Shadrach Jones

Shadrach Edward Robert Jones ( – 12 July 1895) was a New Zealand doctor, auctioneer, hotel-owner and impresario.

Jones was born in Gravesend, Kent, England in circa 1822. He graduated MD from St Andrews University in Scotland in 1844 and then practised medicine in Shropshire. He was well known in the hospitality business in Dunedin where he also leased land at Andersons Bay to establish the Vauxhall Gardens. In 1863 he engaged the All England Eleven cricket team to come to New Zealand and play matches in Dunedin and Christchurch, but the tour was a financial failure. He also brought Lysters' Opera Company from Australia to Dunedin to perform Italian operas. He then went to Sydney with his nephew Harwood where he continued to practise medicine.

He died in Raymond Terrace, New South Wales on 12 July 1895.