"City and Henrico. He moved to Richmond in 1869 and formed a law partnership with William T. Joynes. This partnership lasted until January 1, 1870 when both partners were elected to the Supreme Court of Appeals. Judge Christian served on the bench for twelve years. Being defeated for re-election in 1882, he returned to private practice. He died in Richmond. Joseph Christian (judge) Joseph Christian (July 28, 1828 – May 29, 1905) was born in Middlesex County, Virginia. He was educated at Columbian College (now George Washington University) in Washington, D. C. and studied law at Staunton, Virginia. Admitted to"
"June 1972. The monuments are separately listed. In the 1830s, the notable missionary William Jowett was a lecturer at the church. Notable burials in the church included the notorious ""hanging judge"" Judge Jeffreys. Of the interment of Judge Jeffreys, Leigh Hunt wrote: ""Jeffreys was taken on the twelfth of September, 1688. He was first interred privately in the Tower; but three years afterwards, when his memory was something blown over, his friends obtained permission, by a warrant of the queen's dated September 1692, to take his remains under their own care, and he was accordingly reinterred in a vault under"
"Nicholas Jeffreys, of The Priory, Brecknockshire. He was baptised on the day Halley's Comet appeared. In 1765, his father (by then Sir Charles Pratt, having been appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1762) was created Baron Camden, at which point he became The Hon. John Pratt. He was educated at the University of Cambridge (Trinity College). In 1780, Pratt was elected Member of Parliament for Bath and obtained the position of Teller of the Exchequer the same year, a lucrative office which he kept until his death, although after 1812 he refused to receive the large income arising"
"and ship them away as slaves. James II, following his accession to the throne, named Jeffreys as Lord Chancellor in 1685, and elevated him to the peerage as Baron Jeffreys of Wem. In 1687 he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire and of Buckinghamshire. His first major trial in James' reign was that of Titus Oates: while there is no doubt of Oates' guilt, Jeffreys' conduct was no more decorous than usual; the latter part of the trial has been described as such an exchange of insults between Jeffreys and Oates as to make it doubtful if proceedings could continue."
"Nicholas Jeffreys of the Priory, Brecknock, by whom he had a son John Jeffreys, his successor in title and estates, and four daughters, of whom the eldest, Frances, married Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry on 7 June 1775. The first case which brought him prominently into notice and gave him assurance of ultimate success was the government prosecution, in 1752, of a bookseller, William Owen. Owen had published a book ""The Case of Alexander Murray, Esq; in an Appeal to the people of Great Britain"" which the House of Commons had, by resolution of the House, condemned as ""an"
"himself with black humour, for example noting that two brothers convicted of stealing lead from the roof of Stepney Church had ""zeal for religion...so great as to carry you to the top of the church"", and noting that they had narrowly avoided committing a capital offence. Jeffreys was knighted in 1677, became Recorder of London in 1678 when Dolben resigned, and by 1680 had become Chief Justice of Chester and Counsel for the Crown at Ludlow and Justice of the Peace for Flintshire. During the Popish Plot he was frequently on the bench which condemned numerous innocent men on the"
"Edward Jeffreys Edward Winnington or Jeffreys (8 October 1669 – 20 July 1725) of Ham Castle, Droitwich was an English landowner, judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1708 to 1725. Jeffreys was born Winnington, a younger son of Sir Francis Winnington and his second wife, and was a younger brother of Salwey Winnington. He was admitted at Middle Temple in 1687, and called to the bar on 18 May 1694. He married Anne Blome, the niece and heiress of Henry Jeffreys of Ham Castle in Worcestershire, and took the name Edward Jeffreys in about 1709"
"1952. Arthur Frederick Jeffreys Arthur Frederick Jeffreys, PC (7 April 1848 – 14 February 1906), of Burkham House in Hampshire, was a British Conservative politician. Jeffreys was the son of Arthur Jeffreys, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, who had emigrated to Australia in 1839. During his youth he was a successful cricketer with Hampshire and New South Wales. He graduated from Christ Church, Oxford with a B.A.. He studied law at the Inner Temple and was called to the bar in 1872. He served as a justice of the peace for Hampshire. He was elected to the"
"John Gwyn Jeffreys John Gwyn Jeffreys FRS (18 January 1809 – 21 January 1885) was a British conchologist and malacologist. John Gwyn Jeffreys was born in Britain on 18 January 1809, at Swansea, Wales. He was the eldest son of J. Jeffreys of Fynone, Glamorgan. Jeffreys was educated in Swansea at the Bishop Gore School (Swansea Grammar School). From the age of seventeen, he was an apprentice to one of the principal solicitors of Swansea, before going to London, where he qualified as a barrister in 1838. Jeffreys worked as a solicitor in Swansea until 1856, when he was called"
"Unable to impose the death penalty, Jeffreys and his colleagues apparently tried to achieve the same result by sentencing Oates to series of whippings so savage that he might well have died; although as Kenyon remarks, it was arguably no more than he deserved. Jeffreys was much criticised for his conduct of the trial of the aged and much respected clergyman Richard Baxter, but these criticisms must be treated with caution since the actual records have disappeared and all the surviving accounts of the trial were written by partisans of Baxter. Jeffreys' historical notoriety comes from his actions in 1685,"
"Judge Jeffreys, an office which he continued to hold till the revolution brought his patron's career to a close. Meanwhile, he had become a student at Oxford in 1680, ""for the sake of the public library"", says Wood, but be does not seem to have permanently lived there. As a member of Christ Church he look the degree of B.D. 7 July 1685, and in October the same year was presented by Jeffreys to the rectory of Whitchurch, near Reading. He had resigned his living of Upton in 1681. He was installed prebendary of St. Paul's 17 January 1686-7, and"
"Arthur Frederick Jeffreys Arthur Frederick Jeffreys, PC (7 April 1848 – 14 February 1906), of Burkham House in Hampshire, was a British Conservative politician. Jeffreys was the son of Arthur Jeffreys, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, who had emigrated to Australia in 1839. During his youth he was a successful cricketer with Hampshire and New South Wales. He graduated from Christ Church, Oxford with a B.A.. He studied law at the Inner Temple and was called to the bar in 1872. He served as a justice of the peace for Hampshire. He was elected to the House"
"of 1672. He composed numerous anthems and motets, many of which are in manuscript in the Aldrich collection, Christ Church, Oxford. The library of the Royal College of Music also has music by this composer, as does British Library Addit. MS. 10338. Jeffreys's son, Christopher Jeffreys (d. 1693) was also a musician. He was elected as a king's scholar of Westminster School to Christ Church, Oxford, in 1659, proceeded B.A. in 1663 and M.A. in 1666. Christopher and his wife Anna continued to live in his father's house at Little Weldon, Northamptonshire, up to the latter's death in July 1685."
"John Jeffreys (1706–1766) John Jeffreys (1706 – 30 January 1766) was a Welsh civil servant and politician who was Member of Parliament for Breconshire and Dartmouth. Little is known about his early life, but he hailed from a wealthy Breconshire family; his father and his uncle, Sir Jeffrey Jeffreys, thrived in the trade of tobacco and had represented the Brecon county and borough respectively. Jeffreys was elected to parliament representing Breconshire in 1734, and was re-elected in 1741. He appears to have impressed his superiors in the early 1740s, which led to him being promoted to Joint Secretary to the"
"Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey (23 October 1773 – 26 January 1850) was a Scottish judge and literary critic. He was born in Edinburgh, the son of George Jeffrey, a clerk in the Court of Session. After attending the Royal High School for six years, he studied at the University of Glasgow from 1787 to May 1789, and at Queen's College, Oxford, from September 1791 to June 1792. He had begun the study of law at Edinburgh before going to Oxford, and returned to it afterwards. He became a member of the Speculative Society, where he measured"
"by Judge Jeffreys at the opening of the Bloody Assizes at Winchester. She pleaded she had no knowledge that Hickes's offence was anything more serious than illegal preaching. Furthermore, she had known nothing of Nelthorpe, who was not named in the indictment, but was nevertheless mentioned to strengthen the case for the Crown. She said she had no sympathy with the rebellion whatsoever. Jeffreys' conduct of the trial later has come to define him for historians. He showed no pretence of impartiality, becoming ""an eloquent addition to the prosecution"", in the words of 21st-century historian Charles Spencer. Repeatedly he reminded"
"Thomas Jeffrey. He was known for example to the Father of Federation, Sir Henry Parkes and letters survive of their correspondence. Jeffrey is known to have been appointed as ""Landing Waiter, Searcher and Gauger"" in the Department of Customs on 15 July 1831. He is also named in Court documents (Decisions of the Superior Courts of New South Wales, 1788–1899) as a ""Boarding Officer"". He worked at the Customs House in Kirribilli, an influential position in the early colony, most probably the most senior citizen resident in Kirribilli for many years. His funeral notice describes him as the ""Landing Surveyor"
"while in custody in the Tower of London on 18 April 1689. He was originally buried in the Chapel Royal of Saint Peter ad Vincula in the Tower. In 1692 his body was moved to St Mary Aldermanbury. In his ""London Journal,"" Leigh Hunt gives the following account of Judge Jeffreys' death and burial: Jeffreys was taken on the twelfth of September, 1688. He was first interred privately in the Tower; but three years afterwards, when his memory was something blown over, his friends obtained permission, by a warrant of the queen's dated September 1692, to take his remains under"
"complete list of scientific papers by John Gwyn Jeffreys including reviews is online here . John Gwyn Jeffreys John Gwyn Jeffreys FRS (18 January 1809 – 21 January 1885) was a British conchologist and malacologist. John Gwyn Jeffreys was born in Britain on 18 January 1809, at Swansea, Wales. He was the eldest son of J. Jeffreys of Fynone, Glamorgan. Jeffreys was educated in Swansea at the Bishop Gore School (Swansea Grammar School). From the age of seventeen, he was an apprentice to one of the principal solicitors of Swansea, before going to London, where he qualified as a barrister"
"born around 1637 or 1638, the exact date of his birth being unrecorded. His father, also called John Trevor, was the son of Sir Edward Trevor; his mother was Margaret Jeffreys, daughter of John Jeffreys and aunt of the celebrated judge. The family lived at ""Brynkinalt"" in the parish of Chirk in the Welsh county of Denbighshire. Trevor was educated at Ruthin School, and he started his career as a clerk for his relative Arthur Trevor. From there he worked his way up with the help of the patronage of another relative George Jeffreys until he was appointed a king's"
"perjured evidence of Titus Oates. These condemnations were remembered against him in 1685 when he secured the conviction of Oates for his perjury at the same trials. Charles II created him a baronet in 1681, and two years later, he was Chief Justice of the King's Bench and a member of the Privy Council. Jeffreys became Lord Chief Justice in 1683 and presided over the trial of Algernon Sidney, who had been implicated in the Rye House Plot. Sidney was convicted and executed: Jeffreys' conduct of the trial caused some unease, in particular his ruling that while two witnesses were"
"made clear his doubts about Russell's guilt, much to the King's displeasure. Jeffreys conducted the prosecution with far more dignity and restraint than was usual with him, stressing to the jury that they must not convict unless they were certain of Russell's guilt. A less well known act of Jeffreys occurred on assize in Bristol in 1685 when he made the mayor of the city, then sitting fully robed beside him on the bench, go into the dock and fined him £1000 for being a 'kidnapping knave'. Some Bristol traders were known at the time to kidnap their own countrymen"
"to inherit the Jeffreys estates. Jeffreys was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Droitwich at the 1708 general election. He was returned unopposed again at the 1710 general election. In 1711 he was made a Queen's Counsel and was appointed Puisne Justice of the Great Sessions for Carmarthenshire, Cardiganshire, and Pembrokeshire, but he resigned his judgeship in favour of his brother in November 1712. He was re-elected unopposed again for Droitwich at the 1713 general election. In 1714 he was appointed judge again as Puisne Justice of Chester, Denbigh, Flintshire and Monmouthshire and remained in post for the rest"
"15 May 1576 he was appointed a judge of the queen's bench, and was promoted on 12 October 1577 to succeed Sir Robert Bell as chief baron of the exchequer. In the autumn of 1578 he died at Coleman Street Ward, London, and was buried under a magnificent tomb in Chiddingly Church. Jeffrey was twice married, first to Alice, daughter and heiress of John Apsley, by whom he had one daughter, Elizabeth, who married Edward Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu of Boughton; and secondly to Mary, daughter of George Goring. John Jeffrey (judge) John Jeffrey [aka John Jefferay] (ca. 1524 –"
"Joyce Jeffreys Joyce Jeffreys (Jeffries) (c. 1570 – 1650) was a single female moneylender in seventeenth-century England. She lived most of her adult life in Hereford, England although she moved around to stay with family due to the English Civil Wars. An account book that Jeffreys kept between 1638 and 1648 in which she recorded both business and personal transactions has survived and been published. It gives an insight into the life of a woman who was a member of the provincial gentry in the West Midlands during a period that included the First English Civil War. When Jeffreys died"
"is no other record of a John Jeffreys in the early colony. The first record of any John Jeffreys arrived in Sydney on 10 April 1851 on the ""Deucalion"" from San Francisco. A John Jeffreys appeared before a magistrate in Paddington in the same year. Arthur (Frederick) Jeffreys (born in Surrey, England, in 1811) was a clergyman's son who decided to emigrate to Australia when aged in his late 20s. He arrived in Sydney on 20 February 1839, on the ""Honduras"". Prior to emigrating he was a commissioned lieutenant in the Royal Navy. Arthur Jeffreys married Sarah Campbell, the daughter"
"John Jeffrey (judge) John Jeffrey [aka John Jefferay] (ca. 1524 – 13 May 1578), of Chiddingly, Sussex, was an English politician. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Clitheroe in 1563, East Grinstead in 1571 and Sussex in 1572. He was son of Richard Jeffrey of Chiddingly Manor, by Eliza, daughter of Robert Whitfield of Wadhurst. He was admitted a member of Gray's Inn in 1544, called to the bar in 1546, and was Lent reader there in 1561. In Easter term 1567 Jeffrey became a serjeant-at-law, and on 15 October 1572 a queen's serjeant. On"
"Ware in Hertfordshire, where he bought the Greyfriars Priory, and made it a meeting-place for many British and foreign artists. He served as Justice of the Peace for Glamorgan, Brecon and Hertfordshire, and was appointed High Sheriff of the latter in 1877. He was Treasurer of the Linnean Society of London and Geological Society of London for many years. Jeffreys was also a member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. After the death of his wife in 1881, Jeffreys moved to Kensington, and he died there 24 January 1885. Among the species first scientifically described by Jeffreys"
"Arthur Frederick Jeffreys, was later a member of the British House of Commons. Arthur Jeffreys Arthur Jeffreys (1 October 1811 – 13 September 1861) was an English-Australian politician. He was born in Barnes in Surrey to the Reverend John Jeffreys. He migrated to New South Wales in 1839, and later purchased land near Queanbeyan at Acton. He also owned land in Sydney, notably at Canterbury and Kirribilli. From 1851 to 1854 he was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. He died of Bright's disease in 1861 at Hastings in Sussex. He had married Sarah Campbell, daughter of"
"Treasury in 1742. He resigned from this position in May 1746. In the 1747 elections he was elected MP of the Borough of Dartmouth, sitting until his death. He was appointed Warden of the Mint in 1754. John Jeffreys (1706–1766) John Jeffreys (1706 – 30 January 1766) was a Welsh civil servant and politician who was Member of Parliament for Breconshire and Dartmouth. Little is known about his early life, but he hailed from a wealthy Breconshire family; his father and his uncle, Sir Jeffrey Jeffreys, thrived in the trade of tobacco and had represented the Brecon county and borough"
"Jeffrey Gilbert (judge) Sir Jeffrey Gilbert (1674–1726) was an English barrister, judge and author who held office as Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in both Ireland and England. He later became renowned for his legal treatises, none of which were published in his lifetime. He was born at Goudhurst in Kent, son of William Gilbert, a farmer, who died a few months after his son's birth; his mother Elizabeth Gibbon is said to have been a cousin of the great historian Edward Gibbon. He was called to the Bar in 1698 and earned some fame as a law reporter."
"saved a maiden in distress, Sir George had missed the maiden and married the dragon by mistake. He embarked on a legal career in 1668, becoming a Common Serjeant of London in 1671. He was aiming for the post of Recorder of London, but was passed over for this in 1676 in favour of William Dolben. He turned instead to the Court and became Solicitor General to the Duke of York and of Albany (later King James II & VII), the younger brother of Charles II. Despite his Protestant upbringing, he found favour under the Roman Catholic Duke. Jeffreys distinguished"
"from 1652 to 1659, his grandfather's old school, where he was periodically tested by Philip Henry, a friend of his mother. He attended St Paul's School, London, from 1659 to 1661 and Westminster School, London, from 1661 to 1662. He became an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1662, leaving after one year without graduating, and entering the Inner Temple for law in 1663. Jeffreys, presumably after being granted the title 1st Baron of Wem, took the residence of Lowe Hall in Wem, Shropshire. The extant Wem Hall was built in 1666, although it has subsequently been significantly remodelled. He"