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. 1889. _Guardian 11 Dec. 1889 p._ 1916.
JONES, JOHN ANDREWS (son of a manufacturing tobacconist). _b._ Bristol 10 Oct. 1779; ed. at Colston’s charity sch. Bristol 1789–94; apprenticed to a Bristol merchant; a bookbinder at Guildford 1801–13; became a Baptist 1807, baptized 3 July 1808; minister at Hartley Row, Hants. 1816–18, at Ringstead, Northamptonshire 1821–5, at Brentford 1825–31, at Jireh chapel, Brick lane, Old st. London 1831–61, and at chapel in East st. City road, London 1861 to death; edited Gill’s Body of divinity 1839; author of The history of the iniquitous schism bill of 1714, 1843; Bunhill memorials, sacred reminiscences 1849; Sacred remains, an appendix to Bunhill memorials 1852. _d._ 50 Murray st. New North road, London, Aug. 1868.
JONES, JOHN CHARLES HILL. Ensign 54 foot 16 Dec. 1840, lieut. col. 21 Sep. 1860 to May 1866 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 14 depot battalion Sheffield 1866–9, lieut. col. 3 depot battalion Pembroke 1869 to 1 June 1870 when placed on h.p.; col. in the army 21 Sep. 1865; lieut. col. brigade depot Warrington 1 April 1873 to death. _d._ brigade depot Liverpool 3 Sep. 1876.
JONES, JOHN EDWARD. _b._ 1783; 2 lieut. R.A. 14 July 1797, col. 23 Nov. 1841, colonel commandant 17 Feb. 1854 to death; M.G. 20 June 1854. _d._ Warwick lodge, Hampton Wick, Middlesex 29 Aug. 1854.
JONES, JOHN EDWARD. _b._ Dublin 1806; civil engineer in London 1839–46; a sculptor in London 1846–62; exhibited 108 sculptures at R.A. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1842–62; among his sitters were queen Victoria, prince Albert, Louis Philippe and Napoleon III.; the full-length statue of sir Robert Alexander Ferguson at Londonderry 1860 is by him, but he generally executed busts only. _d._ Dublin 25 July 1862.
JONES, JOHN MATHER. _b._ Bangor 9 June 1826; went to U.S. America 1849; founded the Welsh town of New Cambria; with James A. Whittaker purchased a large tract of land in Osage county, Kansas, where he founded the town of Avonia 1869; proprietor and publisher of Y Drych (The Mirror) the oldest Welsh newspaper in America 1865 to death; author of History of the Rebellion (in Welsh). Utica 1866. _d._ Utica, New York 21 Dec. 1874. _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_ 467 (1887).
JONES, JOHN OGWEN (son of David Jones of Tyddyn, Llanllechid near Bangor). _b._ Tyddyn 2 June 1829; a merchant’s clerk in Liverpool 1844–9, then in London; studied at Calvinistic methodist college, Bala 1852–6; matric. at Univ. of London 1856, B.A. 1858, M.A.; Calvinistic minister at Birkenhead and Liverpool 1857–67, at Oswestry 1867–76, at Rhyl 1876 to death; practical founder of county examinations of Sunday schools in North Wales; edited Y Symbylydd 1 vol. Liverpool 1864, a monthly mag.; author of Testament y Miloedd. 1883, a commentary on the New Testament. _d._ Rhyl 22 Sep. 1884.
JONES, JOHN PIKE (eld. son of John Jones, tradesman). _b._ Chudleigh, Devon 1790; admitted sizar at Pembroke coll. Camb. 4 July 1809, B.A. 1813; C. of North Bovey, Devon 1816–31; V. of Alveton, Staffs. 12 May 1829 to death; R. of Butterleigh, Devon 12 May 1832 to death; author of Botanical tour through various parts of Devon and Cornwall 1820, 2 ed. 1821; Historical and monumental antiquities of Devonshire 1823; Guide to scenery in neighbourhood of Ashburton 1823, another ed. 1830; author with J. F. Kingston of Flora Devoniensis 1829. _d._ Cheadle, Staffs. 4 Feb. 1857. _Davidson’s Bibliotheca Devoniensis_ (1852) 9, 10, 13, 36, 118, 135, 172.
JONES, JOHN POWELL (2 son of Morgan Jones). _b._ Llysnony, Corseinon near Swansea 4 April 1823; ed. St. David’s coll. Lampeter 1840–6, B.D. 1855; C. of Loughor ch. Glamorgan 1846 and rector 1850; V. of Llantrisant, Glamorgan 1865 to death; canon of Llandaff 1879 to death; P.C. of Talygarn chapel, Llantrisant 1870 to death; a well known Greek and Hebrew scholar; author with rev. E. Bickersteth of Y Ddyledswydd Grist’ nogol o borthi trueiniaid y praidd. Llanymddfri 1847. _d._ Llantrisant vicarage 21 Dec. 1883. _Red Dragon_, _v_ 481–7 (1884), _portrait_.
JONES, JOHN SALISBURY. Ensign 84 foot 5 Jany. 1805; captain 69 foot 25 Feb. 1817 to 25 Sep. 1835 when placed on h.p. with rank of major; K.H. 1836. _d._ 1881 or before.
NOTE.--He is not in Dod’s Peerage after 1881, but is in Burke’s Peerage 1891.
JONES, JOHN WINTER (son of John Jones, editor of the Naval chronicle and European magazine). _b._ Lambeth 16 June 1805; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. 1813–21; travelling sec. to charity commissioners 1835–7; assistant in library of British museum, April 1837, assistant keeper of the printed books 1850 and keeper March 1856, principal librarian July 1866, resigned Aug. 1878; a Spanish and Russian scholar; much connected with removal of Br. Museum books from Montague house to the new buildings 1837; chief compiler of the famous 91 cataloguing rules 1838, and general superintendent of new MS. catalogue 1839 etc.; joined with sir A. Panizzi in planning and arranging the new circular reading room 1856–7; F.S.A. 23 March 1854 and V.P. 8 May 1862; president of Library Assoc. of U.K. 2 Oct. 1877; edited and translated books for Hakluyt soc. 1850–63, and guide books for the British museum 1858–78; author of Riddles, charades and conundrums. Anon. 1822; A translation of all the Greek, Latin, Italian and French quotations in Blackstone’s Commentaries 1823. _d._ Underwood, Henley on Thames 7 Sep. 1881. _Cowtan’s Memoirs of Br. Museum_ (1872) 109–12, 245–7; _I.L.N. xlix_ 437 (1866), _portrait_; _Graphic xxiv_ 389 (1881), _portrait_; _Fourth Annual Rep. Library Association_ (1882) 59–67.