Willoughby Jones

Sir Willoughby Jones 3rd Baronet (24 November 1820 – 21 August 1884) was a Norfolk landowner and an English Conservative Party politician. He was briefly Member of Parliament (MP) for the Cheltenham constituency.

Jones was the second son of Major-General John Thomas Jones, who had earlier fought in the Peninsula, and his wife Catherine Lawrence. The Jones baronetcy was created in 1831 for his father, who died in 1843. Willoughby Jones inherited the baronetcy from his brother Lawrence, who got murdered in Turkey in 1845.

In July 1847 he won the seat of Cheltenham by a majority of 108; however, he was unseated by petition in May 1848. He lived at Cranmer Hall in Norfolk where in 1860 he had to order the felling of the Bale Oak. He was appointed High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1851.

Jones' daughter Maud was deaf and subject to the interest of Alexander Graham Bell, whose initial research on the telephone was to improve communication with the deaf. The Right Reverend Herbert Edward Jones, second son of the third Baronet, was suffragan Bishop of Lewes.

References

• Alexander Graham Bell The Question of Sign-Language and the utility of signs in the instruction of the deaf (1898)

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Willoughby Jones