James William Webb-Jones

Flight lieutenant
James William Webb-Jones
James William Webb-Jones before a portrait of Sir John Vanbrugh
Born(1904-02-12)12 February 1904
Cowbridge, Glamorgan, Wales
Died29 December 1965(1965-12-29) (aged 61)
Witham Hall School, Lincolnshire, England
Resting place
St. Andrew's Church, Witham on the Hill, England
EducationCranleigh School
Alma mater
OccupationsHeadmaster; cricketer
Known for
Spouse(s)Barbara Bindon Moody (whom he married on 20 December 1930 at Windsor, Berkshire), d. of Colonel Richard S. H. Moody
ChildrenBridget Webb-Jones (who married Peter Stanley Lyons on 31 July 1957 at Wells Cathedral)
Parents
Relatives
Military career
Allegiance United Kingdom
Branch
Service years
1942-1945
Rank
Flight lieutenant

Flight lieutenant James William Webb-Jones (1904–1965) (RAF nickname 'Bub Jones') was a Welsh choral educator, and co-founder of the English Jesters Cricket Club, and officer of the RAF Administrative and Special Duties Branch.

Named after his ancestor James Burton Senior (developer of Regent Street, Regent's Park, and Hyde Park), he led numerous historic musical schools, including St George's School, Windsor Castle, Vanbrugh Castle School, and Wells Cathedral School.

He was the son of the international chartered shipbroker and first-class cricketer Ernest William Jones, and the nephew of the prominent gynaecologist Arthur Webb-Jones, and the brother-in-law of the surgeon Major-General James Fitzgerald Martin.

Family

Paternal family

James William, who was born on 12 February 1904[1] in Cowbridge, Glamorgan, Wales,[2] was the only child[3] of the international chartered shipbroker[4][5][6] Ernest William Jones[7][8][9] (1870 – 1941),[10] who was the owner of M. Jones and Bro. (1856 - 1942),[5][6] who was a first class cricketer.[4][10] James William's paternal uncle was the prominent gynaecologist Arthur Webb-Jones.[11] James William's paternal grandfather was Lieutenant-Colonel William Matthew Jones VD[12] (1838 - 1921).[13][14][5]

James William's paternal cousins included the fellow polyglot Edwin Price Jones (1855 - 1924)[12] who (after a lauded pupillage at the Royal Masonic School, Wood Green)[15][16] was Vice-Consul for Chile[17] and President of the Swansea Chamber of Commerce;[12] and William (Bill) Wynn Jones,[18] who was Anglican Bishop of Central Tanganyika,[19][20] through whom James William was a cousin of the National Party conservative Naomi Wilson OAM (b. 1940).[21]

Maternal family

James William's mother was Aimée Elizabeth Parson (1873 – 1913),[7] who was the French-born third daughter of James Holmes Parson of Le Houlme[22] and Montville, Seine-Maritime,[14][23] and Jessy Burton.[24][25]

James William's eldest maternal aunt was Jessie/Jessy Sarah Parson (later Endall)[26][27][28] (d. 22 April 1941)[29] who had been selected by Crown Princess Sofia of Greece to be from 1898[30] Lady Superintendent and Matron[31][32] of the First Military Hospital at Athens,[33] for which she received the Commemorative Medal of the Red Cross from Queen Olga of Greece.[34] Jessie/Jessy Sarah Parson had been previously Lady Superintendent of the English Hospital at the Piraeus during the Greco-Turkish War (1897),[35] and was latterly, as Jessie/Jessy Sarah Endall, Matron of the Children's Hospital at Athens.[28]

Through his maternal grandmother[14] Jessy Burton,[24][25] who was the daughter of the solicitor William Warwick Burton[36][37] and the granddaughter of William Ford Burton,[38] James William was a 3rd-great grandson of the eminent London property developer James Burton, and a 2nd-great grandnephew the architect Decimus Burton.

Barbara Bindon Webb-Jones (née Moody) (farthest left) with Queen Mary (centre) and King George V (second from right)
James William Webb-Jones (farthest right) with Edward VIII (third from left)

Education

James William was educated at Cranleigh School,[39][7][40] for which he played cricket,[41] and where he received distinctions in French, Ancient Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, and was a School Prefect.[1]

He was then educated at Worcester College, Oxford,[7][40] at which he matriculated on 13 October 1923 to read classical moderations and Spanish under Arthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge,[1] and was rusticated for the Michaelmas term of 1925 for lack of academic diligence.[1] He was Captain of Cricket at Worcester College, Oxford.[7][40]

He spent a fourth year at the University of Grenoble[7][40] between August 1926 and July 1927,[1] where he received the Diplôme de Hautes Études[7][40] in June 1927,[1] before he returned to Worcester College, Oxford, to graduate with a BA on 17 December 1927[1] and an MA in 1930.[1]

Co-founder of the Jesters Cricket Club

James William during 1928 was a co-founder, with John 'Jock' Forbes Burnet (1910 - 1980) of St. Paul's School, London,[42] of the Jesters Cricket Club,[43][2] of which his father Ernest,[44] and his cousin William,[45] and his son-in-law Peter,[46] were members.

Career

He was fined during February 1959, at Shepton Mallet Magistrates Court, for driving a car without due care and attention.[53]

Personal life

Marriage

James William married, at the Parish Church, Windsor, on 20 December 1930,[54] Barbara Bindon[55] Moody[40][7] (1903 - 1974),[56] of Emperor's Gate, South Kensington,[9] who was the daughter of Colonel Richard Stanley Hawks Moody CB[43] and the granddaughter of Major-General Richard Clement Moody[57] (who was the founder and the first Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia).[58][59][60] They had only one child, Bridget (b. 5 September 1937),[7][51] who married the choral musician Peter Stanley Lyons[51][40] at Wells Cathedral in 1957.[52][61]

The godmother of Bridget Webb-Jones was Lady Walford Davies,[62] who was secretary of the Windsor and Eton Choral Society,[63] and the wife of the composer Sir Henry Walford Davies KCVO OBE (who had been Master of the King's Music at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, when James William had been Headmaster of St George's School, Windsor Castle). Lady Walford Davies subsequently married Julian Harold Legge Lambart,[64] who was Vice-Provost of Eton College,[63][65] for which Witham Hall School is a preparatory school.[66]

Retirement and death

James William and his wife, Barbara Bindon, retired to Witham Hall,[40] where his son-in-law Peter Stanley Lyons was Headmaster of the School from 1961 to 1989.[62][52][40] James William's hobbies were cricket, fives, fishing,[7] reading,[43] and wine.[40] He kept a wine store in the basement of Vanbrugh Castle,[40][67] and died from kidney failure, possibly as a consequence of alcoholism,[40] during 1965 when he was aged only 61 years.[43] He is buried at The Church of St. Andrew, Witham on the Hill,[40] where his funeral was held,[43] and had a memorial service at Wells Cathedral.[68] His wife Barbara Bindon died on 18 October 1974[56] and was buried next to her husband.[40]

Ancestry

Ancestors of James William Webb-Jones
8. Matthew Jones Senior (1800 – 1867) of Glamorgan
4. Lieutenant-Colonel William Matthew Jones VD
9. Sarah Baugh (1802 - 1876)
2. Ernest William Jones (eldest brother of gynaecologist Arthur Webb-Jones)
5. Agnes Ida Long (1845 - 1899)
1. James William Webb-Jones
24. The Rev. James Freakes Parson
12. George John Parson of Adelphi Terrace (engineer)[69]
6. James Holmes Parson of Le Houlme and Montville, Seine-Maritime
13. Anna Maria Holmes
3. Aimée Elizabeth Parson (sister of Jessie/Jessy Sarah Parson (later Endall))
28. William Ford Burton (eldest child of James Burton (property developer) and eldest sibling of Decimus Burton)
14. William Warwick Burton (brother of Henry Marley Burton)
29. Mary Moore (b. 1784)
7. Jessy Burton
15. Mary Elizabeth Shalless (daughter of shipwright Thomas Shalless)[70]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Files for Webb-Jones, James William, Matriculated 1923, Archives of Worcester College, Oxford.
  2. 1 2 "James William Webb-Jones, Profile, Cricket Archive".
  3. ↑ The Western Mail, 17 September 1941, p. 3
  4. 1 2 "Glamorgan Cricket Archives: Profile for Ernest William Jones". 3 August 2023.
  5. 1 2 3 "Entry for M. Jones and Bro., Steamship Agents, 1914 Who's Who in Business".
  6. 1 2 "No. 27514". The London Gazette. 9 January 1903. p. 191.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 "Entry for WEBB-JONES, James William (1904–1965)". Who's Who, Oxford Index. Oxford University Press.
  8. ↑ The Western Mail, 6 August 1930, p.10
  9. 1 2 "Engagement Announcement of James William Webb-Jones and Barbara Bindon Moody". Engagements. The Times. London. 3 July 1930.
  10. 1 2 "Ernest Jones Profile, England Players, Cricket Archive". Archived from the original on 26 June 2018. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  11. ↑ 1851–1901 inc. Wales Census. Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851–1901 inc. Kew, Surrey, England: Records for Ernest W Jones: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO)
  12. 1 2 3 The Herald of Wales, 20 September 1941, 'Well-Known Docksman and Cricketer', p.3
  13. ↑ The Cambrian, 14 September 1900
  14. 1 2 3 The Western Mail, 13 September 1900, Births, Marriages, and Deaths.
  15. ↑ The Freemasons' Magazine and Masonic Mirror, Vol. 23, June to December 1870, Published for The Freemasons' Magazine Company, Strand, London, 1870, pp. 53-54
  16. ↑ The Freemasons' Magazine and Masonic Mirror, December 1869, pp. 73-74
  17. ↑ "No. 28726". The London Gazette. 6 June 1913. p. 3991.
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  19. ↑ "Entry for 'WYNN JONES, WILLIAM (BILL) (1900 - 1950)', Australian Dictionary of Evangelical Biography". Evangelical History Association. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  20. ↑ "The Diocese of Central Tanganyika, Mission and History, Historical Background". The Diocese of Central Tanganyika. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  21. ↑ "Former Members". Parliament of Queensland. 2015. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  22. ↑ The Warwick and Warwickshire Advertiser, 26 September 1903, p. 8
  23. ↑ Archives of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, 1900, British Consulate, Rouen, Haute Normandie.
  24. 1 2 Entry for Helen Burton Parson (b. 15 February 1885), Archives de Seine-Maritime, Reference Number: EC76452-1885-N-005905-0000000033
  25. 1 2 Entry for Helène Burton Parson (d. 14 November 1909), Archives de Seine-Maritime, Reference Number: EC76217-1909-D-026625-0000000610
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  27. ↑ The Royal College of Nursing, The British Journal of Nursing, 7 May 1921, 'A Nurses' Unit for Greece', p.262
  28. 1 2 The Royal College of Nursing, The British Journal of Nursing, 14 January 1922, 'The Greek Nursing Unit', p.26
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  31. ↑ The Royal College of Nursing, The British Journal of Nursing, 18 February 1922, 'The Greek Nursing Unit', p.104
  32. ↑ The Royal College of Nursing, The British Journal of Nursing, 12 November 1921, 'The Greek Nursing Unit', p.308
  33. ↑ The Royal College of Nursing, The Nursing Record & Hospital World, Volume 21, 3 December 1898, 'The Silver Lining', p.452
  34. ↑ The Royal College of Nursing, The Nursing Record & Hospital World, Volume 22, 22 April 1899, p.314
  35. ↑ The Royal College of Nursing, The Nursing Record & Hospital World, 16 July 1898, Volume 21, 'Nursing Pioneers in Greece', p.49
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  39. ↑ The Wells Journal, 7 January 1966, p. 2
  40. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 "Entry for James William Webb-Jones, Headmasters of Vanbrugh Castle School". Vanbrugh Castle School.
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  43. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Obituary for James William Webb-Jones, The Cheddar Valley Gazette, 07 January 1966, p.2
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  50. ↑ The Stamford Mercury, 7 January 1966, 'Witham Head's Wife Bereaved', p.9
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  52. 1 2 3 "Entry for Lyons, Peter Stanley (1948)". Register of Twentieth Century Johnians, Volume I: 1900-1949. St John's College, Cambridge. 2004. p. 279.
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  54. ↑ The Western Mail & South Wales News, 10 December 1930, p. 10
  55. ↑ "Vanbrugh Castle School, A Boy's History of the School".
  56. 1 2 The Grantham Journal, 28 June 1974, p. 19
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  61. ↑ Lyons, Peter Stanley, The Eagle, St John's College, Cambridge, December 2006
  62. 1 2 Peter and Bridget Lyons and Witham Hall School, Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury, Friday, 8 February 1985
  63. 1 2 Obituary of Julian Harold Legge Lambart, Eton College Chronicle, 28 January 1983, No. 3801
  64. ↑ The Caernarvon and Denbigh Herald and North Wales Observer, 14 May 1948, p. 4
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  68. ↑ The Shepton Mallett Journal 21 January 1966
  69. ↑ The London Gazette, 19 January 1858, p.280
  70. ↑ Record of Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1940, Entry for William Warwick Burton at the Church of St. Giles, Camberwell, 8 October 1839, p. 182

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