year and Aug. 1814, in the Prince William armed ship, Capt. Andw. Mott, and Ceylon and Porpoise, both commanded by Capt. Peter Rye. Since the latter date he has been on half-pay. Agent – J. Hinxman.
JONES. (Retired Commander, 1840. f-p., 19; h-p., 32.)
Robert Parker Jones was born 30 April, 1786.
This officer entered the Navy, 5 Nov. 1796, as a Volunteer, on board the Agincourt 64, Capt. John Williamson and John Lawford, under the former of whom he bore a part, as Midshipman, in the battle fought off Camperdown 11 Oct. 1797. In Feb. 1798 he removed to the Nautilus sloop, Capt. Henry Gunter, which vessel was wrecked, off Flamborough Head, 2 Feb. 1799. Joining then the Harpy 18, Capts. Henry Bazely, Wm. Birchall, and Chas. Worsley Boys, he was afforded an opportunity of witnessing in that vessel the capture of the French frigate Pallas, and of participating in the action off Copenhagen 2 April, 1801. He was next employed for a period of three years, on the Irish, African, and West India stations, in the Princess Charlotte frigate, Capt. Hon. Fras. Farington Gardner, Penguin 18, Capt. Geo. Morris, and Inconstant 36, Capt. Edw. Stirling Dickson; after which he proceeded in the Weymouth to India, and was there (having passed his examination in July, 1803) appointed, 25 Dec. 1805, Acting-Lieutenant of the Albion 74, Capt. John Ferrier. Being confirmed to that ship 30 Aug. 1806, he continued in her until he returned to England in June, 1809.[1] His succeeding appointments were, in March and Dec. 1810, and in Feb. 1812, to the Edgar, Tremendous, and Cressy 74’s, Capts. Stephen Poyntz, Robt. Campbell, Chas. Dudley Pater, and Chas. Dashwood, employed on the Baltic, Channel, and West India stations. The Cressy, of which he had been for upwards of two years First-Lieutenant, he left in May, 1814. He accepted his present rank 9 July, 1840.
Commander Jones married, 23 July, 1819, Jane, second daughter of the late Lieut-General Lewis, of the Royal Artillery.
JONES, M.P. (Capt., 1828. f-p., 17; h-p., 27.)
Theobald Jones, born in 1790, is second son of the late Rev. James Jones, of Merrion Square, Dublin, Rector of Urney, in the diocese of Derry, by his first wife, Lydia, daughter of Theobald Wolfe; grandson of the Right Hon. Theophilus Jones, M.P., who married a daughter of the Earl of Tyrone; and nephew of the late Vice-Admiral Theophilus Jones. His father’s second wife was a daughter of Sir Robt. Blackwood, Bart., by the Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye, and relict of the Very Rev. John Ryder, Dean of Lismore, son of John, Archbishop of Tuam.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 June, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Melpomène frigate, Capt. Robt. Dudley Oliver, and in the course of the following year was twice engaged, as Midshipman, in the bombardment of Havre. In Nov. 1805 he removed to the Euryalus 36, Capt. Hon. Henry Blackwood, with whom, on 14 Feb. 1807, he was on board the Ajax 74 when that ship took fire and blew up near the island of Tenedos. Being then received into the Endymion 40, Capt. Hon. Thos. Bladen Capel, he served at the ensuing passage of the Dardanells; after which, on his return to England in May, 1808, he rejoined Capt. Blackwood on board the Warspite 74, and continued to serve with him, as Lieutenant (commission dated 8 July, 1809), until Feb. 1814, in the North Sea and Channel, and also in the Mediterranean, where, in July, 1810, he shared in a very gallant skirmish with the Toulon fleet. In Feb. 1815, on his arrival home, after having gone with convoy to the Cape of Good Hope, in the Désirée 36, Capt. Wm. Woolridge, Mr. Jones found that he had been promoted to the rank of Commander on 19 of the previous July. His succeeding appointments were – 26 Feb. 1819, to the Cherokee 10, of which vessel he retained command, on the Leith station, for a period of more than three years – and, 12 May, 1827, to the Second-Captaincy of the Prince Regent 120, Capts. Constantine Rich. Moorsom and Hon. Geo. Poulett, flag-ship for some time of Hon. Sir H. Blackwood at the Nore. He was advanced to his present rank 25 Aug. 1828, but has not been since afloat.
Capt. Jones has sat ia Parliament for co. Londonderry since 1830.
JONES. (Retired Commander, 1844. f-p., 14; h-p., 34.)
Thomas Jones (a) died 27 Sept. 1845, in his 60th year, at Lewisham, in Kent.
This officer entered the Navy, in July, 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Hornet sloop, Capt. John Nash, stationed in the Channel, where, from 1799 until paid off in 1802, he served, part of the time as Midshipman, in La Juste 80, Capts. Sir Henry Trollope, Rich. Dacres, and Sir Edm. Nagle. In 1804 he re-embarked on board the Hindostan 50, Capt. Alex. Fraser, with whom he made a voyage to the East Indies; and, on 4 June, 1808, after having served for some time on the Mediterranean station, in the Formidable 98, Capt. Fras. Fayerman, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. His last appointments were – 25 Nov. 1808, to the Aboukir 74, Capt. Geo. Parker, in the North Sea – and, 2 Dec. 1809, and 27 July, 1811, to the Ranger and Briseis sloops, Capts. Geo. Acklom, Chas. Thurlow Smith, and John Ross, both in the Baltic. On the night of 19 June, 1812, Lieut. Jones performed a signal act of gallantry in cutting out from Pillau roads, with the pinnace of the last-mentioned vessel, containing a Midshipman and 18 men, under his orders, the (lately British) merchant-ship Urania, mounting 6 carriage-guns and 4 swivels, then in the possession of some French troops, who, notwithstanding a spirited resistance, were driven off the decks into their boats, which were on the opposite side, with no greater loss to the assailants than 1 man killed and the Midshipman and 1 man slightly wounded.[2] He went on half-pay in the early part of 1813, and retired with the rank of Commander 22 Oct. 1844.
JONES. (Lieut., 1827. f-p., 17; h-p., 21.)
Thomas Jones (b) entered the Navy, 20 July, 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Venerable 74, Capts. Andw. King and Sir Home Popham, which ship formed part of the ensuing expedition to the Walcheren. Between 1811 and 1815, in Dec. of which year he passed his examination, we find him employed, on the Mediterranean and North Sea stations, as Midshipman of the Comus 22, Capts. Matthew Smith and Fras. Geo. Dickins, Havre gun-brig, and {sc|Mercurius}} 18, Capt. Thos. Renwick. The time which intervened between the latter date and that of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 28 April, 1827, was passed by Mr. Jones in the capacities of Admiralty-Midshipman and Mate, on board the Bulwark 74, Capt. Geo. M‘Kinley, Blossom 20, Capts. Fred. Hickey, Fred. Edw. Vernon (now Harcourt), and Arch. M‘Lean, Blonde 42, Capt. Lord Byron, and Arachne 18, Capt. Wm. Robt. Ashley Pettman, on the Home, South American, St. Helena, Pacific, and West India stations. Since he left the Arachne he has been on half-pay.
JONES. (Lieut., 1821. f-p., 27; h-p., 13.)
Valentine Herbert Jones entered the Navy, 19 May, 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Hussar 38, Capt. Robt. Lloyd, under whom he assisted at the bombardment of Copenhagen, and further served, as Midshipman, in the Guerrière 38, and Swiftsure 74, flag-ship of Sir John Borlase Warren,
