William Jones (Chartist)

William Jones (Chartist)

William Jones (1809-1873) was a poltitical Radical and Chartist, who was a former actor, working as a watchmaker at Pontypool in Monmouthshire and was also keeping a beer house.

He was prosecuted for his part in the Chartist Newport Rising at Newport, Monmouthshire in 1839.

Along with John Frost and Zephaniah Williams, he was appointed a leader of a column of men in what is sometimes regarded as the greatest armed rebellion in 19th-century Britain [Edward Royal, "Chartism", Longman, London: 1996] .

Jones was supposed to be bringing men to Newport from the Pontypool area and the eastern valleys of Monmouthshire on the night of the rising, but they never arrived, delaying the main body of Chartists final march into Newport into the daylight hours and thus partly contributing to its defeat.

He was captured a few days after the rising was put down. He was sentenced to death for High Treason, but his sentence was commuted and he was sentenced to penal transportation to Australia for life. He died in exile, in poverty.

External links

* [http://www.gtj.org.uk/en/item1/32806 Portrait of Jones on trial]

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