Ernest William Jones

Ernest William Jones (24 October 1870 – 15 September 1941) FICS was a Welsh international chartered shipbroker, and a first class cricketer.

Family

Ernest was born in Glamorgan on 24 October 1870 to an upper middle class family. He was the elder son of Lieutenant-Colonel William Matthew Jones VD (1838 - 1921), His paternal grandfather was the mariner Matthew Jones Senior (1800–1867).

Ernest's only sibling was the prominent gynaecologist Arthur Webb-Jones (1875–1917).

Ernest's cousins were polyglot Edwin Price Jones (1855 - 1924), was Vice-Consul for Chile and President of the Swansea Chamber of Commerce;

Ernest was educated at Wycliffe College, Gloucestershire.

Chartered Shipbroker Ernest inherited ownership of the international chartered shipbrokerage M. Jones and Bro. (1856–1942) and traded with France, Ireland, and Glasgow.

He was a member of the Port Employers' Association,

Ernest during March 1912 gave evidence at the coroner's inquest into the suicide of his cousin and business partner Matthew Tertius Jones

Cricket Ernest had a 45-year cricketing career for Swansea from 1886 and his cousin William (Bill) Wynn Jones, were all members of the Jesters Cricket Club, which was co-founded by James William during 1928. Ernest married Aimée Elizabeth Parson who was a daughter of the solicitor William Warwick Burton.

Ernest and Aimée's only child whose only child Bridget married the choral educator Peter Stanley Lyons in 1957.

Wife's family Ernest's wife Aimée Elizabeth Parson was the granddaughter of the solicitor and engineer George John Parson, of Adelphi Terrace, Strand, and Camden Square, Middlesex, and Haslemere, Surrey, and Anna Maria Holmes.

Ernest's wife's eldest sister Jessie/Jessy Sarah Parson (later Endall) (d. 22 April 1941) had been selected by Crown Princess Sofia of Greece to be from 1898 Lady Superintendent and Matron of the First Military Hospital at Athens, for which she received the Commemorative Medal of the Red Cross from Queen Olga of Greece. Jessie/Jessy Sarah Parson had been previously Lady Superintendent of the English Hospital at the Piraeus during the Greco-Turkish War (1897), and was latterly, as Jessie/Jessy Sarah Endall, Matron of the Children's Hospital at Athens.