Educated at Balliol College, Oxford, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1748 and in 1764 a Master of Arts (incorporated at Cambridge as a BA).
[1] He was ordained deacon in 1750 and in 1752, he was instituted to the Vicarage of Great Packington, Warwickshire, under the patronage of Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Aylesford.
Jaques became a Prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral and held the position of Rector of Little Packington for some 43 years.
Jaques inherited a substantial estate from his father, the proceeds of which he liberally dispensed to the poor, and he bequeathed a large sum in his will for the establishment of a school for the poor and for dispensing bread and clothes.
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