Robert Jones (died 1715)

Robert Jones (c. 1682 – 19 December 1715) of Fonmon, Glamorgan, Wales was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1712 to 1715.

[1] Jones replaced his father-in-law Sir Humphrey Edwin as High Sheriff of Glamorgan for the year 1703 to 1704.

[1] He was again returned for Glamorgan at the 1715 election,[2] and was noted as a Jacobite, keeping a portrait of the Pretender.

[2] Jones did not long survive the Whig reascendancy as he died on 19 December 1715 at the age of 33.

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