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JEFFREYS, HENRY ANTHONY, fifth son of John Jeffreys (adm. 1780, qv); b. 28 May 1810; adm. 16 Jan 1823 (Stelfox's); KS 1824; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1828, matr. 16 May 1828, Westminster Student (still 1892); 1st cl. Mathematics 1831, Univ. Mathematical Scholar 1833; BA 1832; MA 1834; ordained deacon 21 Dec 1834 [sic ?], priest 1834 (both Oxford); Curate, Bisley, Gloucs.; Perpetual Curate and Vicar of Hawkhurst, Kent, 17 Dec 1839-97; Hon. Canon, Canterbury 1872; Proctor in Convocation, Diocese of Canterbury 1875; author, An Easy Guide to Doctrine and Prayer, 1865, and other works; d. unm. 23 Jun 1898.

JEFFREYS, GEORGE, son of Christopher Jeffreys (qv); b.; adm.; KS 1694; left 1694; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 12 Nov 1694, scholar 23 Apr 1697; BA 1698/9; MA 1702; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 2 Oct 1701, Major Fellow 17 Apr 1702-9; Moderator 1706; Taxor 1707; adm. Middle Temple 3 Nov 1694, called to bar 23 May 1707; poet and dramatist; his two tragedies were acted in the theatre in Lincoln’s Inn Fields; author, Miscellanies in Verse and Prose, 1754; d. 17 Aug 1755, aged 77. DNB.

JEFFREYS, CHRISTOPHER, son of George Jeffreys, Weldon, Northants, organist to Charles I at Oxford, subsequently Steward to the Hattons of Kirby, Northants, and ---, dau. of Rev. Thomas Mainwaring DD, Rector of Weldon, Northants; b.; a boarder in 1656; KS (aged 17) 1658; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1659, matr. 9 Dec 1659, Westminster Student; BA 1663; MA 1666; travelled in Spain; a friend of Anthony Wood, who describes him as being “excellent at the organ, and virginalls, or harpsichord” (Ath. Oxon., i, xxxv); m. Anne, fourth dau. of Sir John Brydges, Bart., and sister of James Brydges, 8th Baron Chandos; d. 1693. DNB (s. v. father).

JEFFREY, WILLIAM; b.; GS 1540; KS 1540-4 (Chapter Muniments 6478).

JEFFE, NICHOLAS; b.; adm.; QS in 1568; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1571, adm. scholar 1572, matr. Easter 1572; perhaps N. Jeffe, translator from the original of Olivier de Serres’s The Perfect Use of Silkworms (registered at Stationers’Hall 2 May 1607).

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.

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. ).

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.

JAMES, WILLIAM, son of Henry James, Dorset, and Barbara, dau. of Rev. William Sutton, Rector of Blandford St. Mary, Dorset; b.; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1646; failed to obtain election to either University 1649, aged 15, but elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1650, matr. 27 Nov 1650, Westminster Student; BA 2 Feb 1653/4; MA 1656; became teaching assistant to Richard Busby (qv), “his most loving master”, before he had taken any degree, much to the disgust of Edward Bagshaw (KS 1644, qv); Usher, Westminster School 1658-61, Under Master from 1661; author of Eisagoge in Linguam Chaldaicam in usum Scholae Regae Westmonast., 1651, which he dedicated to Busby, his “tutor, parent, and friend”; buried South Aisle, Westminster Abbey 2 Jul 1663. DNB.

JAMES, WILLIAM, eldest son of Right Rev. William James DD, Bishop of Durham, and his first wife Katharine, dau. of William Risby, Mayor of Abingdon, Berks.; b.; adm.; QS; failed to obtain election to either University 1592; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 10 Feb 1592/3, aged 16, Canoneer Student 1592-1611 [sic : check]; BA 6 Mar 1595/6; MA 1599 (incorp. Cambridge 27 Jun 1603); Public Orator, Oxford Univ., 1601-4; ordained; m. Anne, dau. of John Doiley, Overbury, Suffolk; will proved PCC as of Kingham, Oxford, 11 Nov 1607 (sic).