Arthur Jones, 2nd Viscount Ranelagh

For other people named Arthur Jones, see Arthur Jones (disambiguation).

Arthur Jones, 2nd Viscount Ranelagh (died 1669) was an Irish politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1643.

Jones was the son of Roger Jones, 1st Viscount Ranelagh[1] and his wife Frances Moore, daughter of Sir Garret Moore, eventual 1st Viscount Moore of Drogheda. He succeeded to the titles of Baron Jones of Navan, and Viscount Ranelagh on the death of his father in 1628. He was Member of Parliament for County Sligo from 1634 to 1635.[2]

In November 1640, Jones was elected MP for Weobley in the Long Parliament.[3] He was disabled from sitting in 1643.

Jones married Katherine Boyle, daughter of the Earl of Cork. Her brothers included the chemist Robert Boyle and Lord Broghill, the later Earl of Orrery who was a prominent politician in Cromwellian and Restoration times. They had a son Richard who was created Earl of Ranelagh.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Edmund Lodge The genealogy of the existing British peerage
  2. 1 2 the Peerage.com
  3. ↑ Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
Parliament of England
Preceded by
William Tomkins
Thomas Tomkins		 Member of Parliament for Weobley
1640-1643
With: Thomas Tomkins		 Succeeded by
Robert Andrews
William Crowther


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