Viscount, who died a Captain R.N. in 1800; and uncle and heir-presumptive to the present nobleman. One of Capt. Jones’ brothers, Benjamin, was a Lieutenant-Colonel, and two others, Richard and John, were Majors, in the Army.
This officer entered the Navy, in 1790, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Echo sloop, commanded by his brother, then Hon. Chas. Jones, whom he successively followed into the Kingfisher and Andromache, on the Channel and Newfoundland stations. Being discharged, in 1794, into the Providence 16, Capt. Wm. Robt. Broughton, he sailed in that vessel on a voyage of discovery, and continued in her until wrecked among the Japan Islands 16 May, 1797; whereupon he took a passage home in the Carnatic Indiaman. On his arrival however at the Cape, he volunteered to serve with the Commander-in-Chief, Rear-Admiral Thos. Pringle, who, on the occasion of a mutiny breaking out on board his flag-ship, the Tremendous 74, made him the instrument of communication between himself and the refractory seamen, by whom the Captain and all the officers had been put on shore. As a reward for this service Mr. Jones was immediately appointed, 14 Dec. 1797, Acting-Lieutenant of the Sceptre 64, Capt. Valentine Edwards, in which ship he remained until she was lost, with 291 of her crew, in Table Bay, 5 Nov. 1799. Joining, about the period of his official promotion, which took place 15 May, 1800, the Ajax 74, Capt. Hon. Alex. Inglis Cochrane, he attended, in the course of the same year, the expeditions to Belleisle and Ferrol; and was the means, when at the latter place, of saving H.M.S. Tartarus, during a heavy gale, and after she had been abandoned by her officers and crew. In consideration of the intrepidity and judgment he had evinced on the occasion, Lieut. Jones was sent by his Captain to the Commander-in-Chief, Sir John Borlase Warren, and ordered to report himself as the officer who had achieved the performance. After witnessing (in the Minerve frigate, Capt. Geo. Cockburn) the capture, 2 Sept. 1801, of the Succes and Bravoure, of 42 guns each, Lieut. Jones, until he was advanced to the rank of Commander 22 Jan. 1806, served on various stations in the Clyde 38, Capt. John Larmour, Champion 24, Capt. Robt. Howe Bromley, Thisbe 28, Capt. Shephard, Naiad 38, Capt. Jas. Wallis, and Lively 38, Capt. Graham Eden Hamond. In the latter frigate we find him present at the capture, 5 Oct. 1804, of three Spanish frigates, and the destruction of a fourth, off Cape St. Mary; and on 29 May, 1805, participating in her single-handed and self-sought skirmish with the Spanish 74-gun ship Glorioso. He was also in the Lively in several encounters vfith the enemy’s gun-boats in the Gut of Gibraltar, and was further employed in her on the Italian coast. Assuming command, 6 Oct. 1807, of the Talbot sloop, Capt. Jones, who continued in that vessel until posted, 1 Aug. 1811, assisted, during the period, at the blockade of Oporto, came also into frequent contact with the batteries on the coasts of Portugal, Spain, and Norway, and effected the capture (including the Loven of 2 guns and 11 men) of three privateers, besides a large number of other vessels. For his conduct at Oporto, where he was for some time employed on shore, he was placed by Sir Chas. Cotton, at the period of the Convention of Cintra, in temporary charge of a Portuguese frigate. His last appointment was to the command, for a short period in 1814, of the Levant 20.
Capt. Jones married, 2 Aug. 1807, Caroline, daughter of Thos. Palmer, Esq., of Hambledon, Hants, and niece of General Sir Wm. Myers, Bart., formerly Commander-in-Chief in Ireland and the West Indies, by whom he has issue three sons and two daughters. His second son, Robt. Molesworth Jones, is a Clerk in the Admiralty at Whitehall.
JONES. (Retired Commander, 1837.)
Charles Jones died 19 Jan. 1847, aged 65.
This officer entered the Navy, in Nov. 1797, as Midshipman, on board the Monmouth 64, Capt. Jas. Walker, under whom – if we except an attachment, from Oct. 1798 until April, 1800, to the Victor sloop, Capt. Jas. Bennie, part of the force employed under Sir Andrew Mitchell in the expedition to the Texel – he continued to serve in the Veteran 64, Braakel 56, Prince George and Prince 98’s, Isis 50, Tartar 32, and Vanguard 74, until Jan. 1804. He was in consequence wounded, in the Isis, at the battle of Copenhagen 2 April, 1801;[1] and was on board the Vanguard, in 1803, at the capture, besides a variety of smaller vessels, of le Duquesne 74, and La Créole of 44 guns, with the French General, Morgan, and 530 troops on board; as also in the same ship at the surrender of the town of St. Marc, St. Domingo; the garrison of which place, amounting to about 1100 men, were brought off by the Vanguard and her prizes to rescue them from the vengeance of the black General Dessalines. He left the Vanguard, which had been latterly commanded by Capt. Andrew Fitzherbert Evans, in Oct. 1804; and on 5 April, 1805, after having acted for four months as Lieutenant of the Goelan sloop, and Desirée 36, Capts. Wm. Templar and Henry Whitby, was confirmed into the Theseus 74, Capt. Fras. Temple. Returning to England with convoy in the following Sept., he next, between that period and Dec. 1807, served, on the Home and Baltic stations, in the Powerful 74, Capt. Robt. Plampin, Boadicea 38, Capt. John Maitland, and Vanguard 74, Capt. Alex. Fraser, under whom he accompanied Admiral Gambier’s expedition against Copenhagen. He was then employed for two months in command of a cartel on the coast of Holland; after which he had charge, from May, 1808, to Feb. 1810, and from Aug. in the latter year to Aug. 1814, of the Indignant and Rebuff gun-brigs, on the North Sea and Mediterranean stations – participating, in the Indignant, in the operations of 1809 against Walcheren. His last appointment was, 1 April, 1822, to the Ordinary at Sheerness. The rank of Retired Commander was conferred upon him 23 Oct. 1837. He was married, and has left issue.
JONES, Kt. (Captain, 1819. f-p., 23; h-p., 33.)
Sir Charles Thomas Jones, born in 1778, is representative of the Jones’ of Frontraith, co. Montgomery, a family seated there since 1608.
This officer entered the Navy, 2 May, 1791, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Vulcan fire-ship, Capt. Solomon Ferris, lying at Spithead; and in the course of the same year removed, as Fst.-cl. Vol., to the Alcide 74, Capt. Sir Andrew Snape Douglas, stationed in Portsmouth Harbour. During the first five years of the French revolutionary war we find him serving with Lord Hugh Seymour in the Leviathan 74, and Sans Pareil 80; in the former of which ships he witnessed the occupation of Toulon in Aug. 1793, and was wounded in Lord Howe’s action 1 June, 1794; and in the latter participated as Midshipman in the action fought off Ile de Groix 23 June, 1795. He was made Lieutenant, 16 Oct. 1798, into the Fairy 18, Capt. Joshua Sydney Horton, on the coast of Africa; and was afterwards appointed – 26 Aug. 1799, to the Neptune 98, Capt. Jas. Vashon, flag-ship for some time of the late Lord Gambier in the Channel – in 1802, 3, and 5, to the Concorde, Lancaster, and Hindostan, Capts. John Wood, William Fothergill, and Alex. Fraser, all on the East India station – and 16 May, 1807, to the Trent frigate, bearing the flag at Cork of Vice-Admiral Jas. Hawkins Whitshed. In the capacity of Commander, a rank he attained 15 Aug. 1810, Capt. Jones was employed, from 16 June, 1814, until paid off in Dec. 1818, in the Harrier sloop, among the Canary Islands, off the coast of France, and on the Halifax station. He attained Post-rank 12 Aug. 1819, and accepted the Retirement 1 Oct. 1846.
Sir Chas. Thos. Jones, upon whom the honour of Knighthood had been conferred in 1809, mar-
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1801, p. 404.
