The senior wrangler and first Smith's prizeman of his tripos was George Gabriel Stokes.
[1] Admitted to Lincoln's Inn on 7 June 1841, and called to the bar on 24 November 1845, Jones became a pupil of Sir John Rolt.
[1] Jones died at St. Matthew's Gardens, St. Leonards-on-Sea, on 18 January 1902, and was buried in Repton churchyard.
In 1860 he drafted with Josiah William Smith the consolidated orders of the court of chancery and later with Sir Arthur Wilson the rules under the Judicature Acts of 1873 and 1875.
[1] Jones married (1) on 4 September 1851 Anna Maria (died 10 May 1873), daughter of Robert Steevens Harrison of Bourn Abbey, Lincolnshire; (2) on 4 September 1879 Eliza (died 26 October 1909), third daughter of the Rev.