William Wynn Jones

The Rt. Rev. William Wynn Jones (10 November 1900 – 29 May 1950) was Welsh educator and clergyman in New South Wales, Australia, who served as Anglican Bishop of Central Tanganyika, Africa, from 1948 until his death by a car accident in 1950.

Family William (Bill) Wynn Jones, who was born into an upper middle class family in Swansea, Wales, on 10 November 1900, was the youngest son of the Welsh chartered shipbroker Matthew Tertius Jones (1853 - 1912) who was a partner of the Welsh international chartered shipbrokerage M. Jones and Bro. (1856 - 1942), which had been founded by his grandfather Matthew Jones Junior (b. 1828) and his great-grandfather Matthew Jones Senior (1800 - 1867). Wynn Jones's mother was Margaret Veal Ford (1860 - 1947).

Wynn Jones's five (b. 1891), Rector of St Andrew's Anglican Church, Roseville, Australia, who was taken prisoner, to the P.O.W. Camp Changi, at the fall of Singapore whilst serving as senior chaplain to the Commonwealth armed forces in Malaya; Major Eric Ford Jones (b. 1889) of the Royal Field Artillery; Cyril Jones (b. 1891) who emigrated to Victoria, British Columbia; and Jenny Jones (b. 1901).

Wynn Jones's paternal uncle was polyglot Edwin Price Jones (1855 - 1924), who (after a lauded pupillage at the Royal Masonic School, Wood Green) was Vice-Consul for Chile and President of the Swansea Chamber of Commerce. and the prominent gynaecologist Arthur Webb-Jones.

Father's Suicide Wynn Jones's father Matthew Tertius Jones committed suicide, using 'Prussic acid' (hydrogen cyanide) which he claimed to need to kill a dog, during February 1912. and a staff member of Mvumi Girls School. included the Tanzanian-born conservative Naomi Wilson OAM (b. 1940), who was a National Party of Australia member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1995 to 1998.

Education Wynn Jones was educated at Queen's College, Taunton, England, of which his cousin James William Webb-Jones had been a co-founder, and of which his cousin Ernest William Jones was a member.

Career Wynn Jones in 1921 he joined the staff of Trinity Grammar School as a house and sports master.

He was ordained as a deacon in 1925, and as a priest 1926, and was appointed curate at Holy Trinity, Dulwich Hill, New South Wales, where he was involved in the Boy Scout movement. and was buried in Dar es Salaam ('haven of peace'), Tanzania. He was reinterred by the Anglican Church of Tanzania in the graveyard adjacent to the Anglican Cathedral in Dodoma.