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Author: Jones, Joseph

Biography:

JONES, Joseph (1781-1856: ancestry.co.uk)

A very prolific writer on religious matters, he was born at Long Hope, Gloucestershire, to the Rev. David Jones and his wife Elizabeth. He was baptised on 14 June 1781. He matriculated at Jesus College, Oxford, in 1800 and earned his BA (1803) and MA (1807). Jones was ordained in 1805 and served as curate at Newchurch near Warrington. On 15 Jan. 1817 he married Elizabeth Joanna Cooper in St. Peter's, Derby; Jones is identified in the marriage record as "clergyman of Winwick in Lancaster." They had two sons. Jones was appointed perpetual curate at Repton in 1843; the 1851 Census shows him living at Bower Hill in Repton with Elizabeth and Stephen, one of the sons. He died at home in Bower Hill, Repton, on 23 Oct. 1856. (ancestry.co.uk 20 Apr. 2021, 10 Nov. 2023; Boase; Derbyshire Courier 5 Aug. 1843; Alumni Oxoniensies; CCEd 20 Apr. 2021; Morning Advertiser 3 Nov. 1856) SR

 

Books written (6):

A Lay for My Country. In Three Books.

Oxford/ London: D.A. Talboys/ Hatchard and Son, and Hamilton and Adams, 1733 [1833]

Cottage Poems.

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, F. & G. Rivington, J. Hatchard & Son and G. & W.B. Whittaker ... by J. Brown, Wigan, 1821

The Martyrs: A Poem.

[London]: Longman, 1822

Serious Musings.

London/ Brimingham/ Wigan: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, F. C. and J. Rivington, and G. and W. B. Whittaker/ Beilby and Knotts/ J. Brown, 1822

Moral Hours, a Poem.

London/ Edinburgh/ Birmingham/ Warrington: F. C. and J. Rivington, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, and G. and W. B. Whittaker/ Oliver and Boyd/ Beilby and Knot[t]s/ J. and J. Haddock, 1823

The Closet Lyre.

London/ Warrington: Hatchard and Son, L. B. Seeley and Son, Houlston and Son/ C. Malley, 1832