Lieutenant-General Michael Jones, 1606 to 10 December 1649, was an Irish-born soldier of Welsh descent who fought for Parliament and the Commonwealth in the War of the Three Kingdoms, primarily in Ireland. Third son of Lewis Jones, Bishop of Killaloe, his brothers Henry and Ambrose were also bishops in the Protestant Church of Ireland. After the outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641, he served in the army loyal to the Protestant-led Dublin Castle administration against the Catholic Confederacy until the 1643 Cessation. Like a number of Irish Protestants, objections to the terms and their possible impact on Ireland caused him to switch sides; in 1644, he went to England, and joined Parliamentarian forces in Cheshire, where he remained until the end of the First English Civil War in 1646. In June 1647, he was appointed governor of Dublin, and military commander in Leinster, winning significant victories over Royalist/Confederate armies at Dungan's Hill and Rathmines. After Oliver Cromwell arrived to take command in August 1649, he served under him at the sieges of Drogheda and Wexford. The Parliamentarian army then moved onto Waterford, but suffered severely from sickness, and was forced to retreat. Jones died of fever on 10 December 1649 and in a letter reporting his death to Parliament, Cromwell wrote "What England lost hereby is above me to speak". Personal details Michael Jones was born sometime between 1606 to 1610 in Ardagh, County Longford, third of five sons of Lewis Jones (1560–1646), a Welshman who became Bishop of Killaloe in 1633. His maternal uncle James Usher was head of the Church of Ireland from 1625 to 1656, while two of his brothers also became bishops, Henry (1605–1681) and Ambrose (died 1678). His other two brothers, Oliver (c. 1612–1664) and Theophilus (c. 1606–1685) were soldiers and politicians. In February 1646, he married Mary Culme (?–1661), widow of Sir Hugh Culme (died 1630); they had no children, and in 1650 she applied to the English House of Commons for payment of a pension promised to her husband. He left his few possessions to his nephew and namesake Michael, son of his brother Henry and Mary's daughter Jane Culme. Career 1641 to 1646 In 1631, Jones was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in London, where he studied law; he became a member of King's Inns, Dublin in November 1640 and began practising a legal career. When the Irish Rebellion began in November