JUNES, JOHN, LL.D., was born in the pariah of Llandingat, in Caermarthenshire, where his father was a respectable farmer. He was educated at a grammar school at Brecon, and afterwards became a student at the Unitarian New College, Hackney, where he was a favourite pupil of Gilbert Wakefield. In 1792 Mr. Jones was appointed classical and mathematical teacher in the Welsh Academy, Swansea, which situation he held about three years, and then settled at Ply mouth Dock as minister of the Unitarian congregation at that place, where Le remained two years. He then became minister of the Uni tarian congregation at Halifax in Yorkshire. In about three years he removed to London, where he resided during the remainder of his life, chiefly occupied as a classical teacher, and preaehlug only occasionally in the place of others : he never took charge of a congre gation. A few years before his death he received the diploma of LL.D. from tha University of Aberdeen. He died January 10, 1827.
Dr. Jones was the author of several works, some of which are religious, chiefly in support or defence of the evidences of Christianity. Of these one of the most important was, ' Illustrations of the Four Gospels, founded on circumstances peculiar to our Lord and the Evangelists; Lond., 1808, 8vo. In 1803 he published a short Latin
Grammar for the use of schools ; in 1804 a Greek Grammer, which has been frequently reprinted, but the year before his death he re modelled it, and changed the title to that of ' Etymologia Cauca.' In 1812 he published a Latin and English Vocabulary, which he republished in 1825 as 'Anthologise Latinte, or a Development of tho Analogies by whleh the Parts of Speech are derived, from each other,' But his chief work, to which ho devoted a great many years of his life, was his Greek and English Lexicon,' which was published in 1823, in 1 vol. 8vo, and again in 1826. Dr. Jones was one of the first to introduce into this country the practice of teaching Greek through the medium of English instead of Latin; and the first Greek and English Lexicon for general use was Dr. Jones's. He afterwards pub lished an abbreviated edition for the use of schools, ' The Tyro'a Greek and English Lexicon.' Tue success of Dr. Jones's Lexicon was very great, aud a Isrge impression was soon disposed of. The work, as might be expected, was not without its faults, and was roughly treated in the second number of the' Westminster Review.'