James William Webb-Jones
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James William Webb-Jones | |
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 James William Webb-Jones before a portrait of Sir John Vanbrugh | |
| Born | 21 February 1904 |
| Died | 29 December 1965 (aged 61) |
Resting place | St. Andrew's Church, Witham on the Hill, England |
| Education | Cranleigh School |
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| Occupations | Headmaster; cricketer |
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| Spouse(s) | Barbara Bindon Moody (whom he married on 20 December 1930 at Windsor, Berkshire), d. of Colonel Richard S. H. Moody |
| Children | Bridget Webb-Jones (who married Peter Stanley Lyons on 31 July 1957 at Wells Cathedral) |
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James William Webb-Jones (1904–1965) was a Welsh choral educator and founder of the English Jesters Cricket Club.
Paternal family
James William, who was born in Cowbridge, Glamorgan, Wales,[1] was the only child[2] of the international chartered shipbroker[3][4][5][6] Ernest William Jones[7][8] (1870 – 1941),[9] who was the owner of M. Jones and Brothers (1856 - 1942),[4][5] who was a first class cricketer.[3][9] James William's paternal uncle was the prominent gynaecologist Arthur Webb-Jones.[10] James William's paternal grandfather was Lieutenant-Colonel William Matthew Jones VD (b. 1838).[11]
James William's paternal cousins included Edwin Price Jones who (after a lauded pupillage in classical literature and English at the Royal Masonic School, Wood Green)[12] was Vice-Consul for Chile[13] and Secretary to the Chamber of Commerce;[4] and William (Bill) Wynn Jones,[14] who was Anglican Bishop of Central Tanganyika,[15][16] through whom he was a cousin of the National Party conservative Naomi Wilson OAM (b. 1940).[17]
Maternal family
James William's mother was Aimée Elizabeth Parson (1873 – 1913),[7] who was the French-born third daughter of James Holmes Parson of Le Houlme[18] and Montville, Seine-Maritime,[11][19] and Jessy Burton.[20][21]
James William's eldest maternal aunt was Jessie/Jessy Sarah Parson (later Endall)[22][23][24] (d. 22 April 1941)[25] who had been selected by Crown Princess Sofia of Greece to be from 1898[26] Lady Superintendent and Matron[27][28] of the First Military Hospital at Athens,[29] for which she received the Commemorative Medal of the Red Cross from Queen Olga of Greece.[30] Jessie/Jessy Sarah Parson had been previously Lady Superintendent of the English Hospital at the Piraeus during the Greco-Turkish War (1897),[31] and was latterly, as Jessie/Jessy Sarah Endall, Matron of the Children's Hospital at Athens.[24]
Through his maternal grandmother[11] Jessy Burton,[20][21] who was the daughter of the solicitor William Warwick Burton[32] and the granddaughter of William Ford Burton,[33] James William was a 3rd-great grandson of the eminent London property developer James Burton, and a 2nd-great grandnephew the architect Decimus Burton.
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Education
James William was educated at Cranleigh School,[34][7][35] for which he played cricket,[36] and at Worcester College, Oxford,[7][35] where he was Captain of Cricket.[7][35] He later attended the University of Grenoble in France,[7][35] where he received the Diplôme de Hautes Études.[7][35]
He was a member of the Confraternity of St. Andrew.[37]
Co-founder of the Jesters Cricket Club
James William was a co-founder, with John 'Jock' Forbes Burnet (1910 - 1980) of St. Paul's School, London,[38] of the Jesters Cricket Club,[37] of which his father Ernest, and his cousin William, and his son-in-law Peter, were members. James William played for the Jesters, alongside his father, against the Eton College Servants, in 1931, and, alongside his cousin William, against Chertsey, also in 1931.[1]