James Jershom Jezreel

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The site of Jezreel's unmarked grave in Grange Road Cemetery, Gillingham.

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.

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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)