. 1795, lieut. col. 17 May 1810 to 18 Aug. 1814 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 23 Nov. 1841; retired from the army 1855; M.P. Boston 1820–26, M.P. Oldham 1837–47; sheriff of Lincolnshire 1830. d. Wytham on the hill near Stamford 26 Oct. 1863.

JOHNSON, Sir William Gillilan (youngest son of William Johnson, merchant). b. Fortfield, co. Antrim 1808; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830, M.A. 1830; barrister King’s inns, Dublin 1838; M.P. Belfast 10 July 1841, election declared void 19 Aug. 1842; mayor of Belfast 1849 when he received the queen on her visit there 11 Aug.; knighted at Belfast 12 Aug. 1849; a founder of the Protestant orphan asylum, Belfast 1866, and with his wife of the Belfast ophthalmic hospital. d. College sq. north, Dublin 9 April 1886. The Belfast news-letter 10 April 1886 p. 5.

JOHNSON, W. H. (son of an ordnance officer, H.E.I.C.S.) b. 1831; ed. at Mussooree; in the North-west Himalayan survey 1848–52; ascended the Snoy Peak near the Néla pass 22 June 1854; in the Kashmir survey party 1855, conducted the triangulations of the Kishangunga valley, fixing his theodolite on some of the highest peaks which had ever been ascended, going nearly to 20,000 feet; first European traveller who visited the plains of Khotan 1865; in service of maharajah of Kashmir 1866 to death, governor and joint commissioner of Ladakh; presented with gold watch by R. Geogr. Soc. 1875. d. it was thought by poison at Jummoo, Kashmir 3 March 1882. Proc. R. Geogr. Soc. v 291–3, 604 (1883).

JOHNSON, William Robert. b. 17 July 1830; ed. Putney coll.; ensign 39 Madras N.I. 2 Oct. 1850, captain 30 Aug. 1860; engaged in public works department, Mysore 1857; first class permanent superintending engineer 1 Jany. 1880 to death; superintending engineer for irrigation, when he looked after the 38,000 water tanks in Mysore; completed the bridge over the Toonga Bhadra river at Hurryhurh; lieut. col. Madras staff corps 20 Dec. 1875; col. in the army 20 Dec. 1880; A.I.C.E. 4 Feb. 1868. d. London 7 June 1882. Min. of Proc. I.C.E. lxxii 319–20 (1883).

JOHNSON, William Ward Percival. b. 1790; entered navy 2 July 1803, commander 19 Sep. 1835; captain on h.p. 14 Dec. 1841; admiral on h.p. 30 July 1875. d. Little Baddow near Chelmsford 26 Dec. 1880. Graphic, xix 216 (1879), portrait; I.L.N. lxxviii 37 (1881), portrait.

JOHNSTON, Alexander (son of an architect). b. Edinburgh 1815; with a seal engraver 1830; student in Trustees acad. Edinb. 1831–4; at Royal acad. London 1836; exhibited 73 pictures at R.A., 49 at B.I. and 16 at Suffolk st. 1836–80; The gentle shepherd 1840 and Sunday morning 1841, are well known by the engravings; his The interview of the regent Murray with Mary, queen of Scots 1841, was purchased by Edinb. art union; Archbishop Tillotson administering the sacrament to lord William Russell in the tower. 1845, is in National gallery. d. 21 Carlingford road, Hampstead 2 Feb. 1891. I.L.N. 14 Feb. 1891 p. 207, portrait.

JOHNSTON, Alexander James (eld. son of James S. Johnston of Wood Hill, Kinnellar, Aberdeenshire). b. Kinnellar 1820; student Lincoln’s inn 1838; barrister M.T. 27 Jany. 1843; deputy recorder of Leeds 1857; a puisne judge of supreme court of New Zealand 1858 to death, acted as chief justice 1867 and 1886; author of A lecture on the influence of art on human happiness. Napier 1861; Reports of cases determined in the courts of appeal of New Zealand 3 vols. 1867; The New Zealand justice of the peace, resident magistrate, coroner and constable. Wellington 1879. d. London 1 June 1888.

JOHNSTON, Alexander Keith (4 son of Andrew Johnston). b. Kirkhill near Edinburgh 28 Dec. 1804; ed. Edin. univ., LLD. 1865; engraver with his bro. William Keith 1826; geographer in ordinary to the Queen 8 Feb. 1840; F.R.G.S. 1843 and Victoria medalist May 1871; F.G.S. 1845, F.R.S.E. 1850; constructed the first globe illustrative of physical geography, medal from Great exhibition of 1851; a founder of Scotch meteorological soc., and hon. sec.; member Edinb. Geological soc. 1862; published The national atlas of historical, commercial and political geography 1843; The physical atlas of natural phenomena 1848, the first physical atlas published in England; Atlas of classical geography 1853. d. Ben Rhydding, Yorkshire 9 July 1871. bur. Grange cemet. Edinb. 14 July. Athenæum 15 July 1871 p. 81; Proc. R. Geographical Soc. xvi 304–6 (1872).

JOHNSTON, Alexander Keith (eld. son of the preceding). b. Edinburgh 24 Nov. 1844; ed. Edinb. instit. and Grange house sch.; superintendent of drawing and engraving of maps with Stanford, London 1866–7; life member R.G.S. 1868 and map-draughtsman and assistant curator 1872–3; in charge of geographical branch of W. and A. K. Johnston’s London business 1869–73; a founder of the Grove park rowing club; geographer to the commission for the survey of Palestine 1873–5; geographer in Paraguay 1873–5; published The library map of Africa 1866; Handbook of physical geography. Edinb. 1870; Lake regions of Central Africa 1870; The surface zones of the globe 1874; leader of R. Geogr. Soc. expedition to the head of lake Nyassa, Nov. 1878. d. of dysentery, Berobero 120 miles from Dar es Salaam 28 June 1879. Academy, ii 102, 107 (1879); I.L.N. lxxv 174 (1879), portrait; J. Thomson’s To the central African lakes, i, pp. xiii–xix (1881), memoir and portrait.

JOHNSTON, Alexander Robert Campbell (3 son of sir Alexander Johnston 1775–1849, chief justice of Ceylon). b. Colombo, Ceylon 14 June 1812; in civil service of Mauritius 1828–33; private sec. to lord Napier in China 1833–35; third commissioner in China 1835; deputy superintendent of trade of British subjects in China, May 1837; administered government of Hong Kong, June 1841 to Dec. 1842; medal for services on board H.M.S. Nemesis 1841; sec. and registrar superintending in China 1843 to 25 Sep. 1852 when office abolished; F.R.S. 5 June 1845. d. San Raphael Ranche, Los Angelos, California 21 Jany. 1888. Athenæum, i 151 (1888).

JOHNSTON, Andrew. b. Cursitor st. London 1818; a civil engineer at Nottingham in partnership with Mr. Underwood 1854–8; assist. engineer Brighton railway 1858–65; principal assist. engineer Midland railway 1865 and engineer 1875 to death; M.I.C.E. 1875. d. 1884. Min. of proc. I.C.E. lxxviii 434–5 (1884).

JOHNSTON, Charles. b. Birmingham; L.S.A. 1833, M.R.C.S. 1835; assist. surgeon Queen’s service 1833–4, surgeon H.E.I.C.S. 1839–41; travelled in Abyssinia and was friendly with king Theodore 1842; proprietor of Hunt’s London Journal, in which he wrote many articles; surgeon at Natal, and member of legislative council 1856–8; surgeon at Barnstaple, Devon; author of Travels in Southern Abyssinia through the country of Adal to the kingdom of Shoa 2 vols. 1844; Observations on health and disease in Natal 1860. d. The square, Barnstaple 16 July 1872. Medical Times 17 Aug. 1872 p. 189.

JOHNSTON, Charles James. b. 1765; entered navy about 1787; governor of naval hospital of Madras 1802; captain 5 Sep. 1806; the Cornwallis under his command in 1807 was the first regular man of war to pass between Australia and Van Diemen’s Land; V.A. on half pay 6 Nov. 1850; pensioned 15 April 1854. d. Cowhill near Dumfries 16 Oct. 1856.

JOHNSTON, David (son of Henry Johnston of Corstorphine and Edinburgh). b. Edinburgh 19 May 1801; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1 Aug. 1821; translated Dante’s Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso 3 vols. 1867–8; Corneille’s Polyeucte 1870; published Hadrianus Moriens, translations of Hadrian’s Address to his soul 1870, containing 98 translations by living authors; author of A general view of the system of public education in France. Edin. 1827; A general medical and statistical history of charity in France 1829. d. 13 Marlborough buildings, Bath 17 Oct. 1879. The Academy 1879 ii p. 321.

JOHNSTON, Frederick. b. 18 June 1792; cornet 6 dragoons 4 April 1810; captain 17 light dragoons 1824–6; major 67 foot 2 April 1829 to 26 Feb. 1836; general 7 Jany. 1874; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877. d. A 10, Albany, Piccadilly, London 31 Jany. 1882.

JOHNSTON, George. b. Simprin, Berwickshire 20 July 1797; ed. at Kelso, Berwick and univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1819; M.R.C.S. Edinb. 1817, F.R.C.S. 1819; general practitioner at Berwick 1819–53, mayor 3 times; LL.D. Aberdeen; a founder of Ray soc. 1844 and of Berwickshire naturalists’ club; one of editors of Mag. of zoology and botany; wrote 90 papers on natural history; author of A Flora of Berwick-upon-Tweed 2 vols. 1829–31; A history of the British zoophytes. Edinb. 1838, 2 ed. London 1847; A history of British sponges and lithophytes 1842; An introduction to conchology 1850. d. Berwick on Tweed 30 July 1855. Proc. of Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club, iii 202, 215.

JOHNSTON, George (son of Andrew Johnston, surgeon in the army). b. Dublin 12 Aug. 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; M.R.C.S.E. 1837; M.D. Edin. 1845; assistant phys. of lying-in hospital, Dublin 1848–55; master of the Rotunda hospital, and writer of the clinical reports 1868–75; F.K.Q.C.P. Dublin 1863, pres. 1880; author with E. B. Sinclair of Practical midwifery, comprising an account of 13,748 deliveries which took place in the Rotunda hospital. 1878. d. 15 St. Stephen’s Green north, Dublin 7 March 1889.

JOHNSTON, James. Ensign 8 foot 7 June 1839, lieut. col. 1 July 1862 to death. d. Malta 29 Dec. 1865.

JOHNSTON, James Finlay Weir. b. Paisley 13 Sep. 1796; ed. at univ. of Glasgow, M.A.; kept a school at Durham 1825–30; studied chemistry under Berzelius in Sweden 1830; professor of chemistry and mineralogy in univ. of Durham from its foundation 1833 to death; chemist to Agricultural society of Scotland 1843 to date when society was dissolved; F.R.S. 15 June 1837; F.R.S. Edin.; author of The economy of a coalfield. Durham 1838; Catechism of agricultural chemistry and geology. Edinb. 1844, 33 editions, translated into most European languages and taught in schools; On the use of lime in agriculture 1849; The chemistry of common life 2 vols. 1853–5, 3 ed. 1879, his best work; contributed to Edinburgh review and Blackwood’s mag. d. Durham 18 Sep. 1855. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Mag., Nov. 1855 pp. 548–51.

JOHNSTON, James Henry. b. 1787; entered navy 1803, present at battle of Trafalgar 21 Oct. 1805, lieut. 16 Feb. 1810; lieut. on half pay July 1815; proposed establishment of steam communication with India viâ the Mediterranean and Red Sea 1823; designed iron steamers which navigated the Ganges many years; controller of the H.E.I. Company’s steamers 1833–50. d. on his way home from India 5 May 1851.

JOHNSTON, Norman. b. 1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830; inc. of St. Peter, Kirkcaldy 1840 to death; presented with 200 guineas on his jubilee March 1890; domestic chaplain to Countess of Rothes 1859; dean of united dioceses of St. Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane 1880 to death. d. Kirkcaldy 18 Sep. 1890 aged 84.

JOHNSTON, Robert. Called to bar in Ireland 1829; Q.C. 9 May 1868. d. 1885.

JOHNSTON, Thomas Henry (brother of Alexander R. C. Johnston 1812–88). b. 1807; ensign 66 foot 21 Feb. 1822, lieut. col. 28 Dec. 1838 to 12 July 1850; served in Canadian rebellion 1837–8; col. 87 foot 9 April 1864, col. 66 foot 10 Oct. 1870 to death; general 5 Dec. 1871. d. Carnsalloch, Dumfriesshire 29 Dec. 1891.

JOHNSTON, William (son of Thomas Boston Johnston, packman). b. Biggar, Lanarkshire 18 Feb. 1800; ed. at univ. of Glasgow, M.A. 1817, D.D. 1850; Secession minister at Limekilns near Dunfermline 1823 to death; the Secession church became the United Presbyterian church in 1847, convener of committee on education 1847 to death; moderator of synod 1854; a jubilee service held in his honor 27 Aug. 1873 when he was presented with an epergne and 1000 guineas; author of A memoir of the rev. Robert Brown. Dunfermline 1830. d. at his lodgings, Hanover st. Edinburgh 24 May 1874. W. Gifford’s Memorials of the life of Dr. Johnston (1876), portrait; J. Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy (2 Ser. 1849) 334–9.

JOHNSTON, Sir William (3 son of Andrew Johnston). b. Kirkhill near Penicuik, Midlothian 27 Oct. 1802; ed. at high school, Edin.; an engraver, Edin. 1 Dec. 1825; founded with his brother, firm of W. and A. K. Johnston 1826; engraver and copperplate printer to the Queen 2 Dec. 1837; purchased the business of the Messrs. Lizars 1859; built the Edina works, Easter road, Edinb. 1878; high constable of Edin. 1828; moderator to the high constables 1831, 32 and 39; member of dean of guild court 1831, of town council 1832; a bailie of Edin. 1840, lord provost 1848–51; knighted at Holyrood palace 26 Aug. 1851; retired from business 1867; joined with his brother in the production of atlases and maps. d. Kirkhill house near Gorebridge, Midlothian 7 Feb. 1888. Bookseller, March 1888 pp. 258–9.

JOHNSTON, William Walker Whitehall (eld. son of Thomas F. Johnston, colonial sec. of Trinidad, West Indies). Ensign 1 West India regiment 4 Aug. 1854, lieut. col. 24 Dec. 1873 to 1 April 1880 when placed on h.p.; hon. M.G. 1 April 1880. d. 9 Beauclerc road, The Grove, London 21 Jany. 1886.

JOHNSTONE, Charles Vanden Bempde (younger son of sir R. V. B. Johnstone, 1 baronet, d. 1807). b. 24 Aug. 1800; ed. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1830; V. of Feliskirk, Yorkshire 1827–72; preb. of Wetwang in York cath. 17 Oct. 1844 to death; canon res. of York 1845–73. d. Sutton hall, Thirsk 15 May 1882.

JOHNSTONE, Christian Isobel. b. Fifeshire 1781. (m. Mr. M’Leish, she obtained a divorce; m. (2) about 1812 John Johnstone of Dunfermline, schoolmaster, afterwards editor of Inverness Courier, they edited the Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle); she edited and wrote ‘The schoolmaster and Edinburgh weekly mag.’ 4 Aug. 1832 to 29 June 1833 when it was converted into ‘Johnstone’s Edinburgh Mag.’ published monthly 9 numbers, this was incorporated with Tait’s Edinburgh Mag. 1834 which she edited 1834–46; author of Clan Albin, a national tale 4 vols. 1815, anon.; The cook and housewife’s manual. By Mistress Margaret Dods of the Cleikum inn, St. Ronans 1826, 11 ed. 1862; Nights of the round table, or stories of Aunt Jane and her friends. 2 series Edin. 1832 and 1849; John Johnstone d. Edinb. 3 Nov. 1857 aged 76; she d. Buccleuch place, Edinburgh 26 Aug. 1857. W. Anderson’s Scottish Nation, iii 713–15 (1863); Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, Sep. 1857 pp. 573–5.

JOHNSTONE, Edward (3 son of James Johnstone of Kidderminster afterwards of Worcester, M.D. 1730–1802). b. Kidderminster 26 Sep. 1757; ed. at free gram. sch. there and at univ. of Edinb.; B.D., M.D. 1779; one of physicians of Birmingham general hospital 1779; pres. of Medical sch., afterward called Queen’s college, Birmingham 1827–45; principal of Queen’s coll. 1827–45; hon. phys. of Queen’s hosp. Birmingham to death. d. Edgbaston hall near Birmingham 4 Sep. 1851. Edgbastonia, iv 21–23 (1884).

JOHNSTONE, Edward (eld. son of the preceding). b. Ladywood house near Birmingham 9 April 1804; ed. Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; barrister L.I. 6 May 1828, barrister I.T. 1838; a founder of the Literary association of the Friends of Poland 1832; author of What is Poland? a question of geography, history and public law 1836; The general orders and practice of the courts of common law in Ireland 1854; claimed the dormant marquisate of Annandale 1876, claim dismissed by House of Lords as not having been proved 1881. d. Worcester 20 Sep. 1881. bur. Edgbaston. Biograph, Aug. 1880 pp. 170–3; Edgbastonia, iv 21–3 (1884).

JOHNSTONE, Henry James Wolfenden (eld. son of James Johnstone 1777–1845, physician extraordinary to William IV. 1830). b. 1808; ed. at Westminster sch. and St. George’s hosp. where he became house surgeon and teacher of anatomy; M.R.C.S. 1834, F.R.C.S. 1843; edited with his father The Medico-Chirurgical Review; had a large practice, retired through bad health 1848; resided in France 1848–50; presumed to be author of a series of letters in The Times beginning 20 Dec. 1851, exposing and condemning Louis Napoleon’s imperial designs; author of Clinical observations on diseases of the genito-urinary organs 1851. d. High view, St. Lawrence, Ramsgate 19 Oct. 1889.

JOHNSTONE, James (brother of Edward Johnstone 1804–81). b. Edgbaston hall near Birmingham 12 April 1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., M.B. 1828, M.L. 1830, M.D. 1832; F.R.C.P. 1834; studied in Edin., Paris and London; professor of materia medica and therapeutics at Queen’s college, Birmingham 1841 to death; phys. to the general hospital 1841 to death; pres. of British Medical Association, Sep. 1865; author of A therapeutic arrangement and syllabus of materia medica 1835; A discourse on the phenomena of sensation as connected with the mental, physical and instructive faculties of man 1841. d. Leamington 11 May 1869. Langford’s Modern Birmingham, ii 333–7, 492 (1877).

JOHNSTONE, James (son of James Johnstone a messenger of court of bankruptcy, d. 1865 aged 79). b. Charles st. Old st. London 26 June 1815; a messenger of bankruptcy court, Basinghall st. 1842–61; head of firm of Johnstone, Cooper, Wintle & Co. of 3 Coleman st. buildings, accountants 1861 to death; bought the Morning Herald and Standard newspapers from Charles Baldwin for £16,500 in 1857, issued the Standard as a morning paper 29 June 1857 at price of 2 pence, reduced price to 1 penny 4 Feb. 1858; started the Evening Herald 29 June 1857 which ceased 27 May 1865; the Morning Herald ceased 31 Dec. 1869; discontinued evening issue of the Standard 29 June 1857, but revived it 11 June 1860, appeared in a new form 1 Jany. 1870, sometimes circulated 100,000 copies; paid off all his liabilities and became sole proprietor of Standard 1870. d. Hooley house, Coulsdon, Surrey 21 Oct. 1878. J. Hatton’s Journalistic London (1882) 146–54, portrait; Vanity Fair 14 Feb. 1874 p. 81, portrait; Bourne’s English Newspapers, ii 226, 239–41, 336–7 (1887).

JOHNSTONE, James (eld. son of James Raymond Johnstone of Alva, Stirlingshire). b. Overton, Rutland 4 July 1801; ed. at Rugby and univ. of Edin.; admitted advocate at Scotch bar 1824; M.P. for Clackmannan and Kinross 1851–57. d. 24 Feb. 1888.

JOHNSTONE, John Beer. b. Dublin 12 March 1803; an actor in Ireland, the provinces and London; never had more than £2 a week up to 1882; at Princess’s theatre under Wilson Barrett 1882; presented with a testimonial and £60 by 200 actors on his eightieth birthday 12 March 1883; author of upwards of 200 dramas for which he received on an average about £5; he sold an extravaganza and a farce to David W. Osbaldiston for 15/-; his chief printed dramas are The Drunkard’s children. Pavilion theatre July 1848; The gipsy farmer or Jack and Jack’s brother. Surrey theatre March 1849; Gale Breezely or the tale of a tar. Surrey 1853; Ben Bolt. Surrey 28 March 1854; The sailor of France. Surrey 28 Nov. 1854; Tufelhausen or the lawyer’s legend. Surrey 24 March 1856; Pedrillo or a search for two fathers. Marylebone theatre 16 Nov. 1857; Morley Ashton or a sea voyage 1866; Jack Long or a shot in the eye 1872. d. 25 April 1891. bur. Brompton cemet. The Era 17 March 1883 p. 8.

JOHNSTONE, John Douglas. b. 1808; ensign 3 foot 15 Aug. 1827; captain 33 foot 19 Oct. 1838, lieut. col. 9 March 1855 to 17 April 1860 when placed on retired full pay; M.G. 17 April 1860; C.B. 27 July 1855. d. Dublin 19 Sep. 1863.

JOHNSTONE, Sir John Vanden Bempde, 2 Baronet. b. Hackness hall near Scarborough 28 Aug. 1799; ed. Rugby and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1821; succeeded 14 July 1807; M.P. Yorkshire 1830–32; M.P. Scarborough 1832–7 and 1841 to death; major Yorkshire hussars 22 April 1843, lieut. col. 6 April 1859 to 30 Aug. 1859; while hunting in Northamptonshire broke a rib which entered his lungs 20 Feb., d. 34 Belgrave sq. London 25 Feb. 1869. bur. at parish church, Hackness 3 March. Reg. and mag. of Biog. i 294 (1869).

JOHNSTONE, Montague Cholmeley (3 son of James Raymond Johnstone of Alva, co. Clackmannan 1768–1830). b. 2 March 1804; ensign 27 foot 27 Feb. 1823, lieut. col. 16 Nov. 1841 to 23 March 1849; lieut. col. 87 foot 23 March 1849 to 26 Oct. 1858; col. 88 foot 10 Aug. 1864 to death; general 29 Dec. 1873. d. Baden Baden 22 Sep. 1874.

JOHNSTONE, William (son of Mr. Johnstone, colliery manager to Mr. Dixon of the Govan iron works, Lanarkshire). b. parish of Old Monkland near Glasgow 1 July 1811; articled to David Smith of Glasgow, C.E. 1826–33; engineer and general manager of Glasgow and Ayr railway 1840, of Glasgow and South western railway to 31 Dec. 1874, the former line gradually developed into the latter; pres. of Institution of engineers in Scotland 1861–63, formed in 1857 chiefly by W. J. M. Rankine and himself; M.I.C.E. 4 Dec. 1866. d. Glasgow 27 April 1877.

JOHNSTONE, William Borthwick (son of John Johnstone, solicitor). b. Edinb. 21 July 1804; in a lawyer’s office, Edinb.; attended antique classes of Trustees academy 1840–2; exhibited at Trustees academy exhibitions from 1836 to death; A.R. Scottish Acad. 1840, member 1848, treasurer 1850; took his mother’s name of Borthwick 1847; oil, water-colour and miniature painter; his picture, A scene in Holyrood, 1855 is in National gallery of Scotland; first principal curator of Nat. Gall. of Scotland 1858; his collections of arms, armour and pictures, sold by Chapman, a 6 days’ sale; author of Catalogue of the National gallery of Scotland 1859, 18 ed. 1868. d. 3 Gloucester place, Edinb. 5 June 1868.

JOHNSTONE, Sir William James Hope (2 son of sir Wm. Johnstone Hope, G.C.B. 1766–1831). b. Haddingtonshire 28 July 1798; entered navy 20 June 1811, captain 21 Oct. 1823, R.A. 22 April 1853, V.A. 4 Feb. 1858, admiral 24 Sep. 1863; commander in chief on S.E. coast of America 1854–57; at Sheerness 28 June 1860 to 25 June 1863; R.A. of the United Kingdom 12 Feb. 1870, placed on retired list April 1870; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. d. 24 Albany st. Edinburgh 11 July 1878.

JOICEY, John (4 son of George Joicey of Newcastle). b. Tynemouth 1816; apprenticed to his brother James Joicey, colliery viewer 1838–41, partner in the firm to death; sheriff of Durham 1878; M.P. North Durham April 1880 to death; A.I.C.E. 2 March 1875; erected and endowed Newton Hall church 1877; gave sum of £12,000 to Museum of natural history society of Northumberland and Durham 1881. d. Newton Hall, Stocksfield on Tyne 15 Aug. 1881, personalty sworn £678,000, 28 Jany. 1882. Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. lxix 417–18 (1882).

JOLLIE, Patrick. Oldest bookseller in the world. d. Leslie, Fifeshire 3 Oct. 1885 aged 97.

JOLLIFFE, Peter William. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1789, M.A. 1792; P.C. of St. James, Poole, Dorset 4 May 1791 to death; the oldest incumbent in England. d. Parkstone near Poole, March 1861 aged 95.

JOLLIFFE, Thomas Robert (2 son of Thomas Samuel Jolliffe, M.P.) b. 1780; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; R. of Babington near Frome 15 Feb. 1810 to death; author of Letters from Palestine. Signed Th. R. J. 1819, 4 ed. 2 vols. 1854; Narrative of an excursion from Corfu to Smyrna 1827. d. Ammerdown park near Bath 15 June 1872.

JOLLIFFE, William Peter (only son of Christopher Jolliffe of Poole, Dorset). b. Poole 1812; barrister G.I. 30 June 1839, bencher 1 March 1875 to death, treasurer 1881; standing counsel to governors of Queen Anne’s bounty 1878 to death; member of Council of legal education. d. Bournemouth 31 May 1887.

JOLLY, John Marks. b. 1790; travelled with Edmund Kean and Sheridan Knowles as an actor and conductor of the orchestra; conductor at Surrey theatre, London 1840–60; at various periods connected with the bands of Her Majesty’s, Drury Lane and Covent Garden; conductor and arranger of music at Oxford music hall till June 1863; his opera Mabel produced at Covent Garden under Madame Vestris’ management 1840; composer of the songs, Queen of the starry night 1855, and Where are all the young men gone 1861; The Gipsy sisters, a duet 1858; Poor Jennie, solo and quartett 1861. d. West sq. Southwark 1 July 1864. Era 10 July 1864 p. 11.

JOLY, Henry Edward. Archdeacon of Killala to death; author of Questions deducible from the Introductory lessons on the History of religious worship of R. Whately 1849; Questions deducible from the Introductory lessons on Christian evidences of R. Whately 1849. d. Hollywood 3 June 1852.

JONAS, Edmund James. b. 1805; governor of Newgate 1859–74. d. Turle road, Tollington park, London 30 Jany. 1879.

JONAS, Elizabeth. b. St. George’s road, Southwark 1825; at six years of age was a good musician; first appeared at Mr. J. Field’s concert as a pianiste 1832; played in oratorios at Drury Lane; scholar R. Academy 1836, King’s scholar 1838, associate 1841, teacher of the piano there 1838–50; residing in St. George’s road 1854. Cazalet’s Hist. of R. Acad. of Music (1854) 299–302.

JONES, Aaron. b. Pennsylvania near Shrewsbury 3 March 1831; fought Harry Orme at Frimley 18 Dec. 1849 when he lost after 40 rounds in 2¾ hours; beat Bob Wade at Edenbridge 24 Sep. 1850; fought Orme again 10 May 1852 for £100 a side at Bourne Bridge and Newmarket, police interfered, Jones refused to renew the contest and so lost; beaten by Tom Paddock 18 July 1854 and 26 June 1855; fought Tom Sayers £100 a side, 62 rounds in 3 hours, Banks of the Medway, darkness came on, both men much punished 6 Jany. 1857; beaten by Sayers £100 a side, 85 rounds in 2 hours, Banks of the Medway 10 Feb. 1857; went to U.S. of America, where he trained and seconded J. C. Heenan for his fight with John Morrissey at Long Point, Canada 20 Oct. 1858; entered Confederate army during the civil war, one of general Beauregard’s aide-de-camps; fought Mike Mc Coole for 2000 dollars and the championship at Busenburk station, Ohio, when Mc Coole won in 34 rounds lasting 26 minutes. d. Leavenworth, Indiana 16 Feb. 1869, reported to have been poisoned. H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica, iii 253, 262, 283, 382, 419.

JONES, Alexander (youngest son of 4 Viscount Ranelagh d. 1797). b. 9 March 1778; entered navy 1790; wrecked among Japanese islands 1797; saved H.M.S. Tartarus from destruction after she had been abandoned at Ferrol 1800; captain 1 Aug. 1811; commander of Talbot sloop making many captures 1807–11; admiral on half pay 1 Nov. 1860. d. Cheltenham 8 Jany. 1862.

JONES, Anna Maria. Author of The Gipsey, a romantic tale. London, Chapple 2 vols., and other works of fiction. d. a pauper 25 Jany. 1854.

JONES, Avonia Stanhope (dau. of George Jones, actor 1810–79). b. 43 Barrow st. New York 12 July 1836; first appeared on the stage at People’s theatre, Cincinnati 18 April 1856 as Parthenia in Ingomar; played in Australia 1860–1; first appeared in London at Drury Lane 5 Nov. 1861 as Medea; played at the Adelphi 1862–3; acted Lady Isabel in East Lynne at the Surrey 1864 and Theodora in Watts Phillips’s drama Theodora, actress and empress at same house 9 April 1866; played in the provinces and in Dublin. (m. 1862 Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, actor 1818–66). d. of rapid consumption, 2 Bond st. New York 4 Oct. 1867. bur. Mount Auburn cemet. Boston. Illust. sporting news, v 145 (1866), portrait.

JONES, Benjamin Orlando. Ensign 36 foot 29 May 1805; captain 12 foot 19 Sep. 1822 to 6 July 1826 when placed on half pay; col. 73 foot 15 Sep. 1860 to death; L.G. 12 Nov. 1862; K.H. 1837; K.T.S. d. The Hafod, Abergavenny 16 Feb. 1865.

JONES, Charles Chadwicke. b. 1800; barrister M.T. 25 June 1830; went the home circuit; practised at the Old Bailey; serjeant at law 10 July 1844; author of Recollections of royalty, from the death of William Rufus in 1100 to that of the cardinal York in 1807, 2 vols. 1828. d. 18 Lambeth ter. London 7 July 1852 aged 52.

JONES, Charles Handfield (son of J. Jones, captain R.N.) b. Liverpool 1 Oct. 1819; ed. at Rugby and Cath. hall, Camb., B.A. 1840, M.B. 1843; studied at St. George’s hosp. London; M.R.C.P. 1845, F.R.C.P. 1849, junior censor 1863–4, senior censor 1886, vice pres. 1888; delivered Lumleian lectures on pathology of the nervous system 1865; F.R.S. 6 June 1850; phys. to St. Mary’s hosp. Paddington 1851; author of Pathological and clinical observations respecting morbid conditions of the stomach 1855; Clinical observations on functional nervous disorders 1864; with E. H. Sieveking of A manual of pathological anatomy 1854, 2 ed. 1875. d. 24 Montagu sq. London 30 Sep. 1890. British Medical Journal, ii 800, 874, 924, 932 (1890).

JONES, Sir Charles Thomas (3 son of Charles Thomas Jones of Frontraith, Montgomeryshire). b. 1778; entered navy 1791; knighted by duke of Richmond, lord lieutenant of Ireland 1810; captain 12 Aug. 1819, retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired R.A. 27 Aug. 1851. d. Montgomery 4 April 1853.

JONES, Mrs. Charles W. b. 29 Nov. 1789; singing chambermaid in the provinces; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre as Lady Duberly in The Heir at law 18 June 1823; played old women at Covent Garden and Drury Lane; last appeared at Drury Lane 1842; played Lady Bait in P. Palmer’s comedy Life, at Olympic 16 Nov. 1846. d. York town, Farnborough, Hants. 28 Feb. 1866. Era 18 March 1866 p. 11.

JONES, Sir Daniel. Colonel; resided at Brockville in district of Johnstown, Upper Canada; knighted at St. James’s palace 16 March 1836. d. 1856.

JONES, David (eld. son of John Jones d. 1843). b. Blaenos, Llandovery, Nov. 1810; ed. at Charterhouse; sheriff of Carmarthenshire 1845; M.P. Carmarthenshire 1852–68. d. Pantglas, Carmarthenshire 1 July 1869.

JONES, David. b. 1810; on staff of Morning Chronicle; manager and publisher of Saturday Review at 445 Strand, afterwards at 39 Southampton st. Strand, from date of first number 3 Nov. 1855 to his death. d. Abergele, north Wales 15 June 1884. bur. Finchley cemetery near London 23 June.

JONES, David William. One of the 300 mounted post boys in London; trained under Chifney at Newmarket; head lad to John Stevens; head groom to marquis of Westminster, to General Grosvenor and to sir John Ramsden; in the Peninsula and at Waterloo in charge of horses; served many masters in India, Spain, France and Germany, and could speak 3 languages; trained for Mr. De Burgh at Hampton; frequently walked from Hampton to Hyde park corner; a very fair jockey and a strong waster; kept a lodging house in Mayfair to 1830; became blind, his wife a pew opener kept him till her death 1854. d. Chelsea workhouse, Middlesex, June 1858. Sporting Review, xl 4–5 (1858).

JONES, Ebenezer (2 son of Robert Jones). b. Canonbury sq. Islington 20 Jany. 1820; ed. under rev. John Bickerdike at Highgate; clerk in a tea warehouse in Mincing lane, City 1837; an accountant; sec. of a railway co. 1846; wrote articles in the Oddfellow; lived in Paulton square, Chelsea 1856–60; published Studies of sensation and event, poems 1843; The land monopoly 1849. (m. 1844 Caroline niece of Edwin Atherstone the poet, they separated, she d. 184-). d. Brentwood, Essex 14 Sep. 1860. bur. in churchyard of Shenfield near there. E. Jones’s Studies of sensation, ed. by R. H. Shepherd (1879), Memoir pp. xvii–lxxxiv; Athenæum, ii 368, 401, 466 (1878).

JONES, Edwyn (eld. son of Henry Jones of Louth, Ireland). Barrister G.I. 26 Jany. 1867; member of joint board of examiners, Inns of Court 1877 to death; edited with John Shortt The county court acts, with chapters upon administration, trusts, etc. 1868; author of The law of salvage 1870. d. Woocote Dower house, Upper Wallington 3 Nov. 1890.

JONES, Elizabeth (dau. of Mr. Mandelbert, actor). b. 1834; appeared at Sadler’s Wells as Macduff’s child in Macbeth, as Arthur in King John, and as the prince of Wales in Richard III.; acted at Olympic and Surrey, and at Brighton, Plymouth, Dublin and Bristol; acted at Grecian theatre, Islington 1865–74. (m. David H. Jones, actor, d. 21 Sep. 1867). d. at res. of brother in law George Chapman, musical director, Beaufort villa, Norrisville, Bristol 5 May 1883. Era 19 May 1883 p. 9.

JONES, Ernest Charles (son of Charles Jones, major 15 hussars and aide de camp to Ernest, duke of Cumberland). b. Berlin 25 Jany. 1819; ed. St. Michael’s coll. Lüneberg; engaged in journalism in London 1841; barrister M.T. 19 April 1844; joined the chartist movement 1845, was the leader till 1858; contested Halifax 1847, 1852, Nottingham 1853, 1857 and Manchester 1868; arrested for making seditious speeches, and sentenced at Central criminal court to two years’ solitary confinement 7 July 1848; attended chartist convention of 1851; joined the northern circuit and had much practice; editor of the Northern Star and of The People’s Paper 1852; The Labourer 1847; author of The Wood spirit 2 vols. 1841; My life, a rhapsody; The maid of Warsaw 1854; Woman’s wrongs, tales 1855; The revolt of Hindostan, a poem 1857, originally written with his own blood while in prison; Democracy vindicated, a lecture 1867. d. Wellington st. Higher Broughton, Manchester 26 Jany. 1869. bur. Ardwick cemet. 31 Jany., demonstration in Trafalgar sq. London in honour of his memory 26 March 1869. C. Mackay’s Forty years’ recollections, ii 59–63 (1877); Reg. and Mag. of Biog., March 1869 pp. 223–6; Times 27, 29, 31 March 1869.

JONES, Evan (son of Evan Jones). b. Bryntynoriad near Dolgelly 5 Sep. 1820; ed. Brecon coll. 1841–5; a bard of great celebrity; independent minister, Tredegar, July 1845 to Jany. 1848; replied to rev. John Griffith’s false charges against nonconformists, charging them with ignorance, drunkenness and immorality 1847, and exposed the Blue book treachery of the Education commission; edited The Principality, a newspaper. Cardiff 1848; superintended and wrote for the Standard of Freedom, and the Pathway 1851, two of Cassell’s publications; published Y Gmraes, a magazine for women Jany. 1850 to death; Yr Adolygydd, a quarterly review March 1850 to death; known as Ieuan Gwynedd; author of The dissent and morality of Wales 1848; Facts and figures in illustration of the dissent and morality of Wales 1849 and many works in Welsh; ruptured a blood vessel in London and d. Cardiff 23 Feb. 1852. bur. Groeswen near Caerphilly, monument erected by a penny subscription. Congregational year book for 1854 p. 234–5.

JONES, George. b. 1780; 2 lieut. R.M. 19 June 1793, lieut. col. 22 July 1830, col. commandant 27 Dec. 1837 to 9 Nov. 1846; general 20 June 1855; a prisoner of war in France 1804–14. d. Woodside house, Southsea 30 Jany. 1857 aged 77.

JONES, George (only son of John Jones, mezzotint engraver 1745–97). b. 6 Jany. 1786; student at the R.A. 1801; served in the militia, joined the army of occupation in Paris after Waterloo; painted many pictures of Waterloo and the battles in the Peninsula; A.R.A. 1822, R.A. 1824, librarian 1834–40, keeper 1840–50, acted as pres. 1845–50; exhibited 221 pictures at R.A., 141 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1803–70; chief adviser of Robert Vernon in forming his collection; acted as executor for Chantrey and Turner; author of Recollections of life of sir S. Chantrey 1849. d. 8 Park sq. Regent’s park, London 19 Sep. 1869. Sandby’s History of royal academy, ii 36–9 (1862); Reg. and Mag. of Biog. ii 253, 280 (1869).

JONES, George. b. about 1795; owner of Rosherville gardens, Gravesend 1855 to death, the gardens covering a space of 17 acres were sold for £24,600, 8 Oct. 1872. d. Lansdowne house, Rosherville 26 June 1872.

JONES, George. b. London 10 March 1810; taken to America 1818; appeared at Federal st. theatre, Boston 1810, at Chestnut st. theatre, Philadelphia as Pierre in Venice preserved 7 Dec. 1831, at the Old National, Boston as Claude Melnotte 16 May 1838; manager Marshal theatre, Richmond, and Avon theatre, Norfolk, Sep. 1839; visited England and lectured on the Bible; returning to America 1857 took the title of Count Joannes; lecturer at Boston; appeared at Academy of music, New York as Hamlet 1872 and committed many eccentricities and was thenceforth guyed whenever he was seen on the stage; author of A history of ancient America, Tyrian era, 3 ed. 1843; Tecumseh, a tragedy, life of general Harrison, etc. 1844. d. West-side hotel, Sixth avenue, New York 30 Dec. 1879. The Era 25 Jany. 1880 p. 4.

JONES, George Matthew. L.R.C.S. Edin. 1826, M.R.C.S. Eng. 1855; surgeon in Jersey 1826 to death, surgeon to general hospital there; he signalised himself about 1850 by performance of several successful cases of excisions of joints especially of the knee; by his practice and writings he contributed as much as anyone to rapid spread of conservative surgery; the merit of reviving excision of the knee is due to Wm. Fergusson, but Jones adopted the operation a few weeks after Fergusson had performed it, without being aware of the fact; author of On disarticulation of the scapula from the shoulder joint 1860. d. Old st. St. Heliers, Jersey 7 Sep. 1861. The Lancet, ii 264 (1861).

JONES, Sir Harry David (5 son of John Jones, general superintendent of Landguard fort, Suffolk 1751–1806). b. Landguard fort 14 March 1792; 2 lieut. R.E. 17 Sep. 1808; served in the Peninsula 1810–14; led the forlorn hope at siege of St. Sebastian and was wounded and taken prisoner 25 July 1813; col. R.E. 7 July 1853 to 2 Aug. 1860; a brigadier general for particular service in the Baltic 1854; commanded Royal Engineers in the Crimea 10 Feb. 1855; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 28 June 1861; governor of royal military coll. Sandhurst 29 April 1856 to death; lieut. general 6 July 1860; colonel commandant of Royal Engineers 2 Aug. 1860 to death; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 4 June 1856; A.I.C.E.; contributed papers to Institution of Civil engineers, to United service journal and to Professional papers of Corps of R.E.; edited sir J. T. Jones’ Reports on the fortresses in the Netherlands 1861; compiled vol. 2 of sir H. Elphinstone’s Journal of operations to fall of Sebastopol 1859. d. Sandhurst 2 Aug. 1866. G.M. ii 420 (1866); I.L.N. lxv 374 (1874); Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. xxx 438–40 (1870).

JONES, Harry Longueville (son of Edward Jones). b. Piccadilly, London 16 April 1806; ed. at St. John’s coll. and Magd. coll. Camb., 7 wrangler and B.A. 1828, M.A. 1832; fellow of his coll., lecturer and dean; C. of Connington 1829; settled in France 1834 and is reported to have edited a reissue of Galignani’s Paris guide; opened a college in Manchester 1837 which did not succeed; resided at Beaumaris 1845–9; one of H.M.’s inspectors of schools in Wales 16 Dec. 1848 to 1864; started and edited the Archæologia Cambrensis, Jany. 1846 to 1850; chief founder of Cambrian Archæological Assoc. Sep. 1847; author of Illustrated history of Carnarvonshire; Le Keux’s Memorials of Cambridge 2 vols. 1841, with descriptive accounts by T. Wright and H. L. Jones; Essays. Reprinted from Blackwood’s Magazine 1870. d. Kensington 16 Nov. 1870. Bibl. Cornub. i 278; Archæologia Cambrensis, ii 94–6 (1871).

JONES, Henry Bence (2 son of Wm. Jones, 5 dragoon guards). b. Thorington hall, Yoxford, Suffolk 31 Dec. 1813; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840, M.B. 1845, M.D. 1849; L.R.C.P. 1842, F.R.C.P. 1849, senior censor; F.R.S. 30 April 1846; assistant phys. to St. George’s hosp. London 1845, phys. 1846–62; hon. sec. of Royal Institution of Great Britain 1860–72; author of On gravel, calculus and gout 1842; On animal chemistry, in its application to the stomach and renal diseases 1850; The life and letters of Faraday 2 vols. 1870, 2 ed. 1870; The Royal institution, its founders and its first professors 1871. d. 84 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 20 April 1873. Barker’s Photographs of Medical Men (1868) vol. ii, portrait i; Medical Times, i 505–8 (1873); I.L.N. lxii 423, 424, 499 (1873), portrait.

JONES, Henry Richmond (son of rev. Inigo Wm. Jones of Chobham place, Surrey d. 1810). b. 1808; cornet 6 dragoon guards 9 June 1825, lieut. col. 16 Sep. 1851 to 21 Oct. 1862 when placed on h.p.; col. 14 hussars 24 Feb. 1871 to 15 May 1873; col. 6 dragoon guards 15 May 1873 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 16 Nov. 1858. d. Brighton 3 Oct. 1880.

JONES, Herbert George (2 son of C. R. Jones of Heathfield, Glamorgan). b. 1805; barrister L.I. 16 May 1828; went the Oxford and Welsh circuits; attorney general in Van Diemen’s Land; serjeant at law 1842; judge of county courts (circuit 42) Clerkenwell, London 16 April 1849 and of (circuit 41) Clerkenwell 1858 to death; author of The court of exchequer and the county courts 1858. d. Somerville Navan, co. Meath 17 Feb. 1866 aged 61.

JONES, Sir Horace (son of David Jones, attorney). b. 15 Size lane, Bucklersbury, London 20 May 1819; an architect at 16 Furnival’s inn, Holborn 1843; designed and built the Surrey music hall, Cardiff town hall and other important buildings; architect and surveyor to city of London 26 Feb. 1864 to death; designed and built Central meat market, Smithfield 1868, rebuilt Billingsgate market 1877 and Leadenhall market 1882; designed Guildhall library and museum 1872 and new Council chamber 1884; designed the Temple Bar memorial Nov. 1880; A.R.I.B.A. 1842, fellow 1855, pres. 1882–3; knighted at Osborne 31 July 1886. d. 30 Devonshire place, Portland place, London 21 May 1887. bur. Norwood cemetery 27 May. Journal of proc. of R.I.B.A. iii 330, 331, 368, 370–3 (1887); Masonic Portraits. By J. G. (1876) 27–31; I.L.N. 28 May 1887 p. 586, 4 June p. 634, portrait.

JONES, Hugh Chambres (son of John Jones of Liverpool). b. 1783; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1805, M.A. 1807; private sec. to duke of Portland, afterwards his chaplain; V. of West Ham, Essex 1807–45; treasurer of St. Paul’s cath. 30 Oct. 1816 to death; R. of Aldham, Essex 1823–40; archdeacon of Essex 14 Nov. 1823 to 1861. d. Brynstedfod, Conway, Denbighshire 29 Sep. 1869.

JONES, Hugh Hyndman (son of R. M. Jones of Houston, Demerara). Ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; C. of St. James, Cheltenham 1840–2; C. of St. Bride, Fleet st. London 1842–6; C. of St. George, Hanover sq. 1847–8; assistant sec. of S.P.G. 1848–50; archdeacon of Demerara and R. of St. George, George town, Demerara, Oct. 1853 to 1873; C. of Cheddon-Fitzpaine, Somerset 1874–5; lived at Houston villa, Craven road, Reading 1875 to death. d. 1884.

JONES, Inigo William (brother of Henry Richmond Jones 1808–80). b. 1806; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1836; cornet 6 dragoon guards 8 July 1828; major 11 hussars 25 March 1836 to 24 Dec. 1852; lieut. col. 3 West India regiment 24 Dec. 1852, placed on h.p. 11 March 1853; sold out March 1857. d. 3 Oct. 1878.