JONES
JOWETT
and King s College, London. He studied
painting at the Eoyal Academy of Arts
(1876-80), and exhibited at the Academy
and elsewhere. He also studied zoology
and anatomy at the Eoyal College of
Surgeons. In 1884 he directed a scientific
expedition, on behalf of the Eoyal Geo
graphical Society, to Mount Kilimanjaro.
He became Vice-Consul for the Cameroons
in 1885, Acting Consul for the Bights of
Benin and Biafra in 1887, Consul for
Portuguese East Africa in 1889, Com
missioner and Consul- General in British
Central Africa in 1891, Consul-General
for the Eegency of Tunis in 1897, and
Special Commissioner to Uganda in 1899.
He was created K.C.B. in 1896, and
received the Gold Medal of the Eoyal
Geographical Society in 1902 ; and he
belongs to many learned bodies. In 1918
Sir Harry gave the Conway Memorial
Lecture (On the Urgent Need for Reform in
Our National and Class Education). He
concludes his chapter on " Science and
Eeligion" in the Ethical symposium, A
Generation of Religious Progress (1916),
with the words: "Let us serve Man
before we waste our time in genuflections and sacrifices to any force outside this planet" (p. 29).
JONES, Ernest Charles, Chartist orator. B. Jan. 25, 1819. His father being equerry to the Duke of Cumberland, he was born and educated in Germany. On settling in England, he studied law, and was called to the Bar in 1844 ; but he did not practise. He joined the Chartists, and was one of their leading orators and writers. In 1848 he suffered two years in prison for a " seditious " speech, and he afterwards edited The People s Paper. In 1853, when the movement collapsed, he took to law practice and literature. D. Jan. 26, 1869.
JORDAN, David Starr, M.D., Ph.D., LL.D., Chancellor of Leland Stanford University. B. Jan. 19, 1851. Ed. Cor nell University. He was instructor of 391
botany at Cornell from 1871 to 1872,.
professor of natural history at Lombard
University in 1872-73, principal of Apple-
ton Collegiate Institute in 1873-74, teacher
at Indianapolis High School in 1874-75,,
professor of biology at Butler University
from 1875 to 1879, professor of zoology
from 1879 to 1885, president from 1885 to
1891, and president of Leland Stanford
University from 1891 to 1913. He has
been Chancellor since 1913. He has
written many ethical and social as well as
zoological works, and is one of the fore
most champions of peace in America. He
was Chief Director of the World s Peace
Foundation from 1910 to 1914, and Presi
dent of the World s Peace Congress in
1915. Dr. Jordan has sat on many
Government Commissions, and belongs to
a large number of learned societies. He
is a Theist, but he believes that " the
creeds have no permanence in human
history" (The Stability of Truth, 1911,
p. 44). See also his Religion of a Sensible
American (1909). In 1909 he was Presi
dent of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science.
JOUFFROY, Professor Theodore Simon, French philosopher. B. July 7, 1796. Ed. Pontarlier, Dijon, and Ecole Normale. He followed Cousin, his master, in philosophy, and after the 1830 Eeyolu- tion was appointed professor at the Ecole Normale. From 1832 to 1837 he was professor at the College de France. One of the most distinguished members of the- Eclectic School, a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Science and the Educational Council, he edited various works by representatives of the Scottish School, and wrote Melanges Philosophiques,. etc., in which his Pantheism is expounded.. D. Mar. 1, 1842.
JOWETT, Benjamin, M.A., LL.D., Hellenist. B. Apr. 15, 1817. Ed. St. Paul s School and Oxford (Balliol). He was, on account of his brilliant work,, elected a fellow of Balliol while he. 392
