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JONES, JOHN, son of Rev. Owen Jones, Vicar of Ambrosden, Oxfordshire; bapt. Ambrosden, Oxfordshire 31 Jul 1684 (IGI, correctly ?); adm.; BB 1699; QS 1702; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1706, matr. 27 May 1706, aged 19, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1706 – void 1717; BA 1709; MA 18 Mar 1712/3; a manuscript in the Chapter Library, entitled Controversiae nostri temporis (etc), has written on its fly-leaf “ex dono Johannis Jones Alum. Reg. 1705”; ordained priest (Oxford) 20 Sep 1713. [Presumably Rector of Compton, Warwicks., and Rector of Todenham, Gloucs., dispensed to hold both 1720/1, he of Christ Church, Oxford, and if so m. and father of Ellis Jones (adm. 1736/7, qv]; will proved PCC 20 Sep 1729, as Rector of Todenham]

Jones, Humphrey Lloyd, son of Arthur Davis Jones of Chiswick and Florence, d. of Oliver Lloyd, solicitor, of Chichester; b. 5 Apr. 1910; adm. Sept. 1923 (KS); Capt. of the school 1927-8; left July 1928; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1928, BA 1931, MA 1951; Colonial Civil Service N. Rhode­sia 1932, DO 1940, asst chief secretary 1948, admin. secretary 1956; Min. of Labour & Mines, Local Govt & Social Welfare, 1961; CMG June 1961; retd 1962; sec. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1962-76; m. 27 Jan. 1938 Edith, d. of W. H. Tatham of Natal; d. 21 May 1983.

JONES, HUGH CHAMBRES, son of John Chambres Jones, Liverpool, and his first wife Jane, dau. of Maurice Jones, Cefn Coch, Denbighshire; b. 7 May 1783; adm. 26 May 1796 (Clapham); KS 1797; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1801, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 15 May 1801, Canoneer Student; BA 1805; MA 1807; ordained deacon 1806, priest 1807 (both Oxford); Private Secretary and Chaplain to William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (qv), 1807; Vicar of West Ham, Essex 22 Nov 1809-45; Treasurer, St. Paul’s Cathedral, from 30 Oct 1816; Archdeacon of Essex 14 Nov 1823 – res Jul 1861; Rector of Aldham, Essex 21 Nov 1823-40; a Commissioner to enquire into revenues of Established Church in England and Wales 23 Jun 1832; executor to William Carey (qv), and restored Carey’s Admission Book to the School; d. 29 Sep 1869.

JONES, HENRY, of Middlesex; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1616, matr. 14 Mar 1616/7, aged 17, Westminster Student to 1626; BA 24 Feb 1619/20; MA 1622.

JONES, HENRY, son of Ven. Walter Jones DD, Prebendary of Westminster and Archdeacon of Brecon, Rector of Sunningwell, Berks., and Philippa, dau. of Samuel Fell (qv); bapt. Sunningwell, Berks., 7 Oct 1649; adm.; KS 1664; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1668, matr. 11 Dec 1668, aged 18, Westminster Student 16 Jul 1669 – void 1675; BA 1672; MA 1675; ordained; Rector of Sunningwell, Berks., 1673-90, when ousted as a non-juror; subsequently took the oaths and restored to Sunningwell 1705-7; bequeathed to Bodleian Library, Oxford, his collection of MSS, some of which had belonged to his uncle John Fell, Bishop of Oxford; m.; buried Worcester Cathedral 28 Oct 1707.

JONES, HENRY SYDNEY, fourth son of William Samuel Jones, Bolton Gardens, South Kensington, barrister; b. 20 Mar 1863; adm. 9 Oct 1876 (QS); left Dec 1879; RIE College, Cooper’s Hill 1880; Assistant Engineer, Indian Public Works Dept., Railway Branch 23 Sep 1883; Executive Engineer Feb 1894; Chief Engineer, Bombay Baroda and Central Indian Railway, to retirement Apr 1906; returned to England; AMICE 4 Dec 1888; m. 1st, 3 Jun 1893 Alice Grant, youngest dau. of John Thomas Christopher FRIBA, Estcourt Lodge, Watford, Herts., architect; m. 2nd, 20 Mar 1907 Beatrice Olivia Mary, youngest dau. of L. B. Newton, Bhowali, Kumaun, North-Western Provinces, India; d. 5 Oct 1912.

JONES, ELLIS, son of Rev. John Jones, Rector of Todenham, Gloucs. [presumably John Jones, BB 1699, qv], and Mary --- (IGI); bapt. Todenham, Gloucs. 31 Jan 1725 (IGI); adm. (aged 10) Jan 1736/7 (Playford's); KS 1741; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1745, matr. 12 Jun 1745, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1745 – 4 May 1774 (expiry year of grace as V. Staverton), Tutor 1756-68, Junior Censor 1759, Senior Censor 1760-3, Catechist 1762-6; BA 1749; MA 1752; ordained deacon May 1752, priest Jun 1753 (both Oxford); Curate, St. Thomas, Oxford 1759; Vicar of Staverton, Northants, from 26 Apr 1773; d. 13 Sep 1784.

JONES, EDWARD, son of Richard Jones, Dorset; b.; adm.; KS (aged 16) 1650; left 1653, having failed to obtain his election to either University; Merton Coll. Oxford, matr. 24 Jun 1653; BA 14 Jan 1656/7; MA 29 Jan 1661/2; MB 1665; MD 1669; Fellow, Merton Coll. 1658-78; practised at Wimborne, Dorset, and subsequently in London; lic. to m. 28 May 1678 Elizabeth Patrick, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire; d. 1686 (will proved PCC 3 Feb 1687, as of St. Giles, Cripplegate).

JONES, EDWARD, son of Richard Jones, Llwyn Rivid, near Montgomery, and Sarah, dau. of John Pyttes, Marrington, Shropshire; bapt. 24 Jul 1641; adm. ; in school lists 1656 (not then KS); KS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1661, adm. pens. 22 May 1661, scholar 1662; BA 1664/5; MA 1668; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1667- c. 1669; signed for deacon and priest (London) 30 May 1667; Chaplain to Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieut. Ireland; Master of Kilkenny School, where Swift was his pupil; Prebendary of Ossory 11 May 1677 – Nov 1678; Dean of Lismore 16 Nov 1678 – Feb 1682/3; consecrated Bishop of Cloyne 11 Mar 1682/3; translated to St. Asaph 13 Dec 1692; suspended from bishopric for simony and maladministration Jun 1701 – 5 May 1702; m. Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Sir Richard Kennedy, Bart. ; d. 10 May 1703. DNB.

JONES, DAVID, son of Matthew Jones, Caervallwch, Flints.; b.; adm.; BB; KS 1678; tried at Old Bailey 15 Oct 1679, with Henry Mordaunt and John Osbaldeston (qvv), for the murder of a bailiff, but was acquitted (Elizabethan xviii, 83); elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1681, matr. 16 Dec 1681, aged 18, Westminster Student 19 Dec 1681 – 31 Oct 1700 (expiry year of grace as V. Marcham); in 1700 committed to Oxford Castle for contempt of court and expelled from University by Vice-Chancellor, but released from imprisonment by Court of Common Pleas (Luttrell, Brief Relation, 14 May 1700, and HMC Report, v, 359); ordained; Curate, St. Mary Woolnoth, London; Vicar of Great Budworth, Cheshire 24 Aug 1694 – 18 Jan 1696/7; Vicar of Marcham, Berks., from 1699; an eccentric preacher styled “a young Boanerges” by his contemporary Tom Brown; latterly living in poverty and obscurity at Marcham; d. 6 Aug 1724. DNB.