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JAR Jarvis, John, an artist, distinguished for his paintings on glass, was born in Dublin about 1749. His chemical studies in early life enabled him to attain great eminence in his artistic line. Among his best works are the west window of New College chapel. Oxford, from the design of Sir Joshua Reynolds: and the "Resurrection," designed by West, in the east window of St. George's Chapel, Windsor. He died in London in 1804.

Jebb, John, Bishop of Limerick, was born at Drogheda, 27th September 1775. He received his early education at Celbridge and Londonderry, and entered Trinity College, where he distinguished himself. In 1799 he was ordained, and entered upon a curacy at Swanlinbar. He gradually gained preferment, and was consecrated Bishop of Limerick in 1823. He was the author of several theological works. He died 7th December 1833, aged 58, having been incapacitated from any public duties for six years by paralysis. The London Christian Observer said of him: "Perhaps he approaches more closely the standard of the amiable and pious Fenelon, whose deeply spiritual sentiments we could sometimes fancy him to have enunciated with the superior energy of a Massillon or a Bourdaloue." He is spoken of by another writer as an "amiable, accomplished, and pious man, . . one of the most engaging and soundly constituted characters that have ever been delineated for the lasting benefit of mankind." The name of this divine will perhaps survive longest in his correspondence with Alexander Knox. [See .]

Jephson, Robert, dramatist and poet, was born in Ireland in 1 736. Entering the army, he attained the rank of captain; and when his regiment, the 73rd, was reduced in 1763, he was put on the half-pay list. He was intimate with Burke. Johnson, and Golds'^ith. In 1767 he married the daughter of Sir E. Barry, the physician, and procuring a government appointment in Dublin, resided there for the remainder of his life. He sat in the House of Commons in the government interest, but did not in any way distinguish himself. Jephson was an intimate friend of Edmund Malone, in whose Memoirs he is constantly mentioned. "In the society of the Castle and its chief—amid the wit, talents, and hospitality which then shone pre-eminent in Dublin, he found the position fitted above all others for that species of enjoyment, where the flow of soul was aided by liberal streams of claret and whisky punch." ==3' He wrote numerous works, of which the tragedies of Braganza 264

(1775) and the Count of Narbonne (1781) were the most popular. He died at Blackrock. County of Dublin, 31st May 1803, aged about 67. 37 231

Jervas. Charles, a portrait painter, was born in Ireland about 1 67 5. He studied under Sir Godfrey Kneller, visited Paris and Rome, settled in London in 1708, and died there about 1740. A second-rate artist, he was distinguished by his vanity and his good fortune. " He married a widow with,£20,000; and his natural self-conceit was greatly encouraged by his intimate friend Pope, who has written an epistle to Jervas full of silly flattery." ^^ We are told that " on one occasion, having copied a picture of Titian, he looked alternately at the two, and at last exclaimed: ' Poor little Tit, how he would stare! ' When Kneller was told that Jervas had set up a carriage with four horses, he exclaimed: ' Ah, mine cot, if his horses do not draw better than he does, he will never get to his journey's end.' " ^9 =76

Joannes Scotus Erigena, a celebrated scholar and metaphysician, a native of Ireland, flourished in the 9th century. He is said to have studied in Greece, and to have appeared in France before the year 847, and at the court of Charles the Bald before 853. He was on terms of intimacy with this monarch, by whom he was greatly esteemed. Some of his theological writings are considered heterodox. His Dialogus de Divisione Naturae displays wonderful erudition and an intimate acquaintance with the Greek language. He died in France about 874. Numerous works are attributed to him, of which the principal, besides that just mentioned, were De Prcedesti^iatione Dei. De Visione Dei, and De Corpore et Sanguine Domini. Interesting references to his writings will be found in an article in the Biographie Generate, which combats the supposition of his nationality being other than Irish. Allibone quotes an author who says: "He was a skilful logician and controversialist, and had imbibed, by the perusal of some of the Greek Fathers, a considerable taint of the Platonism of the school of Alexandria. He thus became one of the founders of the philosophic school of the Bealists, who attracted so much attention in the nth and 12th centuries. Anastasius had so high an opinion of Erigena that he ascribed his translation of the works of Dionysius to the special influence of the spirit of God." Considering the important place he holds amongst ecclesiastical writers, provokingly little is known concerning his personal history. George H. Lewis writes:

"Scotus Erigena, with whom in the middle