Arthur Webb-Jones

Arthur, who was born in Glamorgan, was the younger son of William Matthew Jones (b. 1838), who was an owner of the trans-European steamship agency M. Jones and Brothers (est. 1856),{{cite web|title=Entry for M. Jones and Brother, Steamship Agents, 1914 Who's Who in Business|url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/1914_Who's_Who_in_Business:_Company_J }}{{London Gazette|issue=27514|page=191|date=9 January 1903}} by Agnes Ida Long (1845 – 1899).1851-1901 inc. Wales Census. Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO) His elder sibling Ernest William Jones (1870 - 1941){{cite web|title=Entry for Ernest Jones: England Players, Cricket Archive.com|url= https://cricketarchive.com/Players/88/88490/88490.html}} was a first-class cricketer{{cite web|title=Entry for Ernest Jones, England Players, Cricket Archive.com|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Players/88/88490/88490.html.|access-date=5 December 2017|archive-date=26 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180626192136/https://cricketarchive.com/Players/88/88490/88490.html|url-status=dead}} who inherited ownership of M. Jones and Brothers (est. 1856) and who was the father of the choral educator James William Webb-Jones.{{cite book|chapter=WEBB-JONES, James William (1904–1965)|title=Who's Who, Oxford Index|date=December 2007 |publisher=Oxford University Press|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U49421 |url= http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U49421?rskey=nXcB43&result=1}}

His cousins included Edwin Price Jones, who was Vice-Consul for Chile,{{London Gazette|issue=28726|page=3991|date=6 June 1913}} and Secretary to the Chamber of Commerce, and William (Bill) Wynn Jones was Anglican Bishop of Central Tanganyika{{cite web |title=Entry for 'WYNN JONES, WILLIAM (BILL) (1900 - 1950)', Australian Dictionary of Evangelical Biography|url=https://sites.google.com/view/australian-dictionary-of-evang/w-z/wynn-jones-william-bill-1900-1950|access-date=25 April 2022 |publisher=Evangelical History Association}} from 1946 until his death by car accident in 1951.{{cite web |title=The Diocese of Central Tanganyika, Mission and History, Historical Background|url=http://www.d-c-t.org/Mission_%26_History.html|access-date=25 April 2022 |publisher=The Diocese of Central Tanganyika}}{{cite book|chapter=JONES, Rt Rev. William Wynn|title=Who's Who, Oxford Index|publisher=Oxford University Press|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U227560/JONES_Rt_Rev._William_Wynn?index=14&results=QuicksearchResults&query=0 }}

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Arthur Webb-Jones was educated at Malvern College (1890 - 1893, School Prefect),{{cite web |title=The Malvernian, July 1917, p.550|url=https://www.malverniansocietyarchives.co.uk/Filename.ashx?systemFileName=Malvernian1917_0363.pdf&origFilename=Malvernian1917_0363.pdf|access-date=25 April 2022 |publisher=Malvern College}} and at St Thomas' Hospital, and at the University of London (LRCP, 1899; BS, 1911; MD, 1913), where the subject of his MD thesis was "Bilharziosis in Women". His notable published works include 'Lumbar Hernia' (The Lancet, 1902, ii, 747)) and 'Two Cases of Gynaecomastia' (Ibid, 1904, i, 865). He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England on 31 May 1900.{{cite book| title=Arthur Webb Jones Obituary in The Lancet, Vol 189 Issue 4896, 30 June 1917, Parliamentary Intelligence pp.1019 – 1021}}{{cite book|title=Arthur Webb Jones Obituary, British Medical Journal, 14 July 1917, p.66}}

Webb-Jones from 1900 to 1904 served in the Egyptian Army in the Sudan, where he subsequently settled and established a private practice at Rue Stamboul, Alexandria, and was appointed Surgeon and Gynaecologist to the Government Hospital and Medical Officer to the Egyptian State Railway, Alexandria District. He received the thanks of the Sirdar and Governor-General of the Sudan for his services. He resided in Egypt from 1913 to 1917.

Webb Jones during the Gallipoli Campaign served as a yeoman with the British Army from May 1915 to December 1916.

When, in spring 1917, there occurred epidemic of typhus in Alexandria, Webb-Jones gave an intravenous injection of saline solution to another practitioner, who was dying from typhus, by which he fatally infected himself, a consequence of which he died eleven days later on 30 April 1917. His death warranted a mention in a special intelligence report to the Houses of Parliament, which was published in The Lancet.

Arthur Webb-Jones married Lillian Bell Long (1875 – 1907) in 1906 and the couple had three children:1891 and 1901 Wales Census: Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO)

1. Francis Arthur John Webb-Jones (later Wakeman-Long) (b. 21 October 1910, Marylebone, London – d. 1986, Dover) who changed his surname to Wakeman-Long for his marriage.{{London Gazette|issue=34127|page=662|date=25 January 1935}} Francis was a barrister who served as Chairman of M. Jones and Brothers (est. 1856) until its dissolution in 1942.{{London Gazette|issue=35525|page=1665|date=14 April 1942}}
2. Marjorie Agnes Webb-Jones (1912 – 2005) Married Lionel C. Lord Sept 1935 at Kensington.
3. Arthur (17 June 1917, Alexandria – 1965) {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|MB|FRCS}}. Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps.{{London Gazette|issue=38768|supp=y|page=5601|date=25 November 1949}} Married Doreen Ariadne Elwood (1921 – 2016).

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