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BIOGRAPHY. ________ •?
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I . J ¦ ¦ ¦ . To the Editor ofthe Monthly Repository *
Londony Nov . 11 , iao £ . SIR , IN the life of Bishop Porteus , inserted in the last ' ttumber of your u Repository , " [ p . 531—538 ] there is mention made of " one Mr . Jones ^ who kep t an academy at Gloucester . ' * It is surprising that no account of the life of this celebrated person has ever been made public , and that ' no one hSs undertaken to establish his merits , though it has became the more needful , on account of the coolness and disrespect with which his name is treated by the prelate above mentioned .
Dr . Kippis , in his life of Bishop Butter , inserted in the third volume of the « c Biographia Bri - tannica , " notices the education of that prelate at Tewkesbury , and observes , The principal tutor of this academy was Mr . Jones , a man of uncommon abi - lities and knowledge , who'had the honour of training up several scholars , who became of great eminence , both in the Established Church and anaong the Dissenters . " Subjoined , to ttiis commendation is the following note : A ?
short account of Mr . Jones may , perhaps , be giveqt under the aril-, cle of Dr . Samuel Chandler /* The account here alluded to it is pro - bable Dr . Kippis never obtained ; for upon turning to the life of Dfr . Chandler , who received the former part of his education in an academy at Bridgewater , we find only the following brief mention of Mr . Jones : But he was soon , removed from thence to
Gloucester , that he might become a pupil to Mr . Samuel Jones , a dissenting minister of great erudition and abilities , who had opened an academy in that city * This academy was soon transferred to Tewkesbury , at which place Mr , Jones presided over it for many yearswith very high and deserved reputation . Such was the attention of that gentleman to the morals of his pupils , and to thHr progress in literature , and such the skill and discernment with which ha directed their studies , that it was a singular advantage to be placed under so able and accomplished a tutor . Among the pupils of Mr . Jones , were Mr . Joseph Butler , afterward * Bishop of ^ Durham ,
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY OF ' Theology and General Literature ,
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No . &LVlII . DECEMBER . fVol . IV .
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SOME ACCOUNT OF MR , SAMUEL JONES .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1809, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1743/page/1/
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