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 He was a member of the Australian team which went to England in 1881, and of the two subsequent elevens, captained by Mr. Murdoch and Mr. Scott respectively. He was not included in the Murdoch team in 1890.

Jefferis, Rev. James, LL.B., was born at Bristol in 1833, and educated for the Congregational ministry at New College, London, and at London University, where he graduated B.A. and LL.B., and was afterwards appointed to a Congregational church at Saltaire, near Bradford. He left for Australia in broken health, in 1859, and settled at Adelaide, where, during his eighteen years' residence, he gained a high repute as a preacher, speaker, and writer. He also acted as professor of mathematics and natural science in Union College, an institution for the education of young men for the ministry, but not attached to any particular denomination. It was to this college that Sir wished at first to give the £20,000 which, at Mr. Jefferis' suggestion, he ultimately decided to make the nucleus for the establishment of the now flourishing University of Adelaide. Mr. Jefferis undertook the pastorate of the Congregational Church in Pitt Street, Sydney, in 1877, and retained it till 1890, when he returned to England, and accepted the charge of the Collegiate Church at Hampstead.

Jenkins, John Greeley, M.P., ex-Minister of Public Works, South Australia, is the son of Evan Jenkins and Mary his wife, both natives of Wales, and was born at Clifford, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on Sept. 8th, 1851. In 1878 he emigrated to Australia, arriving in Adelaide in April of that year. Having held various municipal offices at Unley, S.A., Mr. Jenkins was elected to the Legislative Assembly for the Sturt district in 1887, and was re-elected in 1890. In March 1891, on the death of Mr. Bews, Mr. Jenkins accepted the portfolio of Minister of Education in the Playford Government, exchanging it in Jan. 1892 for that of Public Works, a position he held till June 1892, when he resigned with his colleagues after their defeat on Mr. Holder's want of confidence motion. Mr. Jenkins, who is a Past Senior Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons in that colony, was married at Adelaide on Jan. 5th, 1883, to Miss Jeannie Mary Charlton.

Jenks, Professor Edward, M.A., LL.B., formerly Dean of the Faculty of Law in Melbourne University, was educated at King's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1886, and subsequently became M.A. and Fellow. In 1886 he was Royal Medallist, and won the Le Bas prize in 1888 and the Thirlwall prize in 1889. He was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple. In May 1889 Mr. Jenks was appointed to the chair of law at Melbourne University in succession to the late (q.v.). In this capacity he delivered a course of lectures on the public law of Victoria, which were subsequently revised and published under the title "The Government of Victoria" (London, 1891). Towards the end of the year 1891 Professor Jenks resigned his position in the Melbourne University, and subsequently returned to England.

Jenner, Hon. Caleb Joshua, came of a yeoman family, and was born Dec. 9th, 1830, at Alfreston, Sussex. He came to Victoria in 1850, and engaged in commercial pursuits at Geelong. Mr. Jenner held the office of president of the first reform league, established for the purpose of protecting native Industries. He represented the south-western province in the Legislative Council for more than twenty years, being returned in 1863 in opposition to the late, and for a number of years was Chairman of Committees. From Sept. 1869 to April 1870 he acted as the representative of the Macpherson Government in the Legislative Council, and subsequently discharged the same functions for the Government. Mr. Jenner, who retired from public life in 18841886 [sic], was a director of numerous local companies, and died on June 2827 [sic]th, 1890.

Jennings, Hon. Sir Patrick Alfred, K.C.M.G., M.L.C., LL.D., is the son of the late Francis Jennings, of Newry, Ireland, where he was born in 1831, and subsequently educated. After some mercantile experience in Exeter, England he arrived in Victoria in 1852, and was fairly successful on the goldfields. 1855 he settled at St. Arnaud, in the same colony, where he introduced elaborate quartz crushing machinery. He was asked to stand for the Wimmera, but declined to enter the Victorian 248