ERNEST

CHARLES

See also:

• JONES
• JONES, ALFRED GILPIN (1824-1906)
• JONES, EBENEZER (182o-186o)
• ERNEST CHARLES JONES (1819-1869)
• JONES, HENRY (1831-1899)
• JONES, HENRY ARTHUR (1851- )
• JONES, INIGO (1573-1651)
• JONES, JOHN (c. 1800-1882)
• JONES, MICHAEL (d. 1649)
• JONES, OWEN (1741-1814)
• JONES, OWEN (1809-1874)
• JONES, RICHARD (179o-1855)
• JONES, SIR ALFRED LEWIS (1845-1909)
• JONES, SIR WILLIAM (1746-1794)
• JONES, THOMAS RUPERT (1819– )
• JONES, WILLIAM (1726-1800)

JONES (1819-1869)  , English Chartist, was born at Berlin on the 25th of January 1819, and educated in Germany . His father, an officer in the British army, was then equerry to the duke of Cumberland--afterwards king of Hanover . In 1838 Jones came to England, and in 1841 published anonymously The Wood Spirit, a romantic novel . This was followed by some songs and poems . In 1844 he was called to the bar at the Middle Temple . In 1845 he joined the Chartist agitation, quickly becoming its most prominent figure, and vigorously carrying on the party's campaign on the platform and in the press . His speeches, in which he openly advocated physical force, led to his prosecution, and he was sentenced in 1848 to two years' imprisonment for sedition . While in prison he wrote, it is said in his own blood on leaves torn from a prayer-book, T{ a Revolt of Hindostan, an epic poem . On his release he againbecame the leader of what remained of the Chartist party and editor of its organ . But he was almost its only public speaker; he was out of sympathy with the other leading Chartists, and soon joined the advanced Radical party . Thenceforward he devoted himself to law and literature, writing novels, tales and political songs . He made several unsuccessful attempts to enter parliament, and was about to contest Manchester, with the certainty of being returned, when he died there on the 26th of January 1869 .

He is believed to have sacrificed a consider-able

fortune rather than abandon his Chartist principles . His wife was Jane Atherley; and his son, Llewellyn Atherley-Jones, K.C . (b . 1851), became a well-known barrister and Liberal member of parliament .