| Authorised form of name | Jones; Thomas Rupert (1819 - 1911) |
| Dates | 1819 - 1911 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Wood Street, Cheapside, London, England |
| Date of birth | 01 October 1819 |
| Place of death | Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Date of death | 13/04/1911 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Occupation | geologist and palaeontologist |
| Research field | Palaeontology |
| Geology |
| Activity | Education:
Foster's School, Taunton; taught by Revd John Allen at Ilminster.
Career:
Apprenticed to Hugh Norris, Surgeon of Taunton (1835); completed his apprenticeship with a doctor in Newbury (1842); Medical Assistant in London (1842-1850); studied and became an authority of Foraminifera and Entomos traca; Professor of Geology, Royal Military and Staff Colleges, Sandhurst (1862); retired (1880)
Memberships:
FGS; Academy of National Sciences of Philadelphia (Corresponding); Geol Reichsanstalt. |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 06/06/1872 |
| Age at election | 53 |
| Proposer | Henry William Bristow; William Benjamin Carpenter; George Busk; Philip Lutley Sclater; William Henry Flower; John Jeremiah Bigsby; Thomas Spratt; John Gwyn Jeffreys |
| George Rolleston; William Bowman; William Kitchen Parker; Roderick Impey Murchison; Thomas Henry Huxley; Charles Lyell; Andrew Crombie Ramsay; Robert Etheridge; Richard Owen; John Percy; Andrew Scott Waugh |
| Relationships | Parents: John Jones, silk merchant, and Rhoda Burberry of Coventry
Spouse: 1) Mary, daughter of William Harris of Charing, Kent; 2) Charlotte Ashburnham, daughter of Archibald Archer
Children: Two sons and three daughters from first marriage and two sons and three daughters from his second marriage. |
| PublishedWorks | RCN 46364
RCN 26843
RCN 8741 |
| OtherInfo | He was particularly interested in microfossils.
Highest authority in Britain on the Foraminifera and those Entomostraca that were later regarded Ostracoda. |
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| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/73936803 |
| Code | NA6361 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1872/03 | Jones, Thomas Rupert: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MS/710/59 | Letter from Thomas Rupert Jones, Assistant Secretary, Geological Society, Somerset House, to Robert Were Fox | 23 October 1855 |
| IM/Maull/002451 | Jones, Thomas Rupert | nd |
| IM/Maull/002450 | Jones, Thomas Rupert | nd |
| MS/787/1/80 | Letter from T[homas] Rupert Jones, Geological Society, Burlington House, to [Henry Bowman Brady] | 18 May [1874-1890] |
| NLB/4/169 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Thomas Rupert Jones, Fellow of the Royal Society | 4 March 1890 |
| NLB/2/244 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Thomas Rupert Jones | 9 March 1888 |
| NLB/4/76 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Thomas Rupert Jones, Fellow of the Royal Society | 4 February 1890 |
| NLB/2/794 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Thomas Rupert Jones, Fellow of the Royal Society | 7 November 1888 |
| NLB/4/183 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Thomas Rupert Jones, Fellow of the Royal Society | 6 March 1890 |
| NLB/3/183 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Thomas Rupert Jones, Fellow of the Royal Society | 5 April 1889 |
| NLB/6/128 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Thomas Rupert Jones, Fellow of the Royal Society | 8 March 1892 |
| NLB/7/929 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Thomas Rupert Jones, Fellow of the Royal Society | 29 May 1893 |
| NLB/11/842 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 17 October 1895 |
| NLB/44/50 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 27 April 1911 |
| RR/9/123 | Referee's report by Thomas Rupert Jones, on a paper 'Researches on the foraminifera - supplemental memoir. On an abyssal type of the genus orbitolites - a study in the theory of descent' by William Benjamin Carpenter | 1883 |
| MS/427/324 | Note of a letter from [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the Treasury | 24 December 1883 |
| MS/427/245 | Copy letter from [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the Treasury | 11 January 1883 |
| MS/427/435 | Note of a letter from [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the Treasury | 25 June 1885 |
| RR/9/125 | Letter from Thomas Rupert Jones, on a paper 'Researches on the foraminifera - supplemental memoir. On an abyssal type of the genus orbitolites - a study in the theory of descent' by William Benjamin Carpenter to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 18 July 1883 |
| PT/72/5/5 | Plate, 'North-Atlantic foraminifera' by G West | [1864] |
| PT/72/5/1 | Manuscript, 'On some foraminifera from the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, including Davis's Straits and Baffin's Bay' by W [William] Kitchen Parker and T [Thomas] Rupert Jones | [1864] |
| PT/72/5/3 | Plate, 'Arctic foraminifera' by G West | [1864] |
| PT/72/5/7 | Plate, 'Arctic foraminifera' by G West | [1864] |
| PT/72/5/8 | Plate, 'Arctic foraminifera' by G West | [1864] |
| PT/72/5/10 | Plate, 'Foraminifera of the North Atlantic' by G West | [1864] |
| MC/7/176 | Letter from T Rupt [Thomas Rupert] Jones, Royal Military College, Farnborough Station, Hampshire, to W [Walter] White, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 16 February 1865 |
| MC/7 | Volume 7 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1864-1866 |
| PT/72/5/9 | Plate, 'Arctic foraminifera' by G West | [1864] |
| RR/5/171 | Referee's report by George Busk, on a paper 'On some foraminifera from the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, including Davis Straits and Baffin's Bay' by William Kitchen Parker and Thomas Rupert Jones | 10 February 1865 |
| MC/10/176 | Letter from T [Thomas] Rupert Jones, 5 College Terrace, Yorktown, Surrey, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society] | 10 December 1874 |
| MC/10 | Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | July 1873-1876 |
| PT/72/5 | Paper, 'On some foraminifera from the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, including Davis's Straits and Baffin's Bay' by W [William] Kitchen Parker and T [Thomas] Rupert Jones | [1864] |
| PT/72/5/2 | Plate, 'Arctic foraminifera' by G West | [1864] |
| PT/72/5/4 | Plate, 'Arctic foraminifera' by G West | [1864] |
| PT/72/5/6 | Plate, 'North-Atlantic foraminifera' by G West | [1864] |
| PT/72/5/11 | Plate, 'Foraminifera of the North Atlantic' by G West | [1864] |
| RR/5/170 | Referee's report by William Benjamin Carpenter, on a paper 'On some foraminifera from the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, including Davis Straits and Baffin's Bay' by William Kitchen Parker and Thomas Rupert Jones | 29 November 1864 |
| MC/26/124 | Letter from [William] Rupert Jones, Geological Society of London, Burlington House, W, to The [Secretary], Royal Society | 15 April 1911 |
| MC/26/284 | Letter from [Arthur] Smith Woodward, 4 Scarsdale Villas, Kensington, W, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society] | 2 June 1911 |