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JONES, WILLIAM (1726-1800)

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 501 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: JEE-JUN
JONES, WILLIAM (1726-1800) , English divine, was born at Lowick, in
Northamptonshire
  on the 3oth of July 1726. He was descended from an old Welsh family and one of his progenitors was Colonel John Jones, brother-in-law of Cromwell. He was educated at Charterhouse School, and at University College,
Oxford
 . There a kindred
taste
  for music, as well as a similarity in regard to other points of character, led to his close intimacy with George Horne (q.v.), afterwards bishop of
Norwich
 , whom he induced to study Hutchinsonian doctrines. After obtaining his bachelor's degree in 1749, Jones held various preferments. In 1777 he obtained the perpetual curacy of Nayland, Suffolk, and on Horne's appointment to
Norwich
  became his chaplain, afterwards writing his life. His vicarage became the centre of a High Church coterie, and Jones himself was a link between the non-jurors and the
Oxford
 
movement
 . He could write intelligibly on abstruse topics. He died on the 6th of January "Soo.
In 1756 Jones published his tractate On the Catholic
Doctrine
  of the Trinity, a statement of the
doctrine
  from the Hutchinsonian point of view, with a succinct and able summary of biblical proofs. This was followed in 1762 by an Essay on the First Principles of Natural Philosophy, in which he maintained the theories of
Hutchinson
  in opposition to those of Sir Isaac Newton, and in 1781 he dealt with the same subject in Physiological Disquisitions. Jones was also the originator of the British Critic (May 1793). His collected works, with a life by William Stevens, appeared in 18o1, in 12 vols., and were condensed into 6 vols. in 181o. A life of Jones, forming pt. 5 of the
Biography
  of English Divines, was published in 1849.


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