British barrister, judge and Whig politician (1663–1738)
For the British Member of Parliament for Calne, see Joseph Jekyll (1754–1837).
Sir
Joseph Jekyll
KS PC
Portrait by Jonathan Richardson
Chief Justice of Cheshire
In office 1697–1717
Preceded by
John Coombe
Succeeded by
Spencer Cowper
Master of the Rolls
In office 13 July 1717 – 19 August 1738
Preceded by
Sir John Trevor
Succeeded by
Sir John Verney
Personal details
Born
1663
Died
19 August 1738
Nationality
British
Political party
Whig
Profession
Barrister, judge, politician
Sir Joseph JekyllKS PC (1663 – 19 August 1738), of Westminster, was a British barrister, judge and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons for 40 years from 1697 to 1738. He became Master of the Rolls in 1717.
Sir JosephJekyll KS PC (1663 – 19 August 1738), of Westminster, was a British barrister, judge and Whig politician who sat in the English and British...
Jekyll Island is located off the coast of the U.S. state of Georgia, in Glynn County. It is one of the Sea Islands and one of the Golden Isles of Georgia...
Mayfair, London, the fifth of the seven children of Captain Edward Joseph Hill Jekyll, Esquire, an officer in the Grenadier Guards, and his wife Julia,...
The Jekyll Island Club was a private club on Jekyll Island, on Georgia's Atlantic coast. It was founded in 1886 when members of an incorporated hunting...
community. Jekyll lived in his youth with his family at 2 Grafton Street, Mayfair, London, the seventh of the seven children of Captain Edward Joseph Hill Jekyll...
Brycchan (March 2003). "The extraordinary Negro': Ignatius Sancho, JosephJekyll, and the Problem of Biography" (PDF). Journal for Eighteenth-Century...
Joseph played Space Marshall Clarke in two series of the BBC sci-fi sitcom Hyperdrive, and was Benjamin Maddox in the BBC drama series Jekyll. Joseph...
ISSN 0016-8297. JSTOR 40579518. Wilkins, Thomas Hart (2007). "Sir JosephJekyll and his Impact on Oglethorpe's Georgia". The Georgia Historical Quarterly...
Les Misérables before going on to be the alternate for the title roles in Jekyll & Hyde on Broadway for almost two years. He would later return to Les Mis...
politicians, including James Craggs the Elder, the Earl of Halifax and Sir JosephJekyll. James Craggs, as Postmaster General, was responsible for intercepting...
Essex". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 18 February 2020. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Markham, Osborn" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University...
20 May 1717 Speaker of the House of Commons 1685–1689, 1693–1717 Sir JosephJekyll 13 July 1717 19 August 1738 — Sir John Verney 9 October 1738 5 August...
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