Edward David Jones (1856–1920) was a U.S. statistician. A graduate of Worcester Academy in Worcester, MA, he was the co-developer and co-eponym of the Dow-Jones index with Charles Dow and Charles Bergstresser.
General Sir Charles Edward Webb Jones KCB CVO CBE (25 September 1936 - 14 May 2007) was a senior officer in the British Army. He served as Quartermaster-General and as Britain's military representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). He retired from the Army in 1995 to become Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod (or simply Black Rod) in the British Parliament's House of Lords, serving in that office until 2001.
Edward Jones (March 1752 - April 18 1824), was a Welsh harpist, bard, performer, composer, arranger, and collector of music. Joan Rimmer, blank">"Edward Jones's Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, 1784: A Re-Assessment", The Galpin Society Journal, Vol. 39 (September 1986), pp. 77-96 He was commonly known by the bardic name of "Bardd y Brenin", which he took in 1820, when King _George IV, his patron, came to the throne.
Jones was born in Llandderfel, near Bala, and is remembered for his three volume work, the Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards. :
He first came to London in 1775, and was patronised by prominent Welshmen and by Charles Burney. He became harp tutor to several wealthy families, and in about 1790 was made official harpist to the Prince of Wales. In 1805 he moved into St James's Palace.
Edward Jones (1807-1865) was an African American missionary to the colony of Sierra Leone. Jones was a prominent missonary and figure in the colony of Sierra Leone; he was the first naturalized citizen of Sierra Leone (though he retained his American citizenship). Jones served was the first principal of Fourah Bay College and was also the first Black American to graduate from Amherst College in Massachussets (http://www.amherst.edu/~rjyanco94/genealogy/acbiorecord/1826.html#jones-e).
