Excerpt from A New General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 9 of 12

Jephson, (Robert, ) a dramatic writer, born in Ireland in 1736. He entered early into the army, and attained the rank of captain in the 73d regiment of foot on the Irish establishment. He became acquainted with William Gerard Hamilton, Dr. Johnson, Burke, Charles Townsend, Garrick, Goldsmith, &c., He afterwards became master of the horse to lord viscount Townsend, then appointed lord-lieutenant of Ireland. In Mr. Jephson's case, this office was accompanied by a seat in the Irish House of Commons. His natural inclination was for literary pursuits, and he supported lord Townsend's government in the Bachelor, a set of periodical essays, which he wrote in conjunction with Mr. Courtenay, the Rev. Mr. Burroughs, and others. He died in 1803. He wrote, Braganza, The Count of Narbonne, The Law of Lombardy, Julia, and The Conspiracy, all tragedies, The Hotel, a farce, The Campaign, an opera, Love and War, 1787, and Two Strings to your Bow, 1791, farces. He afterwards acquired a considerable share of poetical fame from his Roman Portraits, a poem, or rather collection of poems, characteristic of the Roman heroes, published in 1794, 4to. About the same time he published anonymously, The Confession of James Baptiste Couteau, 2 vols, 12mo, a kind of satire on the perpetrators of the revolutionary atrocities in France. Horace Walpole addressed to him, Thoughts on Tragedy, in three letters.

Jeremiah, metropolitan of Larissa, was raised to the patriarchal chair of Constantinople in 1572, when only in the thirty-sixth year of his age. The Lutherans presented to him the Confession of Augsburg, in hopes of his approbation, but he opposed it, both in his speeches and writings. He seemed even not far from uniting the Greek to the Roman church, and had adopted the reformation of Gregory XIII. in the calendar. His correspondence with the Lutherans was printed at Wittemberg, in Greek and Latin, 1584, fol. It had previously been published by a Roman Catholic, in Latin, 1581. The date of his death is not known.

Jerningham, (Edward, ) a poet, was born in 1727. He was educated in the English Roman Catholic college at Douay, and at Paris, where he improved himself in classical attainments. The first production which raised him into public notice was a poem in recommendation of the Magdalen Hospital, and Jonas Hanway, one of its most active patrons, often declared that the success of the charity was very much promoted by this poem. He wrote, The Shakspeare Gallery, Enthusiasm, The Rise and Fall of Scandinavian Poetry (this is highly commended by Burke), The Old Bard's Farewell, Essay on the mild Tenour of Christianity, Essay on the Eloquence of the Pulpit in England (prefixed to Bossuet's Select Sermons and Orations), Poems and Plays, Select Sermons and Funeral Orations, translated from the French of Bossuet, bishop of Meaux, The Dignity of Human Nature, an Essay, The Alexandrian School, or a Narrative of the First Christian Professors in Alexandria, and, The Siege of Berwick, the Welsh Heiress, and The Peckham Frolic - these are dramatic pieces of little merit. He died in 1812.

Jerome, (St.) the most learned of all the Latin Fathers of the Church, was born at Strido, a town situated on the confines of Dalmatia and Pannonia, about 342.

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