originally written by that evangelist; in which are contained many things relating to the harmony and history of the four gospels"—a work pronounced by Dr. Harwood to be very valuable, displaying much critical acumen, and abounding with ingenious remarks. But his principal work was his "New and Full Method of Settling the Canonical Authority of the New Testament," which was published in 1726 in 2 vols. 8vo, followed afterwards by a third volume. Though published under the serious disadvantages of a posthumous work, it was highly esteemed by the learned as a trustworthy repository of the external evidences of the literary genuineness of the canonical books; and it has enjoyed the distinction in our own day of being reproduced at the Clarendon press, Oxford, where it appeared in 1827, along with a reprint of the "Dissertation on Matthew." Its author, who displayed at thirty a ripeness of scholarship and judgment which would have done credit to a man of double that age, was cut off in 1724, in his thirty-second year.—P. L.
JONES, John, a medical practitioner and early writer on the English spas, flourished in the middle of the sixteenth century. His practice at the mineral wells of Bath and Buxton is illustrated by two books he wrote, which were printed in 1572, namely, "The Benefit of the Ancient Bathes of Buckstone" and "The Bathes of Bathesayde." His celebrated book, printed in 1579, bears the following title, the extravagance of which is itself indicative of charlatanism, "The Arte and Science of Preserving Bodie and Soule in Health, Wisdome, and the Catholike Religion; phisically, philosophically, and divinely devised; right profitable for all persons, but chiefly for princes, rulers, nobles, byshoppes, preachers, parents, and them of the parliament house."—R. H.
JONES, John, of Gelli Lyvdy, Flintshire, a distinguished collector of Welsh literature, was an attorney in the court of the Marches of Wales. In the course of forty years he transcribed more than fifty large volumes of manuscripts, variously dated from 1590 to 1630. Mr. Jones having made agreement with a brother antiquary, Mr. Robert Vaughan, that the survivor should inherit the benefit of the other's labours, the formidable mass of transcription was transferred to Mr. Vaughan's library at Hengwrt, where the volumes are still preserved.—R. H.
JONES, John, an English catholic, born in 1575 in London. He went to Spain, where he became a benedictine by the name of Leander a Sancto Martino. He studied at Compostella, but removed to Douay, and became professor of Hebrew and divinity. He took part in founding a monastery of English nuns at Cambray, of which he was confessor. He was also prior of the monastery at Douay, and twice president of the English congregation there. Afterwards he came to England, it is said, by invitation of Laud, and died in London in December, 1636. He wrote several works in Latin, and edited a Latin Bible, with paraphrase, in 6 vols. folio; the works of Arnobius, with notes, &c.—B. H. C.
JONES, John, an obscure dramatic writer, who in 1635 published a play which has never been acted, entitled "Adrasta, or the woman's spleen and love's conquest," a tragi-comedy. The subject is taken from the Decameron of Boccacio, Day 8, Novel 8, and is not redeemed by any skilful treatment.—R. H.
JONES, John, a clergyman of the Church of England, who signalized himself by advocating a revision of the Liturgy, was born at Carmarthen in 1700. He was admitted of Worcester college, Oxford, where he took his degree of B.A. about 1721. He was ordained priest in 1726. In 1741 he was presented to the vicarage of Alconbury in Huntingdonshire, which he resigned for the rectory of Bolnhurst in Bedfordshire. His next remove was to Hitchin, of which parish he became vicar in 1755; and four years later he did not disdain to act as curate at Welwyn to Dr. Young, the poet of the Night Thoughts. Here he remained until Young's death in 1765. Mr. Jones probably did not long survive the poet, although the year of his death, which was caused by a fall from his horse, is not recorded. His manuscripts came into the possession of Dr. Thomas Dawson, a dissenting minister at Hackney, from whom they passed to the dissenting library in Redcross Street, which was founded by Dr. Williams. Extracts from his literary correspondence with Dr. Birch have appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine. His published works are—"Free and Candid Disquisitions," 1749, principally on the Liturgy; "Catholic Faith and Practice," 1765; and "A Letter to a Friend in the Country."—R. H.
JONES, John, American physician, born in 1728. Settling in New York, he soon obtained an extensive practice, and great reputation as an operator. When medical schools were established at the college of New York he was appointed professor of surgery. When the British troops took possession of New York. he relinquished his practice and retired for a time to the country, but finally fixed his residence at Philadelphia. He possessed the friendship and confidence of Franklin and Washington. He died in 1791.—W. B—d.
JONES, John, LL.D., was born in 1765 or 1766, in the parish of Llandingat in Carmarthenshire. His father was a farmer, and intended his son to follow the same occupation. But he had shown such enthusiasm for learning, being accustomed to retire to a solitary brookside, and engage in severe study till hunger compelled him to return home, that he was in 1780 sent to the grammar-school at Brecon. In 1783 at his father's death, through the influence of a relative, a Mr. Jones who subsequently became Dr. Priestley's colleague, he was placed on the foundation of the Unitarian college at Hackney, where he remained a favourite pupil for six years. He subsequently for three years taught classics and mathematics in the Welsh academy at Swansea. From 1795 to 1800 he officiated as a Unitarian minister, first at Plymouth for two years, afterwards at Halifax in Yorkshire. The remainder of his life he spent in London, giving instruction in the classics to the sons of persons of influence and station. For some years he occasionally occupied the pulpits of friends, but afterwards he destroyed all his sermons. He died, January 10, 1827. He was the author of many works connected with theology and philology. A thorough believer in the "Socinian" system, he wrote with great ardour against the Deists and the orthodox. He believed Josephus and Philo to have been converts to Christianity. His most celebrated work is his "Greek and English Lexicon," 8vo, 1823. Dr. Jones was one of the first who taught Greek through the medium of English.—D. W. R.
JONES, John, LL.D., a barrister, was born at Derwydd, Carmarthenshire, in 1772. His parents being poor his education was barely provided for, but he struggled against adverse circumstances, and ultimately reached the dignity of usher in a school at Wimbledon. After saving a little money he went abroad and obtained degrees in two German universities. Returning to England he entered as student of Lincoln's inn, and was called to the bar in 1803, but met with little success in his new profession. In 1801 he published a translation from the Danish of Bugge's Travels in the French Republic; in 1812, "De Libellis Famosis, or the law of libel;" in 1818, "Cyfamod Newydd," the gospels translated into Welsh. He also published a history of Wales.—R. H.
* JONES, Owen, architect and designer, was born about 1809. His father, also named Owen Jones, a native of Wales, but carrying on business as a furrier in London, will be long held in honour by Welshmen and students of Welsh literature; for to him they owe, among other things, the collection and publication for the first time of the chief remains of the ancient literature of Wales, the Myvyrian Archaiology, 3 vols., 1801, &c.; the foundation (1791) of the Gwynnedigion, or meeting of the bards; and in 1791 the more permanently influential Eisteddvodau, or session of the bards, an institution which has done as much for the revival of Welsh poetry and music as the Myvyrian Archaiology has in extending the study of the Welsh language. Owen Jones, the son, was educated as an architect in the office of Mr. Vulliamy, on leaving which he travelled in France and other parts of Europe and in Egypt; but his principal stay was at Granada, where, in conjunction with M. J. Goury, he was for some time occupied in making drawings and admeasurements of the Alhambra. The result of their labours appeared in the first part of "Plans, Elevations, and Details of the Alhambra," fol. 1836-42, a magnificent work, in which all the resources of the then comparatively novel art of chromolithoraphy were called into requisition. For the later portion of the work Mr. Jones made a second journey to Spain. The attention he had given, in the preparation of this work, to decorative design, led to his engaging largely in that branch of art. He made a vast number of designs for various manufacturers, especially in encaustic tiles and pavements, paper-hangings, and stationery, in all of which he did much to raise the character of the manufacture. He also superintended costly interior decorations of several private houses and shops; and he designed and superintended the printing of various "illuminated" books, particularly the Song of Solomon; the Sermon on the Mount, and other
