Arthur Webb-Jones

Arthur Webb-Jones FRCS LRCP (1875 - 1917) was an eminent British gynaecologist who served extensively as a surgeon with the British Army in Egypt.

Born in Glamorgan, Arthur was the second son of William Matthew Jones (b.1838), co-owner of a trans-European shipping agents M. Jones and Brothers, and Agnes Ida Long (b.1845). His only sibling was Ernest William Jones (1870 - 1941) the first class cricketer and father of choral conductor James William Webb-Jones.

His cousins included Edwin Price Jones (1855-1924), Vice-Consul for Chile and Secretary to the Chamber of Commerce, and Right Rev. William Wynne Jones (1900-1950), Anglican Bishop of Central Tanganyika in Africa.

Arthur Webb-Jones was educated at Malvern College, St Thomas’s Hospital, and the University of London (LRCP,1899; BS,1911; MD,1913), where the subject of his MD thesis was "Bilharziosis in Women", a subject was able to write authoritatively owing to his wide experience in gynaecological surgery in Alexandria, Egypt. Notable published works include 'Lumbar Hernia' (The Lancet, 1902, ii, 747)) and 'Two Cases of Gynaecomastia' (Ibid, 1904, i, 865). He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England on 31 May 1900.

From 1900-1904 Webb Jones served in the Egyptian Army in the Sudan, and at the end of his period of five years left it to settle in private practice and received the thanks of the Sirdar and Governor-General of the Sudan for his services. He started practice at 8c Rue Stamboul, Alexandria, and was appointed Surgeon and Gynaecologist to the Government Hospital and Medical Officer to the Egyptian State Railway, Alexandria District. During the Gallipoli Campaign, Webb Jones performed yeoman service with the British Army from May 1915 to December 1916.

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