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8 September 2015

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№ 48

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8 September 2015

Hammer Price:
£900

Baronet’s Badge, of the United Kingdom, silver-gilt and enamel, reverse inscribed, ‘Jones of Pentower 1917’, hallmarks for London 1929, with neck cravat, in case of issue, nearly extremely fine £600-800

Evan Davies Jones was born on 18 April 1859, the son of Thomas Jones, of Pentower, Fishguard. Major in the Engineer and Railway Staff Corps, R.E. (T.F.). Served in the Great War in France as a Lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers. Was a prisoner-of-war in Germany, May 1917-December 1918. One of the committee of three appointed to deal with the organisation of civilian labour for defence purposes in London during the war. Petrol Controller, 1917-18. M.P. for Pembrokeshire, 1918-22. High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire, 1911-12. Chairman of the Road Transport Board, 1918-19; Commissar for Dyes (Board of Trade), 1917-19; Controller of Coal Mines, 1919; President of the Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors, 1935-36. Chairman of the Standing Joint Committee, 1926-36; Vice-President of the National Library of Wales, 1928-39. Created a Baronet in 1917. Sir Evan Davies Jones died on 20 April 1949.