Life
1812-1882; Irish agriculturist, b. Beccles, Suffolk; his gf. bought an
estate at Lisselan, co. Cork, and Jones undertook its management in 1838
following embezzlement by agent; lived there till 1880. Opposed public
relief work, attacked by Land League; boycotted; resisted successfully,
but left Ireland in 1881.Strenuously opposed Gladstone’s Irish Land
Act of 1881, advocating emigration and drainage as alternatives; works
include Life’s Work in Ireland (1880); and works on
the Protestant church including What Has Been Done in the Irish Church
Since its Disestablishment (1875). DNB
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Notes
Mark Bence-Jones, The Twilight of the Ascendency (1987), contains
references to his estate and its ultimate burning in the Civil War; [?]gs.
of William Bence Jones.
Library of Herbert Bell, Belfast, holds William Bence Jones, Life’s Work in Ireland (London 1880).
Belfast Public Library holds The Life’s Work in Ireland of a Landlord who tried to Do his Duty (1880) [under fiction].
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)