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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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ERNEST

CHARLES JONES (1819-1869)  ,
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English Chartist, was born at Berlin on the 25th of
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January 1819, and educated in Germany . His
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father, an officer in the
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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
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Middle Temple . In 1845 he joined the Chartist agitation, quickly becoming its most prominent figure, and vigorously carrying on the party's
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campaign on the platform and in the press . His speeches, in which he openly advocated
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physical force, led to his
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prosecution, and he was sentenced in 1848 to two years' imprisonment for sedition . While in prison he wrote, it is said in his own
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blood on leaves torn from a prayer-
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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
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organ . But he was almost its only public
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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
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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
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barrister and Liberal member of parliament .

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