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Thomas Jones, 7th Viscount Ranelagh

Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Heron Jones, 7th Viscount Ranelagh KCB (9 January 1812 – 13 November 1885)[1] was known for his involvement in the volunteer movement to recruit amateur soldiers for the defence of Britain, and for his links to glamorous women, notably the Pre-Raphaelite model Annie Miller and the actress Lillie Langtry.

Thomas Jones

Born9 January 1812 (1812-01-09)
Fulham, London, England
Died13 November 1885(1885-11-13) (aged 73)
Westminster, London, England
Buried
Fulham, London, England
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branchBritish Army
RankLieutenant-Colonel
Viscount Ranelagh at the Volunteer gathering in Brighton, 1863, depicted in the Illustrated London News

Heron Jones succeeded to an Irish peerage, becoming Viscount Ranelagh and Baron Jones of Navan in 1820 on the death of his father.[2]

Volunteer movement edit

Ranelagh was an enthusiastic supporter of the movement to create a volunteer army, which had arisen from fears of a French invasion. He created and commanded the 2nd South Middlesex Rifle Volunteers in 1859, the nucleus of which was formed from members of the Ranelagh Yacht Club. Ranelagh became a de facto leader of the Volunteer movement and was introduced as such to the French emperor Napoleon III. In 1863 Ranelagh helped to organise a show of force in Brighton at which he gave a speech defending the movement from attempts by the government to take control of it. He insisted that an independent volunteer militia was both cheaper and more effective for the country than a centrally organised force. He asserted that the English character preferred independence and distrusted "organisation", claiming that "we trust to our own pluck, that indomitable pluck that all Englishmen possess".[3] At this period Ranelagh was calling for a volunteer "people's army", an aspiration supported by a section of the press at the time.[4] He continued to command the Volunteers until his death in 1885.

Relationships edit

 
"He has succeeded in volunteering". Ranelagh depicted in Vanity Fair.

Ranelagh started a relationship with Annie Miller when her fiancé William Holman Hunt was away in the Middle East. He was described in the letters of Hunt and his friends as a "notorious rake" because of his womanising. When Hunt learned of the relationship he broke off the engagement, leading to a meeting between Annie and Ranelagh in which he suggested that she should sue Hunt for breach of promise. In the end, she married Ranelagh's cousin.[5]

Ranelagh was also responsible for introducing Lillie Langtry to London high society. According to Langtry herself, "he completely changed the current of my life".[6] She became the centre of attention at a party to which he invited her, and was asked by both John Everett Millais and Frank Miles to sit for a portrait.

With his partner, Ranelagh had two daughters and a son Arthur Jones who inherited his estate but being illegitimate could not inherit his father's titles. The titles of Viscount Ranelagh and Baron Jones of Navan became extinct upon his death in 1885.

See also edit

Jones had two prominent relatives from his maternal grandmother:

His sister Barbara married Count von Rechberg (1806-1899), Foreign Minister of Austria, 1859–1864.

Notes edit

  1. ^ "Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Heron "Viscount Ranelagh" Jones". findagrave.com.
  2. ^ Edmund Lodge, The genealogy of the existing British peerage: with brief sketches of the family histories of the nobility, Saunders and Otley, 1832, p.301
  3. ^ LORD RANELAGH WITH THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH, Otago Witness, 7 February 1863.
  4. ^ Ian Frederick William Beckett, The amateur military tradition, 1558–1945, Manchester University Press ND, 1991, p.181-2.
  5. ^ Anne Clark Armor, William Holman Hunt, Constable, p.178.
  6. ^ Lillie Langtry, The Days I Knew, p.35.
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by
Thomas Jones
Viscount Ranelagh
1820–1885
Extinct

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