James Jershom Jezreel

James Jershom Jezreel, real name James Roland White, (cir 1851 – 2 March, 1885) was a British soldier who founded the New and Latter House of Israel religious sect — known as the Jezreelites — in England. Jezreel’s main beliefs were based upon the writings of Joanna Southcott (1750-1814). His most notable success was the building of the so-called Jezreel's tower in Gillingham, Kent, in the 1880s. It was demolished in 1961.

More biographical information under Jezreel's tower.

Further reading

* The tower of mystery surrenders its secrets by Stephen Rayner, Memories page, "Medway News", May 2006
*"The Sixth Trumpeter" by PJ Rogers
*The Times
*D Roberts, "Observations on the Divine Mission of Joanna Southcott" (1807)
*R Reece, "Correct Statement of the Circumstances attending the Death of Joanna Southcott" (1815)
*Library of Biography. "Remarkable Women of different Nations and Ages". First Series. Boston. John P Jewett and Co. (1858)