James Leigh Joynes | |
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Born | 1824 Frindsbury, Kent, England |
Died | 29 June 1908 Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England | (aged 83–84)
Education | |
Occupation(s) | Clergyman, schoolmaster |
Spouse |
Elizabeth Johanne Unger
(m. 1859) |
Children | James Leigh Joynes |
Relatives | Henry Stephens Salt (son-in-law) |
James Leigh Joynes (1824 – 29 June 1908) was an English clergyman and schoolmaster.
Joynes was born in Frindsbury, Kent, in 1824. His father was Richard Symonds Joynes, the Rector of Gravesend.[1] He was educated at Eton College,[1] before going on to King's School, Rochester,[2] where he earned a Camden Medal.[3]
He taught at Eton College from 1849 to 1887, becoming Lower Master in 1878.[2] Among his pupils were A. C. Swinburne,[4] Sidney Herbert, Lord Kinnaird and the Duke of Argyll.[5] His pupils used the nicknames "Jimmy"[6] or "old Jimmy" to affectionately refer to him.[7] He was notorious for his use of flogging and birching to discipline students.[8]
In 1859, he married Elizabeth Johanne Unger.[1] He was the father of James Leigh Joynes and father-in-law of Henry Stephens Salt.[9]
On his retirement in 1887, a caricature of Joynes brandishing a birch, by Leslie Ward, was published in Vanity Fair.[8][10]
Joynes died at Tunbridge Wells, Kent, in June 1908.[1]