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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Jones, John (1745?-1797)

Date of birth c.1755 in the ODNB.
​JONES, JOHN (1745?–1797), engraver, born about 1745, practised both in mezzotinto and stipple, and produced a large number of plates, chiefly from portraits by Reynolds, Romney, and other contemporary painters; these, with few exceptions, he published himself in Great Portland Street, where he resided from 1783 until his death. He exhibited with the Incorporated Society of Artists from 1775 to 1791. In 1790 he was appointed engraver extraordinary to the Prince of Wales, and he was also principal engraver to the Duke of York. Jones's mezzotints, though somewhat black, are powerful and artistic in treatment; they include portraits of Signora Baccelli and Richard Warren, M.D., after Gainsborough; James Balfour and Fraser Tytler, after Raeburn; John Barker, J. Boswell, G. J. Cholmondeley, C. J. Fox, Lord Hood, Fanny Kemble, William Pitt, and the Hon. Mrs. Tollemache, after Reynolds; Ynyr Burges, Edmund Burke, and the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, after Romney; and W. T. Lewis as the Marquis in the ‘Midnight Hour,’ after Shee; also the Blenheim Theatricals, after J. Roberts, and some fine figure-subjects after G. Carter, W. R. Bigg, Fuseli, and others. Among his stipple plates are Miss Farren and Mr. King as Sir Peter and Lady Teazle, after Downman; Serena, after Romney; Robinetta, Muscipula, the Fortune Teller, and portrait of the Duke of York, after Reynolds. The print of Reynolds's ‘View from Richmond Hill,’ the proofs of which are dated 1796, was published by Jones's widow in 1800. He died in 1797. George Jones, R.A. [q. v.], was his only son.
[Redgrave's Dict. of Artists; J. Chaloner Smith's British Mezzotinto Portraits; Graves's Dict. of Artists, 1760–1880.]
F. M. O'D.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Jones, John (1796-1857)

​JONES, JOHN (Talsarn) (1796–1857), called ‘the people's preacher,’ the eldest of nine children of a small farmer, was born at Tanycastell, Dolyddelen, Carnarvonshire, on 1 March 1796. His father's pedigree is traced to Hedd Molwynog, head of one of the fifteen tribes of Wales, and that of his mother to Einion Efell, lord of Cynllaeth. His father died in John's boyhood. The direction of the small farm thereupon fell upon him, ​but he afterwards worked as a quarryman. He attracted the notice of the Rev. Evan Evans (Glan Geirionydd, 1795–1856), who advised him and lent him books. He began to preach about 1820, but was not ordained till 1829. He made rapid progress as a preacher, and was for many years looked upon as one of the greatest of Welsh preachers. He was also a composer, forty tunes of his being published in a ‘Collection of Congregational Tunes, Psalms, and Hymns,’ bearing the name Jeduthrum (ed. Morris Davies, Bangor). He died on Sunday, 17 Aug. 1857, aged 61, and was buried at Llanllyfni. A volume containing fifty-three of his sermons with a portrait (‘Pregethau y Parch. John Jones’) was published posthumously at Denbigh. A requiem was composed by the Rev. E. Stephen.
[Cofiant y Parch. John Jones, Talsarn (Wrexham), a memoir by the Rev. Owen Thomas, D.D., of Liverpool; Bywgraffiaeth Cerddorion Cymreig, 1890; Foulkes's Geirlyfr Bywgraffiadol.]
R. J. J.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Jones, John (1693-1752)

​JONES, JOHN (1693–1752), editor of Horace, son of William Jones, an apothecary, was born in the Old Jewry, London, on 31 Aug. 1693. He entered Merchant Taylors' School on 12 Sept. 1703, was elected to a scholarship at St. John's College, Oxford, in 1712, and graduated B.A. in 1716, and B.C.L. on 9 April 1720. He became head-master of Oundle school in Northamptonshire in 1718. Dr. Edmund Gibson, bishop of London, is said to have been ‘continually teazed for preferment by his kinsman Jones,’ whom he collated in 1743 to the rectory of Uppingham in Rutland. Jones held the benefice until his death, and was buried at Uppingham on 20 July 1752. An anonymous letter written by Jones, and putting some ‘shrewd questions’ to Dr. Richard Newton, the author of ‘Pluralities Indefensible,’ is published in the third edition of that work, London, 1745, 8vo. Jones also edited the works of Horace, London, 1736, 4to. The edition, a few copies of which were printed on large paper, contains Latin notes and various readings, and is dedicated to the Duke of Rutland.
[Robinson's Reg. of Merchant Taylors' School ii. 11; Nichols's Lit. Anecd. v. 709; communication from the Rev. R. P. Lightfoot, archdeacon of Oakham, Rutland.]
D. Ll. T.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Jones, John (1791-1889)

1904 Errata appended.
​JONES, JOHN (1791–1889), archdeacon of Liverpool, son of Captain Rice Jones (who was of Welsh descent) by Mary his wife, was born 5 Oct. 1791, in the parish of St. George's, Hanover Square, London. He was privately educated, entered St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1811, and graduated B.A. in 1815 and M.A. in 1820. In February 1815 he was ordained to the curacy of St. Mary's, Leicester, but soon afterwards became first incumbent of St. Andrew's Church, Liverpool, which Sir John Gladstone had built. There was, it is said, but one evangelical minister in Liverpool before Jones's arrival (W. E. Gladstone on ‘The Evangelical Movement’ in Gleanings of Past Years, vii. 213–14). His ministry, in spite of opposition, was so successful that the church had to be enlarged. In December 1850 he succeeded, on the death of his second son, C. J. Graham Jones, to the incumbency of Christ Church, Waterloo (in Liverpool), and in 1855 he was appointed to the archdeaconry of Liverpool, in succession to Brooks, the first archdeacon. This post he held until 1887. A serious accident had incapacitated him from preaching since 1883. He died on 5 Dec. 1889, in his ninety-ninth year, being at the time probably the oldest clergyman in the church of England.
Jones married in 1816 Hannah, daughter of John Pares, banker, of Leicester, and of Hopwell Hall, Derbyshire, by whom he had one daughter, who remained with him until his death, and seven sons, of whom five took holy orders.
Jones was the author of the following works: 1. ‘Sermons,’ London, 1829, 8vo. 2. ‘Expository Lectures on the Acts of the Apostles,’ 2 vols. London (Leicester printed), 1841, 12mo. 3. ‘Lectures on the Types of the Old Testament,’ 2 vols. London (Leicester printed), 1845, 12mo. 4. ‘Hints on Preaching,’ London (Leicester printed), 1861, 12mo. 5. ‘The Wedding Gift,’ 12mo, four editions. Many of his sermons preached on national occasions were also separately published; the first was preached just after the battle of Waterloo, on behalf of the widows and orphans.
[Liverpool Daily Post, 6 Dec. 1889; Pall Mall Gazette, 6 Dec. 1889; Guardian, 11 Dec. 1889; Luard's Graduati Cantabr.]
D. Ll. T.
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Jones, John (1788-1858)

​JONES, JOHN (1788–1858), versifier, also known as ‘the Welsh Bard,’ was born in 1788 at Llanasa, Flintshire, where his parents held a small farm. From 1796 to 1803 he was apprenticed to a cotton-spinner at Holywell, Flintshire, where he learnt to read and write. In 1804 he went to sea in a trading vessel sailing from Liverpool to the coast of Guinea, and in 1805 joined an English man-of-war, called The Barbadoes, which cruised in the West Indies. He was subsequently transferred to the Saturn, under Lord Amelius Beauclerk [q. v.], and in 1812 to the Royal George, which cruised in the Mediterranean and elsewhere. At the end of the Napoleonic war he left the service, and was soon engaged once more as an operative spinner at Holywell. In 1820 he removed to a factory belonging to Robert Platt at Stalybridge in Cheshire. He died on 19 June 1858, and his funeral was attended by about eight thousand people; he was buried in the ground attached to the Wesleyan chapel, Grosvenor Square, in Stalybridge, where a plain gravestone was erected, and a memorial tablet placed on the wall of the chapel by public subscription.
While a sailor Jones tried his hand at poetry, and in his old age he addressed his patrons in panegyrics, which he often published and sold as broadsheets. He wrote a poetical version of Æsop's and other fables, and was author of two poems, called ‘The Cotton Mill’ (1821) and ‘The Sovereign’ (1827). A collection of his works, entitled ‘Poems by John Jones,’ 8vo, was published in 1856, under the auspices of William Fairbairn of Manchester.
[Foulkes's Enwogion Cymru, pp. 604–6; Sutton's Lancashire Authors, p. 65; Gent. Mag. August 1858, p. 202.]
D. Ll. T.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Jones, John (1772-1837)

​JONES, JOHN (1772–1837), Welsh historian, was born 17 Aug. 1772, at Derwydd, in the parish of Llandybie, in Carmarthenshire. After obtaining a scanty classical education, he was employed as a schoolmaster near London, and while thus engaged at Wimbledon is said to have had Sir Robert Peel among his pupils. Subsequently he pursued his studies on the continent, and obtained, among other distinctions, the degree of LL.D. at the university of Jena. On his return to England he studied law, and on being called to the bar went the Oxford and South Wales circuits, but obtained little or no practice. He died in straitened circumstances at St. James's Street, Islington, 28 Sept. 1837.
Jones was a good Greek scholar, and was deeply read in the manuscript records of this and other countries, but his strong prejudices often perverted his judgment as an historian, and the influence exerted on him by German rationalism prevented him in his ‘History of Wales’ from understanding the religious revival in Wales in the eighteenth century. He published the following: 1. ‘A Translation from the Danish of Dr. Bugge's Travels in the French Republic,’ London, 1801, 8vo. 2. ‘De Libellis Famosis; or the Law of Libel,’ 1812, 8vo. 3. ‘Y Cyfammod Newydd, yn cynwys cyfieithiad cyffredinol y pedair Efengyl, gwedi ei ddiwygiaid yn ol y Groeg,’ 1812, 12mo, an original translation by Jones of the four gospels, sometimes erroneously attributed to the Rev. John Jones (1766?–1827) [q. v.] 4. ‘History of Wales,’ with a portrait of the author, London, 1824, 8vo. Of this a revised copy was found among his papers after his death. He also left in manuscript a work entitled ‘The Worthies of Wales, or Memoirs of Eminent Ancient Britons and Welshmen, from Cassivelaunus to the present time’ (see Preface to the History of Wales). A letter by him on Madog [q. v.], the alleged Welsh discoverer of America, appeared in the ‘Monthly Magazine’ for 1819. ​
[Gent. Mag. 1837, pt. ii. p. 323; Williams's Eminent Welshmen, p. 559; Jeremy's Presbyterian Fund.]
D. Ll. T.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Jones, John (1767-1821)

​JONES, JOHN (1767–1821), Welsh comic and satirical song-writer, is better known as Siôn Glanygors, from his birthplace, Glan y Gors, near Cerrig y Druidion. He was baptised at Cerrig, 10 Nov. 1767. While still young he settled in London, where, with one interval, he spent the remainder of his days, becoming in later life proprietor of the King's Head Inn, Ludgate Hill. He was an active member of the Gwyneddigion, the well-known literary society of the London Welshmen, which met at his tavern, and he filled the office of vice-president, secretary, and bard at different times, though he could never be induced to accept the presidency. His best-known poems are: ‘Sessiwn yng Nghymru,’ a satire on the system of administering law in Wales in the English language; ‘Dic Shon Dafydd,’ a caricature of a Welshman who affects ignorance of his native tongue (originally published in a collection of poems edited by Robert Davies of Nantglyn, London, 1803, p. 87); and ‘Offeiriad yn Sir Aberteifi,’ in which the typical Welsh clergyman of his time is held up to ridicule for his irregularities. These and other humorous pieces have been published in a collected form in ‘Yr Awen Fywiog,’ Llanrwst, 1858. His sympathy with the French revolution, and his advocacy of republican principles in a tract called ‘Seren tan Gwmmwl,’ Lon​don, 1795, 8vo, necessitated his withdrawal for a time into Wales to avoid arrest. In the first number of the ‘Geirgrawn’ (January 1796) Jones's work and himself were violently attacked by a correspondent signing himself ‘Antagonist’ (supposed to be the Rev. Walter Davies [q. v.], Gwallter Mechain), and Jones ably defended himself in the September number in a letter which was reprinted in ‘Y Geninen’ for October 1883. He subsequently published another work of a like nature, dealing with the rights of man and entitled ‘Toriad y Dydd ( = Break of Day); neu Sylw Byr ar Hen Gyfreithieu ac Arferion Llywodraethol ynghyd a chrybwylliad am Freintiau Dyn,’ London, 1797. He died at the King's Head inn 21 May 1821.
[Rowlands's Llyfryddiaeth y Cymry, pp. 595, 704; Leathart's Origin and Progress of the Gwyneddigion Society, p. 61; Y Cymmrodor, x. 56–8; Seren Gomer, 1821; note from the rector of Cerrig-y-Druidion, and from the Rev. R. Jenkin Jones of Aberdare.]
D. Ll. T.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Johnson, Cuthbert William

​JOHNSON, CUTHBERT WILLIAM (1799–1878), agricultural writer, born at Bromley, Kent, on 21 Sept. 1799, was the eldest surviving son of William Johnson of Liverpool, and of Widmore House, Bromley, Kent. George William Johnson [q. v.] was his brother, and they were for some time employed together in their father's salt-works at Heybridge in Essex. With his brother he was admitted a member of Gray's Inn on 6 Jan. 1832, and called to the bar on 8 June 1836. He had chambers at 14 Gray's Inn Square, went the western circuit, and attended the Winchester and Hampshire sessions. Johnson was widely known as an authority on agricultural matters, and took part in the agitation which led to the passing of the Public Health Acts in 1848, and was for many years chairman of the Croydon local board of health. He was elected F.R.S. on 10 March 1842. He died at his house, Waldronhurst, Croydon, on 8 March 1878.
Apart from the works in which he co-operated with his brother [for which see under Johnson, George William], his most important books, all published in London, were:
* ‘The Use of Crushed Bones as Manure,’ 1836, 8vo; 3rd edit. the same year.
* ‘The Life of Sir Edward Coke,’ 2 vols. 1837, 8vo.
* ‘The Advantages of Railways to Agriculture,’ to which was added ‘Observations on the General Importance of Railways,’ by his brother, George William Johnson, 1837, 8vo; 2nd edit. the same year.
* ‘The Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Checks,’ &c., 2nd edit. 1839, 12mo.
* ‘On Fertilisers,’ 1839, 8vo; 3rd edit. 1851.
* ‘The Farmers' Encyclopædia and Dictionary of Rural Affairs,’ 1842, 8vo; Johnson's best work, highly commended by Donaldson, and edited for American use by Gouverneur Emerson.
* ‘Agricultural Chemistry for Young Farmers,’ 1843, 12mo.
* ‘The Farmer's Medical Dictionary for the Diseases of Animals,’ 1845, 12mo.
* ‘The Acts for Promoting the Public Health,’ 1848–51, 1852, 8vo.
With Edward Cresy he wrote ‘On the Cottages of Agricultural Labourers,’ 1847, 8vo. From 1840 he conducted with W. Shaw ‘The Farmer's Almanac and Calendar;’ from 1843 he was associated with other writers in bringing out ‘The Annual Register of Agricultural Instruction.’ He translated in 1844 Thaër's ‘Principles of Agriculture’ from the German.
[Royal Society's List; Field, 16 March 1878; Surrey Guardian, 16 March 1878; Foster's Reg. of Gray's Inn, p. 444; Donaldson's Agricultural Biog. pp. 127–8 (with list of works published before 1854); Men of the Time, 8th edit.]
W. A. J. A.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Johnson, Edward (fl.1601)

​JOHNSON, EDWARD (fl. 1601), musical composer, of Caius College, Cambridge, was admitted Mus.Bac. 1594. He composed the madrigal, ‘Come, blessed bird,’ in Morley's ‘Triumphs of Oriana,’ 1601, and some psalm-tunes in Este's ‘Whole Book of Psalms,’ 1592. A madrigal, ‘Ah! silly John,’ with its second part, ‘That I love her,’ is in a manuscript collection of madrigals in the Royal College of Music Library. In a manuscript book, British Museum Addit. MS. 30484, is a madrigal, ‘Eliza is ye fayrest quene,’ with a note appended: ‘Mr. E. Johnson, chaplain to Queen Ann Boleyn.’ Apparently Johnson was not a priest, and the memorandum probably refers to Robert Johnson (fl. 1550) [q. v.]
[Grove's Dict. of Music, i. 36; Cooper's Athenæ Cantabr. ii. 304; Sacred Harmonic Society's Cat. of Music, p. 221.]
L. M. M.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Johns, William

​JOHNS, WILLIAM (1771–1845), unitarian minister and author, born in 1771 in the parish of Kilmanllwyd in Pembrokeshire, assisted his father in farm-work until he was sixteen, but acquired a fair knowledge of Latin and began the study of Greek at the village school. At the age of sixteen he placed himself as sub-tutor under Dr. Williams at Oswestry, and a year later was admitted as a student in the dissenting college at Northampton. The liberal opinions of the principal, Mr. Horsey, led Johns, who had been brought up a strict Calvinist, to adopt unitarian views. He left Northampton after the usual term of study to be minister of the presbyterian congregation at Gloucester; removed in the year following to Totnes in Devonshire, where he married; and afterwards became classical tutor in Manchester New College. In 1800 he resigned his appointment, and after spending a few months as master of a small free school at Wrexham, became minister of the presbyterian (unitarian) church at Nantwich in Cheshire, where he also opened a private school, and proved himself a very able teacher. In 1804 he removed his school to Faulkner Street, Manchester, where he conducted it with notable success for nearly thirty years. In the autumn of 1804 John Dalton (1766–1844) [q. v.], then professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Manchester New College, came to live with his family, and remained with them till 1830. Johns was elected a member of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, and for many years was joint secretary with Dalton, and later on was vice-president of the society. The numerous papers he read before the society show wide and accurate knowledge both of literary and scientific subjects. While at Manchester he also preached to the small congregation at Partington in Cheshire, and afterwards accepted the ministry of the congregation of Cross Street (now called Sale), another Cheshire village, five miles from Manchester, which he held till shortly before his death. He died at Eaglesfield House, Higher Broughton, on 27 Nov. 1845. He wrote: 1. ‘Etymological Exercises on the Latin Grammar,’ 1805, 18mo. 2. ‘A Tract addressed to the Spirit of the Age,’ 1812. 3. ‘Remarks on the Use and Origin of Figurative Language’ (from the ‘Memoirs’ of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Soc.), 1812. 4. ‘Four Dialogues … relating chiefly to Mystery and the Trinity, Original Sin,’ &c., 1813, published under the anagrammatic name of ‘William Hison.’ 5. ‘The Importance of the Scriptures,’ &c., 1813, 8vo. 6. ‘Practical Botany,’ 1826, 8vo. 7. ‘The Spirit of the Serampore System,’ 1828, 8vo. 8. ‘An Essay on the Origin of Greek Verbs,’ 1833, 12mo. 9. ‘An Essay on the Interpretation of the Proem to John's Gospel,’ 1836, 8vo. He edited in conjunction with J. R. Beard the ‘Christian Teacher’ from 1832 to 1843, and contributed many papers to the ‘Monthly Repository’ and its successor, the ‘Christian Reformer.’
A. N.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Johnson, Daniel

​JOHNSON, DANIEL (1767–1835), writer on Indian field-sports, was appointed assistant surgeon in the Bengal medical service on 22 Jan. 1789. He was promoted to surgeon on 11 March 1805, and retired from the service in 1809. He settled at Great Torrington, Devonshire, and in 1822 printed, with the aid of a daughter of the local bookseller, ‘not more than eight and a half years old,’ his ‘Sketches of Indian Field-Sports.’ The book was dedicated to the court of directors of the Hon. East India Company. In 1827 he issued a second edition, to which he added a chapter on ‘Hunting the Wild Boar.’ The book is worthless from a modern point of view. In 1823 he published, also at Great Torrington, ‘Observations on Colds, Fevers, and other Disorders,’ a sensible book, accompanied by prescriptions. Johnson died at Torrington on 12 Sept. 1835, aged 68.
[India Office Records; Gent. Mag. 1835, pt. ii. p. 556; Dodwell and Miles's Alphabetical List of Medical Officers of the Hon. East India Company's Service.]
M. G. W.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Johnson, Charles (1791-1880)

​JOHNSON, CHARLES (1791–1880), botanist, was born in London 5 Oct. 1791. He was intended by his father for an assayer, but his bent for natural history proved too strong. He began to lecture on botany in 1819, and thenceforward devoted himself entirely to that science. In 1830 he received the appointment of lecturer on botany in Guy's Hospital upon the founding of its medical school. Here he delivered forty-four courses of lectures, resigning his post in 1873. He was the first to introduce living specimens, which came mostly from his own garden, for demonstration. In 1832 he re-edited Sir James Smith's ‘English Botany.’ He also condensed the text and rearranged the contents of Sowerby's ‘English Botany,’ 2nd edit. in 12 vols. 1832–46. His other publications were: ‘Ferns of Great Britain,’ 1855, ‘British Poisonous Plants,’ 1856, and ‘Grasses of Great Britain,’ 1861. He retained his faculties to the last, and gave a course of botanical lectures in 1878, when aged 87. He died at Camberwell, 21 Sept. 1880.
[Journ. Bot. 1880, xviii. 351.]
B. D. J.