fought Harry Orme at Frimley 18 Dec. 1849 when he lost after 40
rounds in 2¾ hours; beat Bob Wade at Edenbridge 24 Sep. 1850;
fought Orme again 10 May 1852 for £100 a side at Bourne Bridge
and Newmarket, police interfered, Jones refused to renew the
contest and so lost; beaten by Tom Paddock 18 July 1854 and
26 June 1855; fought Tom Sayers £100 a side, 62 rounds in 3
hours, Banks of the Medway, darkness came on, both men much
punished 6 Jany. 1857; beaten by Sayers £100 a side, 85 rounds
in 2 hours, Banks of the Medway 10 Feb. 1857; went to U.S. of
America, where he trained and seconded J. C. Heenan for his
fight with John Morrissey at Long Point, Canada 20 Oct. 1858;
entered Confederate army during the civil war, one of general
Beauregard’s aide-de-camps; fought Mike Mc Coole for 2000
dollars and the championship at Busenburk station, Ohio, when
Mc Coole won in 34 rounds lasting 26 minutes. _d._ Leavenworth,
Indiana 16 Feb. 1869, reported to have been poisoned. _H. D.
Miles’s Pugilistica_, _iii_ 253, 262, 283, 382, 419.
JONES, ALEXANDER (youngest son of 4 Viscount Ranelagh _d._
1797). _b._ 9 March 1778; entered navy 1790; wrecked among
Japanese islands 1797; saved H.M.S. Tartarus from destruction
after she had been abandoned at Ferrol 1800; captain 1 Aug.
1811; commander of Talbot sloop making many captures 1807–11;
admiral on half pay 1 Nov. 1860. _d._ Cheltenham 8 Jany. 1862.
JONES, ANNA MARIA. Author of The Gipsey, a romantic tale.
London, Chapple 2 vols., and other works of fiction. _d._ a
pauper 25 Jany. 1854.
JONES, AVONIA STANHOPE (dau. of George Jones, actor 1810–79).
_b._ 43 Barrow st. New York 12 July 1836; first appeared on the
stage at People’s theatre, Cincinnati 18 April 1856 as Parthenia
in Ingomar; played in Australia 1860–1; first appeared in London
at Drury Lane 5 Nov. 1861 as Medea; played at the Adelphi
1862–3; acted Lady Isabel in East Lynne at the Surrey 1864 and
Theodora in Watts Phillips’s drama Theodora, actress and empress
at same house 9 April 1866; played in the provinces and in
Dublin. (_m._ 1862 Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, actor 1818–66). _d._
of rapid consumption, 2 Bond st. New York 4 Oct. 1867. _bur._
Mount Auburn cemet. Boston. _Illust. sporting news_, _v_ 145
(1866), _portrait_.
JONES, BENJAMIN ORLANDO. Ensign 36 foot 29 May 1805; captain 12
foot 19 Sep. 1822 to 6 July 1826 when placed on half pay; col.
73 foot 15 Sep. 1860 to death; L.G. 12 Nov. 1862; K.H. 1837;
K.T.S. _d._ The Hafod, Abergavenny 16 Feb. 1865.
JONES, CHARLES CHADWICKE. _b._ 1800; barrister M.T. 25 June
1830; went the home circuit; practised at the Old Bailey;
serjeant at law 10 July 1844; author of Recollections of
royalty, from the death of William Rufus in 1100 to that of the
cardinal York in 1807, 2 vols. 1828. _d._ 18 Lambeth ter. London
7 July 1852 aged 52.
JONES, CHARLES HANDFIELD (son of J. Jones, captain R.N.) _b._
Liverpool 1 Oct. 1819; ed. at Rugby and Cath. hall, Camb., B.A.
1840, M.B. 1843; studied at St. George’s hosp. London; M.R.C.P.
1845, F.R.C.P. 1849, junior censor 1863–4, senior censor 1886,
vice pres. 1888; delivered Lumleian lectures on pathology of the
nervous system 1865; F.R.S. 6 June 1850; phys. to St. Mary’s
hosp. Paddington 1851; author of Pathological and clinical
observations respecting morbid conditions of the stomach 1855;
Clinical observations on functional nervous disorders 1864; with
E. H. Sieveking of A manual of pathological anatomy 1854, 2 ed.
1875. _d._ 24 Montagu sq. London 30 Sep. 1890. _British Medical
Journal_, _ii_ 800, 874, 924, 932 (1890).
JONES, SIR CHARLES THOMAS (3 son of Charles Thomas Jones of
Frontraith, Montgomeryshire). _b._ 1778; entered navy 1791;
knighted by duke of Richmond, lord lieutenant of Ireland 1810;
captain 12 Aug. 1819, retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired R.A. 27 Aug.
1851. _d._ Montgomery 4 April 1853.
JONES, MRS. CHARLES W. _b._ 29 Nov. 1789; singing chambermaid in
the provinces; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre as
Lady Duberly in The Heir at law 18 June 1823; played old women
at Covent Garden and Drury Lane; last appeared at Drury Lane
1842; played Lady Bait in P. Palmer’s comedy Life, at Olympic
16 Nov. 1846. _d._ York town, Farnborough, Hants. 28 Feb. 1866.
_Era 18 March 1866 p._ 11.
JONES, SIR DANIEL. Colonel; resided at Brockville in district of
Johnstown, Upper Canada; knighted at St. James’s palace 16 March
1836. _d._ 1856.
JONES, DAVID (eld. son of John Jones _d._ 1843). _b._
Blaenos, Llandovery, Nov. 1810; ed. at Charterhouse; sheriff
of Carmarthenshire 1845; M.P. Carmarthenshire 1852–68. _d._
Pantglas, Carmarthenshire 1 July 1869.
NOTE.--He unsuccessfully contested Sudbury 29 June 1841, and at his own
sole expense unseated the two members then returned, which led to the
disfranchisement of the borough 1844.
JONES, DAVID. _b._ 1810; on staff of Morning Chronicle; manager
and publisher of Saturday Review at 445 Strand, afterwards at 39
Southampton st. Strand, from date of first number 3 Nov. 1855
to his death. _d._ Abergele, north Wales 15 June 1884. _bur._
Finchley cemetery near London 23 June.
JONES, DAVID WILLIAM. One of the 300 mounted post boys in
London; trained under Chifney at Newmarket; head lad to John
Stevens; head groom to marquis of Westminster, to General
Grosvenor and to sir John Ramsden; in the Peninsula and at
Waterloo in charge of horses; served many masters in India,
Spain, France and Germany, and could speak 3 languages; trained
for Mr. De Burgh at Hampton; frequently walked from Hampton to
Hyde park corner; a very fair jockey and a strong waster; kept a
lodging house in Mayfair to 1830; became blind, his wife a pew
opener kept him till her death 1854. _d._ Chelsea workhouse,
Middlesex, June 1858. _Sporting Review_, _xl_ 4–5 (1858).
JONES, EBENEZER (2 son of Robert Jones). _b._ Canonbury sq.
Islington 20 Jany. 1820; ed. under rev. John Bickerdike at
Highgate; clerk in a tea warehouse in Mincing lane, City 1837;
an accountant; sec. of a railway co. 1846; wrote articles in the
Oddfellow; lived in Paulton square, Chelsea 1856–60; published
Studies of sensation and event, poems 1843; The land monopoly
1849. (_m._ 1844 Caroline niece of Edwin Atherstone the poet,
they separated, she _d._ 184-). _d._ Brentwood, Essex 14 Sep.
1860. _bur._ in churchyard of Shenfield near there. _E. Jones’s
Studies of sensation, ed. by R. H. Shepherd_ (1879), _Memoir pp.
xvii–lxxxiv_; _Athenæum_, _ii_ 368, 401, 466 (1878).
JONES, EDWYN (eld. son of Henry Jones of Louth, Ireland).
Barrister G.I. 26 Jany. 1867; member of joint board of
examiners, Inns of Court 1877 to death; edited with John Shortt
The county court acts, with chapters upon administration,
trusts, etc. 1868; author of The law of salvage 1870. _d._
Woocote Dower house, Upper Wallington 3 Nov. 1890.
JONES, ELIZABETH (dau. of Mr. Mandelbert, actor). _b._ 1834;
appeared at Sadler’s Wells as Macduff’s child in Macbeth, as
Arthur in King John, and as the prince of Wales in Richard III.;
acted at Olympic and Surrey, and at Brighton, Plymouth, Dublin
and Bristol; acted at Grecian theatre, Islington 1865–74. (_m._
David H. Jones, actor, _d._ 21 Sep. 1867). _d._ at res. of
brother in law George Chapman, musical director, Beaufort villa,
Norrisville, Bristol 5 May 1883. _Era 19 May 1883 p._ 9.
JONES, ERNEST CHARLES (son of Charles Jones, major 15 hussars
and aide de camp to Ernest, duke of Cumberland). _b._ Berlin
25 Jany. 1819; ed. St. Michael’s coll. Lüneberg; engaged in
journalism in London 1841; barrister M.T. 19 April 1844; joined
the chartist movement 1845, was the leader till 1858; contested
Halifax 1847, 1852, Nottingham 1853, 1857 and Manchester
1868; arrested for making seditious speeches, and sentenced
at Central criminal court to two years’ solitary confinement
7 July 1848; attended chartist convention of 1851; joined the
northern circuit and had much practice; editor of the Northern
Star and of The People’s Paper 1852; The Labourer 1847; author
of The Wood spirit 2 vols. 1841; My life, a rhapsody; The maid
of Warsaw 1854; Woman’s wrongs, tales 1855; The revolt of
Hindostan, a poem 1857, originally written with his own blood
while in prison; Democracy vindicated, a lecture 1867. _d._
Wellington st. Higher Broughton, Manchester 26 Jany. 1869.
_bur._ Ardwick cemet. 31 Jany., demonstration in Trafalgar sq.
London in honour of his memory 26 March 1869. _C. Mackay’s Forty
years’ recollections_, _ii_ 59–63 (1877); _Reg. and Mag. of
Biog._, _March 1869 pp._ 223–6; _Times 27, 29, 31 March 1869_.
JONES, EVAN (son of Evan Jones). _b._ Bryntynoriad near Dolgelly
5 Sep. 1820; ed. Brecon coll. 1841–5; a bard of great celebrity;
independent minister, Tredegar, July 1845 to Jany. 1848; replied
to rev. John Griffith’s false charges against nonconformists,
charging them with ignorance, drunkenness and immorality
1847, and exposed the Blue book treachery of the Education
commission; edited The Principality, a newspaper. Cardiff
1848; superintended and wrote for the Standard of Freedom, and
the Pathway 1851, two of Cassell’s publications; published Y
Gmraes, a magazine for women Jany. 1850 to death; Yr Adolygydd,
a quarterly review March 1850 to death; known as Ieuan Gwynedd;
author of The dissent and morality of Wales 1848; Facts and
figures in illustration of the dissent and morality of Wales
1849 and many works in Welsh; ruptured a blood vessel in London
and _d._ Cardiff 23 Feb. 1852. _bur._ Groeswen near Caerphilly,
monument erected by a penny subscription. _Congregational year
book for 1854 p._ 234–5.
JONES, GEORGE. _b._ 1780; 2 lieut. R.M. 19 June 1793, lieut.
col. 22 July 1830, col. commandant 27 Dec. 1837 to 9 Nov. 1846;
general 20 June 1855; a prisoner of war in France 1804–14. _d._
Woodside house, Southsea 30 Jany. 1857 aged 77.
JONES, GEORGE (only son of John Jones, mezzotint engraver
1745–97). _b._ 6 Jany. 1786; student at the R.A. 1801; served
in the militia, joined the army of occupation in Paris after
Waterloo; painted many pictures of Waterloo and the battles
in the Peninsula; A.R.A. 1822, R.A. 1824, librarian 1834–40,
keeper 1840–50, acted as pres. 1845–50; exhibited 221 pictures
at R.A., 141 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1803–70; chief adviser
of Robert Vernon in forming his collection; acted as executor
for Chantrey and Turner; author of Recollections of life of sir
S. Chantrey 1849. _d._ 8 Park sq. Regent’s park, London 19 Sep.
1869. _Sandby’s History of royal academy_, _ii_ 36–9 (1862);
_Reg. and Mag. of Biog. ii_ 253, 280 (1869).
JONES, GEORGE. _b._ about 1795; owner of Rosherville gardens,
Gravesend 1855 to death, the gardens covering a space of 17
acres were sold for £24,600, 8 Oct. 1872. _d._ Lansdowne house,
Rosherville 26 June 1872.
JONES, GEORGE. _b._ London 10 March 1810; taken to America 1818;
appeared at Federal st. theatre, Boston 1810, at Chestnut st.
theatre, Philadelphia as Pierre in Venice preserved 7 Dec. 1831,
at the Old National, Boston as Claude Melnotte 16 May 1838;
manager Marshal theatre, Richmond, and Avon theatre, Norfolk,
Sep. 1839; visited England and lectured on the Bible; returning
to America 1857 took the title of Count Joannes; lecturer at
Boston; appeared at Academy of music, New York as Hamlet 1872
and committed many eccentricities and was thenceforth guyed
whenever he was seen on the stage; author of A history of
ancient America, Tyrian era, 3 ed. 1843; Tecumseh, a tragedy,
life of general Harrison, etc. 1844. _d._ West-side hotel, Sixth
avenue, New York 30 Dec. 1879. _The Era 25 Jany. 1880 p._ 4.
JONES, GEORGE MATTHEW. L.R.C.S. Edin. 1826, M.R.C.S. Eng. 1855;
surgeon in Jersey 1826 to death, surgeon to general hospital
there; he signalised himself about 1850 by performance of
several successful cases of excisions of joints especially of
the knee; by his practice and writings he contributed as much
as anyone to rapid spread of conservative surgery; the merit
of reviving excision of the knee is due to Wm. Fergusson, but
Jones adopted the operation a few weeks after Fergusson had
performed it, without being aware of the fact; author of On
disarticulation of the scapula from the shoulder joint 1860.
_d._ Old st. St. Heliers, Jersey 7 Sep. 1861. _The Lancet_, _ii_
264 (1861).
JONES, SIR HARRY DAVID (5 son of John Jones, general
superintendent of Landguard fort, Suffolk 1751–1806). _b._
Landguard fort 14 March 1792; 2 lieut. R.E. 17 Sep. 1808; served
in the Peninsula 1810–14; led the forlorn hope at siege of St.
Sebastian and was wounded and taken prisoner 25 July 1813;
col. R.E. 7 July 1853 to 2 Aug. 1860; a brigadier general for
particular service in the Baltic 1854; commanded Royal Engineers
in the Crimea 10 Feb. 1855; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 28 June
1861; governor of royal military coll. Sandhurst 29 April
1856 to death; lieut. general 6 July 1860; colonel commandant
of Royal Engineers 2 Aug. 1860 to death; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 4
June 1856; A.I.C.E.; contributed papers to Institution of
Civil engineers, to United service journal and to Professional
papers of Corps of R.E.; edited sir J. T. Jones’ Reports on the
fortresses in the Netherlands 1861; compiled vol. 2 of sir H.
Elphinstone’s Journal of operations to fall of Sebastopol 1859.
_d._ Sandhurst 2 Aug. 1866. _G.M. ii_ 420 (1866); _I.L.N. lxv_
374 (1874); _Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. xxx_ 438–40 (1870).
JONES, HARRY LONGUEVILLE (son of Edward Jones). _b._ Piccadilly,
London 16 April 1806; ed. at St. John’s coll. and Magd. coll.
Camb., 7 wrangler and B.A. 1828, M.A. 1832; fellow of his coll.,
lecturer and dean; C. of Connington 1829; settled in France
1834 and is reported to have edited a reissue of Galignani’s
Paris guide; opened a college in Manchester 1837 which did not
succeed; resided at Beaumaris 1845–9; one of H.M.’s inspectors
of schools in Wales 16 Dec. 1848 to 1864; started and edited the
Archæologia Cambrensis, Jany. 1846 to 1850; chief founder of
Cambrian Archæological Assoc. Sep. 1847; author of Illustrated
history of Carnarvonshire; Le Keux’s Memorials of Cambridge 2
vols. 1841, with descriptive accounts by T. Wright and H. L.
Jones; Essays. Reprinted from Blackwood’s Magazine 1870. _d._
Kensington 16 Nov. 1870. _Bibl. Cornub. i_ 278; _Archæologia
Cambrensis_, _ii_ 94–6 (1871).
JONES, HENRY BENCE (2 son of Wm. Jones, 5 dragoon guards).
_b._ Thorington hall, Yoxford, Suffolk 31 Dec. 1813; ed. at
Harrow and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840, M.B. 1845,
M.D. 1849; L.R.C.P. 1842, F.R.C.P. 1849, senior censor; F.R.S.
30 April 1846; assistant phys. to St. George’s hosp. London
1845, phys. 1846–62; hon. sec. of Royal Institution of Great
Britain 1860–72; author of On gravel, calculus and gout 1842; On
animal chemistry, in its application to the stomach and renal
diseases 1850; The life and letters of Faraday 2 vols. 1870, 2
ed. 1870; The Royal institution, its founders and its first
professors 1871. _d._ 84 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 20 April
1873. _Barker’s Photographs of Medical Men_ (1868) _vol. ii_,
_portrait i_; _Medical Times_, _i_ 505–8 (1873); _I.L.N. lxii_
423, 424, 499 (1873), _portrait_.
JONES, HENRY RICHMOND (son of rev. Inigo Wm. Jones of Chobham
place, Surrey _d._ 1810). _b._ 1808; cornet 6 dragoon guards 9
June 1825, lieut. col. 16 Sep. 1851 to 21 Oct. 1862 when placed
on h.p.; col. 14 hussars 24 Feb. 1871 to 15 May 1873; col. 6
dragoon guards 15 May 1873 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B.
16 Nov. 1858. _d._ Brighton 3 Oct. 1880.
JONES, HERBERT GEORGE (2 son of C. R. Jones of Heathfield,
Glamorgan). _b._ 1805; barrister L.I. 16 May 1828; went the
Oxford and Welsh circuits; attorney general in Van Diemen’s
Land; serjeant at law 1842; judge of county courts (circuit
42) Clerkenwell, London 16 April 1849 and of (circuit 41)
Clerkenwell 1858 to death; author of The court of exchequer and
the county courts 1858. _d._ Somerville Navan, co. Meath 17 Feb.
1866 aged 61.
JONES, SIR HORACE (son of David Jones, attorney). _b._ 15 Size
lane, Bucklersbury, London 20 May 1819; an architect at 16
Furnival’s inn, Holborn 1843; designed and built the Surrey
music hall, Cardiff town hall and other important buildings;
architect and surveyor to city of London 26 Feb. 1864 to death;
designed and built Central meat market, Smithfield 1868, rebuilt
Billingsgate market 1877 and Leadenhall market 1882; designed
Guildhall library and museum 1872 and new Council chamber 1884;
designed the Temple Bar memorial Nov. 1880; A.R.I.B.A. 1842,
fellow 1855, pres. 1882–3; knighted at Osborne 31 July 1886.
_d._ 30 Devonshire place, Portland place, London 21 May 1887.
_bur._ Norwood cemetery 27 May. _Journal of proc. of R.I.B.A.
iii_ 330, 331, 368, 370–3 (1887); _Masonic Portraits. By J. G._
(1876) 27–31; _I.L.N. 28 May 1887 p._ 586, _4 June p._ 634,
_portrait_.
JONES, HUGH CHAMBRES (son of John Jones of Liverpool). _b._
1783; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1805, M.A. 1807;
private sec. to duke of Portland, afterwards his chaplain; V. of
West Ham, Essex 1807–45; treasurer of St. Paul’s cath. 30 Oct.
1816 to death; R. of Aldham, Essex 1823–40; archdeacon of Essex
14 Nov. 1823 to 1861. _d._ Brynstedfod, Conway, Denbighshire 29
Sep. 1869.
JONES, HUGH HYNDMAN (son of R. M. Jones of Houston, Demerara).
Ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; C. of St. James,
Cheltenham 1840–2; C. of St. Bride, Fleet st. London 1842–6;
C. of St. George, Hanover sq. 1847–8; assistant sec. of S.P.G.
1848–50; archdeacon of Demerara and R. of St. George, George
town, Demerara, Oct. 1853 to 1873; C. of Cheddon-Fitzpaine,
Somerset 1874–5; lived at Houston villa, Craven road, Reading
1875 to death. _d._ 1884.
JONES, INIGO WILLIAM (brother of Henry Richmond Jones 1808–80).
_b._ 1806; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1830, M.A.
1836; cornet 6 dragoon guards 8 July 1828; major 11 hussars 25
March 1836 to 24 Dec. 1852; lieut. col. 3 West India regiment 24
Dec. 1852, placed on h.p. 11 March 1853; sold out March 1857.
_d._ 3 Oct. 1878.
NOTE.--His son Christopher Neeld Jones _b._ Aug. 1851, captain 94 foot,
volunteered for service with Royal Irish regiment and was killed at
battle of Tel-el-Kebir 13 Sep. 1882.
JONES, JAMES (4 son of Michael Jones of Caton, Lancashire). _b._
1782 or 1783; cornet 22 light dragoons 6 Nov. 1801; captain 87
foot 17 Aug. 1808 to 31 Aug. 1815 when placed on h.p.; served in
East Indies 1802–4 and in Peninsula 1809–14; M.G. 20 June 1854;
K.H. 1831; knight of the order of Charles III. of Spain. _d._
Jermyn st. St. James’s, London 22 Sep. 1856.
JONES, JAMES (5 son of Samuel Jones). _b._ Wolverhampton; ed.
Oscott coll., ordained priest there 31 May 1822; chaplain
Worksop manor, Notts., Feb. 1824 to death; chaplain at Hodsock
park, Notts.; a member of the chapter of Nottingham 1850, V.G.
and provost of the diocese; translated The way of salvation. By
B. Alphonsus Liguori 1836, and other works by the same author;
Philothea or an introduction to devout life. By St. Francis of
Sales 1848; published A manual of instruction on plain chant,
with the chants as used in Rome 1845. _d._ Worksop 19 May 1861.
_Gillow’s English Catholics_, _iii_ 655–7 (1887).
JONES, JAMES. _b._ London 6 April 1790; a copper and tin
worker near London docks; resident mechanist and engineer at
St. Katherine’s docks 1831–36; a manager for Ransomes & Co. at
Ipswich 1842–52; engineer of Oxford waterworks at Oxford 1852
or 1853 to death; one of the 6 founders of Institution of civil
engineers 2 Jany. 1818, sec. and treasurer 6 Jany. 1818. _d._
Radcliffe infirmary, Oxford 25 April 1864, having fallen into
a vat of boiling liquid at Evans’s brewery at Cowley the day
before. _Min. of Proc. I.C.E. xxiv_ 532–33 (1865).
JONES, JAMES. _b._ north of Ireland; F.R.C.S. Eng. 1846,
M.D. Lond. 1851, M.R.C.P. 1859; practised in London; senior
physician Metropolitan free hospital; author of On the use
of perchloride of iron and other chalybeate salts in the
treatment of consumption 1862; On tuberculosis, the action of
local inflammation in cachectic subjects in the production of
consumption 1865. _d._ 4 Harley st. London 6 June 1871.
JONES, JAMES FELIX. Midshipman of the Palinurus in H.E.I.
Co.’s navy 14 June 1828; commander 13 Sep. 1847, captain 1
Feb. 1858–62; surveyed the Tigris and Euphrates rivers 1843–8;
political agent at Bagdad and consul general in Turkish Arabia
1853; political agent at Bushire in the Persian Gulf 1855–8;
F.R.G.S.; contributed to Geographical Mag.; most important
of his numerous memoirs are included in Selections from the
records of the Bombay government. 1857, new series No. 43.
_d._ Fernside, Church road, Upper Norwood, Surrey 3 Sep. 1878.
_Geographical Mag._, _Oct. 1878 p._ 264.
JONES, JAMES RHYS, known as Kilsby Jones, (son of Rhys
Jones, farmer and preacher). _b._ Penylan farm near
Llandovery, Carmarthenshire 4 Feb. 1813; ed. at Blackburn
coll. and Carmarthen coll.; independent minister at Kilsby,
Northamptonshire 1840–50; minister at Birmingham, then at
Bolton; pastor of Tonbridge congregational chapel, London;
preacher at Rhayadr 1857–60, at Caebach, Llandrindod Wells
1868 to death; assumed additional name of Kilsby before 1850;
the most popular lecturer in Wales; Welsh editor for William
Mackenzie of Glasgow; published Welsh versions of Bunyan’s
Pilgrim’s progress 1869; A Family Bible 1869; translated
many books into Welsh and Welsh books into English; in M. E.
Braddon’s Hostages to Fortune 1875 he is described under name of
rev. Slingsby Edwards. _d._ 10 April 1889. _bur._ Llanwrtyd ch.
yard where is monu. _Congregational Year book_ (1890) 156–7.
JONES, JOHN (2 son of Henry Jones). _b._ Bala, Merionethshire 10
Feb. 1792; ed. at Carmarthen gr. sch. and Jesus coll. and Ch.
Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1821; chaplain of Ch. Ch. 1819–43,
precentor 1823; P.C. of St. Thomas, Oxf. 1823–41; V. of Nevern,
Pembrokeshire 1841 to death; preb. of St. David’s cath. 1848 to
death; took a leading part in the Welsh eisteddfods from 1841;
known as Tegid; published The book of the prophet Isaiah, a
translation 1830, 2 ed. 1842; The New Testament in Welsh 1828,
in his own system of spelling, which was not generally popular;
transcribed the Mabinogion and other Welsh romances for lady
Charlotte Guest, who used his text in her edition 3 vols.
1838–49. _d._ 2 May 1852. _Gwaith Barddonawl. By Tegid_ (1859),
_with a memoir_.
JONES, JOHN. _b._ Northamptonshire 1823; beat Edward Hill
1846 and W. Cole 1847; beaten by Joseph Rowe 1849; beat Harry
Martin 1850 and G. Crockett £50 a side 15 Oct. 1850; beaten by
Mike Madden £50 a side 5 March 1851; beaten by Wm. Hayes £50 a
side 2 Dec. 1851 and £200 a side 15 Nov. 1853; fought Edward
Donnelly £50 a side at East Tilbury when darkness came on 30
March 1853; beat Donnelly £100 a side at Brandon Heath 1 June
1853; fought Robert Brettle £100 a side at Purfleet 21 Nov. 1854
when darkness came on, a new place was appointed for 25 Nov.
when stakes were given to Jones, Brettle having got himself
apprehended; struck on the left side of the head by Mike Madden
at Long Reach, Kent 11 Dec. 1855 in a 23 round fight for £50 a
side lasting one hour and nine minutes, _d._ Long Reach tavern
12 Dec. _bur._ Westminster cemet. Brompton 19 Dec. _Fistiana_
(1868) 69, 77; _Bell’s Life in London 16 Dec. 1855 p._ 7, _23
Dec. p._ 7.
JONES, JOHN (eld. child of a small farmer). _b._ Tanycastell,
Dolyddelen, Carnarvonshire 1 March 1796; a farmer, afterwards a
quarryman; began to preach about 1820, ordained 1829, one of the
greatest of Welsh preachers; known as Talsarn; composed 40 tunes
published in Jeduthrum, a collection of Congregational tunes,
psalms and hymns, ed. by Morris Davis at Bangor. _d._ 17 Aug.
1857. _bur._ Llanllyfni.
JONES, JOHN. _b._ Llanasa, Flintshire 1788; apprenticed to
a cotton-spinner at Holywell 1796–1803; served in the navy
1805–15; worked as a cotton-spinner at Stalybridge, Cheshire
1820 to death; wrote a poetical version of Æsop’s and other
fables; author of two poems, The Cotton Mill 1821, The Sovereign
1827; a collection of his works was published as Poems. By John
Jones 1826; known as the Welsh bard. _d._ Stalybridge 19 June
1858.
JONES, JOHN. _d._ Newborough villas, St. Paul’s road, Highbury
park, London 15 Feb. 1861 aged 102. _bur._ Highgate cemet.
JONES, JOHN. _b._ London 1796; appeared at Adelphi theatre in an
operetta The Conjurer 1816; came out in New York as Mr. Dulcet
in Amateurs and Actors, at Niblo’s garden 1828; at Chestnut st.
theatre, Philadelphia 28 Nov. 1831 as Felix in Cinderella; sang
at Park theatre, New York 1831–44; the leading tenor in La Dame
Blanche, Norma and Cinderella; teacher of vocal music 1844 to
death; had a pension from Dramatic fund association; composer of
The Mellow horn, a popular song. _d._ New York 1 Nov. 1861.