James William Webb-Jones

[9] James William's parents were married at the British Consulate in Rouen, Haute Normandie, on 10 September 1900.

[9] James William's uncles included the prominent gynaecologist Arthur Webb-Jones[10] and Edwin Price Jones who (after a lauded pupillage in classical literature and English grammar at the Royal Masonic School, Wood Green)[11] was Vice-Consul for Chile[12] and Secretary to the Chamber of Commerce.

[5][17] He later attended the University of Grenoble in France,[5][17] where he received the Diplôme de Hautes Études.

[22][25] The godmother of Bridget Webb-Jones was Lady Walford Davies,[26] who was the wife of the composer Sir Henry Walford Davies KCVO OBE (who had been Master of the King's Music at St George's Chapel, Windsor, when James Webb-Jones had been Headmaster of St George's School, Windsor Castle).

[26][27] James William and his wife, Barbara, retired to Witham Hall,[17] where his son-in-law Peter Stanley Lyons was Headmaster of the School.