About Melville Jones
Lived 1866 – 1941 (aged 74–75). Melville Jones was a Nigerian anglican priest.
Frank Melville Jones, CBE, was an Anglican Colonial Bishop in the first half of the 20th century.
He was born in 1866, educated at the Nelson College and the University of New Zealand and ordained in 1890. After a curacy at Holy Trinity, Cheltenham he went out to be a CMS Missionary in Onitsha. He was Principal of the CMS Training College at Oyo In 1919 he became the inaugural Bishop of Lagos, a post he held until 1940. He died on 8 January 1941.
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Who was Melville Jones?
Anglicah bishop
When was Melville Jones born?
Melville Jones was born in 1866.
When did Melville Jones die?
Melville Jones died in 1941.
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Melville Jones was an anglican priest.
What nationality was Melville Jones?
Melville Jones was Nigerian.
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