Jones was ed­u­cat­ed at Charterhouse and Un­i­ver­si­ty Coll­ege, Ox­ford. He be­came Vi­car of Beth­ers­den, Kent (1764); Pluck­ley, Kent; and Pas­ton, North­amp­ton­shire; per­pe­tu­al Cur­ate of Nay­land, Suf­folk (1777); and Rec­tor of Hol­ling­bourne, Kent (1798). He be­came a Fel­low of the Roy­al So­ci­e­ty in 1775. His works in­clude:

• The Ca­tho­lic Doc­trine of the Trin­i­ty, 1756
• Fairchild Dis­cours­es, 1775
• Physiological Dis­qui­si­tions, 1781
• A Treatise on the Art of Mu­sic, 1784
• Ten Church Piec­es for the Or­gan with Four An­thems in Score, 1789

Jones was a de­scend­ant of the Col. J. Jones, who was one of the sig­na­tor­ies to the death war­rant of King Charles I of Eng­land. He used to reg­u­lar­ly ob­serve Jan­u­a­ry 30 as a day of fast­ing and hu­mil­i­a­tion for his an­ces­tor’s sin.

• Frost, p. 678
• Nutter, p. 459

1. St. Ste­phen