To the Reverend D.E. Jones

Rare. large c.19th ORIGINAL ILLUMINATED PRESENTATION to David Evans Jones 1838-1901 on 22nd. Dec. 1871 at Albury.

David Evan Jones; Sketcher and Anglican clergyman, born on 27 July 1838 at Gwnws, Cardinganshire, Wales, entered Trinity College, Dublin but was forced to discontinue his studies because of ill-health. Arriving in NSW 1857 he deserted at Newcastle and made his way to John Hawdon’s Kiora Station, near Moruya (NSW), where his father was living as tutor to the Hawdon children. Soon afterwards Jones returned to Goulburn and became a theology student under the city’s first Anglican bishop, Mesac Thomas, who ordained him deacon in 1865 and priest in 1866. After a temporary appointment to the parish of Moruya, he became diocesan inspector of church schools. His first independent parish was Araluen, then Albury (1868-72), Tumut (1872-76), Deniliquin (1877-79) and Bega (1880-85). Due to ill health he moved to Sydney in 1886 as rector of St Mark’s, Granville. He died at Granville in 1901, survived by his second wife Emily Jane whom he had married in 1873.