Romilly Jenkins specialized in Byzantine and Modern Greek scholarship, authoring many works on the subject. He began his studies at the British School in Athens in 1933 becoming assistant director and then a member of the Board Managing Committee in 1936. That same year he became Lewis Gibb Lecturer of Modern Greek at the University of Cambridge. Although he worked for the British Foreign Service during World War II, he held the Cambridge post until 1946 when he accepted the Koraes professorship of modern Greek and Byzantine history, language and literature at King’s College in London, serving also as honorary professor of classical archaeology. In 1960 he moved to the Dumbarton Oaks Institute in Washington, D.C. where he was a professor of history and Byzantine literature.

Thomas Jenyns of Hayes, Middle Sussex, England, was born in 1671 and died in 1696. He was the son of Roger Jenyns, Esq., of Hayes. He entered Clare College at Cambridge in 1688, gaining a B.A. He entered again for an M.A. in 1696 but died that year, at 25, on May 12.

Edgar Jepson was born in London and educated at Balliol College, Oxford. From 1889 until 1893 he lived in Barbados. Returning to London, he embarked on a career as a novelist. Jepson was a prolific writer, producing more than one book per year between 1895 and 1936.

Jerningham was a British poet and dramatist.

The Jesuit Estates were the endowments which had been accumulated by the Jesuits in support of their educational work in Canada. This land reverted to the Crown in 1773 when the Society of Jesus was disbanded by the Pope. However, it was agreed that surviving Jesuits should be maintained by the income from the remaining properties and that not until the death of the last member of the order would the estates become finally disposable. In 1778 a commission, including James McGill as one of the commissioners, was appointed by the Governor-General to inquire into the current and future disposition of the lands. In 1793 some Québec residents proposed that the Crown should allocate the Jesuit Estates to the support of public education in Québec. A committee of nine was named to prepare and deliver an address to His Majesty on the subject; James McGill was one of the nine members named. It was not acted upon. In 1800, with the death of the last of the Jesuits, the House of Assembly approved a motion that the matter should be deferred indefinitely. The estates remained in government hands until 1831 when the income was handed over to the Legislative Assembly in support of its educational responsibilities. Between 1811 and 1814 the Society was re-established by Pope Pius VII, and in 1842 a number of Jesuits returned to Québec. The Jesuits then sought restoration of (or compensation for) its sequestered estates. This problem troubled successive Québec administrations until the Mercier government passed the Jesuits' Estates Act in 1888. This act authorized payment of $400,000 as compensation to the Jesuits for the lands confiscated by the Crown.