Thomas Rupert Jones ( 1819 - 1911 )

Birth: Wood Street, Cheapside, London, England (01 October 1819) Death: Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire (13 April 1911) Burial: Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire Career: Apprenticed to Hugh Norris, Surgeon of Taunton (1835); completed his apprenticeship with a doctor in Newbury (1842); Medical Assistant in London (1842-1850); studied and became an authority of Foraminifera and Entomos traca; Professor of Geology, Royal Military and Staff Colleges, Sandhurst (1862); retired (1880) Memberships: FGS; Academy of National Sciences of Philadelphia (Corresponding); Geol Reichsanstalt.