James Leigh Joynes (clergyman)

James Leigh Joynes (1824 – 29 June 1908) was an English clergyman and schoolmaster.

The Reverend

James Leigh Joynes
Born1824 (1824)
Frindsbury, Kent, England
Died29 June 1908(1908-06-29) (aged 83–84)
Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England
NationalityBritish
Education
OccupationClergyman, schoolmaster
Spouse(s)
Elizabeth Johanne Unger
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(m. 1859)​
ChildrenJames Leigh Joynes
RelativesHenry Stephens Salt (son-in-law)

Biography

Joynes was born in Frindsbury, Kent, in 1824. His father was Richard Symonds Joynes, the Rector of Gravesend.[1] He was educated at Eton,[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 and became 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]

References
  1. "Rev. James Leigh Joynes". Henry S. Salt Society. Retrieved 2021-01-01.
  2. Shreeve, Simon (August 2008). "Some Old Roffensians" (PDF). The Clock Tower: The Newsletter of the Friends of Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre. No. 11. p. 34. Retrieved 2021-01-01.
  3. "Rev. J. L. Joynes". Eton College Chronicle. Eton. 9 July 1908. p. 304. Retrieved 2021-01-01.
  4. Rooksby, Ricky (2017). "The River and the Block". A.C. Swinburne: A Poet's Life. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-96136-3.
  5. Benson, Arthur C. (1924). "J. L. Joynes". Memories and Friends. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. pp. 85–98. Retrieved 2021-01-01.
  6. Lafourcade, Georges (1932). Swinburne: A Library Biography. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 44.
  7. Nevill, Ralph (1911). "Old Jimmy". Floreat Etona: Anecdotes and Memories of Eton College. London: Macmillan and co., Ltd. p. 287.
  8. Tupper, Peter (2018). A Lover's Pinch: A Cultural History of Sadomasochism. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 132. ISBN 978-1-5381-1118-5.
  9. Salt, Henry S. (July 1938). "The Early G.B.S." The Vegetarian News.
  10. "James Leigh Joynes ('Men of the Day. No. 382.')". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 2021-01-01.
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