JONES, Richard. b. 1780; 2 lieut. R.A. 12 May 1797, col. 23 Nov. 1841, col. commandant 12 Jany. 1854 to death; L.G. 28 Nov. 1854. d. Cheshunt, Herts. 18 May 1863.
JONES, Richard Lambert. b. 1783; a working man; plumber, painter and glazier at Little Moorfields, London; estate and house agent, 40 Little Moorfields 1825–53; member of court of common council of city of London for ward of Cripplegate without 1819–51, chairman of improvements committee, of committee for rebuilding London bridge 1824–31, of committee for rebuilding the Royal exchange 1838–44, retired from corporation 1851; presented with his bust in marble (placed in the council chamber Guildhall), with a gold medal, and surplus of subscriptions used in founding a Lambert Jones scholarship at city of London school 17 June 1852. d. Lowestoft 16 Aug. 1863. I.L.N. 3 July 1852 p. 12, with woodcut of medal; Reminiscences of R. L. Jones (1863); The Town, ii 811 (1839).
JONES, Robert. Ed. at St. Bees; V. of Branxton, Northumberland, Feb. 1835 to death; author of A sermon 1841; The plague spots in the church of England 18—, a tract; The Battle of Flodden, and of sermons in Church of England Mag. d. 1870.
JONES, Robert (eld. son of Robert Jones). b. Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire 6 Jany. 1810; ed. at Oswestry sch. and Jesus coll. Oxf., B.A. 1837; vicar of All Saint’s, Rotherhithe 1841 to death; Welsh tutor to Prince Lucien Bonaparte; his fine collection of Welsh books is in the Swansea free library; first editor of Y Cym mrodor 1876; author of The history of the Cymmrodorion; edited The poetical works of the rev. Goronwy Owen 2 vols. 1876. d. All Saints’ vicarage, Deptford 28 March 1879.
JONES, Robert Harries. Ed. at univ. of Gottingen, M.A. and Ph. D.; C. of Hollinwood near Manchester 1847–9; C. of Bolton 1852–7; C. of Llanfairfechnan, Bangor 1861–7; V. of Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire 1867 to death; editor of Y Cymro 1851–3; author of Lectures on The affinity of European races; Landmarks in the reign of Henry VIII.; The Inquisition; author of translations from the Russian of Marlinska, Poushkin and Lermontoff for the Bolton Chronicle; translated into Welsh, Hecuba, Schiller’s Raeuber and Cæsar Cantu’s Margareta Pusterla. d. 1878.
JONES, Robert Oliver (eld. son of major general Oliver Thomas Jones). b. 16 Dec. 1811; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 97 foot 25 June 1829, lieut. 1832–34; barrister M.T. 25 Jany. 1850; sheriff of Glamorganshire 1838; stipendiary magistrate for Cardiff 18 Feb. 1858 to death; chairman of Glamorganshire quarter sessions. d. Fonmon castle, Cowbridge 14 Nov. 1886.
JONES, Roger Lyon. d. Princes park, Liverpool 1 Jany. 1875, personalty sworn under £350,000, 13 Feb. 1875, left greater part of his estate to Liverpool charities. Times 12 Feb. 1875 p. 11.
JONES, Theobald (2 son of James Jones, R. of Urney, Derry). b. 1790; entered navy 1 June 1803, captain 25 Aug. 1828, retired admiral 12 Sep. 1865; M.P. co. Londonderry 1830–57. d. 18 Harcourt st. Marylebone road, London 7 Feb. 1868.
JONES, Thomas. b. 24 June 1775; optician at 62 Charing Cross, London 1815–50, at 4 Rupert st. 1850 to death; constructed astronomical instruments for chief observatories of Great Britain and the colonies; a founder of Astronomical Society 1820; F.R.S. 4 June 1835; invented or improved the Englefield improved side transit instrument, the Sectograph, an improved hygrometer, and a double eye-piece; author of Description and use of the sectograph 1814; A companion to the mountain barometer, consisting of tables, &c. 1817, 2 ed. 1820. d. 4 Rupert st. London 29 July 1852.
JONES, Thomas. b. 1812; a special pleader to 1846; barrister M.T. 22 May 1846, bencher Nov. 1866 to death; Q.C. 23 July 1866. d. 57 Craven hill gardens, London 17 Oct. 1869.