Ernest William Jones
Ernest William Jones was a Welsh trans-European chartered shipbroker, and a first class cricketer.
Family
Ernest was born in Glamorgan on 24 October 1870 to an upper middle class family. He was the elder son of Lieutenant-Colonel William Matthew Jones VD, of the 1st Swansea Corps of the 1st Glamorganshire Artillery Volunteers, who was a founder and owner of the trans-European chartered shipbrokerage M. Jones and Brothers. His mother was Agnes Ida Long. His paternal grandfather was the mariner Matthew Jones.Ernest's only sibling was the prominent gynaecologist Arthur Webb-Jones.
Ernest's cousins were Edwin Price Jones, who was Vice-Consul for Chile and Secretary to the Chamber of Commerce; and William (Bill) Wynn Jones, who was Anglican Bishop of Central Tanganyika.
Ernest was educated at Wycliffe College, Gloucestershire. He lived at Mumbles, Glamorgan.
Chartered Shipbroker and Bankruptcy
Ernest inherited ownership of the chartered shipbrokerage M. Jones and Brothers that was based at Swansea Docks. He was Chairman of the Swansea Pilotage Authority from 1930 until his death on 15 September 1941, after which his shipbrokerage, M. Jones and Brothers, was dissolved in 1942.Cricket
Ernest had a 45-year cricketing career playing for Swansea from 1886 to 1904; and for Glamorgan County Cricket Club from 1890 to 1911 ; and for South Wales from 1905 and 1909; and for the Gentleman of Glamorgan from 1913.Ernest, and his son James William, and his cousin William (Bill) Wynn Jones, were all members of the Jesters Cricket Club, which was co-founded by James William, including in its 1931 side.
Marriage and Issue
On 10 September 1900, at All Saints' Church and at the British Consulate at Rouen, Haute Normandie, France, Ernest married Aimée Elizabeth Parson, who was the French-born third daughter of James Holmes Parson, of Montville, Seine-Maritime, by his wife Jessy Burton, who was a daughter of William Warwick Burton.Ernest's wife Aimée Elizabeth Parson was the granddaughter of the solicitor and inventor George John Parson, of Adelphi Terrace, Strand, and Camden Square, Middlesex, and Haslemere, Surrey, and Anna Maria Holmes.
Ernest's wife's sister Jessie/Jessy Sarah Parson had been selected by Crown Princess Sofia of Greece to be from 1898 Lady Superintendent and Matron of the First Military Hospital at Athens, for which she received the Commemorative Medal of the Red Cross from Queen Olga of Greece. Jessie/Jessy Sarah Parson had been previously Lady Superintendent of the English Hospital at the Piraeus during the war between Greece and Turkey of 1897, and was latterly, as Jessie/Jessy Sarah Endall, Matron of the Children's Hospital at Athens.
Ernest and Aimée's only son was the choral educator James William Webb-Jones, whose only child Bridget married the chorister Peter Stanley Lyons in 1957.