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Of Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire, in 1841 Jarvis owned all Coundon tithes, which were worth £245. Jarvis sold Foleshill land for the Coventry to Nuneaton railway in 1850 - see PA494/8/1,2. In pursuance of his third son Edwin George Jarvis' marriage, in 1841 Colonel Jarvis secured property in Saint John Baptist's parish, Keresley and Woolscott (Grandborough parish, Warwickshire) (PA56/129/3), as he did for that in 1843 of another son, Captain John George Jarvis, with estate at Bedworth, Kite's Hardwick (Leamington Hastings parish, Warwickshire) and Saint John Baptist's and Saint Michael's parishes in Coventry (PA56/129/4). He died in 1851 (see PA56/129/7). With Richard Kevitt Rotherham (q.v.), he gave the land for St. John's parish school in 1839 [Poole, B.: History and Antiquities of the City of Coventry, p.288.] Vestee of the residuary estate of Sarah Hussey Gunman, 1825ff (PA56/129/7; PA56/135/5,6; PA56/136/2-4). PA56/135/7 is his will. For his Allesley Old Road land, see PA2770/57/14. Jarvis was the youngest of twenty-one children of the Antiguan plantation owner Thomas Jarvis (1722–1785) and his wife Rachel Thibou. Jarvis, who grew up in Antigua, arrived in England at the age of twenty-one. He entered the army as ensign in 1792, and became a major in 1810, having served in the 36th Foot Regiment in the Peninsula War, 1808–9. In 1819 he had attained the rank of lieutenant colonel.