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JOHN HENEAGE JESSE (1815-1874)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 336 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN HENEAGE See also:JESSE (1815-1874)  , See also:English historian, son of See also:Edward See also:Jesse, was educated at See also:Eton, and afterwards became a clerk in the secretary's See also:department of the See also:admiralty . He died in See also:London on the 7th of See also:July 1874 . His poem on See also:Mary See also:Queen of Scots was published about 1831, and was followed by a collection of poems entitled Tales of the Dead . He also wrote a See also:drama, See also:Richard III., and a fragmentary poem entitled London . None of these ventures achieved any success, but his numerous See also:historical See also:works are written with vivacity and See also:interest, and, in their own See also:style, are an important contribution to the See also:history of See also:England . They include See also:Memoirs of the See also:Court of England during the Reign of the Stuarts (1840), Memoirs of the Court of England from the Revolution of 1688 to the See also:Death of See also:George II . (1843), George See also:Selwyn and his Contemporaries (1843, new ed . 1882), Memoirs of the Pretenders and their Adherents (1845), Memoirs of Richard the Third and his Contemporaries (1861), and Memoirs of the See also:Life and Reign of See also:King George the Third (1867) . The titles of these works are sufficiently indicative of their See also:character . They are sketches of the See also:principal f ersonages and of the social details of various periods in the history of England rather than See also:complete and comprehensive historical narratives . In addition to these works Jesse wrote See also:Literary and Historical Memorials of London (1847), London and its Celebrities (185o), and a new edition of this See also:work as London: its Celebrated Characters and Remarkable Places (1871) . His Memoirs of Celebrated Etonian appeared in 1875 .

A collected edition containing most of his works in See also:

thirty volumes was published in London in 1901 .

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