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 1886. _d._ Lansdown lodge, Lansdown road, Dublin 8 April 1890.
JONES, WILLIAM ARTHUR (youngest son of Wm. Jones, corn merchant). _b._ Carmarthen 1 May 1818; ed. at Carmarthen college and Glasgow univ., M.A. 1841; Unitarian minister at Northampton 1842–9, at Bridgwater 1849–52, at Taunton 1852–66; hon. sec. of Taunton and Somerset archæological and natural history soc. about 1853 to death, contributed to its Proceedings many papers; established a school of science and art at Taunton; author with rev. W. P. Williams of A glossary of the Somersetshire dialect. _d._ Tauntfield, Taunton 23 April 1873, memorial monument erected in grounds of Taunton Castle. _The Taunton Courier 30 April 1873 p._ 5.
JONES, WILLIAM BENCE (elder son of Wm. Jones, lieut.-col. 5 dragoon guards, _d._ 1843). _b._ Beccles, Suffolk 5 Oct. 1812; ed. at Harrow and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1836; barrister I.T. 9 June 1837; farmed and made great improvements on Lisselan estate, co. Cork 1838–80, when refusing to accept Griffith’s valuation from his tenants he was boycotted although he had always shown the greatest kindness to them; author of The Irish church from the point of view of one of its laymen 1868; The life’s work in Ireland of a landlord who tried to do his duty 1880. _d._ 34 Elvaston place, London 22 June 1882. _Agricultural Gazette 13 March 1882_, _portrait_.
JONES, WILLIAM DANIEL, _b._ 1787; 2 lieut. R.A. 12 Sep. 1803, col. 1 Nov. 1848 to 6 Jany. 1855 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 13 Dec. 1854. _d._ Bournemouth 20 May 1857.
JONES, WILLIAM FRANK (only son of Wm. Jenkin Saer of Newport, Pembrokeshire). _b._ 1842; ed. at St. Mary hall, Oxf., S.C.L. and B.A. 1870, B.C.L. and M.A. 1871; barrister L.I. 30 April 1874; assumed surname of Jones in lieu of Saer; edited with H. E. Hirst, Edward Chitty’s Index to all reported cases decided in several courts of equity in England and Ireland, the Privy Council and the House of Lords, 4 ed. 9 vols. 1883–9. _d._ Baroda, Ventnor, Isle of Wight 27 Dec. 1890.
JONES, WILLIAM GORE (son of John Gore Jones of Sligo). _b._ 12 March 1826; cadet R.N. 12 Feb. 1841; commanded boats of Firebrand in Black sea, destroying the Russian establishments between the Danube and the Dneister 1854; first lieut. of Firebrand in attack on Sebastopol 17 Oct. 1854; Crimean and Turkish medals; 3 class Medjidie 25 March 1870; captain 20 Aug. 1861; flag capt. on Indian and China stations; naval attaché at Washington 1873–9; granted good service pension 6 Sep. 1871; C.B. 2 June 1877; V.A. 6 May 1882; author of A scheme by which it is proposed to increase the employment of naval officers 1863. _d._ 26 Ashburn place, South Kensington, London 28 May 1888.
JONES, WILLIAM HENRY. Assistant manager at Crystal palace, Sydenham; manager of and afterwards partner in firm of C. T. Brock and Co., pyrotechnists, Nunhead, Surrey; manager of Alexander palace, Muswell Hill 1 May 1880, palace reopened 15 May 1880 by James Willing, advertisement contractor; lessee of Alexandra palace with Benjamin Barber at rent of £10,000 per annum 25 March 1881. _d._ Magdala, Campsbourne, Hornsey 17 March 1883 aged 39.
JONES, WILLIAM HENRY RICH- (eld. son of Wm. Jones 1795–1855, chief secretary of Religious tract society). _b._ parish of Christchurch, Blackfriars, London 31 Aug. 1817; ed. at Totteridge, Herts., King’s coll. London and Magd. hall, Oxf.; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1844; C. of St. Andrew, Holborn 1841–2; R. of St. Martin-in-the-Fields 1842–5; Inc. of St. James’s, Curtain road, Shoreditch 1845–51; V. of Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts. 1851 to death, where he restored the church; surrogate and canon of Salisbury 1872 to death; prefixed his wife’s maiden name Rich to his surname 1883; F.S.A. 6 June 1861; edited for the Rolls series, The Registers of St. Osmund 2 vols. 1863–4; author of The life and times of St. Aldhelm. 1874; An account of the Saxon church of Bradford-on-Avon 1878; Fasti ecclesiæ Sarisberiensis 1879; Salisbury, a history of the diocese 1880. _d._ the vicarage, Bradford-on-Avon 28 Oct. 1885.
JONES, SIR WILLOUGHBY, 3 Baronet (2 son of Sir John Thomas Jones, K.C.B., major general _d._ 1843). _b._ Woolwich 24 Nov. 1820; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., scholar 1842, 20 wrangler 1843, B.A. 1843, M.A. 1847; succeeded his brother sir Lawrence Jones 1845; M.P. for Cheltenham 29 July 1847, but unseated on petition for bribery 28 June 1848; sheriff of Norfolk 1851; chairman of quarter sessions 1856; author of Public libraries, an address 1855; Christianity and common sense 1863. _d._ Cranmer hall, Fakenham, Norfolk 21 Aug. 1884. _Power, Rodwell and Dew’s Reports_, _i_ 179–89 (1853).
JONGHMANS, F. _b._ 1822; a singer and musical conductor at Evans’ Supper rooms, Covent Garden, London 1852; a singer at Canterbury music hall, London; musical conductor at Oxford music hall, London, from the opening 26 March 1861 to about 1868; vocal director at Royal Alhambra palace 1869–70; sang at Argyll rooms when re-opened as the Trocadero 30 Oct. 1882. _d._ 15 Hemberton road, Mayflower road, Clapham 17 Oct. 1887. _bur._ St. Mary’s cemet. Kensal green 21 Oct. _Entr’Acte Almanac_ (1876) 77, _portrait_.
JOPE, WILLIAM (2 son of rev. John Jope, V. of St. Cleer, Cornwall, _d._ 1844). _bapt._ St. Cleer 12 Feb. 1789; barrister G.I. 20 June 1820, bencher 1847 to death, treasurer 1847; mayor of Liskeard 1820, 1828; recorder of Liskeard 1835 to death; recorder of Helston 1846–52. _d._ Thames Ditton 1 May 1854, monument in St. Cleer church.
JOPLING, JOSEPH MIDLETON (son of Joseph Jopling, clerk in the Horse Guards, Whitehall, London). _b._ 1831; clerk in adjutant general’s department Horse Guards 1848–70; associate of New Soc. of Painters in water colours 1859–76; exhibited 27 pictures at R.A. and 21 at Suffolk st. 1848–76; an early member of the Arts club, Hanover sq.; director of fine art section of Philadelphia international exhibition 1876; member of 3rd Middlesex rifle corps, won the queen’s prize at Wimbledon 1861. _d._ 28 Beaufort st. Chelsea, Dec. 1884.
JORDAN, JOHN. Ed. at Clare coll. Camb., B.A. 1826; C. of Little Dean 1827–30; C. of Handborough 1830–6; C. of Somerton 1836–40; V. of Church-Enstone, Oxfordshire 15 Aug. 1840 to death; author of Review of tradition as taught by the writers of tracts for the times 1840; The Holy Baptist 1843, poem in 5 cantos; Scriptural views of the Sabbath of God 1848; A parochial history of Enstone 1857, and of many pamphlets. _d._ 16 May 1874 aged 70.
JORDAN, ROBERT JACOB. M.R.C.S. Eng. 1859; L.R.C.P. Edin. 1859; practised at 19 Berner’s st. Oxford st. London 1859–60, his name struck off the Medical Register 1864; kept anatomical museum 29 George st. Hanover square 1860–9; lived at 6 Bedford sq. London; proprietor of the Cordial balm of Rakasira; author of Diseases of the skin 1860; Skin diseases and their remedies 1860; Exposure of quackery and quacks. By Protector. _d._ London 14 April 1874, will which is signed Lewis Jacob Jordan proved 11 July 1874, personalty under £90,000. _F. B. Courtenay’s Revelations of quacks and quackery 3 ed._ (1871) 19, 98–110.