94 THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
"apprentice to Isaac Rogers, Citizen and Baker, on the 4th
"of December, 1752, was admitted to the freedom by servi-
tude."
He attained the great age of 98, and, curiously enough, after
two daughters had been born to him within three years of his
marriage, nineteen years elapsed before the birth in 1786 of his
only son, Joseph Jackson Lister. Receiving a good education
at several Quaker seminaries Joseph Jackson Lister was appren-
ticed to his father's business, to which he applied himself with
great diligence and thoroughness, making in connection therewith
journeys about the country, in the course of one of which he
attended the annual inspection of the Quaker school at Ackworth.
This visit was fraught with the happiest consequences, for here
he met the lady who subsequently became his wife. This
estimable young lady was Miss Isabella Harris, then aged 22,
the youngest daughter of the superintendent of the school, a
widow lady with five other children. Isabella was a teacher
in the School, a position she relinquished in 1818 upon her
engagement, when the committee made her a handsome present
"for her valuable exertions in endeavouring to instruct the
"children in the paths of virtue and religion, and to promote
"the peace and harmony of the family." Joseph Jackson
Lister took his bride in 1818 to his business premises in Token-
house Yard, where they lived for three years, and it was probably
at the close of their residence here that Joseph Jackson Lister,
who was an artist of no mean ability, made the very beautiful
drawing of his wife which is reproduced in Sir Rickman Godlee's
book. Four years at Stoke Newington followed, and then in
1826 Joseph Jackson Lister bought Upton House at Upton in
Essex. Commenting thereupon Sir Rickman Godlee says:
"It needs an effort of the imagination to appreciate that
"Upton, now a dismal wilderness of workmen's dwellings
"and small shops, not even anywhere near the edge of Greater
"London, was at this time a country village. In truth it
"was hardly even a village, but rather a winding lane which
"led from the Romford Road towards Plaistow, along which
"were scattered less than a dozen comfortable houses backing
"on grass lands or tilled fields. The Eastern Counties
"Railway was not constructed till 1839, and those whose
"callings took them to London went on horseback, or drove,