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Thomas Jones, 7th Viscount Ranelagh
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Heron Jones, 7th Viscount Ranelagh KCB (9 January 1812 – 13 November 1885) was known for his involvement in the volunteer movement to recruit amateur soldiers for the defence of Britain, and for his links to glamorous women, notably the Pre-Raphaelite model Annie Miller and the actress Lillie Langtry.
Heron Jones succeeded to the baronetcy becoming Viscount Ranelagh and Baron Jones of Navan in 1820 on the death of his father.〔Edmund Lodge, ''The genealogy of the existing British peerage: with brief sketches of the family histories of the nobility'', Saunders and Otley, 1832, p.301〕
==Volunteer movement==
Ranelagh was an enthusiastic supporter of the movement to create a volunteer army, which had arisen from fears of a French invasion. He created and commanded the 2nd South Middlesex Rifle Volunteers in 1859, the nucleus of which was formed from members of the Ranelagh Yacht Club. Ranelagh became a ''de facto'' leader of the Volunteer movement and was introduced as such to the French emperor Napoleon III. In 1863 Ranelagh helped to organise a show of force in Brighton at which he gave a speech defending the movement from attempts by the government to take control of it. He insisted that an independent volunteer militia was both cheaper and more effective for the country than a centrally organised force. He asserted that the English character prefers independence and distrusts "organisation", claiming that "we trust to our own pluck, that indomitable pluck that all Englishmen possess".〔LORD RANELAGH WITH THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH, ''Otago Witness'', 7 Feb 1863.〕 At this period Ranelagh was calling for a volunteer "people's army", an aspiration supported by a section of the press at the time.〔Ian Frederick William Beckett, ''The amateur military tradition, 1558-1945'', Manchester University Press ND, 1991, p.181-2.〕 He continued to command the Volunteers until his death in 1885.
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