Education
Jones was educated at Hawarden Grammar School and Bangor College of Education.
Jones was educated at Hawarden Grammar School and Bangor College of Education.
A teacher, he was president of the Flint County National Union of Teachers. He also served for two years in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He was a parliamentary under-secretary of state for Wales from 1974 to 1979 and became Member of Parliament for Alyn and Deeside in 1983.
Jones was replaced as Alyn and Deeside Member of Parliament by Mark Tami.
In 2007 he was elected as President of NEWI (Glyndŵr University). He was installed as Chancellor of the university in 2009.
Lord Jones was elected Vice President of the charity Attend in 2013 and currently holds this position. Jones is a lifelong fan of Everton Football Club.
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Jones first stood for Parliament in Northwich in 1966 without success, and was the Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for East Flintshire from 1970 to 1983.
In 1994 Jones was appointed by the Prime Minister as a member of the then new Intelligence and Security Committee, on which he served until 2001.
When the Committee was dissolved at that year"s general election, Jones retired from the House of Commons and was made a life peer with the title Baron Jones, of Deeside in the County of Clwyd, as was Dale Campbell-Savours, who had served on the Committee since 1997. In the 1999 Queen"s Birthday Honours, Jones was made a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.