Colonel Philip Jones (c. 1617 – 5 September 1674) was a Welsh military leader and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1650 and 1656.

[citation needed] He was a member of the Council of State and was nominated as representative for Monmouthshire in the Barebones Parliament.

[1] Pembrokeshire aside, most of South Wales had been staunchly Royalist prior to the civil war, and in the resulting power vacuum, Jones was able to rise from comparatively humble beginnings to a position of considerable wealth through purchases and awards of land.

From pre-war yeoman's earnings, he ended his life with a four figure income – fabulous riches for those days.

With Charles II in place, Jones was finally brought to trial in 1661 for having carried away the organ of St. Mary's Swansea, a charge he survived to die in his bed.