Author: Jones, Samuel
Biography:
JONES, Samuel (b 1771?: Alumni Dublinensis)
The Rev. Samuel Jones, MA, author of the volume The Progress of Truth, with Other Poems (Sheffield, 1832), did not graduate from an English or Scottish university. He may be the Samuel Jones, son of Samuel Jones, who was born in County Clare, Ireland, and who at age 19 entered Trinity College, Dublin, 16 Jan. 1791 (BA 1796, MA Nov. 1832). CCEd lists several priests named Samuel Jones, none of whom are MA. Probably he was ordained in the Irish established church. When The Progress of Truth was published, he was assistant minister at St George’s, Sheffield. He refers in one of his poems to his “friend,” his curate at Sheffield, the Rev. Joseph Brown. In 1844, he was assistant to the Rev. Dr. James Thomas Holloway at Fitzroy Chapel, London Street, Tottenham Court Road. He dedicated The Progress of Truth to liberal MP Robert Aglionby Slaney. He should not be confused with a much younger man, the Rev. Samuel Jones, curate of Henllan Amgoed parish church (1847 to 1849), who in 1848 married Jane, the second daughter of the Rev. Daniel Jones of Llangendeirne, Carmarthenshire. (CCEd 16 Dec. 2023; Ipswich Journal, 23 Mar. 1833; Small Edition of the Post Office London Directory [1843], 1058; Clergy List [1848], n.p.; Ecclesiastical Gazette, or, Monthly Register 11 [1848], 85; Religious Census of 1851 [1851]; Newsam, 152-53; Catalogue of Graduates [1869], 308; Alumni Dublinenses [2nd edn 1935], 449) JC