Sir Willoughby Jones 3rd Baronet (24 November 1820 – 21 August 1884) was a Norfolk landowner and an English

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politician. He was briefly

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(MP) for the Cheltenham constituency. Jones was the second son of Major-General

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, who had earlier fought in the Peninsula, and his wife Catherine Lawrence. He was educated at

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and

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, where he graduated in 1843 with BA. The Jones baronetcy was created in 1831 for his father, who died in 1843. Willoughby Jones inherited the baronetcy from his brother Lawrence, who was murdered in Turkey in 1845. In July 1847 he won the seat of Cheltenham by a majority of 108; however, he was unseated by petition in May 1848. He was a member of the

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from 27 March 1848. He lived at Cranmer Hall near

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in Norfolk where in 1860 he had to order the felling of the

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. He was appointed

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in 1851. On 15 April 1856, he married his cousin Emily Taylor Jones, the daughter of Henry Taylor-Jones (1790–1860), who was his father's half-brother. Their daughter Maud was deaf and subject to the interest of

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, whose initial research on the telephone was to improve communication with the deaf. The Right Reverend Herbert Jones, second son of the third Baronet, was

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. Jones passed the baronetcy to his eldest son when he died on 21 August 1884.

References

*Alexander Graham Bell The Question of Sign-Language and the utility of signs in the instruction of the deaf (1898)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Willoughby, 3rd Baronet 1820 births 1884 deaths People educated at Eton College Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies High Sheriffs of Norfolk UK MPs 1847–1852 Members of the Canterbury Association People from Fakenham Politics of Cheltenham