Henry Bence Jones FRS (31 December 1813 – 20 April 1873) was an English physician and chemist.

[1] He entered Harrow in 1827 and then went up to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1832, obtaining his degree in 1836.

[2] He initially worked for an apothecary but subsequently (1838) enrolled to study medicine at St George's Hospital, and in 1839 chemistry at University College, London.

[3] He delivered the Croonian Lecture to the Royal College of Physicians on Matter and Force in 1868.

He died in London on 20 April 1873 and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.