Harry Jones

General Sir Henry David Jones (14 March 1791 – 4 August 1866) was a British Army officer who became Governor of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

Life He was the fifth son of John Jones by his wife, Mary, daughter of John Roberts, Esq., of Landguard Fort, an officer 29th Foot, and was brother of Major-General Sir John Thomas Jones, Bart., KCB, and uncle of Sir Willoughby Jones, Bart., of Cranmer Hall, Fakenham, Norfolk.

Educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Jones was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in September 1808. In 1809 he was involved in the attack on the fortress at Vlissingen and then commanding the Royal Engineer forces at the Siege of Sevastopol. In 1859, he was appointed to serve on the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom, whose recommendations prompted a huge programme of fortification for the British naval dockyards.

He died after "an illness of some duration" on 4August 1866

Cricket career Jones was associated with Middlesex and was recorded in one match in 1826, totalling 7 runs with a highest score of 6 and holding one catch.

Family In 1824 Jones married Charlotte, daughter of the Reverend Thomas Hornsby, Vicar of Ravensthorpe, Peterborough and Rector of Hoddesdon, by whom he had six sons and five daughters. His eldest son, Harry Valette Jones, died in 1863; his second son, Captain Arthur Jones, 2nd West India Regiment, died on the coast of Africa in 1861; and his fourth son, Montagu Hornsby Jones, Esq., an ensign of the 84th Regiment of Foot, died in 1859.