Admiral Theobald Jones (15 April 1790 – 7 February 1868), also known as Toby Jones, was an Irish officer in the British

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, a

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politician, a noted lichenologist, and a fossil-collector. The

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-born son of a

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clergyman, Jones was descended from a 17th-century Welsh settler in Ireland. Several generations of his family had held public office in the

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, including membership of the pre-union

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. Entering the navy aged 13 during the

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, the teenage Jones survived several naval engagements and the burning of his ship at night when he was 16. After ten years serving under the captaincy of his step-mother's brother,

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, Jones reached the rank of

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by age 25, and

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at 38, but never actually sailed as a captain. Aged 40, Jones entered

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for

, in the interest of the

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. An Orangeman and Ultra Tory of "plain unassuming manners", he sat in the

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at Westminster from 1830 until he stood down from Parliament in 1857. A member of several

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, he occupied his retirement from politics by making the first comprehensive catalogue of Irish

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Early life and family

Jones was the second son of the Reverend James Jones (died 1825), a

clergyman. His mother Lydia was the daughter of Theobald Wolfe of Blackhall, County Kildare. Rev Jones's first appointment was in 1783 as the

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in Killamery. In 1786 he became rector of

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in County Londonderry, where Theobald was born in 1790. He then moved to

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later that year, and then to Urney in County Tyrone. After Lydia's death in 1793, Rev Jones remarried in 1796 to Anne Ryder, the widow of John Ryder (

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) and daughter of Sir John Blackwood, 2nd Bt from

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. Sir John sat in the

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from 1761 to 1799 for

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and Bangor. Between1814 and 1819 Rev Jones became the County Grand Master of the

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in County Londonderry. The family were involved in the defeat of the

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Ancestry

Rev Jones was the younger brother of Theophilus Jones (1760–1835), an admiral in the Royal Navy. Their first-born brother

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(1754–1839) was governor of

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, and an MP for

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in the latter years of the Irish Parliament, and then sat for

at Westminster until 1809. Their father Theophilus Jones (1729–1811) was an MP for Coleraine and Leitrim. The family traced their ancestry to Bryan Jones (died 1681), a Welshman who had been granted lands in Ireland by

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in 1622. Bryan's grandson Theophilus Jones (1666–1742) was a member of the Irish House of Commons from 1692 to 1742, for Sligo Borough and then

Naval career

Jones joined the navy in 1803 as a volunteer

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aboard HMS ''Melpomene'', taking part in the bombardment of French ports. He transferred in 1805 to the 36-gun frigate HMS ''Euryalus'', under Captain

, the brother of his father's second wife Anne. He transferred in 1807 to Blackwood's new command, the

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HMS ''Ajax''. During the Dardanelles Operation, Jones was one of the survivors when ''Ajax'' caught fire at anchor off the Turkish island of

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. The fire started at about 9pm on the evening of 14 February 1807, caused by the carelessness of a drunken crewman, and spread rapidly. Within ten minutes heavy smoke prevented the launching of boats, and soon afterwards flames reached the main deck, forcing abandonment of the ship. The ship's company jumped into the water, and about 250 died. For the remainder of the Dardanelles Operation, Jones served on the 40-gun

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frigate HMS ''Emdymion'' under Captain

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. When he returned to England, he joined fellow Ulsterman Blackwood on his latest command, the newly built 74-gun HMS ''Warspite''. (Blackwood's disciplinarian command of ''Warspite'' was described in the letters of the midshipman James Cheape, who wrote of lashings being ordered almost daily).
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', James Cheape Letters 1808–1818, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, 1992. M-2890.4. accessed 4 July 2014 Promoted to Lieutenant in July 1809, Jones saw further action on ''Warspite'' in July 1810, when they engaged the French fleet off

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. In 1814 he transferred to under Captain William Woolridge, which sailed to the

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. On his return to England in February 1815, he found that he been promoted in July 1814 to the rank of

. In 1819 Jones took command of the 10-gun HMS ''Cherokee'', stationed at

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. After 3 years on ''Cherokee'', his next appointment was in 1827, when he became second captain of the 120-gun

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HMS ''Prince Regent'' under captains Constantine Richard Moorsom and George Poulett. For a time, ''Prince Regent'' was the flagship of Jones's former captain Henry Blackwood, now

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. On 25 August 1828, the 38-year-old Jones was promoted to the rank of captain. He never put to sea again, but was still paid, at a rate reported in 1833 as 10 s/6 d per day. He retired from the navy in 1848, but was promoted to

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in 1855, vice admiral in 1862, and full

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in 1865.

Politics

Background

Jones's native County Londonderry was a largely Protestant area, a legacy of the 17th-century

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. In the early 19th-century its politics were dominated by two powerful land-owning families: the

's Beresford family, and the Marquess of Londonderry's Stewart family (known from 1746 to 1789 by their former title

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). The Ponsonby family retained a dormant interest, but were not actively involved in this era. The Stewart and Beresford families had been intermittent rivals, usually dividing the representation of the county with one seat nominated by each family. William Ponsonby had been elected in 1812 as the last Ponsonby MP for the county, but after his death in 1815 at the

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, the resulting by-election had been won by the Beresford-backed

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, a brother-in-law of

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. When the

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began to organise in the County in 1823, it aroused Protestant fears which Dawson echoed. In 1825 he had presented an anti-Catholic petition to the House of Commons, signed by 1,700 County Londonderry residents. At the 1826 general election he was re-elected as a vigorous opponent of

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, alongside the pro-Catholic Alexander Stewart. In November of that year Dawson presented a further anti-Catholic petition, this time with a claimed 22,000 signatures. However, when the Irish-born

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became

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in 1828, he was alarmed by

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's by-election victory in County Clare, and moved to enact Catholic emancipation. The Londonderry City MP Sir George Hill had warned in 1826 that Dawson would be O'Connell's "chief mark", and the prediction proved accurate. Dawson's extreme anti-Catholic speeches led O'Connell to claim in 1827 that he could "beat Dawson" at the polls. Dawson then changed course, and began to support Wellington's proposals. His volte-face shocked and alarmed his former backers, who feared the loss of Protestant political supremacy on the county. In a tense atmosphere, with petitions gathered by both pro- and anti-Catholic factions, the Beresfords feared losing all control of Londonderry, as O'Connell's intervention had already lost them control of

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in 1826. In August 1829, the Beresfords sought the support of the Prime Minister, who backed Dawson. They then tried negotiation with Dawson, who offered to withdraw from the county in return for a seat in one of the Beresford's

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s, but his offer was refused. Instead, their dilemma was resolved by events. Alexander Stewart retired, and the 3rd Marquess of Londonderry quietly supported the independent Sir Robert Bateson, who was well-placed to take Dawson's support. Dawson withdrew, and Wellington found him a seat in the English treasury borough of

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. The Beresfords had agonised over who they might choose as a candidate, seeking someone popular but wary of increasing the influence of a potential rival. Now with Dawson going and Londonderry accepting one seat, they had a free hand.

In Parliament

The Beresford's choice was their relative Theobald Jones. His grandmother Catherine (died 1763), wife of his paternal grandfather Theophilus Jones (1729–1811), was a Beresford. She was a daughter of the 1st Earl of Tyrone, making the 3rd Marquess of Waterford (1811–1859) Jones's

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. As an orangeman, Jones carried the credentials they sought. At the general election in August 1830, Bateson and Jones were elected unopposed as the

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(MPs) for

. In his election speech, Jones declared his independence from the administration, claiming that he would "never be found servilely walking in the wake of the minister". He announced that he would have voted against the

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, and later that year he was categorised as an

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. He voted against the Reform Bill in March 1831, and was re-elected in May 1831 against a challenge from the reformer Sir John Byng, the Commander-in-Chief, Ireland and owner of the Conolly estate at

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. When the revised

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came before the Commons, Jones voted against it at second reading, but supported its

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. He was re-elected unopposed in

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, and was returned without a contest at four subsequent elections. He was challenged in

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by the

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barrister and land-reformer

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, but held his seat, and stood down from Parliament at the 1857 general election, aged 67.

Lichenology

In May 1842, Jones was elected as a Fellow of the

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. In 1858 the Scottish botanist David Moore, director of Royal Dublin Society's botanic garden, introduced Jones to the Irish botanist Isaac Carroll. Jones and Carroll began a regular correspondence about lichens, which is preserved in the

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. A selection of their letters was published in 1996 by the National Botanic Gardens. In 1859 Jones became an associate member of the Dublin University Zoological and Botanical Association. In about 1860 the Association asked Jones to make a comprehensive collection of Irish

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, 20 of which had not been reported from Ireland before. Some of Jones's work is preserved in London and Helsinki, and he bequeathed a substantial lichen collection to the natural history museum of the

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(RDS), to which he had been elected a life member in 1838. The RDS transferred the ownership of the museum building in

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and its collections to the state in 1877. The Admiral Jones collection was held by the

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until 1970, when the museum transferred its entire botanical collection to the National Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin. Jones's collection is preserved there in the National Herbarium building, still in its original purpose-built cabinets. Jones was also a member of the

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. After his death in London on 7 February 1868, the society commended his large collection of fish

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s from the

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s of Ireland.

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