Sergeant at Law

[Donches]

Thomas Wyndham Jones, a lawyer of the Hough, Cheshire, acted in two cases at Chester in 1839 and 1849 when his clients were defended by Sergeant Jones. A sergeant at law was an attorney qualified to appear in the courts. I'd like to find who Sergeant Jones was. Does anybody know how? I have wondered if it was Wyndham Jones himself, but I doubt it.

Don 

[HughC]

No: an attorney was the most basic form of lawyer.  Some were licensed to act as intermediary between a barrister and a client, and were known as solicitors.  Nowadays that term is used for all attorneys, incuding any who may do no more than draw up wills and convey house ownership.

A serjeant [spelling!] at law, on the other hand, was the highest rank of barrister.

Sorry I can't help with your query, though.

[Donches]

Many thanks Hugh. I had thought it must have been another Jones. There were a lot connected with the law, of Welsh origin, at Chester - and probably still are.

Don

[hanes teulu]

Chester Chronicle, 12 Dec 1828
DEATHS
Yesterday morning, at his mansion at Cymmau, Flintshire, at an advanced age, David Francis Jones, Esq, and for many years a respectable solicitor of this city .... Mr Jones was the father of Mr Sergeant Jones, a barrister of pre-eminent distinction".

Possibility? 

[Donches]

Anwyl Hanes Teulu,

I'm pretty sure that's him, and aswers my question.
Can you by any chance find a newspaper item about Thomas Wyndham Jones, solicitor of Hough and Nantwich, Cheshire, 1823-1867?

Diolch yn fawr,

Don 

[hanes teulu]

I think this is "Sergeant Jones" -
Staffordshire Advertiser, 24 May 1817
On Tuesday, at St. Andrews, Holborn, London, by the Bishop of Chester, David Francis Jones, Esq, of Lincoln's Inn, Recorder of Chester, to Ann Margaret Topping, second daughter of James Topping, Esq, of Whatcroft Hall.

I don't think this is the David Francis Jones died 1828 at an "advanced age" - his father?.

Will check for Thomas Wyndham Jones

cofion cynnes

[hallmark]

Is this him?

https://books.google.ie/books?id=UBRKAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA2987&lpg=PA2987&dq=%22Thomas+Wyndham+Jones%22&source=bl&ots=KDPgRAY2CC&sig=4ApJ8XYJ3FWy32LOIQI8x8CawXk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjzusmcxfncAhVkDMAKHZBuD4IQ6AEwB3oECAMQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Thomas%20Wyndham%20Jones%22&f=false

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[hallmark]

Morning Post London, England

2 May 1839


 INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.— Wednesday. IN RE THOMAS WYNDHAM JONES. In this case was involved a new point under the recent Act. Mr. Jones, who was an attorney, had been in a country prison, and after being confined twenty-one

[hanes teulu]

His obit. appeared in the Northwich Guardian, 20 July 1867 - held in high regard in the locale.