#183, Henry JERVIS-WHITE-JERVIS

Henry was educated at Harrow and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He joined the Royal Artillery as a 2nd Lieutenant in December 1844. He was promoted Lieutenant in 1846 and Captain in September 1853. He stood for parliament unsuccessfully at Harwich in 1857 but was elected the MP for Harwich at the general Election in 1859.

He was the author of 4 books:

"The Rifle-Musket, a treatise on the Enfield-Pritchett Rifle." 1854 (This was the famous Pattern 1853, which remained in use until 1867.  About 1,500,000 were manufactured.)

"Manual of Field Operations for Officers in the Army," 1852

"History of Corfu and the Ionian Islands," 1852

"Ireland Under British Rule," 1868

It is possible he also wrote "Our Engines of War."

In February 1863 he was elected as deputy chairman of the Great Eastern Railway with specific responsibilities for chairing the Stores and Traffic Committees. In August 1865 he issued an appeal raising concerns about the management of the railway. This prompted an internal investigation and in a board meeting at the end of the month, an absent Jervis-White-Jervis was replaced by William Shaw as deputy chairman. The internal investigation concluded that many of Jervis-White-Jervis' concerns were relevant and in a meeting in January the following year many of the directors were duly replaced by members of the investigating committee. However, Jervis-White-Jervis did not escape unscathed being subject to a motion of censure. He remained in Parliament until the general Election of 1880, dying the following year. He had lived at Brentwood, Dovercourt and finally at Cliff House, Felixstowe.