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1878 - 1947. Born at Longford, in 1906 he became a partner with James Bacon and then worked under his own name; a director of the Whitmore Park Estate Company (building there in 1930), he built Whitley Isolation Hospital, schools, council houses, extensions for Morris Motors and Wickmans and private housing at Radford. See PA101/8/685 for sale of land in Shakespeare Street, Stoke by Jones to Alfred Hill, builder in 1927; see PA101/8/826 for land at Durbar Avenue. He did some work at the temporary art gallery in 1943 - see PA434/183,184. In 1930 Jones acquired Sir Thomas White's Charity land on the north-western side of the city from Frederic Billing (q.v.) - see PA488/1/6/276. For the firm's dealings with Bablake School, 1929, see PA489/5/16/22,23. Joneses tendered to build Bablake School pavilion in 1934 - see PA489/5/21/21. In 1929 Jones bought 117, Allesley Old Road, which had until recently belonged to Frederic Billing - see PA2307/164. W.H. Jones and C.E. Harris developed the Biggin Hall Estate, Stoke, 1923ff - see PA2770/44/1.XI,4-8. Jones developed the land off Allesley Old Road which formed the Billing Road estate, 1930-32 (see PA2770/55/1.XVI,XVII,2-7: PA2002/10/1-2). In 1925 he bought approximately 7 acres of land at Briton Road and Walsgrave Road, Stoke - see PA2002/33/1-3. In 1929 he sold land at Glendower Avenue to James Henry Cooper, plumber - see PA2002/14/1. Owned "Dalecote", Warwick Road by 1934 - see PA704/3/27,34,36. PA2978/2/4.XII shows that Jones bought Whoberley Hall and its environs for house-building in 1926.