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.