About Robert Jones
Lived 1704 – 1774 (aged 69–70). Robert Jones was a politician.
Robert Jones (1704 – 17 February 1774) was a Welsh-born politician.
He was born in Wales and in 1743 had gone into partnership with a merchant in Gibraltar. He was appointed an Elder Brother of Trinity House for life in 1753 and elected a director of the East India Company in 1754 and 1765, serving in both cases for the conventional 3 years.
He was a Member of Parliament for Huntingdon from 15 April 1754 to 1768. At that time he was described as a wine merchant.
In July 1770 Jones bought Babraham in Cambridgeshire and demolished the Elizabethan manor house which had been built in the Italian style by Sir Horatio Pallavicini [Palavicino].
He died in 1774. He had married and had a daughter, but as his daughter had married J. W. Adeane without his approval, he made his grandson Robert Jones Adeane his heir.
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English politician, died 1774
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Robert Jones was born in 1704.
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Robert Jones was a politician.
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