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Jacomb-Hood, John Wykeham, brother of Stanley Frederick Percy Jacomb-Hood (qv); b. 26 June 1906; adm. Sept. 1920 (G); left July 1924; a printer and publisher; RA 1939-45 (Capt.); m. 6 Jan. 1945 Patience, d. of Lieut.-Col. T. K. Allsop; d. 9 Apr. 1985.

Jacomb-Hood, Stanley Frederick Percy, son of Sydney Jacomb-Hood, of Kensington, by Elizabeth, daughter of John Lynch, of Diss, Norfolk; b. May 25, 1902; adm. May 4, 1916 (G); left Easter 1921; an insurance official; m. 1939, Vera, youngest daughter of James Stack Lauder, of London; d. 23 Jan. 1978.

JADIS, HENRY FENTON, son of Henry Jadis, Portman Square, Hyde Park, London, and Maria Elizabeth, divorced wife of Capt. Alan Hyde Gardner, Royal Navy (2nd Baron Gardner), and sister of Edward Hale Adderley (qv); b. 8 Dec 1802 (before his parents’ marriage); adm. 16 Nov 1814; left 9 Dec 1818; Clerk, Corn Department, Board of Trade 24 Jul 1821 – dismissal 21 Jul 1827; subsequently Clerk, Home Department, Board of Control; reappointed to Corn Department, Board of Trade 5 Jan 1842; Deputy Comptroller of Corn Returns 11 May 1843-51, Comptroller 1851 – Jan 1865, retired; author, Journal of a Pedestrian Tour in North Wales, 1826; m. Maria --- (IGI); d. c. 1887.

Jagger, Cedric Sergeant, son of Charles Sergeant Jagger MC ARA, sculptor, of Chiswick, and his first wife Violet Constance, d. of Thomas Charles Smith; b. 14 June 1920; adm. Sept. 1932 (A); left July 1938; RA in WW2; advertising man. ICI Ltd, retd 1972; chairman Civil Service Selec­ tion Boards 1975-86; JP (Hants) 1975; Freeman City of London 197 5; Liveryman Worshipful Company of Clockmakers 1980, Keeper of the Company's Collection 1980-8; author of Paul Philip Barraud 1968, Clocks 1973, Royal Clocks 1983, The Artistry of the English Watch 1988; m. 1st 22 Mar. 1952 Jane Angela, d. of James Hynds, co. director, of Maidenhead; 2nd 5 Apr. 1972 Christine Fergus, d. of Fergus Brown of Sevenoaks, Kent; d. Jan. 2002.

Patron of the School; By letters patent addressed to Trinity College, Cambridge, dated 27 June 1607, he recapitulated and confirmed Elizabeth’s injunctions, and at the same time enjoined the election of Westminster scholars at Trinity to fellowships at that college.

JAMES, ---; b.; at school in 1569 (Chapter Muniments 54019); chorister; a pensioner (Widow Perryn).

James, Arthur Gladdish Trevenen, brother of Hilary Trevenen James (qv); b. 8 Aug. 1915; adm. Sept. 1929 (G); left July 1934; Acting PO RAF Apr. 1935, PO Apr. 1936, FO Oct. 1937, Flt Lieut. Oct. 1939, Sqdn Ldr Dec. 1940, Wing Cdr Mar. 1942; OBE Jan. 1944; retd RAF Mar. 1958; admin. officer Waddesdon Manor, National Trust, 1958-60; Min. of Defence (Air) 1960-73; vice-chairman Population Concern; author of The Royal Air Force: The Past 3O Years 1976; m. 1 Apr. 1940 Ernestine W. S. Van Gesseler Verschuir, Governor of Djokjakarta, Java; d. 21 Jan 2004.

James, Benjamin Fuller; second son of John Haddy James FRCS, Exeter, Devon, surgeon, Mayor of Exeter, previously Assistant Surgeon, 1st Life Guards, and Elizabeth Withall, Sowden Cottage, Lympstone, Devon ; bapt.Exeter Cathedral 12 Jan 1825 (IGI) ; ed. school in Exeter ; Exeter Coll.Oxford, matr. 11 Nov 1841, aged 17, scholar 1842 ; BA 1846 ; MA 1848 ; ordained priest 3 Jun 1849 (London) ; Assistant Master (Classics) 1847 – Dec 1884 ; House Master, 1 Little Dean’s Yard (Rigaud’s) 1850 – Dec 1884 ; “he did his work in school carefully, but without much energy, and as though he had but little heart in it” (Markham, Recollections, 1903, 29), but, according to E.F.Knight (qv), “Mr.James, “Jimmy” …was loved and respected by all the boys under him” ; P.G.L.Webb (qv) described him as “delightfully bluff, breezy, human, and accessible, and he had no pretentions or pose” ; “Jimmie, the ‘Old Man’, then nearing the end of his labours and a martyr to lumbago ; a scholar and a gentleman of the old type, full of a quaint and kindly humour which he exercised in chaffing the boys with Greek jokes” (Lionel James, (qv)) ; benefactor ; m. 13 Aug 1862 Eloisa Mary Angela, only dau. of Francis Heald, Puerto de Santa Maria, Xeres, Spain, sherry wine merchant ; d. 29 Jan 1892. Father of Francis Fuller James (qv).

JAMES, BERTRAM ALFRED, brother of Henry Rosher James (qv); b. 10 May 1866; adm. 27 May 1880 (QS); left Dec 1883; RMA Woolwich 1884; Lieut., Royal Engineers 16 Sep 1885; killed in action at Thetta, Chin Hills, Burma 2 Jan 1891.