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Jones, Davy
(Encyclopedia) Jones, Davy: see Davy Jones.Jones, Robert Edmond
(Encyclopedia) Jones, Robert Edmond, 1887–1954, American scene designer, b. Milton, N.H. With his design in 1915 for The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife, a new era of scene design began in the United…Jones, Mother
(Encyclopedia) Jones, Mother: see Jones, Mary Harris.Jones, Bobby
(Encyclopedia) Jones, Bobby: see Jones, Robert Tyre, Jr.Jones, Sir Edward Burne-
(Encyclopedia) Jones, Sir Edward Burne-: see Burne-Jones.Davy Jones
(Encyclopedia) Davy Jones, personification or spirit of the sea. The name is best known in the expression “Davy Jones's locker,” meaning the bottom of the sea, to which drowned sailors go.Jones, Antony Armstrong
(Encyclopedia) Jones, Antony Armstrong: see Snowdon, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of.Dow Jones Average
(Encyclopedia) Dow Jones Average, indicators used to measure and report value changes in representative stock groupings on the New York stock exchange. There are four different averages—industrial…Jones, Quincy
(Encyclopedia) Jones, Quincy (Quincy Delight Jones, Jr.), 1933–, African-American musician, composer, bandleader, and music executive, b. Chicago. Jones played trumpet and sang gospel growing up, and…Jones, Anson
(Encyclopedia) Jones, Anson, 1798–1858, last president of the Texas republic (1844–46), b. Seekonk section of Great Barrington, Mass. He studied medicine and after an itinerant business and medical…