Jones, Llewellyn

Fourth Bishop of Newfoundland (with Bermuda).

Llewellyn Jones was born in Liverpool, England in 1840. He received a B.A. from Cambridge University in 1862, and was ordained deacon in Worcester in 1864, then priest in Bromsgroves in 1865. He was curate of Bromsgrove from 1864 to 1874, and obtained an M.A. from Cambridge in 1866. He was Rector of Little Hereford from 1874 to 1878, and was consecrated Bishop of Newfoundland in 1878. He was then elected to the See of Bermuda in 1879. He received an honourary D.D. from the University of King's College in Windsor, Nova Scotia in 1905. He resigned in 1918, and passed away in 1918 in St. John's, Newfoundland.