John Jones (1700–1770)

John Jones (1700–1770) was a Welsh clergyman and controversialist.

He was born at Llanilar, Cardiganshire, the son of John Jones. He was admitted to Worcester College, Oxford, migrated to St Edmund Hall, and graduated B.A. in 1725. From college he went to the curacy of King's Walden in Hertfordshire. In 1726 or thereabouts he became curate at Abbot's Ripton, Huntingdonshire, and began compiling for London booksellers.

About 1741 he moved to the vicarage of Alconbury, near Huntingdon. There he had difficulty in collecting the small tithes, and gave up the vicarage in 1750. At this time his friends included Gilbert West and Philip Doddridge, John Barker and George Lyttelton. In the same year he obtained the rectory of Bolnhurst in Bedfordshire, but complained that it did not suit his health. For a short period after 1755 he was curate for John Berridge, at Everton, Bedfordshire. But they quarrelled.

In 1757 Jones accepted the curacy of Welwyn in Hertfordshire from Edward Young. He remained at Welwyn until 1765, when Young died, and he acted as one of his executors, receiving a legacy of £200.

As a result of appeals to friends for assistance, Jones was in April 1767 inducted into the vicarage of Shephall or Sheephall, Hertfordshire, where he continued until his death on 8 August 1770. He was unmarried.

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