Arthur Webb-Jones (1875 – 30 April 1917) was a prominent Welsh gynaecologist who served with the British Army in Egypt. He was the father of the distinguished surgeon Arthur Webb-Jones (1917 - 1965) of the same name.

Family Arthur, who was born in Glamorgan to an upper middle class family, was the younger son of Lieutenant-Colonel William Matthew Jones VD (1838 - 1921),The Western Mail, 13 September 1900, Births, Marriages, and Deaths. of the 1st Swansea Corps of the 1st Glamorganshire Artillery Volunteers,The Herald of Wales, 20 September 1941, 'Well-Known Docksman and Cricketer', p.3 who was a founder and owner of the international chartered shipbrokerage M. Jones and Bro. (1856 - 1942). Arthur's mother was Agnes Ida Long (1845 – 1899).1851-1901 inc. Wales Census. Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO)

Arthur's eldest sibling Ernest William Jones (1870 - 1941) inherited the international chartered shipbrokerage M. Jones and Bro. and was a first-class cricketer. Arthur's nephew through his elder brother Ernest was the choral educator James William Webb-Jones.

Arthur's cousins included polyglot Edwin Price Jones (1855 - 1924), who (after a lauded pupillage at the Royal Masonic School, Wood Green)The Freemasons' Magazine and Masonic Mirror, Vol. 23, June to December 1870, Published for The Freemasons' Magazine Company, Strand, London, 1870, pp. 53-54The Freemasons' Magazine and Masonic Mirror, December 1869, pp. 73-74 was Vice-Consul for Chile, and President of the Swansea Chamber of Commerce; and William (Bill) Wynn Jones, who was Anglican Bishop of Central Tanganyika from 1946 until his death by car accident in 1951.

Career

Arthur Webb-Jones was educated at Malvern College (1890 - 1893, School Prefect), and at St Thomas' Hospital, and at the University of London (LRCP, 1899; B.S., 1911; M.D., 1913), where the subject of his M.D. thesis was Bilharziosis in Women.

His notable published works include Lumbar Hernia (The Lancet, 1902, ii, 747)) and Two Cases of Gynaecomastia (Ibid, 1904, i, 865). He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England on 31 May 1900.

Webb-Jones from 1900 to 1904 served in the British Egyptian Army in the Sudan, where he subsequently settled and established a private practice at Rue Stamboul, Alexandria, and was appointed Surgeon and Gynaecologist to the Government Hospital and Medical Officer to the Egyptian State Railway, Alexandria District. He received the thanks of the Sirdar and Governor-General of the Sudan for his services. He resided in Egypt from 1913 to 1917.

Webb Jones during the Gallipoli Campaign served in the yeomanry of the British Army from May 1915 to December 1916.

When, in spring 1917, there occurred epidemic of typhus in Alexandria, Webb-Jones gave an intravenous injection of saline solution to another practitioner, who was dying from typhus, by which he fatally infected himself, a consequence of which he died eleven days later on 30 April 1917. His death warranted a mention in a special intelligence report to the Houses of Parliament, which was published in The Lancet.

Marriage Arthur Webb-Jones married Lillian Bell Wakeman-Long (1875 – 1907)The Lancet, 22 September 1906, p. 69 in 1906 by whom he had three children:1891 and 1901 Wales Census: Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO)

Francis Arthur John Webb-Jones (later Wakeman-Long) (b. 21 October 1910, Marylebone, London – d. 1986, Dover) who changed his surname to Wakeman-Long for his marriage. Francis was a barrister who served as a Chairman of the family international chartered shipbroker M. Jones and Bro. (1856 - 1942) until its dissolution, as a consequence of the Second World War, in 1942. Marjorie Agnes Webb-Jones (1912 – 2005) Married Lionel C. Lord Sept 1935 at Kensington. Arthur Junior (17 June 1917, Alexandria – 20 January 1965, Hartlepool) . He received the degrees of M.B and B.S. at St Thomas' Hospital during 1940. He served with the Royal Air Force in West Africa during the Second World War, after which he received the F.R.C.S.Ed. and a Fellowship during 1948. He was a Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He worked at Manchester Royal Infirmary and Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, before he moved to Hartlepools and Sedgefield General Hospital during 1950. He was a member of the Hand Club of Great Britain. He was a cricketer who Captained West Hartlepool's senior eleven for three seasons. He married Doreen Ariadne Elwood (1921 – 2016)England & Wales, Marriage Index, 1837-2005, Vol. 8D, p. 936 by whom he had three children.The British Medical Journal, 20 February 1965, p.527

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