A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Jones, William (a)
JONES. (Lieut., 1809. f-p., 10; h-p., 36.)
William Jones (a), born 21 Aug. 1783, is third son of the Rev. H. Wynne Jones, Prebendary of Penymunidd, Anglesey.
This officer (who had previously been in the Hon.E.I.Co.’s service) entered the Navy, about Oct. 1801, as A.B., on board the Romney 50, commanded in the East Indies by Capt. Sir Home Popham; and on next joining the Sensible 36, armée en flûte, Capt. Robt. Sauce, was cast away on a quicksand off Ceylon, 2 March, 1802. On being taken off the island seven weeks afterwards by the Trincomalee sloop-of-war, he became Midshipman of the Victorious 74, Capt. Pulteney Malcolm, bearing the flag of the late Vice-Admiral Peter Rainier. In Aug. 1803 he removed to the Windsor Castle 98, Capts. Albemarle Bertie, Davidge Gould, Thos. Wells, and Chas. Boyles, with the latter of whom, after enacting a part in the action off Ferrol 22 July, 1805, and witnessing Sir Sam. Hood’s capture of four French frigates near Rochefort 25 Sept. 1806, he proceeded to the Mediterranean, where, having first served in a boat at the destruction of the Turkish squadron off Point Pesquies, he was slightly wounded at the repassage of the Dardanells in March, 1807.[1] Returning to England in April, 1808, for the purpose of passing his examination, he joined, in the ensuing Dec, the Sybille 44, Capt. Clotworthy Upton, stationed off the coast of Ireland. He was confirmed a Lieutenant, 16 May, 1809, in the Espiègle sloop, Capts. Henry Gage Morris and Arthur Atchison; and in the course of the same year he was transferred to the Jalouse sloop, also commanded by Capt. Morris, with whom he was for two years employed, again on the Irish station. His last appointment was to the First-Lieutenancy, 27 Jan. 1813, of the Stork sloop, Capt. Robt. Lisle Coulson. In that vessel he continued for a period of six months. Lieut. Jones was presented with a pecuniary grant from the Patriotic Society in consideration of the wound he received at the Dardanells.
He married, 3 Nov. 1811, Maria Ellen, daughter of Major Geo. Goodman, by whom he has issue a son and nine daughters.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1807, p. 597.