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| - Ronald Potter Jones (1876-2 October 1965) was an architect, leading member of the Unitarian Church in London and a local politician. Born in Liverpool he was the he son of Charles William Jones, a ship-broker and shipowner and of Georgina née Potter. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and the University of Oxford, graduating in 1896. He came to London in 1900 and became a lecturer at the School of Architecture, King's College London. He became a member of the Essex Street Chapel, Notting Hill, to which he was a generous benefactor. In 1908 he joined the Executive Committee of the British & Foreign Unitarian Association. He was Treasurer of the General Assembly of the Unitarian and Free Christian Churches 1939-59. He was a member of the London County Council from 1925–34, representing Bethnal Green South West. A member of the Liberal-aligned Progressive Party until 1928 when it was formally absorbed into the Liberal Party. He was the author of a number of books including Nonconformist Church Architecture (1914), Public Worship and the Mind of Today: Two points of View, a Layman's and a Minister's (1935)
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