Jelinger Cookson Symons
{{Short description|English barrister, school inspector and writer}}
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Jelinger Cookson Symons (27 August 1809 – 7 April 1860) was an English barrister, school inspector and writer.
Early life
Jelinger Cookson Symons was born at West Ilsley, Berkshire, on 27 August 1809; his father Jelinger Symons was a cleric known as a naturalist. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1832.{{cite DNB|wstitle=Symons, Jelinger Cookson|volume=55}}{{acad|id=SMNS827JC|name=Symons, Jelinger Cookson}}
Public life
In 1835 Symons received a commission from the Home Office to inquire into the state of the hand-loom weavers and manufacturers. He travelled for it in Lancashire and Scotland, and parts of Switzerland. He then held a tithe commissionership, and was a commissioner to inquire into the state of the mining population of the north of England.
In 1843 Symons was called to the bar at the Middle Temple. He went the Oxford circuit, and attended the Gloucester quarter sessions. During this period of his life he was editor of the Law Magazine, up to its union with the Law Review in 1856. In 1846 the Committee of Council on Education appointed him as one of the commissioners to collect information on the state of education in Wales. The reports of the commissioners were published in 1848.{{cite book |last1=Commissioners of Inquiry into the State of Education in Wales |title=Reports of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the State of Education in Wales |date=1848 |publisher=Her Majesty’s Stationery Office |location=London}} The publication of the reports in Wales caused uproar because of the perception that they disparaged the Welsh, which incited the criticism of treachery, see Treachery of the Blue Books.
In 1848 Lord Lansdowne made Symons one of Her Majesty's permanent inspectors of schools, a post he retained through life. He also concerned himself with the establishment of reformatories for juvenile criminals, drawing attention to the "colony" at Mettray in France.{{cite book|author=Jellinger C. Symons|title=Tactics for the Times: as Regards the Condition and Treatment of the Dangerous Classes|url=https://archive.org/details/tacticsfortimes00symogoog|year=1849|publisher=J. Ollivier|page=[https://archive.org/details/tacticsfortimes00symogoog/page/n119 96]}}
Symons died at Malvern House, Great Malvern, on 7 April 1860.
Works
- {{cite book |title=A Few Thoughts on Volition and Agency |date=1833}}
- {{cite book |title=Arts and Artizans at Home and Abroad, with Sketches of the Progress of Foreign Manufactures |date=1839}}
- {{cite book |title=Outlines of Popular Economy |date=1840}}
- {{cite book |title=The Attorney and Solicitors Act, 6 & 7 Vict. cap. 73, with an analysis, notes, and index |date=1843}}
- {{cite book |title=Parish Settlements and the Practice of Appeal |orig-date=1844 |edition=2nd |date=1846}}
- {{cite book |title=Railway Liabilities as they affect Subscribers, Committees, Allottees, and Scripholders, inter se, and Third Parties |date=1846}}
- {{cite book |title=A Plea for Schools, which sets forth the Dearth of Education and the Growth of Crime |date=1847}}
- {{cite book |title=Tactics for the Times, as regards the Condition and Treatment of the Dangerous Classes |date=1849}}
- {{cite book |title=School Economy, a practical treatise on the best mode of establishing and teaching schools |date=1852}}
- {{cite book |title=A Scheme of Direct Taxation |date=1853}}
- {{cite book |title=The Industrial Capacities of South Wales |date=1855}}
- {{cite book |title=Lunar Motion, the whole Argument stated and illustrated by Diagrams |date=1856}}
- {{cite book |title=Sir Robert Peel as a Type of Statesmanship |date=1856}}
- {{cite book |title=Milford, Past, Present, and Future |date=1857}}
- {{cite book |title=William Burke, the author of 'Junius' |date=1859}}
- {{cite book |title=Rough Types of English Life |date=1860}}
With Richard Griffiths Welford and others, Symons published Reports of Cases in the Law of Real Property and Conveyancing argued and determined in all the Courts of Law and Equity, 1846.
Family
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Attribution
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Category:English magazine editors
Category:19th-century English journalists
Category:English male journalists