Jones, John (2)

an English Protestant divine, was born in 1700. He was educated at Worcester College, Oxford, and ordained in 1726. Having become vicar of Aconbury, he resigned in 1751, to take the rectory of Boulne Hurat, Bedfordshire. His death was caused by a fall from his horse; the time of its occurrence is not recorded. He wrote [Anon.] Free and candid Disquisitions relating to the Church of England, etc. (Lond. 1753, 8vo): this work produced a great controversy, lasting several years: — Cursory Animadversions upon "Free and Candid Disquisitions," etc. (Lond. 1753, 8vo): — Catholic Faith and Practice (1765). See Nichols, Literary Anecdotes; London Gentl. Magazine, 81, pt. 1, p. 510 sq.; Allibone, Dict. Engl. and Am. Auth. 2, s.v.