Robert Jones (born c.1596-died c.1653
History of Parliament Online article.) was a Welsh landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England, House of Commons between 1625 and 1629. Jones was the son of

Sir William Jones Sir William Jones (28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794) was a British philologist, a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, and a scholar of ancient India. He is particularly known for his proposition of th ...

and his wife Margaret Griffith, daughter of Griffith ap John Griffith of Kevenamulch, Caernarvonshire. His father was a judge and MP. Robert himself studied law as a student at

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in 1617. He married by 1641 Anne West, by whom he had one daughter. In 1625, Jones was elected

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for Carnarvon in place of Edward Littleton, his brother-in-law, who preferred to sit for

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. He again replaced Littleton after the 1626 election.W R Williams ''The Parliamentary History of the Principality of Wales''
/ref> In 1628 he was elected MP for

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and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years. He held the estate of Castell-March. A Royalist on the outbreak of the first Civil War, in 1643 he was

High Sheriff of Caernarvonshire This is a list of Sheriffs of Caernarvonshire (or Carnarvonshire). The Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. Formerly the Sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in a county but over the centuries most of the responsibi ...

and magistrate for the county, and governor of

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from 1643 to 1646. He sought immunity from delinquency proceedings by Parliament by claiming to have been party to the surrender of

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to Roundhead forces. During the Second Civil War, he was detained by Parliament while he was sued by four merchants for goods seized for the Royalist war effort to damages of £1,730. He was last recorded an apparent debt prisoner at the

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in 1653, when he petitioned for relief but he apparently died without the case being resolved.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Robert Year of death missing Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for constituencies in Wales High Sheriffs of Caernarvonshire Welsh landowners English MPs 1625 English MPs 1626 English MPs 1628–1629 Year of birth uncertain Members of Parliament for Caernarfon