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.