Love Jones-Parry

Lieutenant-General Sir Love Parry Jones-Parry KH (28 November 1781 – 23 January 1853) was a British Army officer, politician and later a High Sheriff. He was the son of Thomas Jones, and after his father acquired an estate at Madryn Castle from his cousin Margaret Parry in 1807 took Parry as an additional surname.

Biography

Love was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, matriculating in 1799, despite having been offered a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge. He became a student at Lincoln's Inn in 1802, was awarded his BA in 1803 and his MA in 1811.

After two years serving as a major with the 90th Regiment of Foot Jones was elected a Member of Parliament for Horsham in 1806. He was re-elected in 1807 but removed on petition, returning to the 90th Regiment of which he became a lieutenant colonel in 1811. He transferred to America as a major with the 103rd Regiment of Foot and served during the War of 1812, including at the Battle of Lundy's Lane with the 1st Militia Brigade as a lieutenant colonel.

Personal life

Llanbedrog, Carnarvonshire. The residence of Lady Jones-Parry

He was married twice, first to Sophia Stevenson in 1806 and secondly to Elizabeth Caldecott on 15 December 1826. From these two marriages he had four daughters and several sons, and Sir Thomas Love Jones-Parry, 1st Baronet. His sisters married to Lt. Col. Robert Browne Macgregor, Lt. Col. Gwyllym Lloyd Wardle (MP), and Major General Clapham of Widcombe Manor.

His brother, Lt. Col. William Parry Yale (born Parry Jones), served in the Peninsular War and received the gold and war medals. His son, Colonel James Corbet Yale was a Commandant during the South African War, and was present at the Relief of Ladysmith, Battle of Spion Kop, Battle of Vaal Kranz, Battle of the Tugela Heights, Battle of Pieter's Hill, and was a commandant in Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire. His grandson was Queen's Counsel David Yale, fellow of Cambridge University.

He received the Distinguished Service Order, and his uncle was Admiral John Parry Jones-Parry, the Commander of HMS Speedwell, a gunvessel, in charge of suppressing the slave trade on the West Coast of Africa, and other vessels. Admiral Jones-Parry served in the Black Sea during the Crimean War and was Lord of the Manor of Thelwall Hall. Aberdunant will be inherited by his grandson, Thomas Edward John Lloyd, who will also inherit the property of his great-grandfather, Vice Admiral Robert Lloyd, which included the Tregayan estate in Anglesey and the Gesail Gyfarch estate in Caernarfonshire. He was also a Royal navy Admiral during the Glorious First of June, the Anglo French War, the Invasion of France (1795), and the Napoleonic Wars against Napoleon Bonaparte, commanding HMS Racoon (1795) and other vessels.