Modern English biography

_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.