Rowland Jones

Rowland Jones (1722–1774) was a Welsh lawyer and philologist of radical linguistic views.

He spent some time as clerk in the office of his father, who was a solicitor, but he then obtained a similar situation in London.

He married a young Welsh heiress, and was enrolled as a member of the Inner Temple 26 October 1751.

He died in Hamilton Street, Hanover Square, London, early in 1774, aged 52.

He left three children, two daughters, Elizabeth and Ann, and a son, Rowland.