George Jeune, or Le Jeune, was a descendant of a good family of Montpelier (formerly of La Marche), Sieurs de Chambeson. Mr Smiles, to whom the family pedigree was communicated, informs us that he took refuge in Jersey and was settled there, in the parish of St Brelade, in 1570, in which year he married Marie Hubert. The Register for 1869 mentions his lineal descendant, the late Francis Jeune, Esq., of Jersey, and takes occasion to correct a mistaken report that he was a miller; “there was a mill on his estate formerly attached to a monastery, at which the neighbouring landowners were compelled to grind, and he received the dues, but in no other sense was he a miller.” His eminent son and namesake, Francis, was born in 1806; he became B.A. of Oxford in 1827, and soon afterwards Fellow of Pembroke College. From 1834 to 1838 he became celebrated as the Head-Master of King Edward the Sixth’s School in Birmingham, and then received through Lord John Russell the joint-preferments of Dean of Jersey and Rector of St Helier’s. In 1843 he returned to Oxford as Master of Pembroke College and Canon of Gloucester; during the following twenty years he was a leader in University Reform, having a principal share in founding the Middle-class Examination, in establishing the departments of Law and Modern History, and of Natural Science, and in writing the Report of the Commission of Enquiry. In Theology he was the determined opponent of Dr Pusey. In 1864, through Viscount Palmerston, he became Dean of Lincoln, and (after a few months’ residence in his Deanery), Bishop of Peterborough. His health began to give way, and he died on 21st August 1868. His personalty was sworn under £35,000. His will, dated 23d March, 1868, was to this effect:— “By this my last will I, Francis Jeune, Bishop of Peterborough, commend my soul to Almighty God, through the merits of the Saviour who loved me and gave Himself for me; and bequeath all my estate whatsoever to my good and loving wife, whom I name as guardian of my children under age, if need be, and executrix of this my will.”
Jacques D’Embrun, one of a family of high extraction, fled from the St Bartholomew massacre, abandoning hit home at Embrun, near Gap, in the Hautes Alpes. For the above information I am indebted to Mr Smiles, who adds:— “Escaping to Rouen, his family, with six others, De Cafour, Le Gyt, De Lasaux, Beaufort, Le Pine, and La Grande, crossed the Channel in an open boat on the 19th August 1572, and settled in Canterbury.” The spelling of the name was changed into D’Ambrain and Dombrain. The family was represented at the end of last century by Abraham Dombrain, Esq., of Canterbury. James Dombrain, his son (born in 1793) entered the Navy in 1S08. In 1816 he was Deputy Comptroller-General of the Coast Guard of the United Kingdom. From this office he was transferred, upon receiving a commission to organize the Coast-Guard service on the coast of Ireland, and for this duty he received the rank of Comptroller-General of the Coast-Guard in 1819. For thirty years he presided over the Force which he had introduced and organized. He received the honour of knighthood from the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1844. Sir James Dombrain died in 1869, Lady Dombrain (née Miss Mary Furleigh of Canterbury) having predeceased him in 1864. His son, the Rev. Henry Honywood Dombrain was Incumbent of St George’s in Deal, and afterwards Vicar of Westwell, Kent; he is the author of a very fair, simple, and thorough reply to Professor Maurice (author of “Theological Essays,” and “Doctrine of Sacrifice,”) entitled, “The Sacrifice of the Lord Jesus in type and fulfilment, viewed in connexion with recent statements on the subject,” London, 1858. Sir James’s grandson is the Rev. James Dombrain, Rector of St Benedict’s, Norwich.
Valerian Paget, a French Protestant refugee, settled in Leicestershire in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and founded a family. From him descended a son, Leonard Paget, ancestor of Thomas Tertius Paget, Esq., of Humberston, near Leicester. Other descendants are Edmund Arthur Paget, Esq., of Thorpe, near Melton, and Charles Paget, Esq., of Ruddington, late M.P. for Nottingham.
Members of the Family of Emeris, being French Protestants, fled from the St Bartholomew Massacre, and soon after 1572 acquired landed property at Southwood, in Norfolk, on which they resided till 1768, and which is still the inheritance of the head of the family. The
