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{{short description|Wales international rugby union footballer}}
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{{Infobox rugby biography
| name = John Strand-Jones
| image =J Strand-Jones-1901.jpg
| caption =Jones in 1901
| birth_name = John Strand-Jones
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| birth_place = [[Caio, Carmarthenshire]], [[Wales]]
| death_place = [[Pencarreg]], [[Wales]]
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| ru_position = [[Rugby union positions#15. Fullback|Fullback]]
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| ru_amateurclubs = [[Lampeter Town RFC]] [[Llanelli RFC]] [[Oxford University RFC]] [[Liverpool St Helens F.C.|Liverpool F.C.]] [[London Welsh RFC]]
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| ru_nationalteam = [[Wales national rugby union team|Wales]]<ref>[http://www.wru.co.uk/12750_14256.php?player=26320&includeref=dynamic Welsh Rugby Union player profiles]{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
| ru_nationalyears = 1902–1903
| ru_nationalcaps = 5
| ru_nationalpoints = (11)
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| occupation = Anglican clergyman
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| university = [[St David's College, Lampeter]] [[Oxford University]]
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| birth_date={{Birth date|1877|12|02|df=yes}}
| death_date={{death date and age|1958|04|03|1877|12|02|df=yes}}

}}'''John Strand-Jones''' (2 December 1877 – 3 April 1958) was a [[Wales|Welsh]] [[rugby union]] player, who represented the [[Wales national rugby union team]] on five occasions in 1902 and 1903. His profession was in the clergy of the [[Anglican Church]].

==Life==
Strand-Jones was born on 2 December 1877 in [[Caio, Carmarthenshire]].<ref name="scrum">{{cite web|url=http://www.scrum.com/1200_1205.php?player=26320&includeref=dynamic|title=Strand Jones|work=Player stats|publisher=www.scrum.com|accessdate=2008-05-12}}</ref> He was educated at [[St David's College, Lampeter]], at [[Jesus College, Oxford]], from 1898 to 1901, graduating [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in 1899, and finished his theological training at St Michael's College, [[Aberdare]].<ref name="Crockford">{{cite book|title=Crockford's Clerical Directory 1957-58|page=631}}</ref> He played rugby for [[Oxford University RFC]] in 1899 at [[Rugby union positions#13. Outside centre & 12. Inside centre|centre]] and in 1900 and 1901 at [[Rugby union positions#15. Fullback|fullback]].<ref name="Baker">{{cite book|last=Baker|first=J. N. L.|authorlink=J. N. L. Baker| title=Jesus College, Oxford 1571–1971|publisher=Oxonian Press Ltd|location=London|year=1971|pages=98|isbn=0-9502164-0-2}}</ref>

He made his debut for Wales in the [[Six Nations Championship|Home Nations Championship]] against [[England national rugby union team|England]] on 11 January 1902, playing at fullback and scoring a [[penalty (rugby)|penalty]].<ref name="scrum"/> He also created one of the tries for Wales.<ref name="Lampeter"/> He played in the other matches against [[Scotland national rugby union team|Scotland]] (scoring a [[Try (rugby)|conversion]]) and [[Ireland national rugby union team|Ireland]].<ref name="scrum"/> Wales won all three matches, winning the championship and the [[Triple Crown (rugby union)|Triple Crown]].<ref name="Lampeter"/> In the following year, he played against England (scoring a conversion) and Scotland.<ref name="scrum"/> It was said of Strand-Jones that he made himself one of the "immortals".<ref name="Lampeter"/>

Strand-Jones also won distinction as a [[lawn tennis|tennis]] and [[field hockey|hockey]] player, and once played for the [[Wales national field hockey team|Wales International hockey team]].<ref name=schron>{{cite news|title=New Rector of Hanwood. A Rugby International. 20 Years as Chaplain in India|work=Shrewsbury Chronicle|date=25 October 1929|page=3}}</ref>

Strand-Jones was ordained in the [[Church of England]] as deacon in 1903 and priest in 1904. He was curate at [[Mold, Flintshire]], from 1903 to 1908, and at [[Corwen]], [[Denbighshire]],<ref name="Crockford" /> before going to serve as an army chaplain in India in 1909, becoming based in garrisons in the [[Punjab, British India|Punjab]] under the [[Anglican Diocese of Lahore|Diocese of Lahore]] (most of the territory of which is now part of [[Pakistan]]).<ref>Mangan J.A., ''Pleasure, Profit, Proselytism British Culture and Sport at Home and Abroad 1700-1914'', Frank Cass. London pg. 138</ref> During the [[First World War]] he served within India and became senior chaplain to the [[Waziristan Field Force]] on the [[Military history of North-West Frontier|North-West Frontier]] in 1916–17. He was remembered as a keen organiser of hockey, football and cricket matches for troops.<ref name=schron />

He was the Senior Chaplain in Dalhousie, India, in the years 1926 to 1928.

After leaving the army, he then ministered in England as Rector of [[Hanwood, Shropshire]] from 1929 to 1934 and for much of the same period was also Chaplain at [[Shrewsbury (HM Prison)|Shrewsbury Prison]].<ref name="Crockford" />

On retirement, he moved back to Wales to become a farmer near [[Lampeter]].<ref name="Baker"/> He was chairman of [[Lampeter Town RFC]] 1947–48. He died in 1958 aged 80. One of his former international colleagues, [[Rhys Gabe]], said that Strand-Jones "was always reliable on the field and a gentleman with kindly feelings and high principles off the field".<ref name="Lampeter">{{cite web|url=http://www.clwbrygbillambed.org/history.html|title=Lampeter Town RFC – History|publisher=[[Lampeter Town RFC]]|accessdate=2008-05-12|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070828202335/http://www.clwbrygbillambed.org/history.html|archivedate=2007-08-28}}</ref>

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[[Category:20th-century Welsh Anglican priests]]
[[Category:Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford]]
[[Category:British Indian Army chaplains]]
[[Category:Llanelli RFC players]]
[[Category:London Welsh RFC players]]
[[Category:Oxford University RFC players]]
[[Category:Rugby union fullbacks]]
[[Category:Rugby union players from Carmarthenshire]]
[[Category:Wales international rugby union players]]
[[Category:Welsh rugby union players]]

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