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.