Modern English biography

JONES, RICHARD LAMBERT. _b._ 1783; a working man; plumber, painter and glazier at Little Moorfields, London; estate and house agent, 40 Little Moorfields 1825–53; member of court of common council of city of London for ward of Cripplegate without 1819–51, chairman of improvements committee, of committee for rebuilding London bridge 1824–31, of committee for rebuilding the Royal exchange 1838–44, retired from corporation 1851; presented with his bust in marble (placed in the council chamber Guildhall), with a gold medal, and surplus of subscriptions used in founding a Lambert Jones scholarship at city of London school 17 June 1852. _d._ Lowestoft 16 Aug. 1863. _I.L.N. 3 July 1852 p._ 12, _with woodcut of medal_; _Reminiscences of R. L. Jones_ (1863); _The Town_, _ii_ 811 (1839). JONES, ROBERT. Ed. at St. Bees; V. of Branxton, Northumberland, Feb. 1835 to death; author of A sermon 1841; The plague spots in the church of England 18--, a tract; The Battle of Flodden, and of sermons in Church of England Mag. _d._ 1870. JONES, ROBERT (eld. son of Robert Jones). _b._ Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire 6 Jany. 1810; ed. at Oswestry sch. and Jesus coll. Oxf., B.A. 1837; vicar of All Saint’s, Rotherhithe 1841 to death; Welsh tutor to Prince Lucien Bonaparte; his fine collection of Welsh books is in the Swansea free library; first editor of Y Cym mrodor 1876; author of The history of the Cymmrodorion; edited The poetical works of the rev. Goronwy Owen 2 vols. 1876. _d._ All Saints’ vicarage, Deptford 28 March 1879. JONES, ROBERT HARRIES. Ed. at univ. of Gottingen, M.A. and Ph. D.; C. of Hollinwood near Manchester 1847–9; C. of Bolton 1852–7; C. of Llanfairfechnan, Bangor 1861–7; V. of Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire 1867 to death; editor of Y Cymro 1851–3; author of Lectures on The affinity of European races; Landmarks in the reign of Henry VIII.; The Inquisition; author of translations from the Russian of Marlinska, Poushkin and Lermontoff for the Bolton Chronicle; translated into Welsh, Hecuba, Schiller’s Raeuber and Cæsar Cantu’s Margareta Pusterla. _d._ 1878. JONES, ROBERT OLIVER (eld. son of major general Oliver Thomas Jones). _b._ 16 Dec. 1811; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 97 foot 25 June 1829, lieut. 1832–34; barrister M.T. 25 Jany. 1850; sheriff of Glamorganshire 1838; stipendiary magistrate for Cardiff 18 Feb. 1858 to death; chairman of Glamorganshire quarter sessions. _d._ Fonmon castle, Cowbridge 14 Nov. 1886. JONES, ROGER LYON. _d._ Princes park, Liverpool 1 Jany. 1875, personalty sworn under £350,000, 13 Feb. 1875, left greater part of his estate to Liverpool charities. _Times 12 Feb. 1875 p._ 11. JONES, THEOBALD (2 son of James Jones, R. of Urney, Derry). _b._ 1790; entered navy 1 June 1803, captain 25 Aug. 1828, retired admiral 12 Sep. 1865; M.P. co. Londonderry 1830–57. _d._ 18 Harcourt st. Marylebone road, London 7 Feb. 1868. JONES, THOMAS. _b._ 24 June 1775; optician at 62 Charing Cross, London 1815–50, at 4 Rupert st. 1850 to death; constructed astronomical instruments for chief observatories of Great Britain and the colonies; a founder of Astronomical Society 1820; F.R.S. 4 June 1835; invented or improved the Englefield improved side transit instrument, the Sectograph, an improved hygrometer, and a double eye-piece; author of Description and use of the sectograph 1814; A companion to the mountain barometer, consisting of tables, &c. 1817, 2 ed. 1820. _d._ 4 Rupert st. London 29 July 1852. JONES, THOMAS. _b._ 1812; a special pleader to 1846; barrister M.T. 22 May 1846, bencher Nov. 1866 to death; Q.C. 23 July 1866. _d._ 57 Craven hill gardens, London 17 Oct. 1869. JONES, THOMAS (3 son of Philip Jones). _b._ Underhill, Margam near Neath, Glamorgansh. 1810; ed. Cowbridge gr. sch. and Jesus coll. Oxf., scholar 1829–35, B.A. 1832; librarian Chetham library, Manchester, March 1845 to death, when the number of volumes grew from 19,000 to 40,000; gave evidence before public committee on libraries 1849; F.S.A. 22 Feb. 1866; a contributor to Notes and Queries under name of Bibliothecarius Chethamensis; author of Catalogue of the Neath library 1842; Catalogue of Chetham Soc. Lib. 2 vols. 1862–3; Catalogue of the collection of tracts for and against popery in Chetham Library 2 vols. 1859–62. _d._ Southport, Manchester 29 Nov. 1875. _Manchester Courier 3 Dec. 1875 p._ 5; _Papers of Manchester Literary club_, _ii_ 59–65 (1876). JONES, THOMAS. _b._ 1791; Roman catholic bookseller, the first who settled in Paternoster row, Dec. 1823, retired 1870; lost his invested money, when a public subscription was raised for him 1877. _d._ Great Ormond st. London 25 May 1882. _Illustrated Catholic Mag. ii_ 334–6 (1872); _Gillow’s English Catholics_, _iii_ 674 (1887). JONES, THOMAS (son of John Jones, commercial traveller, _d._ 1829). _b._ Rhayader, Radnorshire 17 July 1819; a collier at Brynmawr 1837, then a check weigher; ordained Independent pastor of Bryn chapel near Llanelly, July 1844; pastor of Libanus church, Morriston near Swansea 1850; known in Wales for his eloquence and originality as Jones Treforris and the Welsh poet preacher; pastor of Albany chapel, Frederick st. London 1858 and of Bedford chapel near Oakley sq. 1861 to Dec. 1869; pastor of congregational church, Walter’s road, Swansea, Jany. 1870 to 1877 and 1881 to death; pastor of congregational church, Collins st. Melbourne, Australia 1877–80; chairman of Congregational Union of England and Wales 1871–2; author of The work of the christian preacher 1871; The answer of the church to the scepticism of the age 1871; a series of his sermons appeared in Words of Peace, Melbourne 1877–78, and another in the Sunday Mag. Lond. 1883. d. Swansea 19 June 1882. _The Divine and other sermons by T. Jones_ (1884), _memoir pp. v–viii_, _portrait_; _Lyric thoughts of T. Jones_ (1886), _memoir pp._ 1–27. JONES, THOMAS RYMER (son of a captain in the navy). _b._ 1810; studied at Guy’s hospital and in Paris; M.R.C.S. 1833, but did not practice as he was deaf; the first professor of comparative anatomy in King’s college, London 1836–74; Fullerian professor of physiology at Royal Institution 1840–2; F.R.S. 21 March 1844; granted civil list pension of £50, 7 Aug. 1873; author of A general outline of the animal kingdom and manual of comparative anatomy 1841, 4 ed. 1871; The natural history of animals 2 vols. 1845–52; The animal creation a popular introduction to zoology 1865; The natural history of birds 1867; Mammalia 1873. _d._ 22 Castletown road, West Kensington, London 10 Dec. 1880. NOTE.--His 2 son Alexander Manson Jones _b._ 15 July 1845, _d._ 5 Oct. 1881, was a civil engineer, he invented an automatic levelling machine called the ‘Temnograph.’ JONES, THOMAS WHARTON (son of Richard Jones of H.M.’s customs, Scotland). _b._ St. Andrews 1808; ed. at univ. of Edin.; F.R.S. 30 April 1840; F.R.C.S. 1844; lecturer on physiology at Charing Cross hospital; Fullerian prof. of physiology in Royal Institution of Great Britain 1851–54; Emeritus prof. of ophthalmic medicine and surgery, Univ. coll. hospital, London; granted civil list pension of £150, 31 Oct. 1881; author of A manual of ophthalmic medicine and surgery 1847, 3 ed. 1865; The wisdom of the Almighty displayed in the sense of vision 1851; Defects of sight, their nature, cause and prevention 1856, the 2 ed. was entitled Defects of sight and hearing 1866, 3 ed. 1877; A catalogue of the medicine and surgery of the eye and ear 1857; Evolution of the human race from apes, a doctrine unsanctioned by science 1876. _d._ Ventnor, Isle of Wight 7 Oct. 1891. JONES, WILLIAM. _b._ Battersea, London 15 April 1795; clerk to an attorney; attorney at law; a superintendent of Surrey chapel Sunday sch. 1815; an itinerant preacher among the Independents 1820; on committee of Religious Tract Soc. 1820–4, and travelling secretary Sep. 1824 to death; wrote the annual reports for 31 years to 1855 and many Tracts; author of The Jubilee memorial of the Religious Tract Soc. 1850; Recollections of the late George Stokes; Memoir of the rev. Rowland Holt 1834. d. London 5 April 1855. _W. H. R. Jones’s Life of Wm. Jones_ (1857), _portrait_. JONES, WILLIAM. _b._ 1811; studied at Middlesex and Westminster hospitals and in Paris; L.S.A. 1832, M.R.C.S. 1834, M.D. King’s coll. Aberdeen 1850; invented the syphon douche 1848; author of Practical observations on the diseases of women 1839; Gas and gas meters, an address 1843; An essay on some of the most important diseases of women 1848. _d._ 10 Lower Seymour st. Portman sq. London 26 Jany. 1863. _Journal British Archæol Assoc._ (1864) 168. JONES, WILLIAM. Ed. at Glasgow univ. and Lampeter; V. of Nevin, Carnarvonshire 1842–62; R. of Llanenddwyn, Merionethshire 1862 to death; author of A portrait of the true philosopher 1831, a lecture; The character of the Welsh as a nation at the present day. Carnarvon 1840, a prize essay in Welsh and English; The Resurrection, a poem. Ruthin 1853, and of essays, orations and sermons. _d._ 1873. JONES, SIR WILLIAM (only son of Wm. Jones of Glan Helen, Carnarvonshire). _b._ 1808; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 61 foot 10 April 1825, lieut. col. 29 Dec. 1848 to 16 Nov. 1860 when placed on h.p.; served in Punjaub campaign 1848, and Indian mutiny 1857–8, commanded 3rd infantry brigade at siege of Delhi 1 July to 11 Oct. 1857 and was in charge during six days fighting in the streets; col. of 32 foot 2 Jany. 1871 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 9 June 1849, K.C.B. 2 June 1869, G.C.B. 29 May