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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement/Jackson, Mason

​JACKSON, MASON (1819–1903), wood-engraver, was born of humble parentage at Ovingham, Northumberland, on 25 May 1819. He came to London at the age of eleven to reside with his elder brother, John Jackson [q. v.], joint author with William Andrew Chatto of the 'Treatise on Wood Engraving' (1839). Mason received from his brother his first lessons in wood-engraving. By 1836 he was sufficiently advanced to take part in the engraving of Richard Seymour's design for the green wrapper of the monthly parts of 'Pickwick Papers'. Between 1850 and 1860 Jackson made himself a name by his wood-engravings for the Art Union of London; by his engraved illustrations to Knight's Shakespeare (1851–2), Walton's 'Compleat Angler' (1856), and the 'Arabian Nights' (1859); and by his work in the 'Illustrated London News'. On the death of Herbert Ingram [q. v.] in 1860 Jackson joined the staff of the 'Illustrated London News' as art editor, a position which he filled with great ability till his retirement some thirty years later. Like his brother, Mason Jackson took a literary and historical as well as a practical interest in his profession. His book 'The Pictorial Press : its Origin and Progress' (1885) is a valuable work, tracing the rise and progress of illustrated journalism from its crudest beginnings to its modern development. He died in London on 28 Dec. 1903, and was buried in Brompton cemetery.
Jackson married Lucy Tippetts on 16 July 1864, and had two sons and a daughter. His daughter married Professor Sir Walter Raleigh in July 1890.
His elder son, Arthur Mason Jackson (1866-1909), was educated at Westminster School and Brasenose College, Oxford, and entered the Indian Civil Service in 1887. After being collector at Nasik for two years he was murdered there by a young Brahmin on 21 Dec. 1909, on the eve of his departure to take over the duties of collector at Bombay. During his service in India he devoted his great talents especially to the study of Sanskrit and the vernaculars, and was recognised as one of the best Oriental scholars of his day.
[The Times, 2 Jan. 1904 and 23 Dec. 1909; Illustrated London News, 2 Jan. 1904; private information.]
M. H.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement/Jackson, John

​JACKSON, JOHN (1833–1901), professional cricketer, born at Bungay, Suffolk, on 21 May 1833, was taken to Nottinghamshire in infancy and was brought up near Newark, where in the hunting season he was wont to run barefoot after the hounds. He learned his early cricket at Southwell, and after engagements as a professional at Newark, Edinburgh, and Ipswich, he joined the Notts XI, whom he served for ten years. He first appeared at Lord's for the North v. South in 1866, and in 1857, when he captured 8 wickets for 20 runs in the same match, was the most prominent bowler in England. In 1858, when helping Kent v. England, he took 9 wickets for 27 runs at Lord's, and 13 wickets for 90 runs at Canterbury. His highest batting score in first-class cricket, when scores were rarely very high, was 100 for Notts v. Kent in 1863. From 1859 to 1864 he played in twelve matches for the Players v. Gentlemen, and in the match at Lord's in 1861 he and Edgar Willsher bowled ​unchanged through both innings of the Gentlemen. In 1859 he went with the first English team to America, meeting with great success against local teams. He was a member of George Parr's All England XI and visited Australia with Parr's team in the winter of 1863. In 1866 his career was out short by an accident to his leg while playing for Notts v. Yorkshire. From 1870 till his death he lived mainly at Liverpool, where from 1870 to 1872 he was professional at Princes Park, and in 1871 caterer, groundman, and bowler to the Liverpool club. In 1875 he was employed in a Liverpool warehouse, but in later years he fell into poverty, and died in Liverpool workhouse infirmary on 4 Nov. 1901.
Fully six feet in height, and weighing over 15 stone, Jackson was a first-class round arm bowler, with an easy action, combining variety and accuracy with tremendous pace, which gained for him the title of the 'demon bowler.' Jackson figures in many of Leech's famous 'Punch' cricket sketches, where the village cricketer is seen bandaged after bruises inflicted by Jackson's lightning deliveries, but showing pride in his sufferings (see Punch, 29 Aug. 1863).
[The Times, 9 Nov. 1901; Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack, 1902, lxvi.; Read's Annals of Cricket, 1895; Haygarth's Cricket Scores and Biographies, v. 199-200; W. Catfyn's Seventy-one not out, 1899; pp. 72-4, passim; notes kindly supplied by Mr. P. M. Thornton.]
W. B. O.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Warner, John (1673?-1760)

​WARNER, JOHN (1673?–1760), horticulturist, born in 1673 or the commencement of 1674, was eminent for his skill in fruit-growing. He resided in Rotherhithe, on the east side of East Lane, where he constructed a garden which became celebrated for its various products. He paid special attention to cultivating vines, and was the first to introduce the Burgundy grape into this country. About 1720 he discovered that Burgundy grapes ripened against a wall earlier than others. He conjectured that they might ripen on standards, and, finding on trial that they succeeded beyond his expectation, he considerably enlarged his vineyard and gave cuttings from his vines to all who would plant them. When he commenced his experiments there were only two vineyards in the country, one at Dorking and the other at Bath, and neither was planted with grapes suited to the English climate.
Warner's garden comprised several acres. A broad canal ran through the length, on either side of which were planted, besides vines, a treble row of dwarf pears and apples. He raised pineapples on stoves, and had a curious collection of exotic plants. Warner died at Rotherhithe on 24 Feb. 1760, leaving issue. His brother, Simeon Warner, also lived in East Lane.
[Annual Register, 1760; Chronicle, p. 74; Gent. Mag. 1801, i. 573; Nichols's Lit. Anecd. i. 449.]
E. I. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Warner, John (1736-1800)

​WARNER, JOHN (1736–1800), classical scholar, son of Ferdinando Warner [q. v.], born in London in 1736, was admitted into St. Paul's school on 30 March 1747, and became Pauline exhibitioner and Perry exhibitioner in 1755. Proceeding to Trinity College, Cambridge, he graduated B.A. in 1758, M.A. in 1761, and D.D. in 1773. For many years he enjoyed an unusual degree of popularity as an eloquent preacher at a chapel, his private property, in Long Acre, London. He was instituted in 1771 to the united rectories of Hockcliffe and Chalgrave, Bedfordshire; and was afterwards presented by his friend Sir Richard Colt Hoare [q. v.] to the valuable rectory of Stourton, Wiltshire. In 1790 he went to Paris as chaplain to the English ambassador, and he there became somewhat imbued with revolutionary ideas. Warner was an excellent scholar, and the reputation for wit that he enjoyed among his contemporaries is fully borne out by his agreeable letters, several of which are printed in Jesse's ‘Selwyn and his Contemporaries’ (iii. 306–18). He was an ardent admirer of John Howard, and it was principally owing to his exertions that the statue in St. Paul's Cathedral was erected to the memory of the philanthropist. Warner died in St. John's Square, Clerkenwell, on 22 Jan. 1800.
He was the author of ‘Metronariston; or a New Pleasure recommended, in a Dissertation upon a part of Greek and Latin Prosody’ (anon.), London, 1797, 8vo.
[Gardiner's Registers of St. Paul's School, p. 85; Gent. Mag. 1797 i. 232, 273, 1800 i. 92; Memoirs of Thomas Alphonso Hayley, pp. 28, 136, 452, 493; Johnson's Memoirs of W. Hayley, i. 351, 388; Monthly Mag. (1800), ix. 80; Nichols's Lit. Anecd. ii. 416, 644; Notes and Queries, 2nd ser. xii. 474, Quarterly Review, xxxi. 296, 297.]
T. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Warner, John (d.1565)

​WARNER, JOHN (d. 1565), first professor of physic at Oxford, was born at Great Stanmore in Middlesex. He graduated B.A. at Oxford University on 9 Nov. 1520, and was elected a fellow of All Souls' College in the same year. He proceeded M.A. on 21 Feb. 1524–5, and was admitted M.B. on 30 June 1529, being about the same time licensed to practise by the university. He acted as proctor in 1529 and 1530, proceeded M.D. on 12 July 1535, and was elected warden of All Souls' on 26 May 1536. In 1546 he was appointed by Henry VIII first regius professor of medicine at the university. On 30 April 1547 he was appointed to the ​prebend of Ealdstreet in the diocese of London; in July of the same year he was nominated archdeacon of Cleveland, which he resigned about a year before his death; and on 15 March 1549–50 he was installed a prebendary of Winchester. He was also archdeacon of Ely, resigning before 1560. A friend to the Reformation, he was in disgrace during the reign of Mary, and was suspended from the wardenship of All Souls', but received in 1557 the rectory of Hayes, together with the chapel of Norwood, in Middlesex. He was restored to All Souls' in 1559, after the death of Mary, received a prebend at Salisbury, and on 15 Oct. of the same year was nominated dean of Winchester. On 17 Oct. 1561 he was admitted a fellow of the College of Physicians. He died at his house in Warwick Lane, London, on 21 March 1564–5, and was buried in the chancel of the church of Great Stanmore.
E. I. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Warne, Charles

​WARNE, CHARLES (1802–1887), archæologist, was born in Dorset in 1802. He became an intimate friend of Charles Roach Smith [q. v.], and in 1853 and 1854 he made archaæological tours in France, in company with Smith and Frederick William Fairholt [q. v.] At the time of his election as a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1856, and for some time afterwards, he was resident in London. He made extensive researches into the prehistoric remains of Dorset, and his splendid collection of sepulchral urns and other relics from the barrows is now in the museum at Dorchester. For a long time he resided at Ewell, near Epsom, but the later years of his life were spent at Brighton, where he died on 11 April 1887. Part of his collection of coins was sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson, & Hodge, on 24 and 25 May 1889 (Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, i. 225–6).
His works are: 1. ‘On the Discovery of Roman Remains on Kingston Down, near Bere Regis, Dorset; and the Identification of the Site as the Station of Ibernium on the Icknield Street,’ London, 1836, 4to. 2. ‘An Illustrated Map of Dorsetshire, giving the sites of its numerous Celtic, Roman, Saxon, and Danish Vestiges’ [1865]. In the preparation of this he spent fully two years in perambulating the county in the company of George Hillier [q. v.] 3. ‘Dorsetshire: its Vestiges, Celtic, Roman, Saxon, and Danish,’ London, 1865, 8vo. This work is also adapted as an index to No. 2. 4. ‘The Celtic Tumuli of Dorset,’ London, 1866, fol. 5. ‘On certain Ditches in Dorset called Belgic,’ London, 1869, 8vo, reprinted from the ‘Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries.’ 6. ‘Ancient Dorset: the Celtic, Roman, Saxon, and Danish Antiquities of the County, including the Early Coinage,’ Bournemouth, 1872, fol. He also contributed ‘Observations on Vespasian's first ​Campaign in Britain’ to ‘Archæologia’ (xl. 387), and ‘Archæological Notes made during a Tour in France’ to Charles Roach Smith's ‘Retrospections’ (vol. ii. 1886).
T. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Warneford, William

​WARNEFORD, WILLIAM (1560–1608), Jesuit. [See Warford.]
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement/Lord, Thomas

​LORD, THOMAS (1808–1908), congregational minister, born of poor parents at Olney, Buckinghamshire, on 22 April 1808, was son of John Lord by his wife Hannah Austin. Mainly self-taught, he was apprenticed to a shoemaker. After his family removed to Northampton in 1816 he became a Sunday school scholar and teacher. Having preached in the villages for some years he was ordained for the congregational ministry on 14 Oct. 1834. He filled successively the pastorates of Wollaston, Northamptonshire (1834–45), Brigstock (1845–63), Horncastle (1863–66), Deddington, Oxfordshire (1866–73). In 1873 he accepted a call to Great Bridge, Staffordshire, and resigning that pastorate in 1879 continued to live there, and frequently delivered occasional sermons. In 1899 he returned to Horncastle, where his only daughter, Mrs. Hodgett, resided, and still pursued his career as preacher. His hundredth birthday was celebrated at Horncastle in 1908, when he received a congratulatory telegram from King Edward VII. In his 101st year he occupied the pulpits at Horncastle, Peterborough, Lincoln, Alford, Louth, Wainfleet, Skegness, Boston, Kirkstead, and Tuddenham near Ipswich. When unable to read he recited the scriptures.
He was one of the founders of the Congregational total abstinence association, and a member of the Peace Society from its foundation and of the Liberation Society. He is said to have preached over 10,000 sermons. He died at Horncastle after a few hours' illness on 21 Aug. 1908, aged 100 years and 121 days. He married in 1830 Elizabeth Whimple (d 1889) and left two sons and a daughter.
Lord published in 1859 a memorial sermon on Sir Arthur de Capell Broke of Great Oakley Manor, Northamptonshire, who maintained an open-air mission at Stanion, a neighbouring village. Lord also printed ‘Heavenly Light, The Christian's ​Desire' (1861), and 'Precept and Practice' (1864).
[Congregational Year Book, 1909, p. 179, with engraving of portrait taken on his 100th birthday; The Times, 22 Aug. 1908; private information.]
C. F. S.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement/Lowry, Henry Dawson

​LOWRY, HENRY DAWSON (1869–1906), journalist, novelist and poet, eldest son of Thomas Shaw Lowry, bank clerk at Truro, afterwards bank manager at Camborne, by his wife Winifred Dawson of Redhill, was born at Truro on 22 Feb. 1869. He was educated at Queen's College, Taunton, and at Oxford University (unattached), where he graduated in the honour school of chemistry in 1891. His original purpose was to devote himself to chemistry, but his literary predilections gradually conquered his scientific inclinations. After contributing to the 'Cornish Magazine,' he was encouraged by the acceptance, in 1891, of his Cornish stories by W. E. Henley [q. v. Suppl. II] for the 'National Observer. He continued to write for the 'National Observer' so long as Henley remained editor; and coming to London in 1893, he obtained a connection with the 'Pall Mall Gazette,' joining the staff in 1895. Subsequently he went to 'Black and White.' Early in 1897 he became editor of the 'Ludgate Magazine,' and the same year he joined the staff of the 'Morning Post.' Latterly he also wrote as 'Independent' in the 'Daily Express,' and he was an occasional contributor to other papers. He died, unmarried, at Herne Hill on 21 Oct. 1906. Warm-hearted, impulsive, and sociable, he was popular with his colleagues and friends.
It is in his short stories, dealing with Cornish life, which he thoroughly knew, that Lowry is at his best. Refined, sympathetic, and emotional, he was also a facile writer of tasteful verse. His works are: 1. 'Wreckers and Methodists,' 1893. 2. Women's Tragedies,' 1895. 3. 'A Man of Moods,' 1896. 4. 'Make Believe,' 1896. 5. 'The Happy Exile,' 1897. 6. A book of poems, 'The Hundred Windows,' 1904.
[Men and Women of the Time; Morning Post, 23 Oct. 1906; information from Mr. James Greig of the Morning Post and Mr. John Lane, publisher.]
T. F. H.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement/Low, Alexander

​LOW, ALEXANDER, Lord Low (1845–1910), Scottish judge, born on 23 Oct. 1845, was son of James Low of The Laws, Berwickshire, by his wife Jessy, daughter of George Turnbull of Abbey St. Bathans, Berwickshire. After education at Cheltenham College and at St. Andrews University, he proceeded to St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. with a first class in the moral science tripos in 1867. He studied law at Edinburgh University and passed to the Scottish bar on 22 Dec. 1870, joining the Juridical Society on 18 Jan. 1871. For some time he edited the 'Scottish Law Reporter,' and, becoming known as a sound lawyer and judicious pleader, rose steadily. He was a conservative, but never active in politics. In 1889 he was appointed sheriff of the counties of Ross, Chromarty, and Sutherland, and ​in 1800 was raised to the bench. As a judge he was even more successful than as an advocate. One most important lawsuit which came before him, when sitting as a judge of first instance, wan that in which the property of the 'Free Church' was claimed by members of that body who objected to its union with the. 'United Presbyterians' (1900). Low decided against this claim, and his judgment was adhered to by the inner house of the court of session, whose decision was, however, reversed on appeal to the House of Lords (1904). He resigned, owing to bad health, in the autumn of 1910, died at The Laws on 14 October of that year, and was buried at Whitsome, Berwickshire. Low, who married (1875) Annie, daughter of the Hon. Lord MacKenzie (Scottish judge), left one son. Mr. Jamea A. Low, C.A., Edinburgh, and two daughters. A portrait of him by Fiddes Watt is at The Laws.
[Scotsman and The Times, 15 Oct. 1910; Roll of the Faculty of Advocates; Records of the Juridical Society.]
G. W. T. O.
# Don Juan Sings

Lightly kiss and lightly pass Ere the sleeping Love shall wake; Nimble-footed, lean and take Blossoms from a blind morass.
Past the dragon coiled in slumber, Steal, and filch his guarded gold, Taking all your hands may hold And your hasty glances number.
Shadowy breasts and breasts of snow Bear the rounded fruits of pleasure; Taste them all, nor seek to treasure Aught that turns to dust and woe.
Somber locks and tresses fair, In them all your fingers tangle; Leave them lest your heart should strangle In a noose of woman’s hair.
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement/Kerr, Robert

​KERR, ROBERT (1823–1904), architect, born at Aberdeen on 17 Jan. 1823, was son of Robert Kerr by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas McGowan, yeoman, ​of Peterhead, and cousin of Joseph Hume [q. v.]. Kerr's only brother, Thomas, who settled at Rockford, Illinois, was a doctor both of medicine and divinity. After education in Aberdeen, Kerr was articled in that town to John Smith, the city architect. Early in his professional career he attempted practice in New York, but returned to England, where he acquired a practice.
In 1852 Kerr put forward a scheme for architectural training, and soon ranked as a pioneer in the educational movement among architects. He was appointed examiner in the voluntary examination established by the Royal Institute of British Architects, and in 1857 was elected a fellow of that body, on whose council he served in 1861-2 and again in 1870-2, and in whose development and organisation he played an important part. For forty years he was a constant contributor to the literature and the debates of the Institute.
From 1861 to 1890 he was professor of the arts of construction (and a fellow) at King's College, London. From 1892 to 1896 he was lecturer on 'Materials, their nature and application,' to the Architectural Association, a body of which he was one of the founders and was the first president in 1847. From 1860 to 1902 he was district surveyor (under the metropolitan board of works and the London county council) for St. James's, Westminster.
Kerr's chief works as a designer were the National Provident Institution, Gracechurch Street (corner of Eastcheap); Ascot Heath House, Berkshire; Ford House, Lingfield, Surrey; Bearwood, Berkshire, a large country house for John Walter [q. v.], proprietor of the 'Times'; Dunsdale, Westerham, Kent, for Joseph Kitchin; and two important competition designs, one (in 1857) for the Home and Foreign Offices, the other for the Natural History Museum at South Kensington, which was awarded the second premium. Kerr's forcible personality was better displayed in his writings, lectures and trenchant speeches than in his architecture. He died on 21 Oct. 1904 at his residence, 31 Cathcart Road, West Brompton, and was buried at the Church of the Annunciation, Chislehurst.
Kerr's chief publications, apart from technical articles in periodicals, were:
* 'Newleafe Discourses on the Fine Art Architecture,' 1846.
* 'The English Gentleman's House,' 1865.
* 'Ancient Lights,' 1865.
* 'The Consulting Architect,' 1886.
* 'Chapters on Plan and Thoroughfare in the Principles and Practice of Modern Home Construction,' edited by Lister Sutcliffe, 1900.
He edited (with introduction and enlargement) the third edition of Ferguson's History of Modern Architecture in 1891. For many years Kerr wrote the leading article in the 'Architect.'
Kerr married in 1848 Charlotte Mary Anne Fox, and was survived by eight of his nine children. Of four sons three became architects.
[Journ. Royal Inst. Brit. Architects, vol. xii. 3rd series, p. 14; Builder. 12 Nov. 1904; Information from Henry N. Kerr.]
P. W.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement/Kenyon, George Thomas

​KENYON, GEORGE THOMAS (1840–1908), politician, second son of Lloyd Kenyon, third baron Kenyon, by his wife Georgina, daughter of Thomas de Grey, fourth baron Walsingham, waa born in London on 28 Dec. 1840. He was educated at Harrow (1854–60), entered Christ Church, Oxford, in 1860, graduated B.A. with second class honours in law and history in 1864, and proceeded M.A. in 1870. In 1869 he became a barrister of the Middle Temple. He contested the Denbigh boroughs unsucoessfully as a conservative in 1874 and 1880, but won the seat in 1885 and held it until 1895, and again from 1900 to 1905. In 1897 he stood unsuccessfully for East Denbighshire at a bye-election. He promoted the Wrexham and Ellesmere railway and was its first chairman (1891-1908). In 1873 he published a life of his ancestor, the first baron Kenyon (1732-1802). His chief interest was the promotion of secondary and higher education in Wales, and to his enlightened zeal was largely due the passing of the Welsh Intermediate Education Act of 1889, which established the present comprehensive system of secondary schools in Wales. The bill was introduced by Stuart (afterwards Lord) Rondel, the leader of the Welsh liberal members. But the conservatives were in power, and it was Kenyon's influence which secured its passage, with some slight changes. Kenyon took an active part in the establishment of the University of Wales and was its junior deputy-chancellor from 1898 to 1900. He died on 26 Jan. 1908, at his seat of Llanneroh Panna, near Ellesmere. On 21 Oct. 1875 he married Florence Anna, daughter of J. H. Leche, of Garden Park, Chester. He left no issue. There is a portrait by E. Miller at Llannerch Panna.
[Who's Who, 1907; Alumni Oxonienses; The Times, 28 Jan. 1908; information supplied by Lord Kenyon.]
J. E. L.