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Arthur Webb-Jones

Arthur Webb-Jones FRCS LRCP (1875 – 30 April 1917) was an eminent British gynaecologist who served extensively as a surgeon with the British Army in Egypt.

Birth and Family

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Arthur, who was born in Glamorgan, was the second son of William Matthew Jones (b. 1838), who was an owner of the trans-European steamship agency M. Jones and Brothers (est. 1856),[1][2] by Agnes Ida Long (1845 – 1899).[3] His elder sibling was Ernest William Jones (b. December 1870 - 1941)[4] who was a first-class cricketer[5] who inherited ownership of M. Jones and Brothers (est. 1856)[1] and who was the father of the choral conductor James William Webb-Jones.[6] His cousins included Edwin Price Jones, who was Vice-Consul for Chile,[7] and Secretary to the Chamber of Commerce,[1] and William (Bill) Wynn Jones was Anglican Bishop of Central Tanganyika[8] from 1946 until his death by car accident in 1951.[9][10]

Career

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Malvern College

Arthur Webb-Jones was educated at Malvern College (1890 - 1893, School Prefect),[11] and at St Thomas' Hospital, and at the University of London (LRCP, 1899; BS, 1911; MD, 1913), where the subject of his MD thesis was "Bilharziosis in Women". His notable published works include 'Lumbar Hernia' (The Lancet, 1902, ii, 747)) and 'Two Cases of Gynaecomastia' (Ibid, 1904, i, 865). He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England on 31 May 1900.[12][13]

Webb-Jones from 1900 to 1904 served in the Egyptian Army in the Sudan, where he subsequently settled and established a private practice at Rue Stamboul, Alexandria, and was appointed Surgeon and Gynaecologist to the Government Hospital and Medical Officer to the Egyptian State Railway, Alexandria District. He received the thanks of the Sirdar and Governor-General of the Sudan for his services. He resided in Egypt from 1913 to 1917.[12]

Webb Jones during the Gallipoli Campaign served as a yeoman with the British Army from May 1915 to December 1916.[12][13]

When, in spring 1917, there occurred epidemic of typhus in Alexandria, Webb-Jones gave an intravenous injection of saline solution to another practitioner, who was dying from typhus, by which he fatally infected himself, a consequence of which he died eleven days later on 30 April 1917.[12][13] His death warranted a mention in a special intelligence report to the Houses of Parliament, which was published in The Lancet.[12]

Marriage

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Arthur Webb-Jones married Lillian Bell Long (1875 – 1907) in 1906 and the couple had three children:[14]

  1. Francis Arthur John Webb-Jones (later Wakeman-Long) (b. 21 October 1910, Marylebone, London – d. 1986, Dover) who changed his surname to Wakeman-Long for his marriage.[15] Francis was a barrister who served as Chairman of M. Jones and Brothers (est. 1856)[1] until its dissolution in 1942.[16]
  2. Marjorie Agnes Webb-Jones (1912 – 2005) Married Lionel C. Lord Sept 1935 at Kensington.
  3. Arthur (17 June 1917, Alexandria – 1965) FRCS. Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps.[17] Married Doreen Ariadne Elwood (1921 – 2016).

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Entry for M. Jones and Brother, Steamship Agents, 1914 Who's Who in Business".
  2. ^ "No. 27514". The London Gazette. 9 January 1903. p. 191.
  3. ^ 1851-1901 inc. Wales Census. Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO)
  4. ^ "Entry for Ernest Jones: England Players, Cricket Archive.com".
  5. ^ "Entry for Ernest Jones, England Players, Cricket Archive.com". Archived from the original on 26 June 2018. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  6. ^ "WEBB-JONES, James William (1904–1965)". Who's Who, Oxford Index. Oxford University Press. December 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U49421.
  7. ^ "No. 28726". The London Gazette. 6 June 1913. p. 3991.
  8. ^ "Entry for 'WYNN JONES, WILLIAM (BILL) (1900 - 1950)', Australian Dictionary of Evangelical Biography". Evangelical History Association. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  9. ^ "The Diocese of Central Tanganyika, Mission and History, Historical Background". The Diocese of Central Tanganyika. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  10. ^ "JONES, Rt Rev. William Wynn". Who's Who, Oxford Index. Oxford University Press.
  11. ^ "The Malvernian, July 1917, p.550" (PDF). Malvern College. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  12. ^ a b c d e Arthur Webb Jones Obituary in The Lancet, Vol 189 Issue 4896, 30 June 1917, Parliamentary Intelligence pp.1019 – 1021.
  13. ^ a b c Arthur Webb Jones Obituary, British Medical Journal, 14 July 1917, p.66.
  14. ^ 1891 and 1901 Wales Census: Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO)
  15. ^ "No. 34127". The London Gazette. 25 January 1935. p. 662.
  16. ^ "No. 35525". The London Gazette. 14 April 1942. p. 1665.
  17. ^ "No. 38768". The London Gazette (Supplement). 25 November 1949. p. 5601.
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