Career
He was the first British ambassador to have come from an ethnic minority. His father, Ernest Walter Jones, was a domiciled European who worked in the Telegraph Department in India. His mother, Merlyn Edith Jones (née Jones), was an Anglo-Indian woman, daughter of a Postmaster of Madras.
He entered the diplomatic service and was appointed British ambassador to Kazakhstan in 1993.
His career was cut short by his death in 1995, at the age of 54.
