[1] Jones was born in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, and left his private school after the failure of his father's timber business.
[1] Harsh living conditions during World War II, and a hard winter in 1942 led to Jones suffering from double pneumonia.
His illness led to him leading an open air life, working in farming made him exempt from military service when he came of age.
[3] Musicals Jones worked on included Anthony Newley's The Good Old Bad Old Days and Dan Farson's Nights at the Comedy.
Jones ran Them and Theirs, a shop in St Christopher's Place, off London's Oxford Street, which sold commemorative ceramics and picture postcards.
"[1] Jones benefitted from treatment, and returned to work, conceiving imaginative projects for films and plays, of which none were brought to fruition.
They moved to Spain in the mid-1970s, due to Cornish's health, and ran a restaurant called the Wide-Mouthed Frog in Estepona on the Costa del Sol.
[1] His obituary in The Guardian described the lifestyle of his last years as "...despite no visible means of support apart from his state pension, somehow managed to live with an air of grand extravagance.
"[1] Disley spent his last years in Kennington, in sheltered housing where he planted a garden, and threw parties for his fellow-residents.