John Share Jones

Prof. John Share Jones MBE, known as Dr Share Jones (25 August 1873 – 2 December 1950),^[1] was a British Veterinary Surgeon and briefly a Liberal Party politician.

Background

Jones was the son of Thomas Jones. He was educated at the University of Liverpool, King’s College (proxime accessit Logic Prize), University College, the Royal Veterinary College, London (Centenary Prizeman, etc.) and Paris. He married Dr Mary S. Jones of Wrexham and lived at Pentre Bychan Hall near Wrexham. In 1948 he was awarded the MBE.^[2]

Professional career

Jones was Tutor in Surgery and Demonstrator of Anatomy, RVC, 1900–04; awarded Steel Memorial Medal by RCVS, 1928; Bronze Medal, Berne; Victory Medal Central Vet. Soc. London; formerly Member of Council (for 38 years) and Vice-Pres. RCVS (Pres., 1928–29); Hon. Vice-Pres. Nat. Federation of Meat Traders’ Assoc., Great Britain; First President Welsh Branch National VM Assoc. of Great Britain and Ireland; Hon. Fellow Central VM Assoc., London, and North Wales VM Assoc., Governor University College of North Wales; Member of Court of Governors Royal Veterinary College, London; formerly Examiner to Universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and London; Member of Colonial Office Committee on Colonial Veterinary Services, and of the Departmental Committee of the Ministry of Agriculture on the Reconstruction of the Royal Veterinary College, London; Chairman Land Settlement and Training Association for Rural Development; Chairman of the North Wales Live Stock Joint Committee; Hon. Local Fuel Overseer, etc.; was for some years a manufacturer of Welsh Woollen Goods and Director of the Mills Glyn Ceiriog; gave evidence before the Royal Commission on University Education in Wales. Professor of Veterinary Anatomy, Surgical and Applied Anatomy, and Operative Veterinary Surgery, 1919–38; in charge of Department of Human Anatomy, 1919–24; Professor Emeritus, University of Liverpool; late Director of Veterinary Studies; MD (V; hc, Berne); DVSc; MSc; MRCVS (1900); FRCVS (1907).^[3]

Political career

Jones was Liberal candidate for the Oswestry division of Shropshire at the 1929 General Election. Oswestry was a safe Unionist seat where the Liberals usually finished second. He achieved a swing of 8.2%, but it was not enough to win the seat;

General Election 1929: Oswestry^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Bertie Edward Parker Leighton	15,544	47.0	-8.1
	Liberal	John Share Jones	10,565	32.0	+8.3
	Labour	H S Evans	6,944	21.0	-0.2
Majority			4,989	15.0	-16.4
Turnout				78.8	-0.1
	Unionist hold		Swing	-8.2

He did not stand for parliament again.^[5] He was selected as a Liberal Party prospective parliamentary candidate for the neighbouring constituency of Shrewsbury sometime after 1935 and was active there^[6] in anticipation of a general election expected to take place in 1939/1940. As it transpired, due to the outbreak of war, the election did not take place until 1945, by which time he had been replaced as Liberal candidate.

Publications

• four vols on Surgical Anatomy, 1904–1914
• Superficial Anatomy of the Limbs, 1906
• Comparative Anatomy of Supernumerary Digits in Ungulates as Evidence of the Interrelationship existing between the various Species
• Points in the Anatomy of the Llama as compared with Capra and Equus
• Higher Agricultural Education in Wales, 1914
• The Education of the Veterinary Student, Brussels, 1919
• Local Health Authorities and Animal Diseases, Bordeaux, 1924
• Veterinary Science, 1910–1925
• The Encyclopædia Britannica
• Animal Husbandry and Public Health, with a plea for a National System of Live Stock Insurance, Ghent, 1927
• The Relationship of the Veterinary Surgeon to Animal Husbandry, International Veterinary Congress, 1930
• The Domestic Animals in relation to our Food and Industries, 1935
• Settlement on the Land—Der Ausweg, Paris
• Wales and the Animal Industry
• formerly Editor Veterinary Student and Editor-in-chief Veterinary News
• numerous contributions to Scientific Journal^[7]

External links

• The Times Obituary: http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=esusslib&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS136530820&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0

References

1. Jones, John Share, The National Library of Wales :: Dictionary of Welsh Biography
2. ‘JONES, Dr (John) Share’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Oct 2012 accessed 23 April 2014
3. ‘JONES, Dr (John) Share’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Oct 2012 accessed 23 April 2014
4. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
5. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F.W.S.
6. The Liberal Magazine, 1939
7. ‘JONES, Dr (John) Share’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Oct 2012 accessed 23 April 2014