ERNEST See also: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)
, See also:English Chartist, was See also:born at See also:Berlin on the 25th of See also:January 1819, and educated in See also:Germany
.
His See also:father, an officer in the See also:British See also:army, was then See also:equerry to the See also:duke of See also:Cumberland--afterwards See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Hanover
.
In 1838 See also:- JONES
- JONES, ALFRED GILPIN (1824-1906)
- JONES, EBENEZER (182o-186o)
- JONES, ERNEST CHARLES (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 came to See also:England, and in 1841 published anonymously The See also:Wood Spirit, a romantic novel
.
This was followed by some songs and poems
.
In 1844 he was called to the See also:bar at the See also:Middle See also:Temple
.
In 1845 he joined the Chartist agitation, quickly becoming its most prominent figure, and vigorously carrying on the party's See also:campaign on the See also:platform and in the See also:press
.
His speeches, in which he openly advocated See also:physical force, led to his See also:prosecution, and he was sentenced in 1848 to two years' imprisonment for See also:sedition
.
While in See also:prison he wrote, it is said in his own See also:blood on leaves torn from a See also:prayer-See also:book, T{ a Revolt of Hindostan, an epic poem
.
On his See also:release he againbecame the See also:leader of what remained of the Chartist party and editor of its See also:organ
.
But he was almost its only public See also:speaker; he was out of sympathy with the other leading Chartists, and soon joined the advanced See also:Radical party
.
Thenceforward he devoted himself to See also:law and literature, See also:writing novels, tales and See also:political songs
.
He made several unsuccessful attempts to enter See also:parliament, and was about to contest See also: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 See also: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 See also:barrister and Liberal member of parliament
.
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