[1] He got involved in public service through the church and later worked at the Liverpool University Settlement in boys clubs and in the establishment of maternity and ante-natal clinics.

[8] He later had the honour, as Lord Mayor, of greeting Prime Minister, Winston Churchill on his surprise visit to Liverpool on 27 September 1941.

When he died, he left Liverpool University a considerable legacy consisting of his home and effects and the residue of his estate after other bequests.

[12] Jones was selected as Liberal candidate for the constituency of Liverpool West Derby for the general election of 1923.

In a straight fight with the sitting Conservative MP, Sir William Hall, he gained a majority of 1,990 votes.

[13] The 1922 general election had also been a straight fight but on that occasion Sir William Hall had been opposed by a Labour candidate with no Liberal intervention.

[14] However, by the 1924 general election, the Tory Party had revived and the contest in West Derby was now a three-cornered affair with Jones facing a new Conservative opponent, John Sandeman Allen as well as Labour's T G Adams.

In 1945, at the age of 73, Jones was attacked by burglars at his then home in Sefton Park, suffered head injuries, and was left in a critical condition.