Clement-Jones family
Compiled by Tim Clement-Jones
Contents
Introduction
Welcome to the Clement-Jones (Jones of Llay) Family Website, showing the descent of the family (including the Stewart-Jones’ family) from the marriage of Henry and Magdalen Jones in 1741.
It consists of details of some 12,500 individuals dating from the 16/17th Century and in some cases earlier.
It shows family connections with the poet Margaret Cropper, the founder of Pennsylvania Wiliam Penn, the Killigrew family of playwrights and courtiers, the artists Elizabeth Pulford and Julian Trevelyan, the novellists Mrs Elizabeth Gaskell, Rose Macaulay, William Makepeace Thackeray, EF Benson, Maria Edgworth, EM Forster and Evelyn Waugh; William Wilberforce and Henry Thornton of the Clapham Sect, the crime writer and playwright Edgar Wallace, the diarist William Hickey, the famous headmaster of Rugby School, Dr Thomas Arnold, the Huxley family of scientists and writers, the philosopher Henry Sidgwick, members of the Bloomsbury Group Virginia Woolf, Vannessa and Quentin Bell and Roger Fry, the poet Matthew Arnold, the writer and orator the Rev Sydney Smith, the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, the missionary and African explorer Dr David Livingstone, the celebrated English nurse Florence Nightingale, the prison reformer Elizabeth Fry, the keen anti-slavers James Cropper, Thomas Babington, Zachary Macaulay and Joseph Sturge; the potter Josiah Wedgwood, the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin, the Fabians Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Edward III King of England, Owen Tudor and King Henry VIIth,Thomas Cromwell, Sir Winston Churchill the famous wartime Prime Minister, the nobel prize winners Frederick Sanger, Alan and Dorothy Hodgkin, and William Henry and William Lawrence Bragg, the celebrated historians Thomas Babington Macaulay and GM Trevelyan, Sir Wavell Wakefield, the well known rugby player and later politician, the traveller and writer Gertrude Bell, the famous soldiers the Duke of Marlborough, Earl Kitchener and the Duke of Wellington, John Hampden,”the Patriot”, Oliver Cromwell, HH Asquith the Liberal Prime Minister, the actress Helena Bonham Carter, the well known Architects Alfred Waterhouse and Detmar Jellings Blow, Bruce Lee, the kung-fu film actor, the founders of Jardine Matheson, the Joyce watch and clockmaking family, Griffith family settlors in South Africa and Tasmania and numerous other naval, military, academic, medical, political and clerical figures.
It also shows descent from Trevor, Bridges, Hampden, Montagu (Manchester) Boscawen (Falmouth), Trenanion, Killigrew, Hampden, Philipps, Griffith, (with branches in South Africa and Australia as a result of settlement in the 1820’s) Duff (Fife), Ibbetson, Bridges, Bellers, Paton, Cadell, Backhouse, Wakefield, Winstanley, Wilson, Beakbane and Cropper families and connections inter alia to the Tatton- Brown, Joyce, Kingcome, Gravell, Bosanquet, Fleming, Fry, Goyder, Holland (Knutsford), Hibbert, Gaskell, Babington, Gisborne, Chute, Thorold, Hodgkin, Fletcher, Fox, Delves Broughton, Bagot, Booth, Hobhouse, Holt, Potter,Shebbeare, Kitchener, Fraser (Lovat), Macaulay, Sturge, Gurney, Crewdson, Pease, Braithwaite, Benson, Willink, Joyce, Verney/Calvert, Shore/Nightingale, Huxley, Darwin, Trevelyan, Bonham Carter, Conybeare, Leslie, Lushington, Buxton, Wedgwood, Matheson, Keswick, Ho/Hotung, Gilfillan, Bowker and Philip families.
In his celebrated essay “the Intellectual Aristocracy” marking the retirement in 1955 of the historian GM Trevelyan as Master of Trinity College Cambridge, Noel Annan described how family connections are part of ‘the poetry of history’. ‘They call to mind the generations of men and women, who were born, married and died, and perhaps bequeathed to their descendants some trait of their personality, some tradition of their behaviour’ which ‘persisted in their grandchildren and their grandchildren’s children.’ A great many of those mentioned in his essay are included in this website.
If you have any new details to add to the family records or any photos do please contact us.
It consists of details of some 12,500 individuals dating from the 16/17th Century and in some cases earlier.
It shows family connections with the poet Margaret Cropper, the founder of Pennsylvania Wiliam Penn, the Killigrew family of playwrights and courtiers, the artists Elizabeth Pulford and Julian Trevelyan, the novellists Mrs Elizabeth Gaskell, Rose Macaulay, William Makepeace Thackeray, EF Benson, Maria Edgworth, EM Forster and Evelyn Waugh; William Wilberforce and Henry Thornton of the Clapham Sect, the crime writer and playwright Edgar Wallace, the diarist William Hickey, the famous headmaster of Rugby School, Dr Thomas Arnold, the Huxley family of scientists and writers, the philosopher Henry Sidgwick, members of the Bloomsbury Group Virginia Woolf, Vannessa and Quentin Bell and Roger Fry, the poet Matthew Arnold, the writer and orator the Rev Sydney Smith, the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, the missionary and African explorer Dr David Livingstone, the celebrated English nurse Florence Nightingale, the prison reformer Elizabeth Fry, the keen anti-slavers James Cropper, Thomas Babington, Zachary Macaulay and Joseph Sturge; the potter Josiah Wedgwood, the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin, the Fabians Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Edward III King of England, Owen Tudor and King Henry VIIth,Thomas Cromwell, Sir Winston Churchill the famous wartime Prime Minister, the nobel prize winners Frederick Sanger, Alan and Dorothy Hodgkin, and William Henry and William Lawrence Bragg, the celebrated historians Thomas Babington Macaulay and GM Trevelyan, Sir Wavell Wakefield, the well known rugby player and later politician, the traveller and writer Gertrude Bell, the famous soldiers the Duke of Marlborough, Earl Kitchener and the Duke of Wellington, John Hampden,”the Patriot”, Oliver Cromwell, HH Asquith the Liberal Prime Minister, the actress Helena Bonham Carter, the well known Architects Alfred Waterhouse and Detmar Jellings Blow, Bruce Lee, the kung-fu film actor, the founders of Jardine Matheson, the Joyce watch and clockmaking family, Griffith family settlors in South Africa and Tasmania and numerous other naval, military, academic, medical, political and clerical figures.
It also shows descent from Trevor, Bridges, Hampden, Montagu (Manchester) Boscawen (Falmouth), Trenanion, Killigrew, Hampden, Philipps, Griffith, (with branches in South Africa and Australia as a result of settlement in the 1820’s) Duff (Fife), Ibbetson, Bridges, Bellers, Paton, Cadell, Backhouse, Wakefield, Winstanley, Wilson, Beakbane and Cropper families and connections inter alia to the Tatton- Brown, Joyce, Kingcome, Gravell, Bosanquet, Fleming, Fry, Goyder, Holland (Knutsford), Hibbert, Gaskell, Babington, Gisborne, Chute, Thorold, Hodgkin, Fletcher, Fox, Delves Broughton, Bagot, Booth, Hobhouse, Holt, Potter,Shebbeare, Kitchener, Fraser (Lovat), Macaulay, Sturge, Gurney, Crewdson, Pease, Braithwaite, Benson, Willink, Joyce, Verney/Calvert, Shore/Nightingale, Huxley, Darwin, Trevelyan, Bonham Carter, Conybeare, Leslie, Lushington, Buxton, Wedgwood, Matheson, Keswick, Ho/Hotung, Gilfillan, Bowker and Philip families.
In his celebrated essay “the Intellectual Aristocracy” marking the retirement in 1955 of the historian GM Trevelyan as Master of Trinity College Cambridge, Noel Annan described how family connections are part of ‘the poetry of history’. ‘They call to mind the generations of men and women, who were born, married and died, and perhaps bequeathed to their descendants some trait of their personality, some tradition of their behaviour’ which ‘persisted in their grandchildren and their grandchildren’s children.’ A great many of those mentioned in his essay are included in this website.
If you have any new details to add to the family records or any photos do please contact us.
Contact
020 7622 4205
10 Northbourne RoadLondon SW4 7DJ