John Jones (1791–1889)National Archives was the second Archdeacon of Liverpool,British History On-line serving from 1855THE NEW ARCHDEACON OF LIVERPOOL. Liverpool Mercury (Liverpool, England), Friday, 14 December 1855; Issue 2760 until 1886.THE ARCHDEACONRY OF LIVERPOOL. Liverpool Mercury (Liverpool, England), Wednesday, 16 December 1885; Issue 11836
Jones was born on 5 October 1791 andD. L. Thomas, ‘Jones, John (1791–1889)’, rev. M. C. Curthoys, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 9 Aug 2015 educated at St John's College, Cambridge.Venn Database He was ordained deacon on 19 February 1815, and priest on 24 December, the same year. After a curacy at St Mary, Leicester he was Vicar of St Andrew, Liverpool until 1880 and then Christ Church, Waterloo until 1889.
He died on 5 December 1889.DEATH OF ARCHDEACON JONES Berrow's Worcester Journal (Worcester, England), Saturday, 7 December 1889; pg. 8; Issue 10234
Among his children were: Rev. W. Henry Jones (c.1820–1903), educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, who served as vicar of Mottram in Longdendale, then as rector of Godington. Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Stowell Jones (1832–1920), who won the VCLiverpool Echo while serving as a 25 years old lieutenant in the 9th Lancers during the Indian Mutiny.
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