Charles Jessel

Sir Charles James Jessel

Sir Charles James Jessel (born May 11, 1860 in Paddington , † July 15, 1928 in Goudhurst ) was a British lawyer and manager. He was part of the management of the North Borneo Chartered Company and gave his name to the city of Jesselton , now Kota Kinabalu in Sabah , Malaysia.

Life

Charles James Jessel was born in 1860 to Sir George Jessel and Amelia Jessel in Paddington, Middlesex, London .

Charles grows up near Hyde Park with his three sisters and brother. His father's social position as Master of the Rolls - the third highest judge's office in England - gives the family the convenience of a prosperous life. This is also shown by the list of the staff belonging to the address 10 Hyde Park Gardens , which in 1881 lists a butler , two servants , two housemaids , a cook, a kitchen assistant and a maid .

In 1879 he enrolled in s Balliol College at the University of Oxford for the courses Literae Humaniores and Law and stayed there until 1882. His tutors were F. de Paravicini, Monier Williams and Sir WR Anson. In 1884 he obtained the Bachelor of Arts and in 1886 the Master of Arts . During his time at Balliol, he played on the college's rugby team and made it up to the president of the student fraternity "Dervorguilla".

A short poem has survived from his student days:

CJJ
   Out of the way, for I am J-SS-L,
   You'll find you are the weaker vessel;
   But as I occupy the ground
   You have your choice, so which way round?

(free translation for understanding)
   Out of the way, because I am the JESSEL,
   you will soon notice that you are the weaker ship;
   But since I am not releasing the position,
   you have the choice, how do you want to pass?

Jessel (front row, 2nd from left) as Vice Chairman of the British North Borneo Chartered Company

After his father's death in 1883 the family moved to Goudhurst in Kent . Charles' father had bought Ladham House there , a residential building with 16 hectares of land. The property was rebuilt again in the Italian style in 1895. The huge garden, which has been open to the public once a year since 1931 as part of the National Gardens Scheme , was redesigned by the Jessels according to plans by the landscape architect William Goldring (1854-1919).

The merits of his father brought him on May 25, 1883 the title of nobility as 1st Baronet of Ladham ( Jessel of Ladham House ).

In 1885 he was admitted to the Lincoln's Inn Bar Association as a barrister-at-law .

He did his military service from 1883 to 1890 alongside his studies and work as a lieutenant in the 2nd Volunteer Battalion of the East Kent Regiment .

On July 15, 1890, he married Edith, the daughter of Rt. Hon. Sir Julian Goldsmid, Bart., MP in the Synagogue in Westminster. From this marriage two sons and two daughters were born; George (born May 28, 1891), Nina Dorothy (born July 2, 1893), Richard Hugh (born February 21, 1896) and Marjory Constance (born October 16, 1897). Following the customs of his time, he became a member of various clubs, namely Brooks's Club , Garrick Club , Oxford and Cambridge Club , Beefsteak Club .

In the North Borneo Chartered Company , he first became vice chairman of the board in the mid-1890s. When the company's branch, which had been destroyed in the Mat Salleh Rebellion , was relocated from Pulau Gaya to the west coast in 1899 , the former Api-Api was renamed Jesselton in honor of Jesse . From December 9, 1903 until his retirement in 1909, he held the office of chairman of the company's supervisory board.

In 1895 he became director of the Imperial Continental Gas Association and rose to its chair in 1913.

From 1903 to 1904 he held the office of High Sheriff of Kent .

Charles James Jessel died at the age of 68 on July 15, 1928, his wedding anniversary.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} David Charles George Jessel on thepeerage.com , accessed September 18, 2016.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Edward Hilliard: The Balliol College Register 1832-1914 . Oxford 1914, p. 175; archive.org
3. ↑ Jessel, Sir George . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 15 : Italy - Kyshtym . London 1911, p. 336 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
4. ↑ Genealogical search  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the 1881 Census; Retrieved June 22, 2011  
5. ↑ The Balliol Rhymes ; Oxford, 1939. First published in 1881. Note on first publication: The Masque of B-ll-l (1881). Balliol Library; Bodleian Library . Poem form: Quatrains; Meter: aabb
6. ↑ Ladham House, Goudhurst. ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 1.5 MB) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Review of The Kent Compendium of Historic Parks and Gardens for Tunbridge Wells Borough 2009 
7. ^ List of the Barons' Days of England , accessed June 22, 2011
8. ↑ Visitation of England and Wales (1893–1921), Howard, Joseph Jackson, (21 volumes. [Joseph Jackson Howard], London 1893–1921), FHL book 942 D23h., Vol. 9 p. 72.
9. ↑ The Straits Times , December 10, 1903, p. 4  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.