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Fellows of the Royal Society who are or were Freemasons, listed alphabetically J Jackson, Humphrey FRS [19 Nov 1772] (bap 1721 – 29 Jun 1801). Chemist and inventor Born in Hinderwell, Yorkshire and apprenticed to a Stockton apothecary and surgeon, he moved to London and set up as a chemist. His Essay on Bread (1758) was an early work on the chemical detection of food adulteration. He obtained patents for a method of wood preservation and later for manufacturing isinglass made from fish and used to clarify beer. He annotated Ode on Masonry by Thomas Hudson of Blakiston, published in 1751 and subscribed to Hudson’s book of Poems on Several Occasions (1752) in which the ode was reprinted. Jackson also wrote the words to An Ode for Three Voices which was among the songs included in Ahiman Rezon (1756) 293 . He was Treasurer of the Sea Captain’s Lodge No 212 in Wapping in the 1750s. The lodge was erased in 1794. Served as a Grand Steward at the Grand Lodge feast in May 1757 Jackson, William Lawies, MP, later [17 Jul 1902] 1 st Baron Allerton, PC, FRS [5 Feb 1891] (16 Feb 1840–4 Apr 1917), politician and tanner, of Chapel Allerton, Leeds. MP, Leeds, 1880–85; and N Divn, Leeds, 1885–1902; Financial Sec to Treasy 1886–86 and 1886–91; PC [GB] 30 Jun 1890 [Ire] 1891; Ch Sec, Ire 1891–92; Ld Mayor, Leeds, 1895–96; JP Leeds and Yorkshire, WR; Hon LLD (Leeds); Chmn: GN Rly Coy 1895–1908, S African Commee and Royal Commn on Coal Resources 1901–05. Hon DCL (Leeds), first degree awarded by Univ, of which Treas 1912–17. Received Freedom of City of Leeds. Died in London, when elder son, George Herbert Jackson (1867–1925), succeeded him as 2 nd Baron Allerton. 294 His younger son, the Hon Francis Stanley Jackson (1870–1947), was the famous Yorkshire and All-England cricketer, later MP, Yorkshire, ER, 1915–26; DL, Yorkshire, WR; then The Rt Hon Sir Francis Jackson, GCSI, GCIE, KGStJ. Initiated, 27 Apr 1865, passed 25 May 1865, raised 22 Jun 1865, L. of Fidelity No. 289, MH, Great George Street, Leeds; ProvGM, Yorkshire, WR, 5 Jan 1893, resigning 1914. Presided over 2 Festivals: May 1894, 96 th anniversary, RMIB; May 1903, 115 th anniversary, RMIG. Exalted into RA Masonry; GSupt, Yorkshire, WR, 25 May 1895, resigning 1914. Jebb, Sir Richard FRS [28 Mar 1765] (30 Oct 1729–4 Jul 1787), physician. Born in Stratford, Essex, he obtained his medical training in Aberdeen and then set up practice in London. Physician to the Westminster Hospital 1754–1762 and then to St George’s Hospital. Appointed Physician to the Prince of Wales, later George IV, 1780, and to George III, 1786. He was fond of wine and music and was a friend of John Wilkes (qv). Henry Revell Reynolds (qv) attended him during his last illness. Buried in Westminster Abbey. Initiated, 27 Oct 1773, in Shakespear L. No. 179 (now No. 99), London. Jenner, Edward, MD (St Andrews), FRS [26 Feb 1789] (17 May 1749–26 Jan 1823), scientist, general practitioner and surgeon, son of a parson and born in his father’s vicarage in Berkeley, Gloucestershire. Studied his natural surroundings in the same parish. As a countryman at heart, Jenner wrote on the cuckoo, explaining how the baby cuckoo had a dimple on its back to enable it to eject its host’s eggs and it was for this, and other ornithological papers, that he was elected a FRS. Often credited as the first doctor to introduce and study the smallpox vaccine; returning to his native countryside by 1773, he became a successful GP and surgeon, practising in purpose-built premises at Berkeley. He was 1 of only three medical recipients to have been awarded the Freedom of the City of London, the others being Lord Lister and Florence Nightingale. Jenner’s eldest son, Edward, died in 1810 and his wife, Catherine, in 1815, both from tuberculosis. Found in a state of apoplexy on 25 Jan 1823, with his right side paralysed. Never fully recovered, and eventually died of an apparent stroke (he had suffered a previous stroke), aged 73. A memorial service for him was held in Gloucester Cathedral on 19 Aug 1823 and an imposing statue of him by Robert William Sievier, FRS [qv, below], sculpted in London, 1825, bearing the simple legend JENNER on the plinth, stands just to the north of the great west door of Gloucester Cathedral. This was commissioned by the Gloucestershire Freemasons following Jenner’s memorial service. Another statue of him that was originally placed in Trafalgar Square was removed, 1862, and now stands in Kensington Gardens. 295 Initiated, L. of Faith and Friendship No. 449, now Royal L. of Faith and Friendship No. 270, which then met at the White Hart Inn, High Street, Berkeley, Gloucestershire; raised, 296 30 Dec 1802, aged 53; JW 1804, WM 1812. Exalted, RA Masonry, Apr 1804; acted several times as 3rdPrin, 1814. 293 Appleby John H, Humphrey Jackson FRS 1717-1801: A Pioneering Chemist Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London Vol 40 No 2 (May 1986) p147-168 294 His obituary in The Times, 5 Apr 1917, spoke of him as ‘essentially a self-made man, overcoming all the obstacles to success, and gradually rising step by step by sheer industry, ability, and tact, . . . Early in his commercial career he devoted his energies to tanning, and was prominent in the leather industry’ [GEC, Vol. XIII, 15, n. (2)]. 295 Dr D.R. Dodsley, ‘Doctor Edward Jenner and some other Eminent Physicians and Surgeons in Freemasonry’ [AQC 104 (1991), 139–49 – cited hereafter as Dodsley, 146–7, from which several facts herein recorded emanated and with grateful thanks to the author. The reader is referred to the paper, which recounts in some detail the memorial service and many other facets of Jenner’s life and achievements]. 296 The dates of his Initiation and Passing are apparently now unknown [Dodsley, 142]. 66
Fellows of the Royal Society who are or were Freemasons, listed alphabetically His nephew, Henry Jenner, was WM of short-lived Country Stewards’ L. No. 540; 297 ProvGM, Bristol, 1 Nov 1799, resigning 1807. GSupt, Bristol, 25 Jan 1803, resigning 1807. Edward’s son, Robert F. Jenner (fl.1823), 298 and another nephew, The Revd G.C. Jenner, ProvGChap, Bristol, c.1817, were both members of L. of Faith and Friendship No. 449 and in Oct 1817, the former was JW, whilst the latter was Sec. Johnston, 299 Alexander, FRS [22 Nov 1810], later [1811] Sir Alexander Johnston, then [1833] PC (25 Apr 1775–4 Mar 1849), linguist and translator. Born and brought up in India, became an ardent evangelical Christian and spent much of his life in Madurai where he became fluent in Tamul, Telegu and Hindustani man and evinced a lifelong interest in Tamil literature, Tamil Shaivism, and Sinhalese Buddhism. Sent to England, where he entered Lincoln’s Inn and was presumably called to the Bar. In 1799, after marrying Lord William Campbell’s 300 elder daughter, Anne Campbell (1766–1852), on 14 Jun that year, became Advocate-Gen, Ceylon, then, 1805, Ch Justice, Ceylon, and after being knighted by the Prince Regent, 1811, appointed Pres of Council, Ceylon, that year. Responsible for many reforms and the reorganization of the Govt of Ceylon, he returned to England from time to time, including 1 visit in 1819. In 1828 he became the owner of York House, Twickenham, but for most of his ownership the house was let to tenants. Given a copy of a Marathi translation of Aesop’s Fables, 1817, by the Raja of Tangore, which he presented to the then Library of the Br Museum in Jul 1821. There is a collection of 8 of his letters from Colombo (Sri Lanka) 1810– 32 in the Br and Foreign Bible Socy’s Archives. 301 Found a copy of Ezour Vedom in Ponicherry, with other MSS similar in format. He and his wife apparently had no children. Initiated, 302 13 Apr 1810, passed and raised, 18 May 1810, Prince of Wales’s L. No. 412, now No. 259, only paying his dues for 1810. ProvGM, Ceylon, 1 May 1810 (while still an EA)–4 Mar 1849. Joined, 23 Jan 1822, L. of Antiquity No. 2, London, being excluded, 1827, from membership ‘for non-payment of arrears’. 303 Jones, William, FRS [30 Nov 1711; V-PRS] (1675–3 Jul 1749), mathematician. Born at Merddyn, Llanfihangel Tre’r Beirdd, Anglesey, son of John George Jones and his wife, Elizabeth Rowland, of the family of Bodwigan, Llanddeusant. Educ at a school at Llanfechell, and showed such skill as a calculator that his landlord, Bulkeley of Baron Hill, sent him up to London; after a period in a counting house there he became instructor on a man-of-war, and attracted the notice of Admiral Anson. Tutorships in great families followed; 2 of his pupils, Thomas Parker, 1 st Earl of Macclesfield (1667–1732), and Philip Yorke, 1 st Earl of Hardwicke (1690–1764), both became Ld Chan, 1718–25 and 1737–56, respectively. Macclesfield afterwards took him as tutor to his son, George Parker, later 2 nd Earl of Macclesfield, FRS [qv, below]. Set up as a mathematics teacher, 1702, publishing that year New Compendium of the Whole Art of Navigation. His large-scale mathematics text-book, 1706, Synopsis palmariorum mathesos, or A New Introduction to the Mathematics introduced the symbol π [pi] for the first time. His mathematical works were very highly esteemed and he published Machin’s calculation of pi to 100 decimals. This work attracted the attention and friendship of Sir Isaac Newton, PRS, and Edmund Halley, FRS. Edited and published a compilation of Newton’s smaller works: De Analysi, Quadratura Curvarum, Enumeratio Linearum Tertii Ordinis and Methodus Differentialis, 1711. Member, RS committee to determine the originator of the calculus, Mar 1711. In 1737, had a house next to the Salt Office in York Buildings. He lost heavily when his banker failed, but his friendship with the great brought him profitable sinecures, including Dep- Teller to the Exchequer. Married Mary Nix and they had 2 sons and a daughter, and he died in London. William and Mary Jones’s youngest child, William Jones (1746–1794), after entering Univ of Oxford, 1764, embarked on a career as a tutor and translator for the next 5 or 6 years, partly supporting himself by acting as tutor to John Spencer, Viscount Althorp (1758–1834), the future 2 nd Earl Spencer, KG, PC, FRS [6 Apr 1780], and in 1766 he obtained a fellowship. During this time he published Histoire de Nader Chah (1770), a French translation of a work originally written in Persian by Mirza Mewhdi Khan Astarabadi, at the request of King Christian VII of Denmark, FRS [qv, above], who had visited him and by the age of 24 had already acquired a reputation as an orientalist. He was a linguistic prodigy, learning Greek, Latin, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew and the basics of Chinese writing at an early age and obtained very great fame as a philologist and an authority on Hindu law. Elected FRS [30 Apr 1772], he gained his MA (Oxon), 1773 and in 1776 was appointed a commissioner in bankruptcy. In 1783 became a Puisne Judge at Calcutta in Bengal and was 297 Formed on 25 Jul 1781, at Guildhall Coffee House, Gresham Street, London, for the 1st two years; the L. moved in 1790 to Freemasons’ Tavern, Great Queen Street, becoming No. 449 under AGL, 1792 and making its last payment in 1799, lapsing about 1802 298 WM of No. 449 4 times, in 1827, 1828, 1847 and 1848. He was a Lt-Col in the S. Gloucestershire Regt [Dodsley, 145]. 299 Spelt Johnstone in The Prince of Wales’s L. No. 259 List of Members (1910; rev. 1938), 111; BP, 1921, 132, under Argyll, and elsewhere, but Johnston in BP, 1867, 34, and elsewhere, this being regarded as the generally accepted spelling of his surname. 300 th th (†1778), Capt, RN, MP, Argyllshire, 1764–66, Govr, Nova Scotia, 1766, and Carolina, 1773, 4 son of Archibald Campbell, 4 Duke of Argyll, KT (c.1693–1761). 301 Internet website: http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:ksCinPtQsUYJ:janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp%3Fid%3DEAD%252FGBR%2 52F0374%252FBSAX%252F1%252FJ+Sir+Alexander+Johnstone+(1775–1849)&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk. 302 Having been proposed by Gen S. Hulse, RWM, and 2nded by Chevalier Bartholomew Ruspini (1728–1813), Treas. 303 Firebrace, 278; John Hamill, then Librarian, GL Library, in a letter dated 6 Dec 1978, to a correspondent of QC L 67
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