Education
Bedford-born, Jones was educated at Bedford Modern School and became an estate agent, company director and farmer in north Bedfordshire.
Bedford-born, Jones was educated at Bedford Modern School and became an estate agent, company director and farmer in north Bedfordshire.
He was two times Mayor of Bedford. He became a councillor on Bedford Borough Council in 1949 and on Bedfordshire County Council in 1956, serving as Mayor of Bedford 1957-1959. He was vice-president of the Association of Municipal Corporations and was chairman of the Conservative Party national advisory committee on local government.
Jones contested Wellingborough in 1955.
His successor as Member of Parliament for Daventry was Regional Prentice, previously Member of Parliament for Newham North East who had defected from the Labour Party to the Conservatives two years earlier. He died in Bedford aged 76.
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He was Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Northamptonshire South from a 1962 by-election to 1974, and for Daventry from 1974 to 1979.