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JONES, WILLIAM (1726-1800)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 501 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JONES, See also:WILLIAM (1726-1800) , See also:English divine, was See also:born at Lowick, in See also:Northamptonshire on the 3oth of See also:July 1726. He was descended from an old Welsh See also:family and one of his progenitors was See also:Colonel See also:John Jones, See also:brother-in-See also:law of See also:Cromwell. He was educated at See also:Charterhouse School, and at University See also:College, See also:Oxford. There a kindred See also:taste for See also:music, as well as a similarity in regard to other points of See also:character, led to his See also:close intimacy with See also:George See also:Horne (q.v.), afterwards See also:bishop of See also:Norwich, whom he induced to study Hutchinsonian doctrines. After obtaining his See also:bachelor's degree in 1749, Jones held various preferments. In 1777 he obtained the perpetual curacy of Nayland, See also:Suffolk, and on Horne's See also:appointment to Norwich became his See also:chaplain, afterwards See also:writing his See also:life. His vicarage became the centre of a High See also:Church coterie, and Jones himself was a See also:link between the non-jurors and the Oxford See also:movement. He could write intelligibly on abstruse topics. He died on the 6th of See also:January "Soo. In 1756 Jones published his tractate On the See also:Catholic See also:Doctrine of the Trinity, a statement of the doctrine from the Hutchinsonian point of view, with a succinct and able See also:summary of biblical proofs. This was followed in 1762 by an See also:Essay on the First Principles of Natural See also:Philosophy, in which he maintained the theories of See also:Hutchinson in opposition to those of See also:Sir See also:Isaac See also:Newton, and in 1781 he dealt with the same subject in Physiological Disquisitions. Jones was also the originator of the See also:British Critic (May 1793).

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works, with a life by William See also:Stevens, appeared in 18o1, in 12 vols., and were condensed into 6 vols. in 181o. A life of Jones, forming pt. 5 of the See also:Biography of English Divines, was published in 1849.

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