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JAMINEAU, ISAAC, third son of Claude Jamineau, College Hill, London, and Venice, Italy, merchant, and Louise --- (IGI); bapt. French Huguenot church, Threadneedle Street 12 Feb 1710 (IGI); adm. (aged 11) Jan 1720/1; Min. Can. 1722; KS 1723; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1727, adm. pens. 2 Jun 1727, scholar 17 May 1728, matr. 1727; adm. Middle Temple 5 Oct 1727; Supplier of Newspapers to Clerks of the Roads, General Post Office (occurs 1760); HBM Consul, Naples 2 Jul 1753 – Aug 1779; d. 3 Nov 1789.

JANE, JOSEPH, son of Rev. Joseph Jane, Rector of St. Mary’s, Truro, Cornwall, and Master Truro GS, and Anne, dau. of Henry Gould, Lew Trenchard, Devon; great-nephew of William Jane (qv); bapt. Truro, Cornwall 21 Feb 1716 (IGI); adm.; KS (aged 13) 1729; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1733, matr. 25 May 1733, Westminster Student 29 Mar 1734 – void 22 Mar 1764 (expiry year of grace as R. Iron Acton), Tutor 1740-55, Junior Censor 1741-5, Senior Censor 1746, Catechist 1753-60, Wake Librarian 1755-7; BA 1737; MA 20 Mar 1739/40; BD 1748; Proctor 1747; ordained deacon 1 Jun 1740, priest 28 Dec 1740 (both Oxford); Curate, Cowley, Oxfordshire 1740-7, St. Thomas, Oxford 18 Jan 1747-8; Vicar of St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford 17 Dec 1748-63; Rector of Iron Acton, Gloucs., 19 Mar 1763-88; d. 7 Jan 1795 (M. I. Stapleton, Gloucs. ).

JANSON, FRANCIS WILLIAM, eldest son of John William Janson, Sidcup, Kent, Lloyds’ underwriter, and Louisa, eldest dau. of Lewis Burnand, Croydon, Surrey, Lloyd’s underwriter; b. 7 Jan 1862; adm. 19 Apr 1876 (R); left 1879; member, Lloyds’; d. 12 Apr 1902.

JANSON, JOHN HENRY, brother of Francis William Janson (qv); b. 8 Nov 1864; adm. 29 Apr 1878 (R, later D); QS 1879; left 1880; emigrated to Canada; resident at Hamilton, Ontario; m. 15 Nov 1893 Susie, eldest dau. of William Holditch, South River, Ontario; d. 25 Nov 1936.

Jaquet, Ernest Godfrey, son of Sir Robert Glover Jaquet, Kt., C. I. E., of Blackheath, Kent, Accountant-Gen. at the India Office, by Emily Rose, daughter of Thomas Woods; b. Dec. 13, 1889; adm. as exhibitioner Sept. 24, 1903 (H); left (with Triplett) July 1908; Jesus Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1908; B.A. 1911; M.A. 1915; Ridley Hall 1912; ord. 1913; Curate of Luton, Beds, 1913-5; Curate of Addiscombe, Surrey, 1919-21; Chaplain of Christ's Coll. Camb. 1921-3; Vicar of Christ Church, Battersea, 1923-8; priest in charge, Three Springs, West Australia, 1928-32; Rector of Mount Hawthorn 1933-5, and of Ncdlands, 1935-47; Canon of Perth Cathedral 1946-51 and Canon Emeritus 1951; Rural Dean of Coastal Dists., Perth, 1944-51; Gen. Licence, Diocese of Perth, 1948; temp. Chaplain to the Forces (4th class) 1915-9; Hon. Chaplain 1921; Chaplain, Australian Military Forces 1933-46; Senior Chaplain, W. Australia, 1939-44; m. Aug. 19, 1924, Grace Marion, daughter of Charles Craddock Underwood, of Ealing; d. 14 Apr. 1971.

Jardine, Sir Douglas James, eldest son of James Jardine, M.B., of Richmond, Surrey, by Caroline Fanny, youngest daughter of John Hunt Gosling, of Richmond; b. Oct. 13, 1888; adm. as exhibitioner Sept. 25, 1902 (A); left (with Triplett) July 1907; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1907; B.A. 1910; M.A. 1914; entered the Colonial Service as a clerk in the Chief Secretary's Office at Cyprus Nov. 1910; Asst. Secretary to the Government 1912-6; Secretary to the Administration of Somaliland 1916-21; accompanied mission to Abyssinia on the Coronation of Queen Zauditu 1917; in charge H. Q. Services, Somaliland Expeditionary Force, 1920; mentioned in despatches; Senior Asst. Secretary, Central Secretariat, Nigeria 1921; Govt. Secretary, Tanganyika, 1928-34; Governor of North Borneo 1934, and of Sierra Leone, 1937; British Representative on the Permanent Mandates Commission 1929-31; Governor of the Leeward Islands 1941; retired on account of ill-health 1943; Commander of the Order of the Most Brilliant Star of Ethiopia 1917; O.B.E. June 3, 1918; C.M.G. 1932; K.C.M.G. 1938; author of The Mad lvfullah of Somaliland (1923), and other works; m. 1st Jan. 21, 1913, Hilda Margaret, youngest daughter of Major John Edwards Werge Howey, of Chelsea; 2nd June 2, 1923, Jessie Mary, daughter of Lauchlan Andrew Macpherson, of Glen Urquhart, Inverness-shire; d. Dec. 11, 1946.

Jardine, Maurice Kirkpatrick, brother of Douglas James Jardine (q.v.); b. Sept. 30, 1891; adm. Sept. 28, 1905 (A); exhibitioner; K.S. Jan. 1907; left July 1910; Edinburgh Univ.; M.B. and Ch. B. 1920; temp. Surg.-Probationer R. N. V. R. May 8, 1916; served in Great War I in the Indian Medical Service in France, Gallipoli, and Egypt, and with the Grand Fleet 1916-9; Sen. Asst. Med. Officer Shirley Warren Infirmary, Southampton, 1923; Medical Superintendent, Borough Hospital, Shirley Warren, Southampton, 1930; visiting physician, Southampton Group of Hosps., 1949; Emeritus Physician 1957; m. Oct. 25. 1934, Gwendolen Violet, daughter of John Whalley Brown, of Bournemouth.

Jarvis, Andrew Christopher Edward, son of Lieut. -Col. Cyril Eustace Jarvis Indian Army, barrister, and Janet Mary, d. of Edward Baker of Sheffield; b. 29 Nov. 1944; adm. Sept. 1958 (G); left July 1962; Magdalen Coll. Oxf., matric. 1963, BA 1966, MA 1973; Makerere Coll. Uganda, Dip. Ed. 1967; Min. of Education Uganda 1967-73; lecturer Worcester Coll. of Education 1973-6; British Council The Gambia 1976-80; Min. of Education Zimbabwe 1981-6; asst. master King Edward’s Sch. Birmingham 1986; author, physics textbooks; d. 6 June 1998.

Jawdat, Nizar Ali, son of Ali Jawdat Al-Ayubi, Iraqi Ambassador to London, subsequently Prime Minister of Iraq, and Nazik, d. of Hassan Tabseen of Aleppo, Syria; b. 3 Oct. 1920; adm. Sept. 1936 (B); left July 1938; Harvard Graduate Sch of Design, Master of Architecture; an architect, initially practising in Iraq, and subsequently in Italy and London; living Washington, DC, USA; m. Ellen Stone Coan Bovie, architect; d. 19 Jan. 2017.

Jawdat, Nizar, son of Ali Jawdat of Baghdad, Iraqi Diplomatic Service, and Nazik, d. of Hassan Tabseen of Aleppo, Syria; b. 3 Oct. 1920; adm. Sept. 1936 (B); left July 1938; American Univ. of Beirut; Harvard School of Architecture; returned to Iraq, twice exiled in 1958 and 1968; lived in Italy, London and Washington DC; co-owner St. Luke's Gallery, Washington DC; m. Ellen Stone Coan; d. 19 Jan. 2017.