Ernest William Jones
Ernest William Jones (December 1870 – 17 September 1941) was a Welsh trans-European steamship agent, and a first class cricketer. Family. Ernest, who was born in Glamorgan in December 1870, was the son of William Matthew Jones (b. 1838), who was an owner of the trans-European steamship agency M. Jones and Brothers (est. 1856), by Agnes Ida Long (1845 – 1899). Ernest's only sibling was Arthur Webb-Jones (1875 – 1917), who was a prominent British gynaecologist. His cousins included Edwin Price Jones, who was Vice-Consul for Chile and Secretary to the Chamber of Commerce, and  William (Bill) Wynn Jones, who was Anglican Bishop of Central Tanganyika from 1946 until his death by car accident in 1951. Ernest was educated at Wycliffe College, Gloucestershire before he inherited the ownership of the family shipping company M. Jones and Brothers (est. 1856). Cricket. Ernest begun his 45-year cricketing career playing for Swansea, for whom he played from 1887 to 1904. He played Minor Counties cricket for Glamorgan County Cricket Club between 1890 and 1911: he played in every single match during this period, and was a member of the Glamorgan side that won the Minor Counties Championship  in 1900. He played first class cricket for South Wales between 1905 and 1909. He played for the Gentleman of Glamorgan from 1913 onwards. Marriage. In 1901, at Rouen, Haute Normandie, France, Ernest married Aimée Elizabeth Parson (1873 - 1913), who was the French-born daughter of James Holmes Parson, a British merchant banker in Italy. The couple's son was the choral conductor and educator James William Webb-Jones (b. 1904). Ernest, his son James William, and his cousin William (Bill) Wynn Jones, were all members of the Jesters Cricket Club and played together in the 1931 side. Peter Stanley  Lyons, the husband of Ernest’s granddaughter, Bridget, was a member of the Marylebone Cricket Club. Death and Bankruptcy. Ernest died on 17 September 1941, and his trans-European steamship agency, M. Jones and Brothers (est. 1856), was dissolved in 1942. His cousin William (Bill) Wynn Jones, who was Anglican Bishop of Central Tanganyika, died by car accident in 1951.