A Disc Jockey in 1871!!?

[Dolgellau]

I am in the process of transcribing the Dolgellau Census for 1871 to be placed on the appropriate GenUKI page. In the process I came across this entry:

2 Bryngwin isaf     
Hugh John  Reveley, Head, Married, 59, Male
Occupation: Gent, Esq., JP & DJ

As I doubt that the Welsh gentry were pioneers of discotheques, I don’t suppose that Hugh was what I would think of as a DJ – anybody any ideas about what this DJ might be?

[Biker]

Erm... District Judge ?

[krisesjoint]

U Beat me to it Jonathan...

Yes District Judge 4 sure!!

Kris 

[Dolgellau]

I thought about District Judge as a possibility, but would a District Judge also have been allowed to sit as a magistrate at this time?

[trystan]

I suppose JP is Justice of the Peace as well.

[Dolgellau]

Yes, Trystan, a JP is a Justice of the Peace, also known as magistrate, I was wondering if it was possible for a person to be a Justice of the Peace AND a District Judge at the same time in the 1870's.

If one disagreed with a magistrate's ruling the first course of apeall would be to the District Judge - it seems odd therefore that if DJ is District Judge that a person could be a JP and a DJ.

I am a Gent and an Esq myself, but alas too young to be a JP and too old to be a (modern) DJ

[txemily]

Should that have been DL rather than DJ?  Hugh John Reveley became a justice of the peace in January 1858; he was appointed as High Sheriff of Merioneth in February of the following year and he was made Deputy Lieutenant of the County in October 1861.
[from THE JOURNALS OF H. J. REVELEY (1812-1889) OF BRYN-Y-GWIN, DOLGELLAU, SELECTIONS FROM VOLUME I]

I'm a Reveley in Texas.