JONES, Robert (?1682-1715), of Fonmon Castle, Glam.

Family and Education

b. ?1682, 2nd s. of Oliver Jones of Fonmon Castle by Mary, da. of Martin Button of Duffryn. educ. Jesus, Oxf. 7 Apr. 1698, aged 15. m. 1703, Mary, da. of Sir Humphrey Edwin of Llanvihangel, Glam. 2s. 4da. suc. e. bro. 1686.

Offices Held

Sheriff, Glam. 1703–4.

Address

Main residence: Fonmon Castle, Glam.

biography text

Robert Jones was the grandson of Col. Philip Jones, M.P., a member of Cromwell’s ‘other House’ and comptroller of his household. His aunt, the widow of his father’s elder brother, Sir John Jones of Fonmon, married the notorious Judge Jeffreys.1G. T. Clark, Limbus Patrum Morganiae et Glamorganiae, 215. A Tory under Queen Anne, Jones was again returned for Glamorgan as a Tory in 1715. He died 19 Dec. 1715.

Author

P.D.G.T.

Volume

Commons 1715-1754

Notes

1. G. T. Clark, Limbus Patrum Morganiae et Glamorganiae, 215.