# Francis William Doyle Jones

Francis William Doyle Jones, sometimes Francis William Doyle-Jones, (11 November 1873–10 June 1938) was a British sculptor. Although principally a portrait sculptor, Jones is notable for the number of war memorials he created for British towns and cities following both the Boer War and World War I.

## Biography

Jones was born, to Irish parents, in Hartlepool. He was the eldest son of a stonemason and monumental sculptor, Francis Jones (c. 1846–1918), from County Monaghan and for a time worked for his father before studying in Paris. Jones returned to England to study at the National Art Training School in London, where he was taught by Édouard Lantéri. After graduating, Jones established a studio at Chelsea in west London and had his first sculpture shown at the Royal Academy in 1903. Between then and 1936, Jones had about thirty works, including portraits and statuettes, exhibited at the Academy. Throughout the 1910s, he also regularly exhibited with the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers and at the annual exhibition of Works by Artists from the Northern Counties held at the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne.
From 1904 to 1906 Jones created a series of Boer War memorials for British towns. For the memorials at Penrith and Gateshead he created identical memorials featuring a female figure representing Peace crowning the Heroes. Following the end of World War I Jones won several commissions for further public war memorials. He created several designs, including cenotaphs, for these works but in some instances, such as for the memorials at Woking, Gravesend and Brighouse he used a common design with a figure of Victory standing on a globe and holding a wreath of laurel leaves.
Jones had a keen appreciation of Irish culture and, from early in his career, received several public commissions from Irish organisations, most notably for a monumental statue of Saint Patrick at Saul, County Down. From 1923 onwards, he was a regular exhibitor with the Royal Hibernian Academy, RHA, in Dublin. Shown at the RHA in 1923, Jones' bust of Michael Collins was acquired by the National Gallery of Ireland in 1924 while the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin holds a bronze bust of Joseph Devlin by Jones.
Jones was elected an associate member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1923.

## Public works
### 1900–1909

| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Wikidata | Notes |
| More images | Boer War memorial | Albert Park, Middlesbrough | 1905 | Obelisk on pedestal with panels | Peterhead granite | 6.7m tall | Grade II | Q26614806 | |
| | Boer War memorial | Saltwell Park, Gateshead | 1905 | Statue on column | Bronze & granite | | Grade II | Q26540952 | |
| More images | Boer War memorial | Town Hall Gardens, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire | 1905 | Statue on a pedestal and plinth | Bronze & granite | | Grade II | Q29490306 | |
| | Boer War memorial | Ward Jackson Park, Hartlepool | 1905 | Statue on pedestal | Bronze & granite | | Grade II | | The statue was stolen in 1965 and only the pedestal remains in place. |
| More images | Boer War memorial | Castle Park, Penrith, Cumbria | 1906 | Statue on column | Bronze & granite | | Grade II | Q66478786 | |
| | John Mandeville | Newmarket Square, Michelstown, County Down | 1906 | Statue on pedestal | Bronze & granite | | | | |

### 1910–1919

| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Type | Material | Designation | Wikidata | Notes |
| More images | Matthew Webb | Marine Parade, Dover, Kent | 1910 | Bust on pedestal with plaque | Bronze & granite | | Q117405781 | |
| More images | Robert Burns | Galashiels, Scottish Borders | 1912 | Bust on pedestal | Bronze & granite | Category C | Q56633763 | |
| | Chimera with Personifications of Fire and the Sea | 24–28 Lombard Street, London | 1914 | Architectural sculpture | Stone | Grade II | | Architects, Gordon & Gunton |

### 1920–1929

| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Wikidata |
| More images | Bevans Cement Works war memorial | Cement Works, Northfleet, Kent | c. 1920 | Seated sculpture on cube pedestal with plaque | Concrete & bronze | | Grade II | Q26671015 |
| More images | War memorial | The Esplanade, Weymouth, Dorset | 1921 | Cenotaph | Portland stone | 5.3m tall | Grade II | Q26672299 |
| More images | War memorial | Teddington, London | 1921 | Cenotaph | Portland stone | 5.4m tall | Grade II | Q66478655 |
| | Partick & Whiteinch war memorial | Victoria Park, Glasgow | 1922 | Statue on obelisk | Bronze & stone | 8m tall | Category C | Q77782061 |
| More images | War memorial | Windmill Hill Gardens, Gravesend, Kent | 1922 | Statue on column | Bronze & stone | 9.2m tall | Grade II | Q66477666 |
| | War memorial | The Park, Hullen Edge Road, Elland, West Yorkshire | 1922 | Statue on pedestal | Bronze & granite | | Grade II | Q26427083 |
| More images | War memorial | Jubilee Square, Woking, Surrey | 1922 | Statue on column | Bronze & stone | 5.2m tall | Grade II | Q66478558 |
| More images | War memorial | King Edward Square, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham | 1922 | Statue on pedestal | Bronze & stone | 6.4m tall | Grade II | Q26677176 |
| More images | War memorial | Abbey Fields, Kenilworth, Warwickshire | 1922 | Obelisk with relief & plaque | Stone | | Grade II | Q26678076 |
| More images | War memorial | Rydings Park, Brighouse, West Yorkshire | 1922 | Statue on column | Bronze & granite | | Grade II | Q26426829 |
| | War memorial | Station Road, Cockermouth, Cumbria | 1922 | Statue on column | Bronze & granite | | | |
| | Archbishop Thomas Croke | Liberty Square, Thurles, County Tipperary | 1922 | Statue on pedestal with statuettes | Bronze & limestone | | | |
| More images | War memorial | Gillingham, Kent | 1924 | Inscribed column | Stone | | Grade II | Q26677893 |
| | War memorial | St Michael And All Angels Church, Houghton-le-Spring, Sunderland | 1925 | Cenotaph with relief figures | Portland stone | c. 6m tall | Grade II | Q66477939 |
| | Canon P.A Sheehan | Doneraile, County Cork | 1925 | Statue on pedestal | Bronze & stone | | | |
| | Cardinal Patrick O'Donnell | Cathedral of St Eunan and St Columba, Letterkenny | 1929 | Statue on pedestal | | | | |
| More images | War memorial | Waterloo, Merseyside | c. 1920s | Statue on pedestal | Bronze & sandstone | | Grade II | Q26548994 |
| | War memorial | Jarrow, South Tyneside | c. 1920s | Statue on column | Bronze & stone | | | |

### 1930 and later

| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Type | Material | Dimensions | Wikidata | Notes |
| More images | Edgar Wallace | 107 Fleet Street, Ludgate Circus, London | 1934 | Plaque | Bronze | | | |
| More images | T. P. O'Connor | Chronicle House, Fleet Street, London | 1935–1936 | Bust and plaque | Bronze | | | |
| More images | Saint Patrick | Saul, County Down | 1938 | Statue on pedestal | Granite | 11m tall | | |
| More images | George V | Howard Davis Park, Jersey | 1939 | Statue on pedestal | Bronze & granite | | Q99528341 | Completed by William Reid Dick following death of Jones in 1938. |

### Other works

* At the Royal Academy in 1909, Jones exhibited the silver relief sculpture White Horses, which was inspired by a Rudyard Kipling poem and was designed for Harley Hall near Northallerton.
* The offering of youth on the altar of patriotism, a relief shown at the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1925.