Robert Jones (died 1715)

Robert Jones (c. 1682 – 19 December 1715) was a Welsh Member of Parliament.

He was a younger son of Oliver Jones (d. 1685) of Fonmon Castle, Glamorgan, Wales, and his wife Mary Button. His grandfather, Col. Philip Jones, had sat in Cromwell's Upper House. Robert was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, matriculating at 15 in 1698. He succeeded his elder brother Philip in 1686.^[1]

In 1703, he married Mary, the daughter of Sir Humphrey Edwin, Mercer, alderman and Lord Mayor of London. They had 2 sons and 4 daughters.^[1]

He was appointed High Sheriff of Glamorgan for 1703–04, replacing his father-in-law Sir Humphrey Edwin. In 1712, when Sir Thomas Mansel was ennobled as Baron Mansel, Jones was returned to Parliament for Glamorganshire in the Mansel interest at a by-election on 13 January. He was a High Tory, while Mansel was a more moderate Court Tory, but Mansel may have felt obliged to make a concession to the local High Tory interests to prevent their attachment to the Duke of Beaufort's interest.^[1] He was again returned for Glamorgan at the 1715 election,^[2] and was noted as a Jacobite, keeping a portrait of the Pretender. However, he did not long survive the Whig reascendancy, dying in December 1715 at the age of 33.^[2]

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