The surname is one of the patronymic forms of the male given name “John”. The name derived from the Hebrew “Jochanaan” meaning “the Lord is Gracious”, and owes its popularity to two important New Testament Characters; John the Baptist, who was Christ’s cousin and Forerunner and St. John the Evangelist, who was the “Beloved Disciple”.
Given the origin of their surname it is no surprised to find that the Joynes family had strong connections to the Church. Several served in the clergy in Gravesend, Kent, including Kate’s her grandfather the Reverend Richard Symonds Joynes. His three sons, including Kate’s father, the Reverend James Leigh Joynes, served in the church.
Herman Joynes
Born December 1, 1860, at Eton. Second son of the Rev. James Leigh Joynes, Lower Master of Eton College. Admitted at King’s College, a scholar from Eton, October 9, 1880. Bell Scholor, 1881. B.A. 1884. Secretary and Assistant Master at Tonbridge School, in 1886. Subseqently took private pupils at Brighton. Died August 1, 1921, aged 60, at Brighton, after bathing.
Herman Joynes, who was the young Conrad Noel’s official tutor in classics, was more of an anarchist than a socialist. Dressed in the brown habit of a lay brother, Herman distributed anarchist pamphlets in the streets during the state visit of the Shah of Persia. He was a brilliant scholar and managed to get his pupil into Chichester Theological College.
Henry Salt moved to Brighton following the death of Kate Salt to be closer to his friend and brother-in-law. Salt makes a brief mention of Herman in Company I Have Kept, the story is repeated in Salt’s letter The Gentlest Rebel.
Published Poems of Herman Joynes
The Old Order Changeth, To-day, February 1887, page 33
Ichabod, To-day, September 1887, page 77
“Dea Certe”, To-day, May 1889, page 149
Fwunauta snuetoisin, Time, January 1890
To My Husband, Time, March 1890
Hopes, Time, October 1890
Bessie Joynes
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