IRELAND, THOMAS, son of William Ireland, verger, Westminster Abbey; bapt. 24 Nov 1632; adm.; KS; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1649, matr. 27 Feb 1650/1, Westminster Student; ejected from his Studentship by Dean Owen, and migrated to St. Mary Hall, Oxford; BCL 4 Jul 1659; adm. Gray’s Inn 26 Feb 1656/7; reinstated to Westminster Studentship at Christ Church 1660, but resigned it in 1664 to become a candidate for position of Reader in Moral Philosophy; Faculty Student, Christ Church 1665-75; licence for ordination 1672/3; Chancellor, Diocese of Durham 1674; according to Wood, Fasti Oxonienses, pt. ii, 200, Ireland “might have done greater matters had not his mind been diverted by the frequent indulgences of the poets”; recited on his knees in Christ Church Hall before Charles II and Catherine of Braganza on 29 Sep 1663 one hundred and sixteen Latin verses of his own composition, subsequently printed; d. Dec 1676.

ISHAM, THOMAS, second son of Zacchaeus Isham, Onley in Barby, Northants., and Jane, dau. of Francis Sturtivant, Carlton upon Trent, Notts., citizen and grocer, London; bapt. 4 May 1617 (IGI); adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1635, matr. 17 Jul 1635, aged 18, Westminster Student (still 1642, no longer by c. 1649); BA 1639; MA 1642; BD 1666; ordained; Rector of Harringworth, Northants, 6 Apr 1647; Rector of Wistow, Hunts., 1651; Rector of Barby, Northants, from 26 Nov 1662; m. 1st, Mary ---; m. 2nd, Mary ---; buried Barby 23 Nov 1676.

IVIE, EDWARD, son of Rev. Hugh Ivie, Rector of Forscote, Somerset, and Elizabeth, dau. of Humphrey Orange; b.; adm.; KS 1692; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1696, matr. 6 Nov 1696, Westminster Student 29 Dec 1696 – void 1718 (expiry year of grace as V. Floore); BA 1700; MA 11 Mar 1702/3; ordained deacon 21 Feb 1702/3, priest 19 Sep 1703 (both Worcester); Curate, St. Thomas’s, Oxford 1713; Chaplain to George Smalridge (qv), Bishop of Bristol; Vicar of Flore, Northants, from 27 Mar 1717; a Latin poet; author, Epicteti Enchiridion, Latinis versibus adumbratum, 1715; d. 11 Jun 1745. DNB.

JACKSON, WILLIAM, son of William Jackson, Nantwich, Cheshire, and Sarah Bebington; bapt. 2 Apr 1659 (IGI); adm.; KS 1674; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1677, adm. pens. 2 Jul 1677, aged 18, scholar 1678, matr. 1680; BA 1680/1.

Jacob, Willoughby Ross Le Grand, elder son of Francis Jacob, M.Inst.C.E., of Blackheath, Kent, by Emily Martha, third daughter of Henry Crawford, and grand-daughter of Robert Crawford (q.v.); b. May 27, 1881; adm. as Q.S. Sept. 27, 1894; left Dec. 1899; R. l. E. Coll., Cooper's Hill, 1900; entered the l. C. S., Woods and Forests Dept., Nov. 29, 1903, as Asst. Conservator, Assam; Deputy Conservator Oct. 1913; officiating Conservator May 1923; Conservator of Forests, Eastern Circle, Punjab, 1924, of Forests, Assam, 1926; m. 1st May 10, 1910, Winifred Mary, younger daughter of William Rickford Rowland, of Aylesbury, Bucks; 2nd July 12, 1921, Frances Kathleen, daughter of Henry Gascoigne; d. Oct. 1940.

JAMES, LIONEL, brother of Henry Rosher James (qv); b. 11 Jul 1868; adm. QS 8 Jun 1882; Mure Scholar 1885; Capt. of the School 1886; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford Jul 1887, matr. 14 Oct 1887; 1st. cl. Classical Mods 1889, 2nd cl. Lit. Hum. 1891; BA 1891; MA 1896; Assistant master, Radley Coll. 1892-1906; Head Master, Monmouth GS 1906-27; author of acting editions of several Latin and Greek plays, including the Andria of Terence; m. 9 Sep 1912 Ethel de Pearsall, eldest dau. of Arthur Edward Clabburn, [officer in ?] Gordon Highlanders [but apparently artist (1881 Census)]; d. 28 Apr 1948.

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).

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).

JEFFREYS, JOHN, son of John Jeffreys (adm. 1730/1, qv); b. 9 Jan 1771; adm. 12 Sep 1780; KS 1784; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1788, matr. 22 May 1788, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1788 – void 26 Nov 1796, expiry year of grace as R. Barnes; BA 1792; MA 1795; ordained; Rector of Barnes, Surrey 1 Nov 1795 – 1839, res.; Rector of Friern Barnet, Middlesex 24 Mar 1798 – 16 Nov 1815; m. 21 Jan 1796 Charlotte, dau. of Col. [check rank : he only attained rank of Lieut. and Capt. in 2nd Foot Guards] Richard Byron, Hertford, 2nd Foot Guards; d. 6 Jun 1840.

JENKINS, HENRY, son of Henry Jenkins, London; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1758; KS 1759. [Possibly Henry Jenkins, son of Henry Jenkins & Frances ---, bapt. St. Clement’s Danes 23 Aug 1744 (IGI)]