five months on the books of the Africaine and Royal William, flag-ships at the Cape of Good Hope and at Plymouth of Vice-Admirals Albemarle Bertie and Sir Roger Curtis, Mr. Jones, in May, 1811, rejoined Capt. Rowley on board the America 74, and was afforded an opportunity, in consequence, of witnessing the unsuccessful attack upon Leghorn in Dec. 1813, and of participating in the enduing capture of Genoa and its dependencies. He continued in the Mediterranean in the Queen 74, and Impregnable 98, under the flags of Rear-Admirals Chas. Vinicombe Penrose and his friend Sir J. Rowley, until Aug. 1815; then took up a commission dated on 21 of the previous Feb.; and has since been on half-pay.
JONES. (Retired Commander, 1832. f-p., 18; h-p., 35.)
John Jones (a) entered the Navy, in Dec. 1794, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board L’Espiègle sloop, Capt. Bartholomew Roberts, employed in the North Sea; and, from Feb. 1796 until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 14 Oct. 1801, served as Midshipman and Master’s Mate in the Windsor Castle 98, flag-ship of Admiral Robt. Mann, Saturn 74, Capt. Jas. Douglas, Monarch 74, bearing the flag of Sir Rich. Onslow, Crescent 36, Capt. Wm. Grenville Lobb (under whom, when in company with the Calypso sloop, he assisted at the capture, 15 Nov. 1799, in sight of a Spanish line-of-battle-ship and frigate, of the corvette El Galgo, of 16 guns), and Sans Pareil 80, and Carnatic 74, bearing the flags of Lord Hugh Seymour and Admiral Robt. Montagu on the Mediterranean, Home, and Jamaica stations. He then rejoined the Sans Pareil as Flag-Lieutenant to the last-named officer, with whom, in 1802, he returned home in a similar capacity on board the Melampus frigate. Towards the close of the same year we find him appointed to the Autumn sloop, Capt. Richardson; and in June, 1804 (after having again officiated as Signal-Lieutenant to Admiral Montagu in various ships on the Downs station), ordered to join the Isis 50, bearing the flag of Sir Erasmus Gower at Newfoundland. While next attached, between Feb. 1805 and April, 1811, to the Pomone 38, Capts. W. G. Lobb and Robt. Barrie, he presents himself to our notice as actively employed in the Channel and Mediterranean; and on one occasion, 5 June, 1807, displaying great judgment and gallantry in safely obtaining possession, near Sable d’Olonne, of an enemy’s vessel, although his boat in the attempt was pierced through and through by grape from the shore and from three armed brigs.[1] His last appointments were, between Feb. 1812 and Aug. 1815, to the Stromboli bomb, Capt. John Stoddart, Curaçoa frigate, Capt. John Tower, Royal George 100, flag-ship of Vicer-Admiral Fras. Pickmore, and Dragon 74, Capt. Robt. Barrie, again on the Mediterranean .and Home stations. He accepted his present rank 2 July, 1832.
JONES. (Retired Commander, 1835, f-p., 16; h-p., 38.)
John Jones (b) entered the Navy, 1 July, 1793, as A.B., on board the Goelan sloop, Capts. Thos. Wolley and Geo. Hopewell Stephens, under the former of whom he assisted in soon afterwards taking possession of Jeremie and of Cape Nicolas Mole, both on the island of St. Domingo. He next, from Sept. 1794 until Sept. 1801, served as A.B., Midshipman, Master’s Mate, and Acting-Lieutenant, in the Daedalus, of 38 guns, Capts. Thos. Williams, Geo. Countess, Henry Ledgbird Ball, and Chas. Jas. Johnston, on the Channel, North Sea, Coast of Africa, and West and East India stations. On 9 Feb. 1799, while under Capt. Ball, he contributed to the capture, after an action of more than an hour’s duration, of the French frigate La Prudente, of 30 guns and 301 men, 27 of whom were killed, and 22 wounded, with a loss to the British, out of 212 men, of not more than 2 killed and 12 wounded. In the following Aug., being at the time in the Gulf of Suez, we find him participating in a three days’ bombardment of the Egyptian town of Kosseïr, garrisoned by a number of French troops. On leaving the Daedalus Mr, Jones became Acting-Lieutenant of the Intrepid 64, Capt. Wm. Hargood, to which ship, also stationed in the East Indies, he was confirmed by commission dated 27 July, 1802. In Jan. 1804, a few months after his return to England, he joined the Foudroyant 80, bearing the flag of Sir Thos. Graves in the Channel, where, and among the Western Islands, he served from Dec. 1805 until he invalided in Nov. 1809 on board L’Impétueux 74, Capt. John Lawford. This was his last appointment. He accepted his present rank 6 Jan. 1835.
JONES. (Lieutenant, 1809, f-p., 31; h-p., 19.)
John William Jones entered the Navy, in 1797, as a Volunteer, on board the Edgar 74, Capt. M‘Dougall, with whom he served for about three years in the Mediterranean and Channel, chiefly in the capacity of Midshipman. He then removed to the Achille 74, Capt. Edw. Buller; and, after a short employment under that officer on the coast of France, became Master’s Mate of the Imogene sloop, in the West Indies. From 1802 until confirmed in his present rank, 28 Feb. 1809, he served again in the Achille, as also in the Malta 80, both commanded by Capt. Buller, and in the Confiance sloop, Capt. Jas. Lucas Yeo, Indignant gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Petley, Orion 74, Capt, Sir Archibald Collingwood Dickson (part of the force employed in the expedition to Copenhagen), Victory 100, bearing the flag of Sir Jas. Saumarez, and, as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Prometheus sloop, Capt. Thos. Forrest. He then joined the Diligence 18, Capt. Abraham Lowe, employed, as had been some of the ships last named, in the Baltic. He was afterwards appointed – 16 Aug. 1811, to the Tigre 74, Capt. John Halliday, stationed off Brest and Rochefort – 2 Nov. 1814, to the Crescent 36, Capt. John Quilliam, with whom he returned home from the West Indies and was paid off in Sept. 1815 – and, 26 Jan. 1821, to the Coast Guard, in which service he continued until 1834. He has since been on half-pay.
JONES. (Captain, 1840, f-p., 30; h-p., 9.)
Lewis Tobias Jones, born in Dec. 1799, is second son of Capt. L. T. Jones, formerly of the 14th Regt., who wrote and published a history of the Duke of York’s campaign in Holland in 1793, 4, and 5, having served under H.R.H. during that period in the 57th Regt. His family, originally of Denbigh, in Wales, has been seated since the Commonwealth at Ardnaglass, co. Sligo.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 Jan. 1808, as Midshipman, on board the Thrasher gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Josiah Dornford, which vessel formed part of the force sent to the Walcheren in 1809. In May, 1812, he removed to the Stirling Castle 74, commanded at first by his relative Sir Jahleel Brenton off Brest, and afterwards by Capt. Augustus Brine, whom he successively followed into the Bellerophon and Medway 74’s. The latter ship, it appears, sailed in Jan. 1814 with Lord Chas. Somerset for the Cape of Good Hope, and on her arrival on that station hoisted the flag of Sir Chas. Tyler. During a subsequent cruize in the neighbourhood of St. Helena she contrived to effect the capture, after a long chase, of the American sloop-of-war Syren, of 16 guns. On leaving her Mr. Jones, in Nov. 1815, became for a short time Acting-Lieutenant of the Ariel sloop, Capt. Dan. Ross. He subsequently officiated for upwards of six years as Admiralty Midshipman, on the Mediterranean, Home, West India, and North American stations, of the Granicus 36, Capt. Wm. Furlong Wise, Cyrus 20, Capt. Wm. Fairbrother Carroll, Spartan frigate, Capt. W. F. Wise, Newcastle 60, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Griffith Colpoys, and Jaseur sloop, Capt. Henry Edw. Napier. He received, when in the Granicus, a wound in each knee at the battle
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1809, p. 838.
