William Henry Rich Jones

William Henry Jones (1817–1885), William Henry Rich Jones from 1883, was an English Anglican priest, antiquarian and author.

Life The eldest son of William Jones, chief secretary of the Religious Tract Society, he was born in the parish of Christchurch, Blackfriars, London, on 31 August 1817. He was educated at a school in Totteridge, Hertfordshire, at King's College, London, and at Magdalen Hall, Oxford. At Oxford he won the Boden scholarship for Sanskrit in 1837, and graduated B.A. 1840, and M.A. in 1844.

In 1841, Jones became curate of St Andrew, Holborn, and in the following year, rector of St Martin-in-the-Fields; in 1845 he became incumbent of St. James's, Curtain Road, Shoreditch. In 1851 he left London as vicar of Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire, where he rediscovered the Anglo-Saxon church. From 1861 to 1873, he acted as rural dean of Potterne, Wiltshire. In 1872, he was appointed surrogate of the diocese of Salisbury and canon of Salisbury.