Thomas Jones (missionary)

Thomas Jones (24 January 1810 – 16 September 1849)[1] was a Welsh Christian missionary, who worked among the Khasi people of Meghalaya and Assam in India and of Bangladesh.

[2] Thomas Jones, born in 1810, was a carpenter's son from Berriew (Aberriw), Montgomeryshire, Wales.

Jones's skills in carpentry and other crafts were valued by the Khasi community, and he learned their language by living among them.

He opened a missionary school, and began preaching to the local people in their own language, with such fluency that they could not but marvel.

As a result of his criticisms of a local industrialist, Harry Inglis, Jones was forced to leave the area.