John Jones (archdeacon of Liverpool)
John Jones was the second Archdeacon of Liverpool, serving from 1855 until 1886.
Jones was born on 5 October 1791 and educated at St John's College, Cambridge. He was ordained deacon on 19 February 1815, and priest on 24 December, the same year. After a curacy at St Mary, Leicester he was Vicar of St Andrew, Liverpool until 1880 and then Christ Church, Waterloo until 1889.
He died on 5 December 1889.
Among his children were:
- Rev. W. Henry Jones, educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, who served as vicar of Mottram in Longdendale, then as rector of Godington.
- Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Stowell Jones, who won the VC while serving as a 25 years old lieutenant in the 9th Lancers during the Indian Mutiny.