General Sir Henry David Jones GCB DCL (14 March 1791 – 4 August 1866) was a British Army officer who became Governor of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

[1] In February, 1815, he joined the army under General John Lambert on Dauphin Island, Alabama and was sent to New Orleans on special duty under a return American flag of truce.

He was appointed commanding engineer in charge of the fortifications on Montmartre,[1] after the entrance or the British troops into Paris under the Duke of Wellington.

[1] He was appointed Commissioner of Municipal Boundaries in England in 1835, chairman of the board of public works in Ireland in 1845 and director of the Royal Engineer Establishment for Field Instruction at Chatham in 1851.

[1][4] In 1859, he was appointed to serve on the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom, whose recommendations prompted a huge programme of fortification for the British naval dockyards.