Treatise of Equivocation (1851); A Reading (in New Inn Hall) on the Use of Torture in England (1837); Some Remarks on Coroners' Inquisitions; and a Life of Lord Somers. He also compiled for the Society for the Diffusion of Usefuli Knowledge an Abridgment of Howell's State Trials (1832-3).
Admitted 3 November, 1694.
Son and heir of Christopher Jeffreys of Great Weldon, Northamptonshire. He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1698 and M.A. in 1702. He was called to the Bar 23 May, 1707, but never practised, and passed most of his time in the houses of the Dukes of Chandos, to whom he was nearly related on his mother's side. During this leisure he produced two Tragedies—Edwin, acted in Lincoln's Inn Fields 1724, and Merope 1731; also Father Francis and Sister Constance, a Poem (1736), and Miscellanies in Verse and Prose (1754). He was the author also of some Verses prefixed to Addison's Cato, and specimens of his versification are to be found in the Gentleman's Magazine (1752—3) and other periodicals.
Admitted 30 June, 1680.
Fourth son of John Jekyll of St. Lawrence Parish, London. He was called to the Bar 6 May, 1687, to the Bench 29 Oct. 1697, and filled the office of Reader at the Inn in 1699. Two years previously he had been appointed Chief Justice of Chester. In 1700 he became Serjeant-at-Law and King's Serjeant with the honour of Knighthood, and seventeen years later Master of the Rolls, an office he held for twenty-one years. He was during the whole of his life an active politician, and his honest consistency is commended by Pope in the couplet in which he deprecates—
"A joke on Jekyl, or some odd Old Whig
Who never changed his Principle, or Wig."
Sir Joseph Jekyll died 19 Aug, 1738. He is the reputed author of a pamphlet entitled The Judicial Authority of the Master of the Rolls (1727).
Admitted 15 February, 1604-5.
Third son of Alexander Jermyn of Exeter. He was called to the Bar 28 Nov. 1612, and soon acquired considerable practice in the Courts, and was Reader at his Inn in 1629. He attained the degree of the Coif in 1637, and in 1648 was made one of the Judges of the King's Bench. He died in 1655.
Admitted 12 January, 1819.
Youngest son of Thomas Jervis, K.C., one of the Masters of the Bench of the Middle Temple, and second cousin of John Jervis, Earl of St. Vincent He was born 12 Jan. 1802. He was called to the Bar 6 Feb. 1824. In the first reformed Parliament he sat for Chester, and filled the offices of Solicitor-General and Attorney-General in the Whig Ministry of 1846, receiving at the
