George William Jones (4 February 1938 – 14 April 2017) was

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of government at the

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and the biographer, with

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. Jones was a longtime member of the

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at LSE and in time became co-chair of it. He was appointed OBE in the

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for services to the

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Selected publications

*''Herbert Morrison: Portrait of a Politician''. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1973. *"The Prime Ministers' Secretaries: Politicians or Administrators?" in J.G. Griffith (ed.), ''From Politics to Administration''. Allen and Unwin, London, 1975. *''West European Prime Ministers''. Frank Cass, London, 1991. (Editor) *''At the Centre of Whitehall''. Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1998. (With J.M. Lee & J. Burnham). *''At Power's Elbow: Aides to the Prime Minister from Robert Walpole to David Cameron''. Biteback Publishing, London, 2013. (With Andrew Blick)

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1938 births 2017 deaths Academics of the London School of Economics English people of Welsh descent English political scientists Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford Officers of the Order of the British Empire People educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School Alumni of Nuffield College, Oxford Labour Party (UK) parliamentary candidates {{UK-academic-bio-stub