Ernest Leighton Jones (26 November 1871 – 12 December 1959) was an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

er who played with St Kilda in the

Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...

(VFL). He later served as president of St Kilda Football Club and as a Melbourne city councillor for over twenty years.

References

External links

* * 1871 births 1959 deaths Australian rules footballers from Melbourne St Kilda Football Club players People from Carlton, Victoria St Kilda Football Club administrators Victoria (Australia) local councillors Politicians from Melbourne 20th-century Australian politicians Australian sportsperson-politicians {{AFL-bio-1870s-stub