Robert Jones (artilleryman)
Robert Jones was a lieutenant in the artillery corps of the British army and known for popularizing figure skating in Great Britain and his 1772 trial for sodomy.
External links
- Skating on thin ice
- Ice skating in the 18th century
- Rictor Norton, "The First Public Debate about Homosexuality in England: The Case of Captain Jones, 1772", The Gay Subculture in Georgian England, 19 December 2004, updated 10 May 2014 <http://rictornorton.co.uk/eighteen/jones1.htm>.
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