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when he accepted an imitation 6 ) become the minister of the Unitarian congregation at Halifax , in Yorkshire . Here he resided for three years * , Joining to his ministerial labours the instruction of youth , an employment for which he was singularly well qualified by his high classical attainments ; and the peculiar bent of his mind . From Halifax he removed his residence to London , where he continued till the end of his life . .
Not long after his settlement in London , he married the only daughter of his friend and former tutor Dr . Rees . This lady died , without issue , in the year 1815 . In 1817 he married Anna , the only daughter of the late George Dyer , Esq ., of Sawbridgeworth , in the county of Herts , who , with two children , survives him .
After his removal to the Metropolis , Mr . Jones occasionally preached for his brethren , but never had the charge of a congregation . Under some momentary feeling of disgust , never explained to his brethren , he destroyed all his manuscript
sermons , and * from this time , never could be prevailed upon to appear in the pulpit . He still , however , adhered to his profession ; was a member of the Presbyterian body of London Dissenting Ministers , and , for some years , one of the clerical trustees of the estates and
endowments of Dr . Daniel Williams . A few years ago , the University of Aberdeen conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws , and within a year or two of his death , he was elected a member of the Royal Society of Literature .
Dr . Jones maintained a high reputation as a teacher of the classical languages . His instructions were for many years in great request among persons of rank and eminence , and he had to reckon , in the number of his pupils , some individuals of noble birth . He superintended for a considerable time the education of the sons
of the late distinguished lawyer and philanthropist , Sir Samuel Romilly , and to the last he had under his care some young persons of opulent' families . It must be observed here , to the honour of Dr . Jones , that while he was thus courted by the rich and the noble , he was ever ready to afford cncougagement and gratuitous personal assistance and instruction to young men in humble circumstances , whom he found struggling with difficulties in the pursuit of learning .
Dr . Jones has acquired no small degree of celebrity as an author , if not by the uniform success , at least by the number , the originality , and the ability of Ills writings . In the year 1800 , while he
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294 : Obituary . ~ Dr . Johtp Jones .
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dies tiU Unnger compelled him to return . His memory was at this time remarkable for its strength and tenacity . His father finding that it would be vain to attempt to consign him to the drudgery
of the farm , resolved to educate him for the Christian ministry . With this view he procured for him tjie best instruction in the elements of the Latin and Greek languages which he could obtain in the country schools of the neighbourhood . He made the most of these slender
advantages ; and he imbibed , with the knowledge he acquired , an ardent desire to become a proficient in classical learning . About the age of fourteen or fifteen , he was sent to the College Grammar School at Brecon , one of the first
classical seminaries in the Principality , always under the superintendence of a clergyman of the Established Church , and then under the care of the Rev . William Griffiths ; Here he remained three years , whe » the death of his father , in 1783 , obliged lum to return home .
About this period , his neighbour atsd relation Mr . David Jones , afterwards tlie colleague of Dr . Priestley , and known in the controversy with Dr . Horsley as the * ' Welsh Freeholder , ' was a student at the New College , Hackney . Through his re ^ commendation , the managers of that institution admitted him a student on the
foundation . Here he soon acquired the friendship and patronage of the late Dr . Abraham Rees , who then held the office of resident tutor . He remained at Hackney six years , enjoying , among other advantages , the enviable privilege of the classical , instruction of the late Gilbert Wakefield , with whom he was a favourite pupil .
. In the year 1792 , the death of the learned and excellent Mr . Thomas Lloyd having created a vacancy in the office of classical and mathematical tutor in the Welsh academy , then stationed at Swansea , Mr . Jones was appointed by the Presbyterian Board to be his successor . After he had held this office about three years , some unhappy differences arose between him and his colleague , the late Bev . W . Ho well , in which the students
ra » hly embarked as partizans . The Board , finding that there remained no prospect of an amicable adjustment of the disputes , and ' not wishing to side with either party in a matter which was entirely personal , adopted the resolution of dismissing both tutors , and removing the institution to Carmarthen . On quitting Swansea , Mr . Jones settled at Plymouth Dock , as the pastor of the Unitarian congregation in that place . He remained here two years ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1827, page 294, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1795/page/62/
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