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Dictionary of Indian Biography J to L
Date transcribed | 2011-05-01 | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work. |
| Surname | Jones | | First Name(s) | Richard | | Titles | Rev. | | Year of Birth | 1790 | | Year of Death | 1855 | | Entry | Born 1790 : son of a solicitor at Tunbridge Wells : educated at Caius College, Cambridge : ordained, 1819 : performed ministerial duties for some years in Kent and Sussex : appointed, in 1833, Professor of Political Economy and History at King's College, London, and in 1835 at Haileybury : co-operated in forming the scheme of comparison for the commutation of tithes, and became Tithes Commissioner, and later a Charity Commissioner : published Jones on Rent : died at Haileybury, Jan. 26, 1855. |
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A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each
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