Thomas Rupert Jones

Thomas Rupert Jones FRS (1 October 1819 – 13 April 1911) was a British geologist and palaeontologist.

While at a private school at Ilminster, his attention was attracted to geology by the fossils that are so abundant in the Lias quarries.

In 1835 he was apprenticed to a surgeon at Taunton, and he completed his apprenticeship in 1842 at Newbury in Berkshire.

In 1862 he was made professor of geology at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

Having devoted his especial attention to microfossils, he now became the highest authority in Britain on the Foraminifera and those Entomostraca that were regarded Ostracoda later on.