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