William West Jones (11 May 1838 – 21 May 1908) was the second

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and first

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."Obituary: William West Jones"
(May 28, 1908) ''

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Biography

Jones was born in

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, the son of Edward Henry Jones, wine merchant of Mark Lane, London, and his wife, Mary Emma Collier. He was educated at Merchant Taylors’ School (1845–1856), and at

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, 30 June 1856; Foundation

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; second class,

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, 1858;

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, 1859–1879; honorary fourth class, literae humaniores and mathematics, and BA, 1860; MA, 1863 rockford'sor 1864

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BD, 1869; DD,

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, 12 May 1874; honorary Fellow, 1893). He was

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, 29 September 1861, and

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on St. Matthew's Day, 21 September 1862, by the

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. Between 1861 and 1864 he served as Assistant Curate of St. Matthew's Church, City Road, in the city and diocese of London. He returned to Oxford in 1864 to take up the appointment of Dean of Arts of St. John's College, and

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of the parish of Summertown. In 1871 he was appointed Diocesan Inspector of Schools and

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of Oxford. He became Vice-President of St. John's College in 1872. He was chosen as second

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and ''ipso facto'' Metropolitan of the

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, and consecrated as such in

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on 17 May 1874 by the

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, assisted by the Bishops of London, Winchester, Oxford, Ely, Edinburgh, and Goulburn, and Bishop Claughton. He arrived in

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aboard the ''Anglian'' on 31 August, and was

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by the

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of Cape Town, the Very Revd. C. W. Barnett Clarke on 26 November 1874. He attended the

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of 1878, 1888, and 1897 and adopted the additional title of Archbishop of Cape Town on 28 July 1897, after the Lambeth Conference had resolved to entitle certain of the Metropolitans of the Anglican communion as Archbishops. He returned to England to attend the

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and Lambeth Conference in 1908, and died in Housel Bay in

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, on 21 May 1908. He was buried in Oxford. Jones was married in St. Peter's Church,

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in London, by the Bishop of Ely, on 16 January 1879, to Emily Frances Allen, the daughter of John Allen, of Oldfield Hall,

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. Mrs. Jones died on 9 November 1930. West Jones “won a great reputation for pastoral gentleness, generosity and kindliness. His simplicity of character, courtesy, business aptitude and commanding presence gained the friendship of all who had dealings with him” (''Dictionary of South African Biography'').

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