Inigo Jones (British Army officer)

Major-General Inigo Richmund Jones, CB, CVO (23 September 1848 – 20 July 1914) was a British Army officer who commanded the Guards brigade during the Second Boer War, and later was General Officer Commanding the Troops in the Straits Settlements.

[2] On arrival, the battalion was attached to the 16th Infantry Brigade serving as part of the 8th Division under Sir Leslie Rundle.

[4] For his service in the war he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the April 1901 South Africa Honours list (the award was dated to 29 November 1900;[5] he only received the actual decoration from King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace on 24 October 1902[6]).

Following the end of the war in June 1902, Jones left Cape Town in the SS Carisbrook Castle in September 1902, arriving at Southampton early the following month.

[9] In 1888 he married Elinor Margaret Charteris, granddaughter of the 7th Earl of Wemyss & March; they had one daughter and one son.