Arthur Webb-Jones

Arthur Webb-Jones (1875 – 30 April 1917) was a prominent Welsh gynaecologist who served with the British Army in Egypt. He was the father of the distinguished surgeon Arthur Webb-Jones (1917 - 1965) of the same name.

Family Arthur, who was born in Glamorgan to an upper middle class family, was the younger son of Lieutenant-Colonel William Matthew Jones VD (1838 - 1921), of the 1st Swansea Corps of the 1st Glamorganshire Artillery Volunteers, who was a founder and owner of the international chartered shipbrokerage M. Jones and Bro. (1856 - 1942). Arthur's mother was Agnes Ida Long (1845 – 1899).

Arthur's eldest sibling Ernest William Jones (1870 - 1941) inherited the international chartered shipbrokerage M. Jones and Bro. Arthur's nephew through his elder brother Ernest was the choral educator James William Webb-Jones.

Arthur's cousins included polyglot Edwin Price Jones (1855 - 1924), was Vice-Consul for Chile, and President of the Swansea Chamber of Commerce; from 1946 until his death by car accident in 1951.

Career

Arthur Webb-Jones was educated at Malvern College (1890 - 1893, School Prefect), and at St Thomas' Hospital, and at the University of London (LRCP, 1899; B.S., 1911; M.D., 1913), where the subject of his M.D. thesis was Bilharziosis in Women.

His notable published works include Lumbar Hernia (The Lancet, 1902, ii, 747)) and Two Cases of Gynaecomastia (Ibid, 1904, i, 865). He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England on 31 May 1900.

Webb-Jones from 1900 to 1904 served in the British Egyptian Army in the Sudan, where he subsequently settled and established a private practice at Rue Stamboul, Alexandria, and was appointed Surgeon and Gynaecologist to the Government Hospital and Medical Officer to the Egyptian State Railway, Alexandria District. He received the thanks of the Sirdar and Governor-General of the Sudan for his services. He resided in Egypt from 1913 to 1917. in 1906 by whom he had three children:

Francis Arthur John Webb-Jones (later Wakeman-Long) (b. 21 October 1910, Marylebone, London – d. 1986, Dover) who changed his surname to Wakeman-Long for his marriage. Francis was a barrister who served as a Chairman of the family international chartered shipbroker M. Jones and Bro. (1856 - 1942) until its dissolution, as a consequence of the Second World War, in 1942. Marjorie Agnes Webb-Jones (1912 – 2005) Married Lionel C. Lord Sept 1935 at Kensington. Arthur Junior (17 June 1917, Alexandria – 20 January 1965, Hartlepool) . He received the degrees of M.B and B.S. at St Thomas' Hospital during 1940. He served with the Royal Air Force in West Africa during the Second World War, after which he received the F.R.C.S.Ed. and a Fellowship during 1948. He was a Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He worked at Manchester Royal Infirmary and Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, before he moved to Hartlepools and Sedgefield General Hospital during 1950. He was a member of the Hand Club of Great Britain. He was a cricketer who Captained West Hartlepool's senior eleven for three seasons. He married Doreen Ariadne Elwood (1921 – 2016) by whom he had three children.