30
July 1726 A.D. Birth of
Rev. William Jones—Anglican Clergyman
William Jones (1726 to 1800)
Church of England
Defender of Three in One.
Birth of William Jones. He became an Anglican
clergyman and sought to keep alive high church traditions (formal and ritual
traditions from Roman Catholic days) among Anglicans. In 1756 he published The
Catholic Doctrine of the Trinity, in which he sought to prove from scripture
that belief in the Trinity is not merely tradition but a clear teaching. He
also wrote The Scholar Armed against the Errors of the Time.
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William Jones (30 July 1726 – 6 January 1800), known as William Jones of Nayland, was a British clergyman and author.
William Jones, engraving
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Life
He was born at Lowick, Northamptonshire, but was descended from an old Welsh family. One of his ancestors was Colonel John Jones, brother-in-law of Oliver Cromwell. He was educated at Charterhouse School and University College, Oxford. There a taste for music, as well as a similarity of character, led to his close intimacy with George Horne, later bishop of Norwich, whom he induced to study Hutchinsonian doctrines.
After obtaining his bachelor's degree at University College, Oxford in 1749, Jones held various preferments (Vicar of Bethersden, Kent (1764); Rector of Pluckley, Kent (1765)) . 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.
Works
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 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 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 1801, in 12 vols., and were condensed into 6 vols in 1810. A life of Jones, forming pt. 5 of the Biography of English Divines, was published in 1849.
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