Ebenezer Jones

Ebenezer Jones (20 January 1820 – 14 September 1860) was an English poet who wrote a good deal of poetry of very unequal merit, but at his best shows a true poetic vein. He was befriended by Robert Browning and Christina Rossetti.

He was born in Canonbury Square, Islington, London, on 20 January 1820. His father was of Welsh background; his mother, Hannah Sumner, was of an Essex family. They were strict Calvinists. His father died, and at the age of 17 he worked as a clerk in a city firm connected with the tea-trade.

Jones was for a short time a follower of Robert Owen. He assisted his friend W. J. Linton with political journalism, and worked for the radical publishers John Cleave and Henry Hetherington. Jones went down with consumption, and died on 14 September 1860.