Modern English biography

JONES, JOHN. _b._ the Harp inn, Llanfairtalhaiarn near Abergele 1810; brought up as an architect; general manager to sir Joseph Paxton; a writer of Welsh words to the old Welsh airs, which are more often sung with his words than with those of any other writer; published 3 vols. of poetry in 1855, 1862 and 1869. _d._ Falhaiarn 13 Oct. 1869 from the effects of an attempt on his own life. _Works of J. Jones in Welsh and English_ (1855). JONES, JOHN, the taken name of John Owen. _b._ 1832; blacksmith; murdered 7 persons, Emmanuel Marshall blacksmith of Cheapside in village of Denham near Uxbridge, his wife, sister, mother and three children at Denham 22 May 1870, tried at Aylesbury assizes before Baron Channell 22 July when sentenced to death; _hanged_ by Calcraft in the yard of Aylesbury gaol 8 Aug. 1870. _A.R._ (1870) 53, 97, 191–8; _Bucks. Herald 23 July 1870 p._ 4, _13 Aug. p._ 4. JONES, JOHN. _b._ Bath 1800; ensign 23 Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1819; captain 46 Bengal N.I. 20 April 1826; quartermaster general, Bengal; surveyed province of Assam 1826; erected a small observatory at Adsett court near Gloucester; F.R.A.S. 8 May 1835. _d._ Torquay 7 April 1875. _Monthly notices of R. Astronom. soc. xxxvi_ 143 (1876). JONES, JOHN. _b._ near Wolverhampton 1835; sec. of South Staffordshire Ironmasters’ Association to 1866; sec. to Cleveland Ironmasters’ Assoc. 1866; sec. of Middlesbrough chamber of commerce; sec. of British iron trade assoc.; founded the Iron and Steel Institute 1868, sec. and editor of its journal 1868 to death; founded and edited the Iron and coal trades review Dec. 1866, and other newspapers; A.I.M.E. 1869, M.I.M.E. 1873; wrote about 20 papers on scientific subjects. _d._ Saltburn-by-Sea 6 June 1877. _Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute_ (1877) _p._ 414, _and Appendix C. p. viii_. JONES, SIR JOHN (natural son of Horace St. Paul). _b._ 1811; ensign 5 foot 12 June 1828; 1 lieut. 60 rifles 4 Jany. 1833, major 20 July 1849, lieut. col. of the 1st battalion 20 June 1854 to 1 April 1861; brigadier in command of the Roorkee field force 17 April to 20 June 1858; acquired sobriquet of ‘the Avenger’; inspecting field officer at Liverpool, March 1864 to March 1868; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; granted distinguished service pension 27 May 1858; K.C.B. 16 Nov. 1858. _d._ Torquay 21 Feb. 1878. JONES, JOHN (eld. son of Roger Jones, farmer). _b._ Tanyrhelig near Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire about 1821; a miner at Dowlais 1838–9; a Baptist preacher 1841; studied at Baptist college, Haverfordwest 1843–6; pastor of Bethlehem church at Porthyrhyd 1846–8, at Caersalem Newydd near Swansea 1849–54, at Rhymney, Monmouthshire 1862–77 and at Salem church, Briton Ferry 1877 to death; known as Mathetes; author of Geiriadur Beiblaidd a Duwingddol 3 vols. Carmarthen 1864–69–83, a biblical and theological dictionary. _d._ Briton Ferry 18 Nov. 1878. _bur._ Pant cemetery, Dowlais. JONES, JOHN. _b._ Middlesex about 1800; army clothier at 6 Regent st. London 1827–68, opened a branch at 16 Bachelors’ Walk, Dublin 1840; lived at 95 Piccadilly 1865 to death; made a collection valued at £250,000 of pictures, furniture, books, porcelain, ivories and other objects of vertu, all of which he left by his will to the South Kensington museum on condition of their being kept separate as one collection; he left about £70,000 to the convalescent hospital at Ventnor; a Catalogue of the Jones Bequest was published 1882. _d._ 95 Piccadilly, London 7 Jany. 1882, personalty sworn at £359,000, 11 March 1882. _Handbook of the Jones collection_ (1883), _memoir pp._ 1–7 _and portrait_; _Athenæum 16 Dec. 1882 pp._ 819, 820; _Art Journal_ (1883) 124, 197, 233, 365, 401. JONES, JOHN (3 son of John Jones of Blaenos near Llandovery, Carmarthenshire). _b._ 11 Dec. 1815; ed. at Shrewsbury; barrister M.T. 7 June 1839; sheriff of Carmarthenshire 1854; M.P. for Ca rmarthenshire 1868–80. _d._ Blaenos co. Carmarthen 1 March 1886. JONES, JOHN. _b._ near Dolgelly 1804; printer and publisher at Llanidloes, mayor there 1847–8; a local Wesleyan preacher, joined Church of England 1853; C. of Llandyssul, Cardiganshire 1853–8; V. of Llandysilio Gogo, Cardiganshire 1858 to death; granted civil list pension of £50, 31 Oct. 1881; known as Idrisyn; author of A commentary on the Pentateuch and New Testament 4 vols. 1845; A critical exposition of the Old and New Testament 5 vols. 1852, six editions; translated Her Majesty’s Leaves from the journal of our life in the Highlands, into Welsh 1868; Pregethau, gan y parch John Jones (Idrisyn) 1884; Baptism by sprinkling 1885. _d._ New Quay near Llandysilio Gogo 17 Aug. 1887. JONES, JOHN (son of Rice Jones, captain in the army). _b._ London 5 Oct. 1791; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1820; C. of St. Mary’s, Leicester 1815; P.C. of Seaforth 1815; P.C. of St. Andrew’s ch. Liverpool, Dec. 1815 to 1850; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Waterloo, Liverpool, Dec. 1850 to death; archdeacon of Liverpool, Oct. 1855 to 1886; author of Expository lectures on portions of the Acts of the Apostles 2 vols. 1841; Lectures on the principal types of the Old Testament 1845; Hints on preaching 1861. _d._ 14 Esplanade, Waterloo, Liverpool 5 Dec.