James William Webb-Jones

Flight lieutenant James William Webb-Jones (1904–1965) (RAF nickname 'Bub Jones') was a Welsh choral educator, and co-founder of the English Jesters Cricket Club, and officer of the RAF Administrative and Special Duties Branch.

Named after his ancestor James Burton Senior (developer of Regent Street, Regent's Park, and Hyde Park), he led numerous historic musical schools, including St George's School, Windsor Castle, Vanbrugh Castle School, and Wells Cathedral School.

He was the son of the international chartered shipbroker and first-class cricketer Ernest William Jones, and the nephew of the prominent gynaecologist Arthur Webb-Jones, and the brother-in-law of the surgeon Major-General James Fitzgerald Martin.

Family Paternal family James William, who was born on 12 February 1904 of the international chartered shipbroker Ernest William Jones (1870 – 1941), who was the owner of M. Jones and Bro. (1856 - 1942), James William's paternal grandfather was Lieutenant-Colonel William Matthew Jones VD (1838 - 1921). was Vice-Consul for Chile and President of the Swansea Chamber of Commerce; who was Anglican Bishop of Central Tanganyika, through whom James William was a cousin of the National Party conservative Naomi Wilson OAM (b. 1940).

Maternal family James William's mother was Aimée Elizabeth Parson (1873 – 1913), and Montville, Seine-Maritime, and Jessy Burton. (d. 22 April 1941) who 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. who was the daughter of the solicitor William Warwick Burton and the granddaughter of William Ford Burton, James William was a 3rd-great grandson of the eminent London property developer James Burton, and a 2nd-great grandnephew the architect Decimus Burton.

Education James William was educated at Cranleigh School, and where he received distinctions in French, Ancient Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, and was a School Prefect. where he received the Diplôme de Hautes Études of the Jesters Cricket Club, of which his father Ernest, and his cousin William, and his son-in-law Peter, were members.

Career Private tutor to the son of the Dean of Windsor, from 1927 to 1928. of the Administrative and Special Duties Branch and a member of the Royal Air Force Education Service His RAF nickname was 'Bub Jones'. James William also worked as a sidesman at Wells Cathedral, and a member of the Friends of Wells Cathedral, and a member of the Confraternity of St. Andrew.

Personal life Marriage James William married, at the Parish Church, Windsor, on 20 December 1930, Barbara Bindon Moody of Emperor's Gate, South Kensington, (who was the founder and the first Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia). They had only one child, Bridget (b. 5 September 1937), who married the choral musician Peter Stanley Lyons

The godmother of Bridget Webb-Jones was Lady Walford Davies, who was secretary of the Windsor and Eton Choral Society, and the wife of the composer Sir Henry Walford Davies KCVO OBE (who had been Master of the King's Music at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, when James William had been Headmaster of St George's School, Windsor Castle). Lady Walford Davies subsequently married Julian Harold Legge Lambart, who was Vice-Provost of Eton College, for which Witham Hall School is a preparatory school.

Retirement and death James William and his wife, Barbara Bindon, retired to Witham Hall, and died from kidney failure, possibly as a consequence of alcoholism, He is buried at The Church of St. Andrew, Witham on the Hill, where his funeral was held, His wife Barbara Bindon died on 18 October 1974 13= 13. Anna Maria Holmes 14= 14. William Warwick Burton (brother of Henry Marley Burton) 15= 15. Mary Elizabeth Shalless (daughter of shipwright Thomas Shalless) 24= 24. The Rev. James Freakes Parson 28= 28. William Ford Burton (eldest child of James Burton (property developer) and eldest sibling of Decimus Burton) 29= 29. Mary Moore (b. 1784)