William Wynn Jones (10 November 1900, Swansea, Wales – 29 May 1950, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) was a Welsh Anglican Bishop of Central Tanganyika[1] from 1946 until his death by a car accident in 1950.
[7] Wynn Jones in 1933 married Ruth L. Minton Taylor, who was a granddaughter of the Premier of Tasmania Henry Dobson[8] and a staff member of Mvumi Girls School.
[9] Wynn Jones was educated at Queen's College, Taunton,[10] until he accepted the invitation of the Reverend George Chambers to emigrate to Australia,[1] where he in Sydney matriculated at Trinity Grammar School (New South Wales),[10] subsequent to which he received from University of Sydney[10] a BA in 1922 and an MA in 1927.
[1] He was ordained deacon in 1925, and priest 1926, and was appointed curate at Holy Trinity, Dulwich Hill, where he was involved in the Boy Scout movement, and in 1927 joined CMS for missionary service in Central Tanganyika under Bishop Chambers, during which he became principal of Kongwa Theological College.
[1] Wynn Jones died by a car accident in 1950,[10] and was buried in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.