William Jones | |
Office: | Member of Parliament for Arfon |
Term Start: | 13 July 1895 |
Term End: | 9 May 1915 |
Predecessor: | William Rathbone |
Successor: | Caradoc Rees |
Party: | Liberal |
Birth Date: | c. March 1860 |
Birth Place: | Penmynydd, Anglesey |
Death Place: | Bangor, Caernarfonshire |
Alma Mater: | Bangor Normal College, University College of Wales |
Office2: | Junior Lord of the Treasury |
Termstart2: | 1911 |
Termend2: | 1915 |
William Jones (1860[1] – 9 May 1915) was a British Liberal Party politician.
Jones was born in Penmynydd in 1860, the son of William, a peasant farmer and Jane. His father died when he was a child, and the family subsequently moved into Llangefni. He was educated first at the British school at Llangefni, later becoming the pupil-teacher there. He continued his education at Bangor Normal College and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth[2] He became a country schoolmaster, before working for the London School Board, and later as a private tutor at Oxford.[3]
Jones entered the House of Commons as Liberal MP for Arfon in the 1895 general election. He was re-elected unopposed in 1900 and in 1906. In parliament he supported the 1908 Women's Enfranchisement Bill.[4] He was re-elected in January and December 1910. In 1911 he was appointed to the Liberal administration of H. H. Asquith as a government whip. He died in office in May 1915.