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# Who's Who in the Far East/JOHN, Rev. Griffith

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​ JOHN, Rev. Griffith (HANKOW), Missionary of London Missionary Society; Translator of Bible for the Bible Society of Scotland; Chairman of Central China Religious Tract Society, and Editor of all its publications; Principal of London Mission Theological College at Hankow; b. Dec. 14, 1831, at Swansea; m. 1st, 1855, Margaret Jane, d. of Rev. David Griffiths, of Madagascar; 2nd, 1874, widow of Rev. Dr. Jenkins, of Methodist Episcopal Church, America. Educ.: Breeda College, Bedford. Began to preach in Welsh when 14 years old; offered services to London Missionary Society, 1853, which were accepted; ordained, 1855; sailed for Shanghai, 1855; spent more than five years at and around Shanghai, doing evangelistic work and establishing churches; travelled widely in all the region round about Shanghai, left Shanghai and arrived at Hankow, 1861; the first Missionary in Central China; travelled extensively in Hupeh, Hunan, Szechwan, Kiangsi,and several other provinces asa pioneer missionary; established, in connection with his colleagues, more than a hundred missionary stations in provinces of Hupeh and Hunan, and planted scores of churches; during 49 years, has been home on furlough only twice and only about 4 years have been.-pent out of China. Publications: In Chinese, translated the whole New Testament and a large portion of the Old Testament in both the Mandarin dialect and classical style,; still working on the Old Testament, and hopes to complete his translation comparatively soon; a large number of books and tracts. Recreations: Change of work. Address: Hankow, China.
# Who's Who in the Far East/JOHNSON, Hon. H. C. Brooke

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​ JOHNSON, Hon. H. C. Brooke (PROVINCE CLARKE), Resident of Province Clarke, N. Borneo, and Member of Legislative Council; b. May 30, 1873, s. of Captain W. F. Johnson, R.N. Educ.: St. Edward's School, Oxford; Nancy, France: Cannstadt, Germany. Clerk in Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London, and China, 1891-1893; Assistant, Treasury Department, Sarawak Civil Service, 1894; acting Postmaster General and Magistrate, Court of Requests, 1897; assistant Treasurer of Sarawak, 1398; acting Treasurer, 1898; ​Clerk to the Supreme Council, 1898; Treasurer and SupremeCourtJudge, 1900; member of Committee administering the Government of Sarawak during absences of H.H. the Rajah, 1898-1899, and 1901-1932; retired from Sarawak Civil Service, 1902; traded in Sarawak as a merchant, 1903; joined British North Borneo Civil Service, 1904; appointed Resident of Province Clarke and Member of Legislative Council. Recreations: Golf, cricket, shooting, etc. Club: Sports. Address: Province Clarke (Via Labuan), British North Borneo.
# Who's Who in the Far East/JOHNSON, Rev. Weston T.

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​ JOHNSON, Rev. Weston T. (SAPPORO), A.B.; Missionary; b. Michigan, U.S.A., Aug. 6, 1874; m. June 4, 1902, Sarah Young MacLeod. Educ.: Alma College and Princeton Theological Seminary. Address: Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
# Who's Who in the Far East/JOHNSTON, Lewis Audley Marsh

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​ JOHNSTON, Lewis Audley Marsh (HONGKONG); Colonial Civil Service; b. Oct. 12, 1865. Straits Civil Service, 1883; attached to General Post Office, 189J-1892; District Officer, Malacca, 1892-1895; Assistant Postmaster General; acted as Postmaster General, 1893-1898; on Postal Conference at Hongkong, 1897; Collector of Land Revenue and in charge of Treasury, Malacca, and Municipal Commissioner, 1893-1900; acted as Postmaster General, 1900-1932; Postmaster-General, Hongkong, 1905; acted as Treasurer a ml Member of Executive ​and Legislative Councils, 1903 and 1905; Justice of the Peace, Co. Down, Ireland. Clubs: Sports; Hongkong. Address: The Peak, Hongkong.
# Who's Who in the Far East/JOHNSTON, Rev. Mercer Green

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​ JOHNSTON, Rev. Mercer Green (MANILA), Clergyman of Protestant Episcopal Church; 6. Dec. 3, 1868, in Mississippi, U.S.A. Educ.: Academy and Theological University of South Sewanee, Tenn.; studied law at Virginia University. An assistant in Grace Parish, N.Y., 1893-1930; Rector of St. Paul's Church, and Chairman of Faculty and Chaplain of West Texas Military Academy, 1900-03; Rector of Pro-catheclral Church of St. Mary and St. John (formerly St. Stephen's) Manila; President of Bishops' Council of Advice; one of examining Chaplains; Associate Editor of Manila Outlook; Hon. Vice-President of Columbia Club, 1903-06. Club: Columbia, Manila. A ddress: 248 Calle Nozaleda, Manila, Philippine Islands.
# Who's Who in the Far East/JOHORE, Sultan of

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​ JOHORE, Sultan of (see: IBRAHIM, H.H.)
# Who's Who in the Far East/JOHNSTON, Lieut-Colonel Henry Halcro

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​ JOHNSTON, Lieut-Colonel Henry Halcro (SINGAPORE), C.B., D.Sc., M.D., C.M., F.R.S.E., F.L.S.; Senior Medical Officer, Straits Settlements; b. Sept. 13, 1856. Educ.: Dollar Institu tion; Edinburgh Collegiate School; Elin. University. Joined Royal Army Medical Corps, 1881; served in Suakin Expedition, 1885; Malakand and Buner Expeditions of 1897-1893 (mentioned in despatches); South Africa.Campaign of 1899-1902 (mentioned in despatches twice); in charge of Medical Division, Royal Victoria HospitaT, Netley; Senior Medical Officer, Straits Settlements, 1906; Fellow of Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh; Fellow of Botanical Society of Edinburgh; Fellow of Royal Institute of Public Health, London; past President of Scottish Natural History Society, Edinburgh; Hon. Foreign Member of La Societe Francaise d'Hygiene. Paris. Decorations: Egyptian Medal with clasp, and Khedive's star; India Medal with clasp; South Africa, two Medals with three clasps. Publications: Reports on Filters, Malarial Fever, and the Floras of Orkney and Mauritius. Rscrjfitions: Botany, fishing, shooting, riding, boating, hockey, and lawn-tennis. Clubs: Caledonian; United Service, Edinburgh. Address: Fort Canning, Singapore, Straits Settlements.
# Who's Who in the Far East/JOHNSTON, R. Fleming

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​ JOHNSTON, R. Fleming (WEIHAIWEI), M.A.; Acting Secretary to Government, Weihaiwei. Educ.: Magdalen College, Oxford; Gray prizeman, Edinburgh University; prox. ace. Lord Rector's essay; 1st class certs., English literature, modern history and constitutional law, Edin.; exhibitioner, Magdalen College, 1894; mentioned hon. Causa, Stanhope essay, 1898; B.A. ( hons. ) 189S. Cadet, Honkong, 1898; acting Clerk of Councils, 1899; Private Secretary to His Excellency the Administrator; acting assistant Colonial Secretary, 1900; Private Secretary to the Governor, 1900-1901; passed Cadet, Oct., 1901; acting assistant Colonial Secretary and Clerk of Councils, Nov., 1901; acting Attorney-General, Aug. -Nov., 1902; acting Secretary to Government, Weihaiwei, 1904. Address: Weihaiwei, North China.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Jarvis, Samuel

​JARVIS, SAMUEL (fl. 1770), organist and composer, blind from his birth, had lessons on the organ from Dr. Worgan, and became organist to the London Foundling Hospital and to St. Sepulchre's, city of London.
Among his compositions are ‘Six Songs and a Cantata for the Harpsichord, Violin, and German Flute;’ air, ‘On Felicia,’ with bass; and ‘Twelve Songs, to which is added an Epitaph for Three Voices,’ edited after the composer's death by his pupil Groombridge.
[Dict. of Music, 1827, i. 389.]
L. M. M.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Jay, John George Henry

​JAY, JOHN GEORGE HENRY (1770–1849), violinist, son of Stephen Jay of Leytonstone, Essex, possibly the ‘eminent dancing-master’ referred to by Hawkins (Hist. Music, iii. 853 n.), was born on 27 Nov. 1770. He studied the violin and composition on the continent, returning to England in 1800. Jay matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, in 1809, and obtained the degree of Mus. Doc. at Cambridge in 1811. He settled in London as professor of music, and died at Chelsea on 29 Aug. 1849. His chief publications were:
* ‘Phantasie and Two Sonatas for Pianoforte,’ London, 1801.
* ‘Waltzes for Pianoforte, with Flute accompaniment, the Second Set, Op. 22’ (1820?).
* Song, ‘How oft at eve,’ with flute and pianoforte accompaniment, 1846.
* Hungarian duet.
[Dict. of Music, 1827, i. 390; Foster's Alumni Oxonienses, ii. 744; Grad. Cant.; Times, 31 Aug. 1849, p. 7; Grove's Dict. ii. 32.]
L. M. M.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Jeacocke, Caleb

​JEACOCKE, CALEB (1706–1786), orator, born in 1706, carried on the business of a baker in High Street, St. Giles's, London, and became a director of the Hand-in-Hand fire office, and a member of the Skinners' Company. He frequently attended the Robin Hood debating society, Butcher Row, Temple Bar, where it is said his oratory often proved more effective than that of Edmund Burke and others who acquired celebrity in the House of Commons. To this society Goldsmith was introduced by Samuel Derrick at a time when Jeacocke was president. Struck by the eloquence and imposing presence of Jeacocke, who sat in a large gilt chair, Goldsmith thought nature had meant him for a lord chancellor. ‘No, no,’ whispered Derrick, who knew him to be a baker, ‘only for a master of the rolls’ (Forster, Life of Goldsmith, 1888, i. 287–8). Jeacocke died on 7 Jan. 1786, in Denmark Street, Soho (Gent. Mag. vol. lvi. pt. i. pp. 84, 180). He was author of ‘A Vindication of the Moral Character of the Apostle Paul against the Charges of Hypocrisy and Insincerity brought by Lord Bolingbroke, Dr. Middleton, and others,’ 8vo, London, 1765.
[Prior's Memoir of Edmund Burke (1826), i. 127; will registered in P. C. C. 26, Norfolk.]
G. G.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Jeanes, Henry

​JEANES, HENRY (1611–1662), puritan divine, son of Christopher Jeanes of Kingston in Somerset, was born at Allansay in the same county in 1611. He became in 1626 a commoner of New Inn Hall, Oxford, where, as Wood says, 'pecking and hewing continually at logic and physics,' he became ​'a most noted and ready disputant.' He graduated B.A. 3 June 1630, and proceeded M.A. 14 May 1633; he was incorporated at Cambridge in 1632, and later removed to Hart Hall, Oxford. On 5 Aug. 1635 he was presented by Sir John Windham to the rectory of Beer Crocombe and Capland in Somerset, and he obtained soon afterwards the vicarage of Kingston. During the early part of the civil war he and his family took refuge at Chichester, where they were kindly received by the citizens (dedication to one section of A Second Part of the Mixture of Scholastical Divinity), but later he received the rectory of Chedzoy, near Bridgwater. Here he instructed private pupils, among them being George Bull [q. v.], afterwards bishop of St. Davids. Jeanes died at Wells in August 1662, and was buried in the cathedral. He was, according to Wood, 'a scholastical man, a contemner of the world, generous, free-hearted, jolly, witty, and facetious.'
Jeanes wrote:
* 'Treatise concerning a Christian's Careful Abstinence from all Appearance of Evil …' Oxford, 1640; another edition 1660.
* 'The Worke of Heaven upon Earthe …' an expanded sermon, London, 1649, 4to.
* 'The Want of Church Government no warrant for a totall omission of the Lord's Supper,' London, 1650, 4to, dedicated to Colonel John Pyne; another edition, with a reply to Francis Fulwood, Oxford, 1653, 8vo.
* 'A Vindication of Dr. Twisse from the Exceptions of Mr. John Goodwin in his Redemption Redeemed,' Oxford, 1653, fol. Appended to Twisse's 'Riches of God's Love … consistent with His Absolute Hatred … of the Vessels of Wrath.'
* 'A Mixture of Scholasticall Divinity with Practicall,' Oxford, 1656, 4to, in several parts. This work Dr. Hammond criticised in his 'Ἐκτενέστερον,' to which Jeanes replied in 1657, while Hammond replied again in 1657, and was supported by William Creed in his 'Refuter Refuted,' 1659. Jeanes replied to Hammond a second time in 1660, and to Creed in 1661.
* 'Treatise concerning the Indifferency of Human Actions,' Oxford, 1659, 4to.
* 'A Second Part of the Mixture of Scholastical Divinity,' Oxford, 1660, 4to, printed with the second reply to Hammond and 'Letters on Original Sin.'
* 'Of Original Righteousness, and its Contrary Concupiscence,' Oxford, 1660, 4to, directed against Jeremy Taylor.
* 'Letters between Jeanes and Jeremy Taylor on the subject of Original Sin,' Oxford, 1660, 4to.
Jeanes is wrongly supposed to have been the author of the reply to Milton's 'Iconoclastes' (1651), entitled 'The Image Unbroken,' by Dr. Joseph Jane [q. v.]
[Wood's Athenae Oxon. ed. Bliss, iii. 455, &c., iv. 490; Wood's Fasti Oxon. ed. Bliss, i. 453, 469; Palmer's Nonconf. Mem. ii. 585; Heber's edit, of Jeremy Taylor's Works; Weaver's Somerset Incumbents; Masson's Milton, iv. 349; Cotton Mather's Essays to do Good.]
W. A. J. A.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Jean, Philip

​JEAN, PHILIP (1755–1802), miniature-painter, was born in Jersey in 1755. He served in the navy, but during the cessation of naval hostilities he practised as a miniature-painter, and finally adopted that profession. He was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy from 1787 to 1802, and was patronised by the Duke of Gloucester, whose portrait he painted in miniature, as well as those of the duchess and her children. Some of his miniatures were engraved. Jean also painted portraits in oils, and in this manner executed a full length of Queen Charlotte. He lived many years in Hanover Street, Hanover Square, London, but died at Hempstead in Kent, on 12 Sept. 1802, aged 47.
[Redgrave's Dict. of Artists; Royal Academy Catalogues.]
L. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Jeavons, Thomas

​JEAVONS, THOMAS (1816–1867), engraver, born in 1816, obtained some repute in the finished school of landscape-engraving in vogue about 1840. His most important work was an engraving of ‘Dutch Boats in a Calm,’ executed for the ‘Art Journal’ in 1849, from the picture by E. W. Cooke, R.A., in the Vernon Gallery. He engraved other plates after S. Prout, W. F. Witherington, &c., for the illustrated works produced at this time. He subsequently retired to Welshpool, North Wales, where he lived some years, and died 26 Nov. 1867.
[Bryan's Dict. of Painters and Engravers, ed. R. E. Graves; Redgrave's Dict. of Artists.]
L. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hutchinson, Richard Hely

See Hely-Hutchinson, Richard
​HUTCHINSON, RICHARD HELY, first Earl of Donoughmore (1756–1825). [See Hely-Hutchinson.]
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hutchinson, Lucy

​HUTCHINSON, LUCY (b. 1620), author. [See under Hutchinson, John, 1615–1664.]
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hutchinson, John Hely

​HUTCHINSON, JOHN HELY (1724–1794), lawyer and statesman. [See Hely-Hutchinson.]
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hutchinson, Ralph

​HUTCHINSON or HUCHENSON, RALPH (1553?–1606), president of St. John's College, Oxford, younger son of John Hutchinson of London, was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St. John's College, Oxford, where he was apppointed to a fellowship by Joanna, widow of the founder, Sir Thomas White, in 1570. He graduated B.A. in 1574-5, and proceeded M.A. in 1578. He took holy orders, and was vicar of Cropthorne, Worcestershire, and Charlbury, Oxfordshire. He was elected president of his college on 9 June 1590; graduated B.D. 6 Nov. 1596, and D.D. in 1602; was appointed one of the translators of the New Testament in June 1604, and died on 16 Jan. 1605-6. He was buried in the college chapel, where his widow, Mary, placed his effigy in stone with an epitaph, from which it appears that he had enlarged the college. He had a son, Robert Gentilis, named apparently after Alberico Gentili [q.v.] (Wood, Athen. Oxon., ed. Bliss, ii. 92).
[Robinson's Merchant Taylors' School Register; Clode's Mem. Merchant Taylors' Company, p. 593; Reg. Univ. Oxford, vol. ii. pt. iii. p. 42; Wood's Hist. and Antiq. Univ. Oxford, ed. Gutch. vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 924n., iii. 544, 560, 567; Nash's Worcestershire, i. 275; Burnet's Reformation, vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 513; Anderson's Annals of the English Bible, ii. 576.]
J. M. R.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hutchinson, Thomas (1698-1769)

​HUTCHINSON, THOMAS (1698–1769), scholar, son of Peter Hutchinson of Cornforth, in the parish of Bishops Middleham, Durham, was baptised there on 17 May 1698 (parish register). He matriculated at Lincoln College, Oxford, on 28 March 1715, and graduated B.A. 1718, M.A. 1721, B.D. (from Hart Hall) 1733, and D.D. 1738. In 1731 he was appointed rector of Lyndon, Rutland, having acquired some reputation as a scholar by the publication of an edition of Xenophon's 'Cyropædia' (1727). The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Herring [q. v.], presented him to the vicarage of Horsham, Sussex, in 1748, and he held also the rectory of Cocking in the same county, and a prebendal stall in Chichester Cathedral. He published several sermons and an essay upon demoniacal possession, which attracted considerable notice. Dying at Horsham, he was there buried on 7 Feb. 1769. He edited Xenophon's 'Cyropaedia,' London, 1727, and his 'Anabasis,' London, 1735, each of which passed later through numerous editions, and wrote 'The usual Interpretation of δαίμονες and δαιμονία,' London, 1738, besides separately published sermons, dated in 1739, 1740, and 1746.
[Foster's Alumni Oxon.; Nichols's Lit. Anecd. viii. 467, &c.; Brit. Mus. Cat.]
C. J. R.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hutchinson, Roger

​HUTCHINSON, ROGER (d. 1555), divine, son of William Hutchinson, was probably a north-country man, though he is sometimes stated to have been a native of Hertfordshire. He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, proceeded B.A. in 1540-1, was elected fellow in 1542-3, commenced M.A. in 1544, and was chosen senior fellow on 28 March 1547. In October 1547 he and Thomas Lever maintained a disputation in the college against the mass. He was one of the divines who vainly endeavoured to convince Joan Bocher ('Joan of Kent') [q.v.] of the error of her opinions. In 1550 he was appointed fellow of Eton College, but was deprived in the reign of Queen Mary for being married. He died about May 1555, his will, dated 23 May, being proved on 18 June in that year. Therein he mentions his wife Agnes, and his children Thomas, Anne, and Elizabeth; also his leases of St. Helen's and the advowson of Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. Hutchinson is represented as a learned and acute divine, of austere life but passionate temper. He was author of: 1. 'The Image of God, or laie mãs booke, in whyche the ryghte knowledge of God is disclosed, and divers doutes besydes the principall matter. Newly made out of holi writ bi R. h.,' 8vo, London, 1550; other editions in 1560 and 1580. 2. 'A faithful Declaration of Christes Holy Supper, comprehēded in thre Sermōs, preached at Eaton Colledge … 1552,' 8vo, London, 1560; another edition in 1573. 3. Two sermons on oppression, affliction, and patience. His works were edited for the Parker Society by John Bruce, F.S.A., 8vo, Cambridge, 1842.
[Memoir by Bruce prefixed to Parker Soc.'s edition of his works; Cooper's Athenæ Cantabr. i. 126, 546.]
G. G.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hill, Rowland (1744-1833)

​HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833), preacher, sixth son of Sir Rowland Hill, first baronet, was born at his father's seat, Hawkstone Park, Shropshire, on 23 Aug. 1744. Sir Richard Hill (1732-1808) [q. v.] was his eldest brother. Rowland was educated at both Shrewsbury and Eton. When still young he received deep religious impressions through the conversations and letters of his brother Richard. In 1764 he entered St. John's College, Cambridge, as a pensioner, subsequently becoming a fellow-commoner. He read diligently, but his religious views and his earnest efforts to do good exposed him to much scorn. He visited prisoners and the sick; preached wherever opportunity offered in Cambridge and the adjoining villages, and was often insulted by mobs. In January 1769 he graduated B.A. with honours, and endeavoured to obtain orders, but was refused by six bishops in succession, owing to his irregular preaching, which he refused to discontinue. On 6 June 1773, however, he was ordained by Dr. Wills, bishop of Bath and Wells, to the curacy of Kingston, Somersetshire. Here he was most diligent in the discharge of parochial duty, while at the same time he continued to make extensive evangelistic tours. On applying for priest's orders to the Bishop of Carlisle, with letters dimissory from the Bishop of Bath and Wells, he was, at the instance of the Archbishop of York, refused on account of his irregularities. He continued to preach wherever he could find an audience, in churches, chapels, tabernacles, and the open air, often to immense congregations, and sometimes amid great interruption and violence. A chapel was built for him at Wotton, Gloucestershire, and here he officiated for a part of every year during his life. In 1783 Surrey Chapel, London, was erected for him, and became henceforward the usual scene of his labours. His earnest, eloquent, eccentric preaching attracted large congregations. Attached to the chapel were thirteen Sunday schools, with over three thousand children on their rolls. In 1810 he issued his 'Village Dialogues,' which ran rapidly through several editions. In all the great religious and philanthropic movements of the time Hill look a prominent part. He was the first chairman of the committee of the Religious Tract Society', and an active promoter of the interests of the British and Foreign Bible Society and the London Missionary Society. Vaccination found in him a warm advocate at a time when it was not generally popular. He published a tract on the subject in 1806, entitled 'Cow-pock Inoculation Vindicated and Recommended from matters of Fact,' and himself vaccinated thousands of persons. He continued to work busily to a very advanced age. He died 11 April 1833, and was buried beneath the pulpit of Surrey Chapel. In addition to the works above mentioned, he published a number of sermons and several hymns, some of which received finishing touches from Cowper's hand. He married, in 1773, Mary Tudway.
[Life by the Rev. Edward Sidney, 1833; Memoirs by the Rev. William Jones, 1834; Memorials by the Rev. James Sherman, 1857.]
T. H.