Tag: Victorian biography

• The Scholar Priest: The Life and Legacy of John Cartwright Jones (1831–1875)

  In the long arc of the Jones Glandwr family story, few figures embody the union of intellect, faith, and social ambition as completely as John Cartwright Jones. Born into London privilege yet anchored in Welsh heritage, he lived at the crossroads of Victorian transformation – a clergyman shaped by Oxford scholarship, a family patriarch whose…

  antonydaviesfrsa

  01/02/2026

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  19th century Wales, Arthur Owen Jones, Bishopsgate London, Breaston Derbyshire, Christ Church Oxford, family history, Francis Jones OBE, Glandwr Estate, history, John Cartwright Jones, Jonah Jones cricketer, Jones family history, Jones Glandwr family, literature, Llanaber burial ground, Llyfnant Valley, Local history, Merchant Taylors School, Nottinghamshire history, Oxford Movement era, poetry, Royal Navy chaplaincy, Shelton Nottinghamshire, Texas pioneers, Thrumpton, Tynycoed, Victorian biography, Victorian Church of England, Victorian clergy, Welsh emigrants to Texas, Welsh genealogy, Welsh history, Welsh landed families

• George Roberts Shorto (1836–1905)

  Soldier, Civic Servant, and Architect of Municipal Exeter George Roberts Shorto occupies a distinctive place in the civic history of Exeter. Soldier, volunteer officer, solicitor, and long-serving Town Clerk, his life charts the emergence of the Victorian professional administrator, shaped by discipline, duty, and an unyielding belief in public service. Early Life and Formation Born…

  antonydaviesfrsa

  22/01/2026

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  american-revolution, bible, British municipal history, British social history, citizen soldier, civic administration, Crimean War veterans, Devon history, Devonshire Regiment Volunteers, Exeter Cathedral, Exeter history, Exeter Town Clerk, family history, family history research, Genealogy, George Roberts Shorto, history, legal history England, local government history, municipal reform, nineteenth century Britain, Rifle Brigade, Victorian biography, Victorian civic life, Victorian Exeter, Victorian military history, Victorian professionalism, Victorian public service, Volunteer Force