Jones was twice married. By his first wife he was father of Judge Brynmor Jones and Principal Viriamu Jones of University College, Cardiff.
[Biographical Sketches in The Divine Order and Lyric Thoughts, ut supra; The Cambrian (Swansea) for 30 June 1882; Times, 27 June 1882, p. 10; Rees and Thomas's Hanes Eglwysi Annibynol Cymru, v. 111–20; Great Modern Preachers, pp. 41–55 [by the Rev. William Dorling], London, 1875, 8vo; Congregational Year-Book for 1883, pp. 292–5; Life of Robert Browning by Mrs. Sutherland Orr; information kindly supplied by His Honour Judge Brynmor Jones.]
JONES, THOMAS RYMER (1810–1880), zoologist, son of a captain in the navy, was born in 1810. He studied at Guy's Hospital and in Paris, becoming M.R.C.S. in 1833, but found himself unable to practise owing to chronic deafness. He was appointed the first professor of comparative anatomy at King's College, London, in 1836, and was Fullerian professor of physiology at the Royal Institution in 1840–1–2. In 1838, at the meeting of the British Association at Newcastle, he was the only opponent of Ehrenberg, who maintained the polygastric nature of certain infusoria. In the same year the first part of his ‘General Outline of the Animal Kingdom, and Manual of Comparative Anatomy,’ 1838–41, London, 4to, was published with many first-rate woodcuts. It was a great advance on previous text-books, went through several editions, and was long the chief book read by English students. Jones wrote many articles on comparative anatomy for Todd's ‘Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology,’ and several interesting popular works on zoology. He was also an attractive popular lecturer. He died in London on 10 Dec. 1880, having resigned his professorship in 1874. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society.
Besides a few original papers in scientific journals and the works already noticed, Jones wrote:
- ‘The Natural History of Animals (Invertebrates only), being the substance of three Courses of Lectures as Fullerian Professor,’ London, 1845–52, 8vo.
- ‘The Aquarian Naturalist, a Manual for the Seaside,’ London, 1858, 8vo, with coloured plates.
- ‘The Animal Creation; a popular introduction to Zoology,’ London, 1865, 8vo.
- ‘The Natural History of Birds, a popular introduction to Ornithology,’ London, 1867, 8vo.
- ‘Mammalia: a popular introduction to Natural History,’ London, 1873, 8vo.
He also edited W. Kirby's ‘Bridgewater Treatise,’ for Bohn's series, in 1852; and a translation of the section on ‘Birds’ in A. E. Brehm's ‘Thierleben,’ issued as ‘Cassell's Book of Birds’ in 1869–73.
[Times, 16 Dec. 1880, p. 10c; Nature, xxiii. 174; information from Sir R. Owen.]
JONES, WILLIAM (1561–1636), biblical commentator, born in 1561, was educated at Clare Hall, Cambridge, but was one of the first foundation fellows at its foundation in 1584. He taught there for some years, and proceeded B.D. in 1590, and D.D. in 1597. In 1592 he obtained the living of East Bergholt, Suffolk, where he ministered for forty-four years, and died, as he says, ‘spent with sicknesse, age, and labour,’ on 12 Dec. 1636. He was buried in the church at East Bergholt, and there is a monument to his memory in the north wall of the chancel. Jones published ‘A Commentary upon the Epistles of St. Paul to Philemon and the Hebrewes,’ London, 1636, 8vo. It was one of the charges against Laud that he had expunged certain passages from this work (cf. Prynne, Canterbury's Doom, pp. 255, 259, 260, &c.) The commentator must be distinguished from a William Jones (fl. 1612–1631), who was chaplain to the Countess of Southampton, who is styled ‘preacher to the Isle of Wight,’ and who lived at Arreton in the Isle of Wight. He published:
- ‘A pithie and short Treatise … whereby a Godly Christian is directed how to make his last Will and Testament,’ &c., London, 1612, 8vo.
- ‘The Mysterie of Christ's Nativitie,’ London, 1614.
- ‘A Treatise of Patience in Tribulation,’ London, 1625, 4to; an enlarged sermon with verses, suggested by the deaths of the Earl of Southampton and his son.
- ‘A brief Exhortation to all Men to set their Houses in Order,’ London, 1631, 4to; and n. d., 8vo.
[Cole's Athenæ Cantabr., Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 5873, f. 26; Davy's Suffolk Collections, Add. MS. 19104, ff. 142, 155; Laud's Works, iv. 283, 323, 406.]
JONES, Sir WILLIAM (1566–1640), judge, of a family settled in North Wales, born in 1566, was eldest son of William Jones of Castellmarch, Carnarvonshire, by Margaret, daughter of Humphry Wynn ap Meredith of Hyssoilfarch. Educated at first at Beaumaris free school, he went at the age of fourteen to St. Edmund's Hall, Oxford, where he did not graduate, was entered at Furnival's Inn five years afterwards, admitted a member of Lincoln's Inn on 5 July 1587, and called to the bar there on 28 Jan. 1595 (Black Book, v. 410, vi. 9). He was Lent reader of the inn in 1616 (Dugdale, Origines, p. 255), and, though his name does not occur in any law reports, he was made a serjeant and knight on 14 March 1617, and on 13 May of the
