[1] Jones was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, he went on to Lincoln's Inn to qualify as a barrister.
Carmarthenshire politics in the early nineteenth century featured fierce rivalrey between the Blue (Whig) interest supported by Lord Cawdor of Golden Grove and the red (Tory) interest supported by Lord Dynevor.
Jones's father has benn the agent of the Golden Grove under its previous owners, the Vaughan family, before it passed into the hands of Cawdor in 1804.
Jones became Mayor of Carmarthen (the politics of the town being similarly polarised by Red-Blue rivalties) with support from the Blue faction in 1809.
[1] However, Cawdor's failure to support his parliamentary aspirations led him to contest Carmarthen Boroughs in the rival Red interest at the 1812 General Election.