JOLY, HENRY EDWARD. Archdeacon of Killala to death; author of Questions deducible from the Introductory lessons on the History of religious worship of R. Whately 1849; Questions deducible from the Introductory lessons on Christian evidences of R. Whately 1849. _d._ Hollywood 3 June 1852.
JONAS, EDMUND JAMES. _b._ 1805; governor of Newgate 1859–74. _d._ Turle road, Tollington park, London 30 Jany. 1879.
JONAS, ELIZABETH. _b._ St. George’s road, Southwark 1825; at six years of age was a good musician; first appeared at Mr. J. Field’s concert as a pianiste 1832; played in oratorios at Drury Lane; scholar R. Academy 1836, King’s scholar 1838, associate 1841, teacher of the piano there 1838–50; residing in St. George’s road 1854. _Cazalet’s Hist. of R. Acad. of Music_ (1854) 299–302.
JONES, AARON. _b._ Pennsylvania near Shrewsbury 3 March 1831; fought Harry Orme at Frimley 18 Dec. 1849 when he lost after 40 rounds in 2¾ hours; beat Bob Wade at Edenbridge 24 Sep. 1850; fought Orme again 10 May 1852 for £100 a side at Bourne Bridge and Newmarket, police interfered, Jones refused to renew the contest and so lost; beaten by Tom Paddock 18 July 1854 and 26 June 1855; fought Tom Sayers £100 a side, 62 rounds in 3 hours, Banks of the Medway, darkness came on, both men much punished 6 Jany. 1857; beaten by Sayers £100 a side, 85 rounds in 2 hours, Banks of the Medway 10 Feb. 1857; went to U.S. of America, where he trained and seconded J. C. Heenan for his fight with John Morrissey at Long Point, Canada 20 Oct. 1858; entered Confederate army during the civil war, one of general Beauregard’s aide-de-camps; fought Mike Mc Coole for 2000 dollars and the championship at Busenburk station, Ohio, when Mc Coole won in 34 rounds lasting 26 minutes. _d._ Leavenworth, Indiana 16 Feb. 1869, reported to have been poisoned. _H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica_, _iii_ 253, 262, 283, 382, 419.
JONES, ALEXANDER (youngest son of 4 Viscount Ranelagh _d._ 1797). _b._ 9 March 1778; entered navy 1790; wrecked among Japanese islands 1797; saved H.M.S. Tartarus from destruction after she had been abandoned at Ferrol 1800; captain 1 Aug. 1811; commander of Talbot sloop making many captures 1807–11; admiral on half pay 1 Nov. 1860. _d._ Cheltenham 8 Jany. 1862.
JONES, ANNA MARIA. Author of The Gipsey, a romantic tale. London, Chapple 2 vols., and other works of fiction. _d._ a pauper 25 Jany. 1854.
JONES, AVONIA STANHOPE (dau. of George Jones, actor 1810–79). _b._ 43 Barrow st. New York 12 July 1836; first appeared on the stage at People’s theatre, Cincinnati 18 April 1856 as Parthenia in Ingomar; played in Australia 1860–1; first appeared in London at Drury Lane 5 Nov. 1861 as Medea; played at the Adelphi 1862–3; acted Lady Isabel in East Lynne at the Surrey 1864 and Theodora in Watts Phillips’s drama Theodora, actress and empress at same house 9 April 1866; played in the provinces and in Dublin. (_m._ 1862 Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, actor 1818–66). _d._ of rapid consumption, 2 Bond st. New York 4 Oct. 1867. _bur._ Mount Auburn cemet. Boston. _Illust. sporting news_, _v_ 145 (1866), _portrait_.
JONES, BENJAMIN ORLANDO. Ensign 36 foot 29 May 1805; captain 12 foot 19 Sep. 1822 to 6 July 1826 when placed on half pay; col. 73 foot 15 Sep. 1860 to death; L.G. 12 Nov. 1862; K.H. 1837; K.T.S. _d._ The Hafod, Abergavenny 16 Feb. 1865.
JONES, CHARLES CHADWICKE. _b._ 1800; barrister M.T. 25 June 1830; went the home circuit; practised at the Old Bailey; serjeant at law 10 July 1844; author of Recollections of royalty, from the death of William Rufus in 1100 to that of the cardinal York in 1807, 2 vols. 1828. _d._ 18 Lambeth ter. London 7 July 1852 aged 52.
JONES, CHARLES HANDFIELD (son of J. Jones, captain R.N.) _b._ Liverpool 1 Oct. 1819; ed. at Rugby and Cath. hall, Camb., B.A. 1840, M.B. 1843; studied at St. George’s hosp. London; M.R.C.P. 1845, F.R.C.P. 1849, junior censor 1863–4, senior censor 1886, vice pres. 1888; delivered Lumleian lectures on pathology of the nervous system 1865; F.R.S. 6 June 1850; phys. to St. Mary’s hosp. Paddington 1851; author of Pathological and clinical observations respecting morbid conditions of the stomach 1855; Clinical observations on functional nervous disorders 1864; with E. H. Sieveking of A manual of pathological anatomy 1854, 2 ed. 1875. _d._ 24 Montagu sq. London 30 Sep. 1890. _British Medical Journal_, _ii_ 800, 874, 924, 932 (1890).
JONES, SIR CHARLES THOMAS (3 son of Charles Thomas Jones of Frontraith, Montgomeryshire). _b._ 1778; entered navy 1791; knighted by duke of Richmond, lord lieutenant of Ireland 1810; captain 12 Aug. 1819, retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired R.A. 27 Aug. 1851. _d._ Montgomery 4 April 1853.
JONES, MRS. CHARLES W. _b._ 29 Nov. 1789; singing chambermaid in the provinces; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre as Lady Duberly in The Heir at law 18 June 1823; played old women at Covent Garden and Drury Lane; last appeared at Drury Lane 1842; played Lady Bait in P. Palmer’s comedy Life, at Olympic 16 Nov. 1846. _d._ York town, Farnborough, Hants. 28 Feb. 1866. _Era 18 March 1866 p._ 11.
JONES, SIR DANIEL. Colonel; resided at Brockville in district of Johnstown, Upper Canada; knighted at St. James’s palace 16 March 1836. _d._ 1856.
JONES, DAVID (eld. son of John Jones _d._ 1843). _b._ Blaenos, Llandovery, Nov. 1810; ed. at Charterhouse; sheriff of Carmarthenshire 1845; M.P. Carmarthenshire 1852–68. _d._ Pantglas, Carmarthenshire 1 July 1869.
NOTE.--He unsuccessfully contested Sudbury 29 June 1841, and at his own sole expense unseated the two members then returned, which led to the disfranchisement of the borough 1844.
JONES, DAVID. _b._ 1810; on staff of Morning Chronicle; manager and publisher of Saturday Review at 445 Strand, afterwards at 39 Southampton st. Strand, from date of first number 3 Nov. 1855 to his death. _d._ Abergele, north Wales 15 June 1884. _bur._ Finchley cemetery near London 23 June.
JONES, DAVID WILLIAM. One of the 300 mounted post boys in London; trained under Chifney at Newmarket; head lad to John Stevens; head groom to marquis of Westminster, to General Grosvenor and to sir John Ramsden; in the Peninsula and at Waterloo in charge of horses; served many masters in India, Spain, France and Germany, and could speak 3 languages; trained for Mr. De Burgh at Hampton; frequently walked from Hampton to Hyde park corner; a very fair jockey and a strong waster; kept a lodging house in Mayfair to 1830; became blind, his wife a pew opener kept him till her death 1854. _d._ Chelsea workhouse, Middlesex, June 1858. _Sporting Review_, _xl_ 4–5 (1858).
JONES, EBENEZER (2 son of Robert Jones). _b._ Canonbury sq. Islington 20 Jany. 1820; ed. under rev. John Bickerdike at Highgate; clerk in a tea warehouse in Mincing lane, City 1837; an accountant; sec. of a railway co. 1846; wrote articles in the Oddfellow; lived in Paulton square, Chelsea 1856–60; published Studies of sensation and event, poems 1843; The land monopoly 1849. (_m._ 1844 Caroline niece of Edwin Atherstone the poet, they separated, she _d._ 184-). _d._ Brentwood, Essex 14 Sep. 1860. _bur._ in churchyard of Shenfield near there. _E. Jones’s Studies of sensation, ed. by R. H. Shepherd_ (1879), _Memoir pp. xvii–lxxxiv_; _Athenæum_, _ii_ 368, 401, 466 (1878).
JONES, EDWYN (eld. son of Henry Jones of Louth, Ireland). Barrister G.I. 26 Jany. 1867; member of joint board of examiners, Inns of Court 1877 to death; edited with John Shortt The county court acts, with chapters upon administration, trusts, etc. 1868; author of The law of salvage 1870. _d._ Woocote Dower house, Upper Wallington 3 Nov. 1890.
JONES, ELIZABETH (dau. of Mr. Mandelbert, actor). _b._ 1834; appeared at Sadler’s Wells as Macduff’s child in Macbeth, as Arthur in King John, and as the prince of Wales in Richard III.; acted at Olympic and Surrey, and at Brighton, Plymouth, Dublin and Bristol; acted at Grecian theatre, Islington 1865–74. (_m._ David H. Jones, actor, _d._ 21 Sep. 1867). _d._ at res. of brother in law George Chapman, musical director, Beaufort villa, Norrisville, Bristol 5 May 1883. _Era 19 May 1883 p._ 9.
JONES, ERNEST CHARLES (son of Charles Jones, major 15 hussars and aide de camp to Ernest, duke of Cumberland). _b._ Berlin 25 Jany. 1819; ed. St. Michael’s coll. Lüneberg; engaged in journalism in London 1841; barrister M.T. 19 April 1844; joined the chartist movement 1845, was the leader till 1858; contested Halifax 1847, 1852, Nottingham 1853, 1857 and Manchester 1868; arrested for making seditious speeches, and sentenced at Central criminal court to two years’ solitary confinement 7 July 1848; attended chartist convention of 1851; joined the northern circuit and had much practice; editor of the Northern Star and of The People’s Paper 1852; The Labourer 1847; author of The Wood spirit 2 vols. 1841; My life, a rhapsody; The maid of Warsaw 1854; Woman’s wrongs, tales 1855; The revolt of Hindostan, a poem 1857, originally written with his own blood while in prison; Democracy vindicated, a lecture 1867. _d._ Wellington st. Higher Broughton, Manchester 26 Jany. 1869. _bur._ Ardwick cemet. 31 Jany., demonstration in Trafalgar sq. London in honour of his memory 26 March 1869. _C. Mackay’s Forty years’ recollections_, _ii_ 59–63 (1877); _Reg. and Mag. of Biog._, _March 1869 pp._ 223–6; _Times 27, 29, 31 March 1869_.