Walter Jones (Irish politician)

Walter Jones (29 December 1754 – 1839) was an Irish politician from County Leitrim. He held local offices in Leitrim and some minor national patronage offices, and entered Parliament on the interest of his relatives the Beresford family.

Representing the town of Coleraine in County Londonderry, Jones sat in the House of Commons of Ireland from 1798 until its abolition in 1800, and then in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom for most of the period 1801 to 1809.

Jones was the oldest son of Theophilus Jones (1729–1811), a member of the Irish House of Commons from 1761 to 1800, and then of House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1802. Their mother Catherine Beresford (died 1763) was a daughter of the 1st Earl of Tyrone.

His younger brother Admiral Theophilus Jones (1760–1835) was an officer in the British Royal Navy. His third brother Reverend James Jones (died 1825) was a Church of Ireland clergyman in County Londonderry, and father of Admiral Theobald Jones.

Their family home was at Headfort, near Drumsna in County Leitrim.Anthony Trollope's first published novel was written while he was staying in Drumsna in 1843, inspired by the ruins of Headfort. Trollope wrote in his diary: "While I was still among the ruined walls and decayed beams I fabricated the plot of The Macdermots of Ballycloran".

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