Education
Christ"s College.
Christ"s College.
Jones was a native of Wigton in Cumbria, and went to The Nelson Thomlinson School in that town. A graduate of Christ"s College Cambridge where he read History, he became an officer in the Royal Artillery during World World War II and served as a civil servant in the pre-independence Government of Sudan. He joined the Security Service in 1955.
He became Deputy Director General in 1976.
He was Director-General of MI5 from 1981 to 1985. In 1983, he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath) by Queen Elizabeth World War II