page_title: James William Webb-Jones
section_title: Birth and family
hierarchical_section_title: James William Webb-Jones / Birth and family
caption_attribution_description: English: Worcester College (Oxford University) founded in 1283 as Gloucester College, 1542 as Gloucester Hall, and 1714 as Worcester College. East side of Main Quad.
context_page_description: James William Webb-Jones was a Welsh choral conductor, educator, and cricketer.
context_section_description: James William was born in Cowbridge, Glamorgan, Wales. He was the only child of Ernest William Jones of Glamorgan (1870–1941), a trans-European maritime transport magnate, who was the co-owner of the steamship agents M. Jones and Brothers,
  and who was also a first-class cricketer, and his wife, Aimée Elizabeth Parson (1873–1913), who was the French-born daughter of James Holmes Parson, a British merchant banker in Italy. His parents were married at the British Consulate in Rouen, Haute Normandie, on 10 September 1900. James William's uncles included Arthur Webb-Jones, the eminent British gynaecologist, and Edwin Jones, Vice-Consul for Chile and Secretary to the Chamber of Commerce. James William's second cousin, William Wynne Jones, was Anglican Bishop of Central Tanganyika. Through his mother, Aimée Parson, James William was a descendant of the London property developer James Burton, who was the father of the architect Decimus Burton.
  James William was educated at Cranleigh School, for which he played cricket, and at Worcester College, Oxford, where he was Captain of Cricket. He later attended the University of Grenoble in France, where he received the Diplôme de Hautes Études.
  James William was a member of the original side of the Jesters Cricket Club, which was founded in 1928 by John 'Jock' Forbes Burnet (1910 - 1980) of St. Paul's School, London. James William's father, Ernest; his cousin, William Wynne Jones; and his son-in-law, Peter, were members of the Club. James William played for the Jesters, alongside his father, against the Eton College Servants, in 1931, and, alongside his cousin William, against Chertsey, also in 1931.
caption: Worcester College, Oxford
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