David Jones (barrister)

David Jones (1765–1816) was a Welsh barrister.

Jones was best known as ‘the Welsh Freeholder’. He was born in 1765, the only son of John Jones of

There he became tutor and lecturer in

Jones made a spirited defence of unitarianism against the attacks of Bishop Samuel Horsley in several works written under the name of 'The Welsh Freeholder'.

Works

as 'The Welsh Freeholder'

• A Letter to the [Bishop] on the Charge he lately delivered, London, 1790, 8vo, which evoked ‘An Answer … by a Clergyman of the Diocese of St. Davids,’ London, 1750, 8vo
• The Welsh Freeholder's Vindication of his Letter, &c., London, 1791, 8vo.
• Reasons for Unitarianism, or the Primitive Christian Doctrine, London, 1792
• The Welsh Freeholder's Farewell Epistles to the Bishop (lately of St. Davids), now of Rochester, London, 1794, 8vo.

as David Jones

• Thoughts on the Riots at Birmingham, Bath, 1791, 8vo, an enlarged reprint of an anonymous letter written by Jones in the
  Morning Chronicle
  , and republished without his authority both at Maidstone and Birmingham.
• The Nature and Duties of the Office of a Minister of Religion, Birmingham, 1792, 8vo.
• The Revolution in France and the Progress of Liberty, considered in connection with our idea of Providence and of the Improvement of Human Affairs (see advertisement in The Nature and Duties, &c.), announced by Jones in 1816, is not known to have been published.

References

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Jones, David (1765-1816)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.