William Jones (1762–1846) was a Welsh bookseller, religious writer, and member of the Scotch Baptist church in Finsbury, London.
[2] He moved to Liverpool as a bookseller in Castle Street, in 1793, buying the business from his brother-in-law, and publishing McLean's work A Defence of Believer-Baptism.
[2][4] In the late 1790s McLean set up a Liverpool congregation in Lord Street, with John Richard Jones of Ramoth.
He was minister, or elder (sources differ) of the church in Windmill Street, Finsbury, for the rest of his life.
[2][3] By the late 1820s, suffering financial troubles, Jones was taking on work writing books for Thomas Tegg.
In general terms Jones published material supporting the Scotch Baptists, and restorationism, and opposed established religion.