Background
He was born at Petersham in Sydney to solicitor Alfred Edmund Jaques and Catherine Harriett, née Sutton.
He was born at Petersham in Sydney to solicitor Alfred Edmund Jaques and Catherine Harriett, née Sutton.
He attended Abbey School at Beckenham in Kent before returning to Australia, first to Bowral then to Sydney Church of England Grammar School, and finally to the University of Sydney, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in 1904 and a Bachelor of Law in 1906.
In 1912, he served as chairman of the Coal and Shale Mining (West) Wages Board, and during World War I served in the Royal Field Artillery. In 1920, he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as a Nationalist member for Eastern Suburbs. With the reintroduction of single-member districts, he was elected as the member for Bondi, but he was defeated in 1930.
After leaving politics, Jaques returned to the Bar and worked primarily in workers" compensation.
Unmarried, he died in Sydney in 1952.