1. Sir Joshua Jebb, was a British officer of the Royal Engineers who participated in the Battle of Plattsburgh on Lake Champlain during the War of 1812, He became Surveyor-General of convict prisons.
23 Facts About Joshua Jebb
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Joshua Jebb was promoted to first lieutenant on 21 July 1813, and embarked for Canada in the following October.
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Joshua Jebb served with the army under the command of General Francis de Rottenburg on the frontier of Lower Canada until the summer of 1814, when he joined the army of Lieutenant-general Sir George Prevost in the United States, and took part in the campaign of the autumn of 1814.
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Joshua Jebb was present at the Battle of Plattsburgh, 11 September 1814, and was thanked in general orders.
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In 1816, Joshua Jebb completed a survey for a canal which was designed to allow access to the Canadian heartland.
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Joshua Jebb's route was not followed by Colonel By in building the Rideau Canal; he had chosen a way between Ottawa River and Kingston where Lake Ontario flows into Saint Lawrence River.
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Joshua Jebb returned to England in 1820, after an extended service in Canada.
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Joshua Jebb was stationed at Woolwich and afterwards at Hull until December 1827, when he embarked for the West Indies.
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Joshua Jebb was promoted second captain on 26 February 1828, and was invalided home in September 1829.
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Joshua Jebb was appointed adjutant of the royal sappers and miners at Chatham on 11 February 1831, and promoted first captain on 10 January 1837.
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On 10 March 1838 Joshua Jebb was appointed by the Lord President of the council to hold inquiries on the grants of charters of incorporation to Bolton and Sheffield, and on 21 May of the same year he was made a member of the commission on the municipal boundary of Birmingham.
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Joshua Jebb was appointed Surveyor-General of prisons, a technical adviser to the Home Office, and was employed in designing county and borough prisons.
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Joshua Jebb associated with the inspectors William Crawford and the Rev William Whitworth Russell, in the design and construction of the "Model Prison" at Pentonville.
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Joshua Jebb continued in his military duties, and was quartered at Birmingham until he was seconded on 20 September 1839.
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In 1844, Joshua Jebb was appointed a member of a royal commission to report on the punishment of military crime by imprisonment.
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Joshua Jebb was appointed to this office on 27 December 1844 in addition to his other duties.
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Joshua Jebb was appointed chairman of the board, and under his direction the new system was adopted and developed.
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Joshua Jebb retired from the army, leaving military service on full pay retirement on 1 January 1850; his successor as Survey General of Prisons was Major Edmund Henderson.
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Joshua Jebb subsequently received the honorary rank of colonel on 28 November 1854.
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Joshua Jebb was made a KCB for his civil services on 25 March 1859.
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Joshua Jebb died suddenly on 26 June 1863 in Charing Cross, London, coming off the omnibus from Parson's Green, where he resided, and was buried in Brookwood Cemetery.
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Joshua Jebb married twice; firstly, on 14 June 1830 Mary Legh Thomas, daughter of William Burtinshaw Thomas, of Highfield, Derbyshire, who died in 1850.
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Joshua Jebb married, secondly on 5 September 1854, Lady Amelia Rose Pelham, daughter of Thomas Pelham, the Earl of Chichester, who survived him.