| Description | [Revd. William James Jay was appointed an Assistant Chaplain for the East India Company 'on the Bengal Establishment' at Fort William [Calcutta], Bengal, in 1850. He subsequently moved to be Chaplain at Allahabad but returned to England due to ill health in early 1860. Later that year he was appointed Minister of Poplar Chapel.]
Bond and covenant, 1850:
Revd.W.J.Jay is bound to the East India Company as Assistant Chaplain at Fort William [Calcutta], Bengal, and covenants to abide by the Company regulations, etc.
Surgeon's report, 1859, on the health of Revd. Jay, aged 40, after 9 years' service in India. Refers to his 'incessant.... attendance at the Hospital 96th Regt. during the frightful epidemic of the year 1851', to 'the same work during the Mutiny', and to his 'long and weary attendance on dying men in the various hospital wards during the Cholera' in 1858 - 1859 which led to his own breakdown in health, obliging him to 'seek repose and health in the Hill climate'. States that on arrival here [Landour] to Allahbad his health was 'completely shattered'. and recommends 15 months furlough to return to England to recuperate. Note at end that 15 months furlough was granted to Revd. Jay, Chaplain of Allahbad 'now on leave at Landour'.
Letter, 1860, from Revd.W. J. Jay at 35 Lansdowne Rd. North, Notting Hill, to J. Baring M.P., Under Secretary of State for India, thanking him for the appointment to the Chaplaincy of Poplar Hospital but expressing concern about his future if the Hospital is closed; also draft reply from the India Office, and report of the Finance Committee recommending Jay for a pension of £150 p.a. if the Hospital is abolished.
Letter, 1860, from Revd. W. J. Jay at 24 Woodstock Rd., Poplar, to the India Office, stating that he has entered on his duties as Chaplain and Superintendent of the Poplar Hospital and asking that the house there be put in good order, so that he and his family can move in; also report and submission of the Marine Dept. recommending that the house (only vacated by the family of the late Chaplain, Revd. R.B.Boswell, on 13 Aug. 1860) can be repaired as necessary.
Three letters, 1869, from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. to C. Mason [India Office] regarding Revd. Jay's voyage to India in 1850, arriving at Calcutta in the 'Sutley' ( 'I believe she was a sailing vessel belonging to Messrs. Green, and was afterwards burnt in the Hooghly'), and his return on the 'Bentinck' (from Calcutta to Suez) and the 'China' (from Alexandria to Southampton) in early 1860. |