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ERNEST CHARLES JONES (1819-1869)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 498 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES See also: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 of See also:Hanover . In 1838 See also: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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