Background
The son of Captain Jones, Registered Nurse, he was born in Liverpool, 1 October 1819.
The son of Captain Jones, Registered Nurse, he was born in Liverpool, 1 October 1819.
He was one of Thomas Arnold"s pupils at Rugby School, went on to Catharine Hall, Cambridge in 1837, and graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1840.
After study at Saint George"s Hospital, London, he took the degree of Bachelor of Medicine at Cambridge in 1843, but never proceeded to that of Doctor of Medicine He published a paper of observations on the minute structure of the liver, which led to his election as fellow of the Royal Society in 1850. In 1851 he was elected physician to Saint Mary"s Hospital, Paddington, and continued on the staff of there till his death. In the College of Physicians he was junior censor in 1863-1864 and senior censor in 1886, and in 1888 a vice-president
In 1865 he delivered the Lumleian lectures on the pathology of the nervous system.
Resident in Green Street, Park Lane, Jones in later years, moved to Montagu Square, London. He died there of cancer of the stomach, 30 September 1890.
Jones married in 1851 Louisa Holt, and had two sons, who both went into the medical profession.
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Jones became a member of the College of Physicians of London in 1845, and was elected a fellow in 1849.