Background
Jones was the second son of Major-General John Thomas Jones, who had earlier fought in the Peninsula, and his wife Catherine Lawrence.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Jones was the second son of Major-General John Thomas Jones, who had earlier fought in the Peninsula, and his wife Catherine Lawrence.
He received his education at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1843 with Bachelor.
The Jones baronetcy was created in 1831 for his father, who died in 1843. He lived at Cranmer Hall in Norfolk where in 1860 he had to order the felling of the Bale Oak. He was appointed High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1851.
Their daughter Maud was deaf and subject to the interest of Alexander Graham Bell, whose initial research on the telephone was to improve communication with the deaf.
The Right Reverend Herbert Jones, second son of the third Baronet, was suffragan Bishop of Lewes.
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He was briefly Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for the Cheltenham constituency. He was a member of the Canterbury Association from 27 March 1848.