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John Cordy Jeaffreson (1831–1901) was an English author. ==Life== Born at Framlingham, Suffolk, on 14 January 1831, he was second son and ninth child of William Jeaffreson (1789–1865) the surgeon, and Caroline (died 1863), youngest child of George Edwards, tradesman there; he was named after his mother's uncle by marriage, John Cordy (1781–1828) of Worlingworth and Woodbridge. After education at the grammar schools of Woodbridge and Botesdale, he was apprenticed to his father in August 1845; but matriculated at Pembroke College, Oxford, on 22 June 1848, where among his undergraduate friends were the future novelists Henry Kingsley and Arthur Locker. After graduating B.A. in May 1852, Jeaffreson was in London as private tutor for about six years, and lectured in schools; and began to write. From 1856 he was a journalist, writing from 1858 for the rest of his life for ''The Athenæum''. He became a student at Lincoln's Inn on 18 June 1856 and was called to the bar on 30 April 1859, but did not practise law.〔 Jeaffreson moved in legal as well as in literary social circles. In 1860 he joined "Our Club", a literary group that was then a dining club, meeting weekly at Clunn's Hotel, Covent Garden. In 1872 Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy, a friend and deputy keeper of the Public Records, invited Jeaffreson to become an inspector of documents for the Historical Manuscripts Commission, and after palæographical training at the Public Record Office he began work in 1874. He then concentrated on reports and calendars for manuscript records.〔 After years of poor health, which brought his work to an end, Jeaffreson died on 2 February 1901 at his house in Maida Vale, and was buried in Paddington cemetery, Willesden Lane.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Cordy Jeaffreson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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