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Thomas Jones (
June 23,
1756 -
July 18,
1807) was Head Tutor at
Trinity College, Cambridge for twenty years and an outstanding teacher of mathematics. He is notable as a mentor of
Adam Sedgwick.
On graduating from
Shrewsbury School, Jones was admitted to
St John's College, Cambridge on
May 28,
1774, as a 'pensioner' (ie. a fee paying student, as opposed to a scholar or
sizar). He was believed to be an illegitimate son of Mr Owen Owen, of
Tyncoed, and his housekeeper, who afterwards married a Mr Jones, of
Traffin,
County Kerry, Thomas being brought up as his son.
On
June 27,
1776, Jones migrated from St John's College to Trinity College. He became a scholar in 1777 and obtained his BA in 1779, winning the First
Smith's Prize and becoming
Senior Wrangler. In 1782, he obtained his MA and became a Fellow of Trinity College in 1781. He became a Junior Dean, 1787-1789 and a Tutor, 1787-1807. He was ordained a deacon at the
Peterborough parish
June 18,
1780. Then he was ordained priest, at the
Ely parish,
June 6,
1784, canon of
Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire, in 1784, and then cannon of
Swaffham Prior, 1784. On
December 11,
1791, he preached before the University, at
Great St Mary's, a sermon against duelling (from Exodus XX. 13), which was prompted by a duel that had lately taken place near
Newmarket, between
Henry Applewhaite and
Richard Ryecroft, undergraduates of Pembroke, in which the latter was fatally wounded. He died
July 18,
1807, in lodgings in
Edgware Road,
London. He is buried in the cemetery of
Dulwich College. A bust and a memorial tablet are in the ante-chapel of Trinity College.
His academic mentor was
John Cranke (1746-1816).
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