| Authorised form of name | Jones; Henry Bence (1813 - 1873); physician and chemist |
| Dates | 1813 - 1873 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Thorington Hall, Suffolk, England |
| Date of birth | 31 December 1813 |
| Place of death | His house in Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, London, England |
| Date of death | 20 April 1873 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial: Kensal Green Cemetery, London, England |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Research field | Medicine |
| Pathology |
| Activity | Education:
Hingham, Norfolk; private school in Putney; Harrow School; Trinity College, Cambridge. BA (1836), MA (1840), MB (1845), and MD (1849)
Career:
Worked for an apothecary (1838); enrolled to study medicine at St George's Hospital (by 1846), studied chemistry at University College, London (1839); went to Giessen in Germany to work at chemistry with Liebig (1841); elected assistant physician to St George's Hospital (1845) and full physician (1846); discovered a protein in the urine of patients with multiple myeloma (1848); delivered a course of lectures entitled 'Animal chemistry in its application to stomach and renal diseases' (1849); resigned from St George's Hospital and expanded his private practice (1862); member of the royal commission on the cattle plague (1865); president of the chemical section at the British Association meetings in Nottingham (1866); became ill with fluid on the chest and a weak hear (1866–7).
Memberships:
Council of the College of Chemistry (1846)
Licentiate Royal College of Physicians (1842)
FRCP (1849) |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 30/04/1846 |
| Age at election | 33 |
| Proposer | George Owen Rees; John Ayrton Paris; Thomas Graham; Benjamin Collins Brodie; John Bostock; Francis Beaufort; George Fownes; William Bowman; Robert Bentley Todd; William Allen Miller; Hugh Falconer |
| Relationships | Parents: Lieutenant-Colonel William Jones (1776–1843), 5th dragoon guards, of Lisselane, co. Cork, Ireland, and Theberton Hall, Saxmundham, Suffolk, and Matilda (1791–1869), daughter of the Revd Bence Bence (1747–1824) of Thorington Hall, Suffolk, rector of Beccles.
Siblings: William Bence Jones, prominent agriculturist, who married Caroline Dickinson (a daughter of William Dickinson, MP)
Spouse: Lady Millicent Acheson (d. 1887), daughter of the second earl of Gosford (1842)
Children: three sons and four daughters |
| PublishedWorks | RCN 46343 |
| OtherInfo | Discovered a protein in the urine of patients with multiple myeloma, related to the immunoglobulins, it was later called ‘Bence Jones protein’.
As physician to many prominent Victorians, he assisted Florence Nightingale in her endeavour to improve standards of public and hospital hygiene, and Charles West in founding the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Authority:
Birth date from Boase, birth place from DNB
References:
N G Coley, 'Henry Bence-Jones, MD, FRS (1813-1873)' in NR 1973-4 vol 28 pp 31-56, plate
Notes:
DNB gives year of birth as 1814 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/10589473 |
| Code | NA3283 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1846/21 | Jones, Henry Bence: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MS/743/1/13 | Testimonial by Henry Bence Jones, 31 Lower Brook Street, on behalf of [John Hall] Gladstone | 20 June 1855 |
| MS/743/1/19 | Testimonial by Henry Bence Jones, 31 Brook Street, on behalf of John Hall Gladstone | 9 July 1857 |
| RR/3/161 | Referee's report by Henry Bence Jones, on a paper 'Experimental researches on the functions of the mucous membrane of the gall-bladder, principally with reference to the conversion of hepatic into cystic bile' by George Kemp | 27 October 1856 |
| RR/2/122 | Referee's report by Thomas Graham, on a paper 'On the acidity, sweetness, and strength of wine, beer and spirits' by Henry Bence Jones | 7 February 1854 |
| RR/1/124 | Referee's report by George Leith Roupell and George Owen Rees 'Contributions to the chemistry of the urine. Part II - On the variations in the alkaline and Earthy phosphates in disease' by Henry Bence Jones | 23 May 1846 |
| RR/5/139 | Referee's report by Henry Bence Jones, on a paper 'On a colloid acid, a normal constituent of human urine' by William Marcet | 7 July 1864 |
| NLB/62/874 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to A. B. Bence-Jones Esquire; 11 King's Bench Walk, Temple, E.C.4. | 24 May 1922 |
| MS/426/373 | Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr H [Henry] Bence Jones | 9 May 1849 |
| IM/Maull/002445 | Jones, Henry Bence | nd |
| RR/5/130 | Referee's report by Thomas Graham, on a paper 'On the rate of passage of crystalloids into and out of the vascular and non-vascular textures of the body' by Henry Bence Jones | 25 June 1865 |
| RR/2/175 | Referee's report by Henry Bence Jones, on a paper 'On some of the products of the decomposition of nitrotoluylic acid' by Henry Minchin Noad | 22 February 1854 |
| RR/3/213 | Referee's report by Henry Bence Jones on a paper 'An experimental inquiry into the alleged sugar-forming function of the liver' by Frederick William Pavy | 31 July 1858 |
| RR/6/26 | Referee's report by Henry Bence Jones, on a paper 'An attempt to apply chemical principles in explanation of the action of poisons' by William Henry Broadbent | 3 July 1868 |
| PT/35/9i | Paper, 'Appendix to a paper on the variations of the acidity of the urine in the state of health' by Henry Bence Jones | [1849] |
| PT/39/5 | Paper, 'Contributions to the chemistry of the urine. Paper III. Part IV' by H [Henry] Bence Jones | [1850] |
| PT/31/1 | Paper, 'Contributions to the chemistry of the urine. Pt [Part] II. On the variations in the alkaline and earthy phosphates in disease' by Henry Bence Jones | [1846] |
| PT/34/3 | Paper, 'On a new substance occurring in the urine of a patient with mollities ossium' by Henry Bence Jones | [1847] |
| PT/39/4 | Paper, 'Second appendix to a paper on the acidity of the urine in health' by Henry Bence Jones | [1850] |
| PT/39/6 | Paper, 'Contributions to the chemistry of the urine. Paper IV, on so called chylous urine' by H [Henry] Bence Jones | [1850] |
| PT/46/5 | Paper, 'On the dissolution of urinary calculi in dilute saline fluids at the temperature of the body by the acid [sic] of electricity' by H [Henry] Bence Jones | [1852] |
| RR/2/117 | Referee's report by Golding Bird, on a paper 'On the oxidation of ammonia in the human body' by Henry Bence Jones | 10 March 1851 |
| RR/3/250 | Referee's report by Henry Bence Jones, on a paper 'Enquiries into the quality of air repsired each quarter of an hour of the day and night and under the influence of various kinds of exercise, food and medicine and temperature' by Edward Smith | 4 June 1857 |
| RR/4/197 | Referee's report by Henry Bence Jones, on a paper 'Researches on sugar formation in the liver' by Frederick William Pavy | 24 July 1860 |
| MC/5/126 | Letter from Arthur H [Hill] Hassall, licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, 8 Bennett Street, St James' Street, to C R [Charles Richard] Weld, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 26 November 1853 |
| PT/42/2 | Paper, 'Contributions to animal chemistry. Paper V. On the oxidation of ammonia in the human body, with some remarks on nitrification' by Henry Bence Jones | 1850 |
| RR/2/116 | Referee's report by William Allen Miller, on a paper 'On the oxidation of ammonia in the human body' by Henry Bence Jones | 3 March 1851 |
| MC/5 | Volume 5 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1851-1858 |
| PT/35/9 | Paper, 'Contributions to the chemistry of the urine' by Henry Bence Jones | [1848] |
| RR/1/128 | Referee's report by William Thomas Brande, on a paper 'Contributions to the chemistry of the urine - Paper III' by Henry Bence Jones | 1 July 1848 |
| RR/2/123 | Referee's report by William Allen Miller, on a paper 'On the acidity, sweetness, and strength of wine, beer and spirits' by Henry Bence Jones | 16 February 1854 |
| MC/8/432 | Letter from H [Henry] Bence Jones, Royal Institution, Albemarle Street, to Lieutenant General Sir Edward Sabine, President of the Royal Society | 25 October 1869 |
| MC/9/246 | Letter from H [Henry] Bence Jones, Folkestone, to Sir James [Paget] | 5 August 1871 |
| AP/34/11 | Unpublished paper, 'On the amount of acid, sugar and alcohol in wine, beer and spirits' by Henry Bence Jones | 1853 |
| MC/9/521 | Letter from H [Henry] Bence Jones, 84 Brook Street, to the Royal Society | 18 March 1873 |
| MC/9 | Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1870-June 1873 |
| RR/2/21 | Referee's report by Henry Bence Jones, on a paper 'An experimental inquiry undertaken with the view of ascertaining whether any and what signs of current force are manifested during the organic process of nutrition (assimilation) in living animals' by Henry Foster Baxter | 18 February 1853 |
| RR/2/23 | Referee's report by Henry Bence Jones, on a paper 'An experimental Inquiry undertaken with the view of ascertaining whether any force is evolved during muscular contraction analogous to the force evolved in the fish, gymnotus, and torpedo' by Henry Foster Baxter | 4 June 1855 |
| RR/2/86 | Referee's report by Henry Bence Jones, on a paper 'On the frequent occurrence of indigo in human urine, and on its chemical and physiological relations' by Arthur Hill Hassall | 3 November 1853 |
| AP/37/2 | Paper, 'On the oxidation of ammonia in the human body' by Henry Bence Jones | 1854 |
| RR/2/186 | Referee's report by Henry Bence Jones, on a paper 'An experimental inquiry into the nature of the metamorphosis of saccharine matter, as a normal process of the animal economy' by Frederick William Pavy | 17 June 1855 |
| RR/2/120 | Referee's report by William Allen Miller, on a paper 'On the dissolution of urinary calculi in dilute saline fluids, at the temperature of the body, by the aid of electricity' by Henry Bence Jones | 9 February 1853 |
| RR/3/129 | Referee's report by Henry Bence Jones, on a paper 'On the condition of the oxygen absorbed into the blood during respiration' by George Harley | 15 May 1856 |
| RR/3/189 | Referee's report by Henry Bence Jones, on a paper 'On the action of bile upon fats; with additional observations on excretine' by William Marcet | 31 July 1858 |
| RR/4/235 | Referee's report by Henry Bence Jones, on a paper 'Experiments on food; its destination and uses' by William Scovell Savory | 1862 |
| AP/46/3 | Unpublished paper, 'On the functions of the cerebellum' by William Howship Dickinson | 1864 |
| RR/5/71 | Referee's report by Henry Bence Jones, on a paper 'On the application of physiological tests for certain organic poisons, and especially digitaline' by C Hilton Fagge and Thomas Stevenson | 4 June 1865 |
| MC/8 | Volume 8 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1867-1869 |
| RR/2/55 | Referee's report by Henry Bence Jones, on a paper 'Some observations on the ova of the Salmonidae' by John Davy | 26 January 1854 |
| RR/5/131 | Referee's report by William Scovell Savory, on a paper 'On the rate of passage of crystalloids into and out of the vascular and non-vascular textures of the body' by Henry Bence Jones | 13 July 1865 |
| RR/2/118 | Referee's report by Benjamin Collins Brodie, on a paper 'Contributions to animal chemistry. —Paper V. On the oxidation of ammonia in the human body, with some remarks on nitrification' by Henry Bence Jones | 20 January 1853 |
| RR/2/119 | Referee's report by Benjamin Collins Brodie, on a paper 'On the dissolution of urinary calculi in dilute saline fluids, at the temperature of the body, by the aid of electricity' by Henry Bence Jones | 3 February 1853 |
| RR/2/121 | Second referee's report by William Allen Miller, on a paper 'On the dissolution of urinary calculi in dilute saline fluids, at the temperature of the body, by the aid of electricity' by Henry Bence Jones | 9 March 1853 |
| RR/5/21 | Referee's report by Henry Bence Jones, on a paper 'On the effect of temperature on the secretion of urea as observed on a voyage to China, and at Hong Kong' by Emil Becher | 3 April 1863 |
| RR/5/94 | Referee's report by Henry Bence Jones, on a paper 'On the influence of physical and chemical agents upon blood; with special reference to the mutual action of the blood and the respiratory gases' by George Harley | 20 June 1864 |
| RR/5/152 | Referee's report by Henry Bence Jones, on a paper 'On the amyloid substance of the liver, and its ultimate destination in the animal economy' by Robert McDonnell | 24 May 1863 |
| HS/10/338 | Letter, from Henry Bence Jones to Sir John Herschel, dated at 84 Brook St. | 17 June 1869 |
| HS/10/337 | Draft letter, from Sir John Herschel to Henry Bence Jones, dated at Collingwood | 27 July 1864 |
| HS/10/340 | Letter, from Henry Bence Jones to Sir John Herschel, dated at 84 Brook St. | 6 July 1868 |
| HS/10/339 | Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Henry Bence Jones, dated at Collingwood | 19 June 1869 |
| HS/10/341 | Letter, from Henry Bence Jones to Sir John Herschel, dated at Royal Institution | undated |