He was a notable promoter of the British Schools model of free education, and of Welsh and English Calvinistic Methodist churches.
[1] After leaving school, he took over his sponsor's business, and after adding the old Breconshire Brewery to his interests in 1841,[2] in the same year purchased the Abergavenny Gas Works.
[1] A supporter of the Welsh language, in his position as secretary of the Calvinistic Methodist ministers and elders in Brecknock, in June 1848 he drafted and co-signed a letter to J. P. Kay Shuttleworth of the Committee of Council on Education, urging that H.M.
[1] Jones supported the efforts of David Charles III to combine Government aid with voluntary charity.
At a conference held at Merthyr Tydfil, non-conformist ministers from Monmouthshire, Glamorgan, and Brecknock agreed to accept Government aid, enabling the formation of the South Wales British Schools Association, with Jones as treasurer and Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover as president.