Alfred George Jones (, 23 July 1846 - 17 July 1905) was an Irish baptist missionary to China. Jones had his own business in his native town of

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, Ireland, but left it in the hands of a manager in order to go on his mission to China.T. Richard, Forty-five years in China : reminiscenses, Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1916 He attended Lancashire Independent College, a dissenting academy from 1874 to 1876 and arrived in Yantai,

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in 1876. In the following year, he went to Qingzhou to assist

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by keeping the accounts for an ongoing relief effort for the victims of the Northern Chinese Famine of 1876–1879. He continued to reside in Qingzhou with the exception of the period from 1889 to 1896, during which he lived in Zouping. He died when a temple building on Taishan, Tai'an in which he was sleeping collapsed during a storm.

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