He was one of Thomas Arnold's pupils at Rugby School, went on to Catharine Hall, Cambridge in 1837, and graduated B.A.
He published a paper of observations on the minute structure of the liver, which led to his election as fellow of the Royal Society in 1850.
In 1851 he was elected physician to St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington, and continued on the staff of there till his death.
[1] Resident in Green Street, Park Lane, Jones in later years, moved to Montagu Square, London.
[1] Jones published with Edward Henry Sieveking, in 1854, a Manual of Pathological Anatomy, and in 1864 Clinical Observations on Functional Nervous Disorders.