Thomas Rupert Jones

Background

Jones was born on 1 October 1819 in Cheapside, London, the son of John Jones, silk merchant, and his wife Rhoda (née Burberry) Jones of Coventry.

Education

In 1835 he was apprenticed to a surgeon at Taunton, and he completed his apprenticeship in 1842 at Newbury in Berkshire.

Career

While at a private school at Ilminster, his attention was attracted to geology by the fossils that are so abundant in the Lias quarries. He was then engaged in practice mainly in London, until in 1849 he was appointed assistant secretary to the Geological Society of London. In 1862 he was made professor of geology at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

Having devoted his especial attention to microfossils, he now became the highest authority in Britain on the Foraminifera and those Entomostraca that were regarded Ostracoda later on.

He edited the 2nd edition of Mantell"s Medals of Creation (1854), the 3rd edition of Mantell"s Geological Excursions round the Isle of Wight (1854), and the 7th edition of Mantell"s Wonders of Geology (1857). He also edited the 2nd edition of F. Dixon"s Geology of Sussex (1878).

Foreign many years he was specially interested in the geology of South Africa. He died and was buried at Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire.

Achievements

• Jones was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1872 and was awarded the Lyell Medal by the Geological Society in 1890.

Works

• book

  • A Supplementary Monograph: Of the Tertiary Entomostraca of England (Classic Reprint)

    (Excerpt from A Supplementary Monograph: Of the Tertiary E...)

  • A supplementary monograph of the Tertiary Entomostraca of England

    (This book, "A supplementary monograph of the Tertiary Ent...)

  • A monograph of the Tertiary entomostraca of England by T Rupert Jones ed. par la Palaeontographical society 1874 Hardcover

    (Lang:- English, Pages 294. Reprinted in 2016 with the hel...)

  • A Monograph of the Fossil Estheriae 1862 Hardcover

    (Lang:- English, Pages 187. Reprinted in 2013 with the hel...)

  • A supplementary monograph of the Tertiary entomostraca of England by prof T Rupert Jones and C. Davies Sherborned par la Palaeontographical society 1889 Hardcover

    (Lang:- English, Pages 70. Reprinted in 2016 with the help...)

  • A Monograph of the Entomostraca of the Cretaceous Formation of England, Issue 3, Part 1(Hardback) - 2015 Edition

    (New)

  • A Monograph of the Entomostraca of the Cretaceous Formation of England (Classic Reprint) by T. Rupert Jones (2015-09-27)
  • MONOGRAPH: THE ENTOMOSTRACA OF THE CRETACEOUS FORMATION OF ENGLAND.VOL 3. PART 1-2.
  • A Monograph of the Tertiary Entomostraca of England (Classic Reprint) by T. Rupert Jones (2015-09-27)
  • A MONOGRAPH OF THE FOSSIL ESTHERIAE; A MONOGRAPH OF THE TERTIARY ENTOMOSTRACA OF ENGLAND; A MONOGRAPH OF THE ENTOMOSTRACA OF THE CRETACEOUS FORMATION OF ENGLAND.

Membership

Fellow of the Royal Society. Fellow of the Geological Society.

Interests

• Homely table games of cards, chess, halma, backgammon, cribbage, et cetera Fishing formerly; collecting and describing fossil foraminifera and entomostraca, also old stone implements. Editing friends’ papers and correcting proofs.