Sir Edward Warburton Jones PC(NI) PC QC (3 July 1912 – 17 March 1993), was a

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and politician. Jones, son of a Resident Magistrate, was educated at

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and

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. He was called to the Northern Ireland Bar in 1933,

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in 1948, and was called to the English Bar (Middle Temple) in 1964. In 1951, he was elected to the

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as Unionist member for Londonderry City, and was appointed as

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in 1964, and to the

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in 1965, entitling him to the style "The Right Honourable". In 1968, he resigned from Parliament and from political office upon appointment as a judge of the

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, and then as a Lord Justice of Appeal of Northern Ireland in 1973, when he was also

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. In 1979 he was appointed to the

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. He retired in 1984 and died in 1993. He served as a Lay Member of the General Synod of the

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and was Chancellor of the

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from 1945 to 1964 and of the

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from 1959 to 1964 and from 1978 to 1981.

Death

Jones died in 1993 at Craig-y-Mor, the large coastal mansion inherited through his wife's family, in Treaddur Bay,

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; he died at

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. Sir Edward had three sons, one of them, Peter Warburton-Jones (died 2001), was also a barrister in England and, latterly, Northern Ireland.His eldest son is Anthony Graham Hume Jones who became Resident Judge in Taunton. His third son was Hume Riversdale Jones (died 2007) was Director of Savile in Hampshire. His first wife was Margaret Anne Crosland Smellie (died 1953) jhe married her sister, Ruth Buchan Smellie (died 1989). They had one son, Charles Edward Buchan Jones, a solicitor in Liverpool

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