Modern English biography

_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