JONES
,
JOHN
(
1645
-
1709
),
cleric
;
the son (or grandson) of
Matthew
Jones
of
Pen-tyrch, Glam.
, he was educated at
Jesus College
,
Oxford
, of which he was successively
scholar
and
Fellow
. He took the degrees of
B.A.
(
1666
),
M.A.
(
1670
),
B.C.L.
(
1673
), and
D.C.L.
(
1677
). He was licensed to
practice medicine
in
1678
and did so at
Windsor
. He was admitted licentiate of the
College of Physicians
in
1677
, and appointed
chancellor
of
Llandaff cathedral
in
1691
. He published a
Latin
treatise on fevers in
1683
, and in
1700
a work on
The Mysteries of Opium Revealed
, which is described as ‘
extraordinary and perfectly unintelligible
.’ He
invented a clock
‘
which moved by the air, equally expressed out of bellows of a cylindrical form, falling into folds in its descent, much after the manner of paper lanterns
.’ He was licensed on
29 Aug. 1678
to marry
Mary
Starkey
of
New Windsor
. He d.
22 Aug. 1709
and is buried near the west door of
Llandaff cathedral
.
Bibliography:
-
Hardy
,
Jesus College
, 1899
;
-
Foster
,
Alumni Oxonienses
;
-
Wood
,
Athenae Oxonienses
, 1813–20. Sometimes
cited in the first (1691-2) edn
;
-
Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography
Author:
Thomas Iorwerth Ellis, M.A., (1899-1970), Aberystwyth
