Charles William Bowen-Jones JP (1836 – 15 July 1908) was a Welsh politician and magistrate in the county of Carmarthenshire.

[1] Jones was admitted to the Pharmaceutical Society on 17 April 1860[2] and succeeded his father as an apothecary in Lammas Street, Carmarthen.

He was elected to the Carmarthen Borough Council as a Conservative shortly after and then to the aldermanic bench, a position he relinquished when it became necessary for him to seek re-election at the hands of the ratepayers.

By the late 1890s, he was also elected Vice-chairman of Carmarthenshire in recognition of his services to Carmarthen and the monthly courts of St. Clears and Llanboidy.

[5] According to Jones, they lived comfortably together until the end of 1871, when she began an affair with John Lewis, a married timber merchant and former Mayor of Carmarthen.

In April 1874, it was arranged that she would stay at her mother's and he signed an agreement offering to take her back after six months, so long as the affair did not continue and he found her conduct acceptable.

Jones told the court that he was naturally of a jealous disposion, as his wife was a very attractive woman and popular with most people.

After his wife had left, he recalled that he had received several letters from her, including one that commenced "Dear Charles", asking him to take her back.

[6] Jones died on 15 July 1908 at his residence Gwynfryn, a Grade II* listed building in Penllwyn Park, Carmarthen.

[9] Jones left a large bequest to the Carmarthenshire Infirmary to be used for the erection of a ward for sick children known as the "Charles William Ward" and a large bequest to the vicar and churchwardens of St Peter's Church, Carmarthen to be used in the purchase of bread and coal to be distributed to the poor on New Year's Day each year known as the "Charles William Jones charity".