of the xmited churches of Pennepek and Southampton. In the same year he, by request, remodelled the draft of the charter of a college in Newport, R. I., which in- stitution aftcrv,-ards became Brown University. In 1770 he resigned the care of the Southampton Church, and devoted himself thereafter to that of Pennepek, after- wards called Lower Dublin. He received the honorary degree of M.A. from tlie College of Rhode Island in 1769, and that of D.D. from the College of Pennsylva- nia in 1788. While attending faithfully to his minis- terial labors, he also devoted much time to teaching, in which he was very successful. He died Feb. 7, 1814. Dr. Jones made several compilations for divers associa- tions in which he fiUed high offices, and published some occasional sermons. — Sprague, Annals, \\, 104 sq.
Jones, Thomas, an English divine, was bom in 1729, and educated at Queen's College, Cambridge. He was chaplain at St. Savior's, Southwark, and is noted for his deep piety and' great exertions in behalf of the con- version of the masses at a time when the English pulpit was in that deep lethargy from which Wesley and his coadjutors first earnestly aroused it. Like the Wesley- ans, he met with much opposition in his noble efforts, and " his sweetness of natural temper," says his biogra- pher, " great as it was, would never have supported him under the numberless insults he met with had it not been strengthened, as well as adorned, by a sublimer influence." His health finally gave way under his ex- traordinary labors, and he died, while yet a young man, in 17G1.— Middleton, Evanc. Biog. iv, o80.
Jones, "William, M.A., E.R.S., of Nayland. as he is generally called, was born at Lowick, in Northamp- tonshire, July 30. 1726. He was educated at the Char- ter House and University College, Oxford. He there became a convert to the philosophy of Hutchinson, and, having induced jMr. Home, afterwards bishop of Nor- wich, to adopt the same system, torrther they became the principal champions of that philosophy. He was admitted to deacon's orders after having received the degree of B.A., in 1749. In 1751 he was ordained priest by the bishop of Lincoln, and on quitting the university became curate of Finedon, and afterwards of Wadsohoe, both in his native county. In 1764 archbishop Seeker presented him to the vicarage of Bethersden, in Kent, and in the next year to the rectorj' of Pluckley, in the same county. In 1776 he took up his residence at Nay- land, in Suffolk, where he held the perpetual curacy ; and soon after he exchanged his living of Pluckley for the rectory of Paston, in Northamptonshire. In 1780 he became fellow of the Royal Society of London. Dur- ing many years he was engaged in the composition of a treatise on philosophy, which was intended to elucidate j his favorite system. In that work he displayed great learning and ingenuity, as well as ardent attachment to the interests of piety and virtue, united with the eccen- tric peculiarities of the Hutchinsonian school. Alarmed at the progress of radical and revolutionary opinions during the French Revolution, he employed his pen in opposition to the advocates of such destructive princi- ples, and his writings were widely circulated by the friends of the British government. He treated with equal success questions of theology, morals, literature, philosophy, and, in addition to all these, showed great talents in musical composition. "He was a man of quick penetration," says bishop Horsley, "of extensive learning, and the soundest piety, and he had the talent of writing upon the deepest subjects for the plainest un- derstanding." In the year 1792 he met with a severe loss in the death of his most intimate friend, bishop Home, to whom he was chaplain. Being now of ad- vanced age, and obliged, by his growing infirmities, to discontinue his practice of taking pupils, that he might not be subjected to inconvenience from the diminutio.n of his income, in the year 1798 the archbishop of Can- terbury presented him to the sinecure rectorj' of Hol- lingbourn in Kent, which, however, he did not live long
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to enjoy, dying Feb. 6, 1800, in consequence of a para- lytic stroke. His most important works are, A full Ansicer to Bp. Claytons Esscii/ on Spirit (1753, 8vo) :— Catholic Doctrine of the Trinity proved from Scripture (1757): — Course of Lectures on the Fiffurative Lan- mage of the Holy Scriptures (1787, Svo) : — Sermons (1790, 2 vols. Svo): — The Scholar armed against the Errors of the Times (2 vols. Svo) ■.—Memoirs of the Life, Studies, and Writings of George Home (1795 and 1799, 8vo). The most complete collection of his works is that in 1-2 vols. Svo (Lond. 1801). The theological and mis- cellaneous works ivere republished separately (London, 1810, 6 vols. Svo). Two posthumous volumes of ser- mons were published for the first time in 1830 (London, Svo). See W. Stevens, Life of W. Jones (1801) , Aikin, Gen. Biography; Hoefer, Nouv. Biogr. Generale, xxvi, 908; Buck; Davenport ; Darluig, C>rfq/)CEc/ia £j6/%. ii, 1G82. (E. dc r.)
Jones, Sir William, an eminent poet, scholar, and l".wycr, Avas born in London Sept. 28, 174G, and was sent to Harrow in 1753, where he soon eclipsed all his fellows, particularly in classical knowledge. In 1764 he was entered at University College, Oxford, where he was enabled to gratify that desire for a knowledge of the Oriental languages which had shown itself during the last two years of his residence at Harrow. In 1765 he left Oxford, to become tutor to the eldest son of earl Spencer, with whom he travelled on the Continent. In 1770 he was admitted to the Inner Temple, and the same year he published, at tlie reipicst of the king of Denmark, a Life of Xadir SIkiIi. translated into French from the Persian; in the following year a Persian Gram- mar, republished some years ago, with corrections and additions, by the late professor Lee; and in 1774 his Commentaries on Asiatic Poetry, republished by Eich- honi at Leipsic in 1776. In 177G he was made a com- missioner of bankrupts. In 1780 he completed a trans- lation of seven Arabic poems, known as tlie Moulldkat ; wrote an essay On the Legal .If ode of Suppressing Riots, and another, entitled Essay on the Law of Bailments, and two or tlircc odes. In Jlarch, 1783, .Tones obtained a jndgcsliip in the Supreme Court of Judicature in Ben- gal, and laniled at Calcutta in September. He at once set about the acquisition and promulgation of the knowl- edge of Oriental languages, literature, and customs. He established the Royal Asiatic Society "for investigating the history, antiquities, arts, sciences, and literature of Asia," of wliich he was the (irst president. To the vol- umes of the Asiatic Researches Sir William contributed largely. Besides these, he wrote and publislud a story in verse, caUed The Enchanted Fruit, or the Hindu 1(7/;'; and a translation of an ancient Indian drama. caik(i Sacontala, or the Fatal Ring. A translation l)v liim of the Ordinances of IMeini (q. v.) appeared in 1794. He was busily enqiloyed on a digest of the Hindu and Mo- liammedan laws, wlien he was attacked with an inflam- m^ation of tlie liver, which terminated fatally April 27, 1794. Sir Wm. .Jones was one of the first linguists and Oriental scliolars that Great Britain has produced, be- ing more or less acipiainted with no less than twentv- ciglit (hfferent languages. His poems are always ele- gant, often animated, and their versification is nielliflu- ous. \\U learning was extensive, liis leij;al knowlc.l.c wa.s i>rolound. an.i he was an enlightened and zealous champion of constitutional principles. He was also an earnest Christian. To devotional e.xercisos he was ha- b.t.mlly attentive. In addition to the above works, Sir \\ ilhnn .bmes published a translation of Is.t?us , and also translations .,f two Mohammedan law tracts On the Law oj InlKriUnwe, and o{ Succession to Property of hrtes-