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 same time the honour of knighthood. As Attorney-General he was the adviser of the Crown in the trying time of the Chartist trials, for which and other services he was promoted to the place of Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1850. He died Nov. 1, 1856.

Sir John Jervis is well known as the author of Reports in the Court of Exchequer, and of the following law treatises: A Practical Treatise on the Office and Duties of Coroners (1829); All the New Rules of the Courts of Queen's Bench, etc. (1832). He also edited editions of Archbold's Treatise on Criminal Pleading.

Admitted 21 December, 1842.

Eldest son of James Johnston of Wood Hill, Kinnellar, Aberdeenshire. Before entering the Middle Temple he was a student at Lincoln's Inn. He was called to the Bar 27 Jan. 1843. He was Deputy-Recorder of Leeds in 1857, but went out to New Zealand in 1859 and was made one of the Judges of the Supreme Court, in which he sat as Chief Justice in 1867 and 1886. He returned to England in 1888 and died 1 June of the same year.

He published Reports of Cases in the Courts of Appeal (1867) and a Treatise on Magisterial Law in New Zealand (1879). Also a Lecture on the Influence of Art upon Human Happiness (1861).

Admitted 11 August, 1605.

His parentage is not given in the Register, but he was the son of Thomas Jolles of Stratford-le-Bow, Middlesex. He was admitted to the Inn at the same time as his predecessor in the office of Mayor— (q.v.)—and was also a member of the Drapers' Company. He was elected Alderman of Tower Ward 11 June 1605, chosen Sheriff 24 June, 1605, and became Lord Mayor in 1615. He was knighted at Greenwich 23 July, 1606. He left money for the erection of an almshouse in the parish of St. Leonard, Bromley,, and a school at Stratford-le-Bow.

Admitted 8 March, 1841.

Only son of Lieutenant Charles Jones, A.D.C. to the King of Hanover. He was born at Berlin 25 Jan. 1819. He lived in Germany till his nineteenth year when he returned to England with his father, where in 1846 he joined in the Chartist Movement, of which he soon became a principal leader. On 19 April,. 1844 he was called to the Bar. In 1847 he was the delegate for Halifax in the Chartist meeting on Kennington Common, on which occasion all London was aroused and an enormous number of special constables voluntarily acted. For seditious speeches he was arrested and tried at Manchester, and sentenced to imprisonment. On his release he lectured in various parts of the country advocating communistic and nationalizing schemes; but during the latter part of his life devoted himself more soberly to law and literature. As a lawyer he obtained some practice, and in literature some success, especially by his. political songs. He died at Manchester 26 Jan. 1868.