Henry John Jourdain

Sir Henry John Jourdain, (1835 – 14 May 1901) was a British colonial official in the Colony of Mauritius.

Career Jourdain was born in 1835, the son of Frederick J. Jourdain, of London, whose family was of Huguenot descent. He was educated at Blackheath and in Paris. and received the order from Queen Victoria during an investiture at Windsor Castle on 1 March 1900. He was a Knight (Chevalier) of the Belgian Order of Leopold.

He died at his residence, The Elms, Watford, on 14 May 1901.

Family Jourdain married first, in 1860, Rosina Augusta Bourguignon, daughter G. C. Bourguignon of Neuveville, Switzerland and Mauritius. Following her death, he married secondly, in 1884, Ada Mary Currie, 2nd daughter of James P. Currie by his first wife Anna Dora Brett, sister of William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher. Evelyn Jessie Jourdain, who married William Edward Blackett-Ord