William Henry Hyndman Jones was born on 9 August 1847 in Liverpool.

[1][2] He attended Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge,[3] was admitted to Lincoln's Inn on 21 November 1870, and was called to the bar of Lincoln's Inn on 3 July 1878.

[1][2] In 1880, two years after his call to the bar, he went to Barbados to review the operations of its police force.

[3] In 1883, he was the chief justice of both Saint Lucia and Tobago, as well as the attorney general and a member of the executive council of either or both colonies.

[2][5] Hyndman Jones died on 20 August 1926 in Bournemouth, England.