A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Jones, Charles Thomas
JONES, Kt. (Captain, 1819. f-p., 23; h-p., 33.)
Sir Charles Thomas Jones, born in 1778, is representative of the Jones’ of Frontraith, co. Montgomery, a family seated there since 1608.
This officer entered the Navy, 2 May, 1791, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Vulcan fire-ship, Capt. Solomon Ferris, lying at Spithead; and in the course of the same year removed, as Fst.-cl. Vol., to the Alcide 74, Capt. Sir Andrew Snape Douglas, stationed in Portsmouth Harbour. During the first five years of the French revolutionary war we find him serving with Lord Hugh Seymour in the Leviathan 74, and Sans Pareil 80; in the former of which ships he witnessed the occupation of Toulon in Aug. 1793, and was wounded in Lord Howe’s action 1 June, 1794; and in the latter participated as Midshipman in the action fought off Ile de Groix 23 June, 1795. He was made Lieutenant, 16 Oct. 1798, into the Fairy 18, Capt. Joshua Sydney Horton, on the coast of Africa; and was afterwards appointed – 26 Aug. 1799, to the Neptune 98, Capt. Jas. Vashon, flag-ship for some time of the late Lord Gambier in the Channel – in 1802, 3, and 5, to the Concorde, Lancaster, and Hindostan, Capts. John Wood, William Fothergill, and Alex. Fraser, all on the East India station – and 16 May, 1807, to the Trent frigate, bearing the flag at Cork of Vice-Admiral Jas. Hawkins Whitshed. In the capacity of Commander, a rank he attained 15 Aug. 1810, Capt. Jones was employed, from 16 June, 1814, until paid off in Dec. 1818, in the Harrier sloop, among the Canary Islands, off the coast of France, and on the Halifax station. He attained Post-rank 12 Aug. 1819, and accepted the Retirement 1 Oct. 1846.
Sir Chas. Thos. Jones, upon whom the honour of Knighthood had been conferred in 1809, married, in 1817, Miss Salton, daughter of Gilbert Salton, Esq., Collector of Customs at Bermuda.