See also: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
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
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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