Arthur Duncan-Jones

{{Short description|British Anglican priest (1879–1955)}}

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Arthur Stuart Duncan-Jones (25 April 1879 – 19 January 1955) was an Anglican priest and author in the first half of the 20th century.Who was Who 1897-1990, London, A & C Black, 1991. {{ISBN|0-7136-3457-X}}

Arthur Duncan-Jones was the son of another priest, Duncan Llewellyn Davies Jones, curate of Willoughby, Lincolnshire.Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, Part 2, Issue 3, Cambridge University Press, 1947, p. 593 Educated at Pocklington School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge,{{acad|id=JNS898AS|name=Jones [post Duncan-Jones, A. S.], Arthur Stuart Duncan}} he was ordained in 1912.The Clergy List, London, Kelly’s, 1913 He held the College living at Blofield from 1912 until 1915 when he became Rector of Louth. He held further incumbencies at St Mary's, Primrose Hill, and St Paul's, Knightsbridge, before being elevated to the Deanery at Chichester Cathedral in 1929.Deanery Of Chichester Appointment Of The Rev. A. S. Duncan Jones The TimesFriday, Sep 27, 1929; pg. 14; Issue 45319; col C He held this post until his death on 19 January 1955.Obituary: The Very Rev. A. S. Duncan-Jones Dean Of Chichester The Times Thursday, Jan 20, 1955; pg. 10; Issue 53144; col E

He was father of the philosopher Austin Duncan-Jones{{Cite book|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-56769|isbn = 978-0-19-954089-1|doi = 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U56769|chapter = Duncan-Jones, Austin Ernest, (5 Aug. 1908–2 April 1967), Professor of Philosophy, University of Birmingham, since 1951|title = Who Was Who|year = 2007}}Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers, vol. 1, A-L, ed. Stuart Brown, Hugh Terence Bredin, Thoemmes Continuum, 2005, p. 245 and journalist Vincent Stuart Duncan-Jones, who served as General Secretary of the British Peace Committee (the British section of the World Peace Council) from 1950 to 1954, and went to Vienna in 1954 as part of the Secretariat of the World Peace Council."Intimately Associated for Many Years": George A. K. Bell's and Willem A. Visser't Hooft's Common Life-Work in the Service of the Church Universal- Mirrored in their Correspondence, part two 1950-1958, Gerhard Besier, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015, p. 680{{Cite web|url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C11477314|title = Catalogue description Vincent Stewart (Or Stuart) DUNCAN-JONES: British. A journalist who was the son of A}}