Henry Festing Jones

Henry Festing Jones (30 January 1851 – 23 October 1928)[1] was an English solicitor and writer, known as the friend and posthumous biographer of Samuel Butler.

[3] Jones met Samuel Butler through Edward Hall, a college friend; they became close in 1876.

[14][9] The editing of this work has been seen as involving false emphasis and polishing of the originals, producing an effect of a "cross between Oscar Wilde and Dr Johnson".

[16] Jones edited Butler's works with Augustus Theodore Bartholomew, known as Theo and a librarian and bibliographer in Cambridge, in 20 volumes, which appeared in 1923–1926.

[17] On Bartholomew's death in 1933, Geoffrey Keynes became his literary executor, also taking on the papers of Jones and Butler, acting with Brian Hill.