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Administrative / biographical background
Jenkin Jones became a lieutenant in 1813 and a commander in 1816, being appointed to the Julia. She was wrecked on the island of Tristan da Cunha in 1817 but Jones was acquitted at the subsequent court martial. From 1822 to 1824 he commanded the Sappho on the Cork Station and in 1828 the Gloucester. Soon after, however, he was promoted captain into the Royal Adelaide but remained on half-pay until he took command of the Curacoa in 1839, on the South American Station, remaining there until 1842. William Jones, son of Captain Jenkin Jones (q.v.), took the name of Byrom under terms of inheritance which stipulated that his wife's name should be added to his own. He entered the Navy in 1844 in the Collingwood, which was stationed at Portsmouth, became a lieutenant in 1850 and was in the Baltic and Black Sea during the Crimean War. In 1857 he sailed to China in a fleet of fifteen gunboats under Captain Sherard Osborn (1822-1875), sent to reinforce the China Squadron. The Leo, commanded by Jones, accompanied the Furious in 1858, when Lord Elgin was escorted up the Yangtse river to Hankow. In 1859 Jones was promoted to commander. The Leo was lost in the attack on the Taku forts and the consequent courts martial ended in honourable acquittal for Jones. On his return home the early symptoms of tuberculosis were beginning to appear and he only served at sea again for one year, 1861 to 1862.