Herbert Jones
British suffragen bishop of Lewes and archdeacon of Chichester
About Herbert Jones
Lived 1861 – 1920 (aged 58–59). Herbert Jones was an anglican priest.
Herbert Edward Jones (6 April 1861 – 20 February 1920) was an English clergyman, the second Suffragan Bishop of Lewes and Archdeacon of Chichester.
Biography The second son of Sir Willoughby Jones, 3rd Baronet, he was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, ordained in 1884 and began his career with a curacy at St Andrews, Westminster. He was then successively the incumbent at Knebworth, Petworth and Hitchin before ascending being appointed Archdeacon of Chichester and ordinated as Suffragan Bishop of Lewes in 1914, posts he held until his death, after a long illness, at Hove on 20 February 1920.
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British suffragen bishop of Lewes and archdeacon of Chichester (1861–1920)
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Herbert Jones was born in 1861.
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Herbert Jones died in 1920.
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Herbert Jones was an anglican priest.
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