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Rh , in 1817, Miss Salton, daughter of Gilbert Salton, Esq., Collector of Customs at Bermuda.

 JONES. 

, born 30 Dec. 1800, is fifth son of the late John Jones, Esq., of Woolley, near Bradford, Wilts; and nephew of the late Colonel Leslie Grove Jones, of the Grenadier Guards.

This officer entered the Navy, 7 July, 1813, as a Volunteer, on board the 32, Capt. Geo. Bell, employed in the blockade of Cherbourg; and after conveying the 27th Regt. to Quebec in the 74, Capt. Lord Jas. O’Bryen, joined the 80, Capt. Wm. Chas. Fahie, on the Mediterranean station, where he assisted, as Midshipman, at the reduction of the strong fortress of Gaeta in 1815. He served during the next three years on the coast of Africa in the 20-gun ships and, Capts. Wm. Fisher and Geo. Wickens Willes; on accompanying the latter of whom into the 26, commanded afterwards by Capt. Peter Fisher, he was employed for a similar period in the suppression of smuggling in the North Sea and Channel, and was for upwards of two whole months engaged in cruizing in an open boat. In Jan. 1823, having passed his examination in Feb. 1820, he rejoined Capt. Willes, as Mate, in the 26, and sailed with him for the South American station, whence he returned to the coast of Africa, and was there made Lieutenant, 12 May, 1827, into the  42, Commodore Chas. Bullen. After four years of half-pay, Mr. Jones was next, on 15 Aug. 1831, appointed to the 50, Capts. Geo. Rennie and Jas. Polkinghorne, under whom he again served on the African coast until the close of 1834. His last appointment was, 19 May, 1835, to the steamer, Capt. Edw. Belcher, in which vessel he was for about seven months occupied in surveying the Irish Channel. His health (impaired by his long servitude, of nine years, on the African station, where he passed a great part of the period on board slave-vessels, and underwent great hardships) has since prevented his seeking active employment.

He married, 26 May, 1840, Mary, second daughter of the late Rev. Rich. Thos. Whalley, Prebendary of Wells, and Rector of Ilchester and Yeovilton, co. Somerset, and niece of the late John Paine Tredway, Esq., M.P. for Wells. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 JONES. 

was born in June, 1792. This officer entered the Navy, 22 Jan. 1806, as Midshipman, on board the frigate, Capt. Hon. Chas. Paget, and on the evening of 8 March following served in the boats, under Lieut. Philip Cosby Handfield, at the cutting-out, beneath an incessant fire from two batteries, of the French frigate-built privateer L’Alcide, pierced for 34 guns, and moored to the beach in the harbour of Muros, in Spain. He next, in the course of 1807, joined the 110, flag-ship of Earl St. Vincent,  74, Capt. Pulteney Malcolm, and  40, commanded by his former Captain, Paget, under whom he accompanied the expedition against Copenhagen. In Aug. 1808, after he had been attached for a few months to the 74, flagship of Hon. Robt. Stopford, and 74, Capts. Paget and Thos. Harvey, he was further received by Capt. Paget on board the, another third-rate, and was thus afforded an opportunity of sharing in the prominent part borne by that ship on the occasion of Lord Cochrane’s celebrated attack on the enemy as they lay at anchor in Basque Roads in April, 1809. He continued to serve in the Revenge under the flag of Rear-Admiral Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge, latterly at the defence of Cadiz, until April, 1812, from which period until the following Oct. he acted as Lieutenant of the. 64, Capt. John Ferris Devonshire. In March, 1813, we find him resuming the duties of Midshipman on board the 74, Capt. Sir Christ. Cole, stationed off Rochefort, and in about 12 months after that period transferred to the 74, bearing the flag in the West Indies of Rear-Admiral Philip Chas. Durham, who, on 19 July, 1814, caused him to be again invested with the rank of Acting-Lieutenant – an appointment which the Admiralty sanctioned by a commission dated on 26 Sept. in the same year. His succeeding appointments were – for a few months in 1815, to the sloop, Capt. Fras. Chas. Annesley, in which vessel he returned to England and was paid off – 13 Nov. 1821, to the 26, Capt. Wm. Shepheard, on the Irish station – 11 March, 1823, to the 74, Capt. Adam Mackenzie, with whom he served in the West Indies, and off Bermuda and Lisbon, until the close of 1825 – and, in 1826, to the command, we believe, of the  steamer, which he retained until 1844.

Lieut. Jones, who is at present Commissioner of Pilotage at Holyhead, married, 13 Oct. 1837, Margaret, daughter of Norris M. Goddard, Esq., formerly Agent for conducting the Packet Service at that place. By that lady he has issue three children.

 JONES. 

entered the Navy, 24 March, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 98, Capts. Theobald Jones, Manley Dixon, and Fras. Pender, employed at first in the Channel and afterwards in the Mediterranean under the flags of Rear-Admirals John Knight and Sir Rich. Bickerton. On his return with Capt. Pender to England in Jan. 1806, as Midshipman of the 100, he joined the  74, Capt. Philip Chas. Durham, with whom he continued to serve for upwards of four years off Rochefort and again in the Mediterranean, where, in Oct. 1809, he joined in the pursuit which terminated in the self-destruction of the French ships-of-the-line Robuste and Lion. After a further attachment, for very brief periods, to the 74, and  and  64’s, bearing each the flag in the Downs and Baltic of Rear-Admiral Dixon, Mr. Jones was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant by commission dated 23 Nov. 1810. His subsequent appointments were – 14 Dec. 1810, to the sloop, Capt. John Eveleigh, on the Portsmouth and Lisbon stations – 12 March, 1812, to the  74, Capt. John West, employed, we believe, in Basque Roads, where he continued until April, 1813 – 8 March, 1814, to the  sloop, Capt. Abraham Mills Hawkins, which vessel, stationed off Lisbon, he left in April, 1815 – 1 May, 1830, and 26 Nov. 1831, to the  120, and  110, flag-ships at the Nore of Sir Manley Dixon, under whom he served until paid off in April, 1833 – 12 July, 1836, to the Coast Guard – and, 22 May, 1845, again to the  120, Capt. Manley Hall Dixon, lying at Devonport. Since the attainment of his present rank, 9 Nov. 1846, Commander Jones has been on half-pay.

He is married and has issue.

 JONES. 

entered the Navy, 8 May, 1805, as A.B., on board the 64, commanded by the late Sir Josias Rowley, in which ship he served as Master’s Mate in Sir Robt. Calder’s action at the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope, in all the operations in the Rio de la Plata, and at the capture of the town of St. Paul’s in the Ile de Bourbon. In the course of 1810, having followed Capt. Rowley into the 38, he was further present at the conquest of the latter island itself, the recapture of the  38, the taking, after a spirited action of 10 minutes, a loss to the  of 2 men wounded, and to the enemy of 9 killed and 15 wounded, of La Vénus, of 44 guns and 380 men, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Hamelin, and of her prize the  32 and the successful operations against the Isle of France. After his name had been borne for about