Vane Jadis joined the
Colonial Office as a junior assistant clerk in
1827.
During the period
1846-1867, he served as assistant clerk and worked in the North American Department under Clerk
Arthur Blackwood until his retirement.
With a description as a “clerk in the Colonial Office,” his name appears as an
insolvent debtor
in a series of
London newspapers from
1837 until 1861.
Jadis probably procured a clerkship in the War Office for his son, who,
pressed and harassed to death for money
in
1861, forged a bill to obtain cash that was not met (paid when it matured).
For this crime he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to four years prison.