on the West India and North American stations, until April, 1811. He then removed to the Edinburgh 74, Capts. Robt. Rolles and Hon. Geo. Heneage Lawrence Dundas, and, after a cruize among the Western Islands, proceeded to the Mediterranean, where, in 1813-14, he successively witnessed the capture of Port d’Anzo, the unsuccessful attack upon Leghorn, the reduction of the fortress of Santa Maria, and of the enemy’s other forts and defences in the Gulf of Spezia, and the fall of Genoa. In the course of 1814 he joined the Apollo 38, Capt. Edwards Lloyd Graham, and Conflict 12, Capt. Abraham Mills Hawkins, respectively employed in the Mediterranean and Channel; and he next, between Sept. 1815, and the receipt of his commission, bearing date 19 July, 1821, served, as Admiralty-Midshipman, on the Cape of Good Hope and Newfoundland stations, in the Orontes 36, Capt. Nathaniel Day Cochrane, Sir Francis Drake, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Fras. Pickmore, Egeria 26, Capt. Henry Shiffner, Favorite 26, Capt. Hercules Robinson, and Sir Francis Drake again, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Hamilton. His subsequent appointments were – 27 July, 1831, to the Coast Guard – 12 Oct. 1836, and 17 March, 1838, to the command of the Rose and Sprightly Revenue-vessels – 18 May, 1839, a second time to the charge of a station in the Coast Guard – 6 July, 1840, to the office of Agent in a contract mail steam-vessel – and, 24 June, 1842, once more to the Coast Guard. He has been on half-pay since 1843.
JONES. (Captain, 1828. f-p., 23; h-p., 18.)
William Jones died 24 May, 1846, at Haslar Hospital, from the effects of disease contracted on the coast of Africa.
This officer entered the Navy, 28 June, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Flora 36, Capt. Loftus Otway Bland, with whom (including two years and a half spent on the Lisbon station) he served until wrecked, as Midshipman, off the coast of Holland, where he was taken prisoner, 19 Jan. 1808. In the following July, having been released, he joined the Aboukir 74, bearing the flag of Hon. Alan Hyde Gardner in the North Sea and Baltic, where, from March, 1809, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 24 July, 1811, we find him employed, again with Capt. Bland, as also with Capts. Keith Maxwell and John Hancock, as Master’s Mate, in the Africa 64, and Nymphen 36. His succeeding appointments were – 16 Aug. 1811, to the Pique 36, Capt. Hon. Anthony Maitland, stationed in the Channel – 1 June, 1812, to the Cossack 22, Capts. Wm. King, Fras. Stanfell, Lord Algernon Percy, and Hon. Robt. Rodney, under whom he was employed in the Mediterranean and North America till July, 1815 – 12 Sept. 1819, to the Hind 20, Capt. Sir Chas. Burrard, lying at Portsmouth – 29 June, 1821, and 20 March, 1822, to the Bulwark and Gloucester 74’s, bearing each the flag of Sir Benj. Hallowell in the river Medway – and 23 Nov. 1822, to the command of the Mermaid Revenue-vessel. He was made Commander into the Orestes 18, on the Halifax station, 1 May, 1826; attained the rank of Captain 18 Aug. 1828; and was subsequently appointed – 6 May, 1833, to the Vestal 26, in which vessel he served for a period of four years and a half on the North America and West India station – and 27 June, 1843, to the Penelope steam-frigate. He continued in that ship on the coast of Africa, latterly with the broad pendant of Commodore, until within a short time of his death. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
JONES. (Lieut., 1809. f-p., 10; h-p., 36.)
William Jones (a), born 21 Aug. 1783, is third son of the Rev. H. Wynne Jones, Prebendary of Penymunidd, Anglesey.
This officer (who had previously been in the Hon.E.I.Co.’s service) entered the Navy, about Oct. 1801, as A.B., on board the Romney 50, commanded in the East Indies by Capt. Sir Home Popham; and on next joining the Sensible 36, armée en flûte, Capt. Robt. Sauce, was cast away on a quicksand off Ceylon, 2 March, 1802. On being taken off the island seven weeks afterwards by the Trincomalee sloop-of-war, he became Midshipman of the Victorious 74, Capt. Pulteney Malcolm, bearing the flag of the late Vice-Admiral Peter Rainier. In Aug. 1803 he removed to the Windsor Castle 98, Capts. Albemarle Bertie, Davidge Gould, Thos. Wells, and Chas. Boyles, with the latter of whom, after enacting a part in the action off Ferrol 22 July, 1805, and witnessing Sir Sam. Hood’s capture of four French frigates near Rochefort 25 Sept. 1806, he proceeded to the Mediterranean, where, having first served in a boat at the destruction of the Turkish squadron off Point Pesquies, he was slightly wounded at the repassage of the Dardanells in March, 1807.[1] Returning to England in April, 1808, for the purpose of passing his examination, he joined, in the ensuing Dec, the Sybille 44, Capt. Clotworthy Upton, stationed off the coast of Ireland. He was confirmed a Lieutenant, 16 May, 1809, in the Espiègle sloop, Capts. Henry Gage Morris and Arthur Atchison; and in the course of the same year he was transferred to the Jalouse sloop, also commanded by Capt. Morris, with whom he was for two years employed, again on the Irish station. His last appointment was to the First-Lieutenancy, 27 Jan. 1813, of the Stork sloop, Capt. Robt. Lisle Coulson. In that vessel he continued for a period of six months. Lieut. Jones was presented with a pecuniary grant from the Patriotic Society in consideration of the wound he received at the Dardanells.
He married, 3 Nov. 1811, Maria Ellen, daughter of Major Geo. Goodman, by whom he has issue a son and nine daughters.
JONES. (Lieutenant, 1815.)
William Jones (b) entered the Navy, 8 June, 1805, as a Volunteer, on board the Captain 74, Capts. Geo. Hopewell Stephens, Geo. Cockburn, Isaac Wolley, Jas. Athol Wood, and Christ. John Williams Nesham; and, during a period of four years and a half that he continued in that ship, assisted at the capture, 27 Sept. 1806, of the French frigate Le President of 44 guns, was present in 1807 at the reduction of Copenhagen and Madeira, and served at the taking of Martinique in Feb. 1809. Removing in Dec. of the latter year to the Dictator 64, Capts. Rich. Harrison Pearson and Robt. Williams, he was for 16 months employed under those officers on the Baltic and Leith stations; after which, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 15 Feb. 1815, he served, off the coasts of France and Spain, among the Western Islands, and in North America, as Midshipman, in the Sceptre 74, Capt. Sam. Jas. Ballard, Constant gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander John Stokes, and Tonnant 80, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane. With the exception of some time passed in the Coast Guard as Supernumerary-Lieutenant, subsequently to Nov. 1824, of the Ramillies 74, and Hyperion 42, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Wm. Jas. Mingaye, he has since been on half-pay.
JONES. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 31.)
William Jones (c) entered the Navy, 13 March 1807,as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Speedy sloop, Capt. Henry Rich. Muddle. With that officer he continued to serve as Midshipman, and for a short time as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Comet and Columbine sloops, on the Newfoundland, Cadiz, Lisbon, and Leeward Island stations, until Oct. 1815. He then took up a commission bearing date 15 March in that year, and has since been on half-pay. Agents – Messrs Stilwell.
JONES. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 32.)
William Charles Jones is second son of the late Rev. Rich. Jones, A.M., Rector of Charfield, Gloucestershire.
This officer entered the Navy, 12 Aug. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Dragon 74, Capt. Mat-
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1807, p. 597.
