Religion: | Anglican |
Nationality: | British |
William Stanton Jones | |
Birth Date: | 29 July 1866 |
Other Post: | Bishop of Sodor and Man (1887–1891) |
Successor: | John Ralph Strickland Taylor |
Predecessor: | Charles Leonard Thornton-Duesbury |
Term: | 1928–1942 |
Bishop of Sodor and Man | |
Alma Mater: | Durham University |
William Stanton Jones (29 July 1866 – 13 August 1951)[1] [2] was an Anglican bishop.[3]
Stanton Jones was educated at Durham University.[4] Ordained in 1892[5] he began his ordained ministry as a curate at Widnes,[6] after which he was vicar of St Polycarp's Liverpool.[7] He was then vicar of St Mary's with St Lawrence's Kirkdale, Liverpool and rural dean of Middleton. From 1921 (pictured) to 1928 he was Archdeacon of Bradford[8] when he was ordained to the episcopate as Bishop of Sodor and Man,[9] a position he held for 14 years.