OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (JONES JOUDERT.) 



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Jones, Harry, an English clergyman, born Dec. 

 8, 1823; died at Bury St. Edmund's, Sept. 30, 

 1900. He was educated at Cambridge, and after 

 being admitted to holy orders in 1848 was a curate 

 at Baddow, in Essex, till 1850. He held other cura- 

 cies until his appointment in 1858 to the vicarage 

 of St. Luke's, Berwick Street, near the famous 

 Seven Dials district of London. He remained four- 

 teen years in this parish, then one of the worst of 

 the London slums, and was rector of St. George's- 

 in-the-East, 1873-'82. For the next three years he 

 was vicar of the rural parish of Great Barton, and 

 then, returning to London, was rector of St. Peter's, 

 Great Windmill Street, 1882-'85; St. Philip's, Re- 

 gent Street; and from 1897 rector of St. Vedast's, 

 Foster Lane. He became a prebendary of St. Paul's 

 Cathedral in 1880, and was for ten years a chap- 

 lain in ordinary to the Queen. He traveled ex- 

 tensively on the Continent in his various summer 

 holidays, and was a war correspondent at the bat- 

 tle of Sedan. Although he did not ally himself 

 definitely with any party in the Church, his sym- 

 pathies lay naturally with Maurice and Kingsley, 

 Jd he would have been classed with Broad Church- 

 in, if classed at all. He was an indefatigable 

 >rker among the London poor, with whom he was 

 exceedingly popular. He was a favorite, however, 

 with men of all ranks. His published books com- 

 prise Conscience rersus the Quarterly: A Plea for 

 Fair Play toward the Writers of the Essays and 

 Reviews (1861) ; The Church of England and Com- 

 mon Sense (1864); Holiday Papers (1864-'89); 

 The Regular Swiss Round in Three Trips (1865) ; 

 Life in the World (1865); Priest and Parish 

 (1866) ; The Perfect Man (1869) ; East and West 

 London: Being Notes of Common Life (1875); 

 Past and Present in the East (1881); Social Sci- 

 ce (1887) ; Dead Leaves and Living Seeds. 

 Joubert, Petrus Jacobus, a Boer soldier, born 

 Cango, Cape Colony, in 1834; died in Pretoria, 

 March 27, 1900. He was an orphan child of 



well-to-do parents, 

 descended from a 

 Huguenot refugee 

 who went to South 

 Africa when the 

 edict of Nantes was 

 revoked in 1687. 

 He received an ele- 

 mentary education, 

 accompanied trad- 

 ers who traveled 

 with wine and spir- 

 its through the 

 Boer republics, and 

 when he arrived at 

 manhood settled in 

 the Wakkerstroom 

 district of the 

 Transvaal as a 

 farmer. His intel- 

 ligence, shrewdness, 

 and enterprise made him a man of mark in that 

 community, and his knowledge of business and 

 law and his reputation for probity and judicial 

 discrimination led to his being frequently called 

 upon to settle disputes between his neighbors, this 

 io his giving up farming for the law, and this in 

 turn to his being elected, about 1863, to the Volks- 

 raad as member for Wakkerstroom. He was re- 

 elected, received the appointment of Attorney- 

 General, and acted as President of the republic 

 during President Burger's visit to Europe in 

 874. When the ambitious improvements under- 

 taken by President Burger bankrupted the treas- 

 "i'y, and his unorthodox and modern view's 

 alienated the old-fashioned Boers, the traders in 



the towns, mostly newcomers, welcomed British 

 annexation. From the beginning of the British 

 administration Paul Kruger and Piet Joubert, 

 who had withdrawn from political life during the 

 period of confusion and financial insolvency, be- 

 gan a bitter opposition against Sir Theophilus 

 Shepstone, the British Commissioner. Joubert ac- 

 companied Kruger and the committee of the 

 Volksraad that went to England in the hope of 

 securing by friendly negotiation the restoration 

 of independence. He refused offers of well-paid 

 posts in the British administration, and took the 

 leading part in getting all the Boers to sign a 

 protest against annexation. When a committee 

 went to Sir Bartle Frere in Natal to present the 

 protest, Slim Piet, or crafty Piet, as he was nick- 

 named, carried on the negotiations with the Brit- 

 ish High Commissioner as the spokesman and ad- 

 vocate of the burghers. He was more active and 

 determined even than Kruger in keeping up the 

 agitation against British rule, and when the 

 burghers decided on armed resistance and estab- 

 lished a Provisional Government in 1880 he be- 

 came a member of the triumvirate charged with 

 the conduct of the war. While Kruger assumed 

 control of diplomatic negotiations Joubert was 

 made commandant general of the Boer forces, 

 which at first were not disposed to take orders 

 from a commander in chief, but which he suc- 

 ceeded in thoroughly organizing and impressing 

 with his generalship as the war proceeded. He 

 commanded at Laing's Nek, Ingogo, and Majuba, 

 defeating the British every time. In the last en- 

 gagement, fought on Feb. 27, 1881, he scaled a 

 table mountain where the British were encamped, 

 gained a commanding eminence with his small 

 force without being observed, and opened a sud- 

 den rifle fire that caused the British regulars to run 

 in a wild rout from a tenth of their numbers. This 

 ended the war. Joubert conducted the earlier 

 peace negotiations. After the retrocession the In- 

 vincible, as he was now called, was retained in 

 the post of commandant general, and could not 

 attain the presidency because the burghers would 

 not feel safe with any other general at the head 

 of their military organization. He was a member 

 of the commission that superintended the loca- 

 tion and government of the natives in the Trans- 

 vaal. In 1893 he was put forward as the candi- 

 date for the presidency of the party that opposed 

 President Kruger on account of his favoring Hol- 

 landers and granting monopolies, and his resist- 

 ance to the demands of the Uitlanders for a wider 

 franchise and favorable legislation. He received 

 7,009 votes, only 872 fewer than Paul Kruger, but 

 when he ran again in 1898 he got no more than 

 2.001. He advocated a policy of greater liberality 

 toward Uitlanders, and thus it came that some 

 of his countrymen suspected him of treachery 

 when the country magazines were found to be ill 

 supplied with ammunition at the time of the Jo- 

 hannesburg rising. His vote in the Executive 

 Council was generally given in favor of concilia- 

 tory measures, yet he advocated severe punish- 

 ment for Dr. Jameson 'and his raiders. Never- 

 theless, the friends of President Kruger put him 

 out of his office of Superintendent of Native Af- 

 fairs, and threatened his post of commandant gen- 

 eral. There was no open breach in the old friend- 

 ship of the rival politicians: Kruger knew how 

 necessary to himself and to the republic were the 

 good will and assistance of the most popular poli- 

 tician in South Africa, and the only soldier whom 

 the Transvaalers would follow with confidence 

 into battle. Joubert was acting President when 

 Kruger was in Europe in 1883 and 1884 negoti- 

 ating for the withdrawal of British suzerainty 



