Career
A former schoolmaster, Jones took up political work in 1910. He served with the Ministry of Munitions during World War I, and became secretary of the ministry"s priority department. Jones was re-elected in 1935, (when The Times described his campaign as having been subject to "organised rowdyism") and was knighted in 1944 for political and public services, but was heavily defeated at the 1945 general election.
Jones died in 1968 at his home in Swansea, aged 84.
He had been secretary of the South Wales Siemens Steel Association for 44 years.
