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Mr. James (Jimmy Gelly) Augustus St.John — 

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James

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Augustus

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St.John

Nickname:

Jimmy Gelly

Father:  Gelly John IV

Mother:  Rachel William

Born:       24 Sep 1795

at: Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Wales

Died:     22 Sep 1875

at: 44 St John's Wood Terrace, London, England

Buried:   ?

at: Highgate Cemetery, London, England

Website: A Biography of James Augustus St.John

James Augustus St.John has 8 children listed here:   • Elizabeth Ann St.John  • Frederick Bayle St.John  • Helen Cornelia St.John  • Horace Roscoe St.John  • James Augustus St.John II  • Percy Bolingbroke St.John I  • Spenser Buckingham St.John  • Vane Ireton St.John 

Married Eliza Caroline Agar Hansard at: Saint Anne Soho, Westminster, London, England on 22 Dec 1819

Genealogy

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James Augustus St J. Long biography in New DNB. Had 8 surviving children, see Eliza C Agar for list. Nickname Jimmy Gelly as his father was Gelly John. Born James John,Sep24. 1795. he came from a Laugharne family, mainly blacksmiths, which can be traced in detail back to about 1680. He had radical opinions and had to leave Laugharne when he wrote a seditious pamphlet, to escape arrest. When he married, Dec 22, 1819, he changed his name to James Augustus St John, to avoid recognition.

Eliza Caroline Agar Hansard, born ca 1797 Bristol, = James Augustus.

They had ten children, two of whom died unnamed. The eight survivors were:

  1. Percy Bolingbroke,b.Mar 4,, 1821, chr.Aug 5, 1821, Plymouth
  2. Frederick Bayle,b.Aug19,1833, chr,Aug 22, 1824, KentishTown
  3. Elizabeth Ann b.Jul3,1824, chr.Aug 22, Kentish Town
  4. Spenser Buckingham b. Dec22,1826, St John'sWood
  5. James Augustus II,. b.Jun 26, and chr. July 26,1829, Kentish Town.
  6. Horace Stebbibg Roscoe, b. Jul 3, 1830,Caen, Normandy.
  7. Helen Cornelia, b. 1831, Dijon.
  8. Vane Ireton Shaftesbury, b.Aug 9,1838, Hampstead.
Records of burials are notoriously difficult to find, and it is fortunate that the grave of James Augustus is known. He was buried in Highgate Cemetery and the headstone is easily legible. It can be found by starting up the main steps in the older part, until a vast tomb of Sir Loftus Otway is seen, James' grave is some 10 yards beyond, to the left, behind a memorial to the Lee family. The inscription reads 'In affectionate memory of James Augustus St John, who died Sept 22nd, 1875, aged 79. Also of Horace Stebbing Roscoe St John, born 1830, died Feb 29, 1888. Also of Percy Bolingbroke St John, born 1821, died Mar 15, 1889.'

Biography

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No image of James Augustus St.John has been traced, but there is a description of him included in a book of recollections[1] of the celebrated drug addict, Thomas De Quincey. (There is also a mention of Percy B St John). I have made a summary. The extracts certainly give a glimpse of the world that the St Johns inhabited.

James rates his own page on Wikipedia, evidently copied from the 1911 version of Encyclopædia Britannica. The Dictionary of National Biography has pages of detail about James and five of his sons, and both of these sources are a must for anyone who is interested in James.

Michael Middleton has written an extensive Biography

 
  1. ↑ DE QUINCEY AND HIS FRIENDS - PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS, SOUVENIRS AND ANECDOTES OF THOMAS DE QUINCEY HIS FRIENDS AND ASSOCIATES `WRITTEN AND COLLECTED BY JAMES HOGG SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON AND COMPANY. 1895’ St John, Augustus, p148

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