Stuart Thornbury Jones (24 January 1929 – 20 July 2015) was a New Zealand

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er. He played one first-class match for

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during the 1953–54 season.Stewart Jones

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. Retrieved 15 May 2016.Stuart Jones
CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 May 2016. Jones was born at Naseby in

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in 1929 and was educated at Kings High School in Dunedin.McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 74. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.
Available online
at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.) He played his only top-level representative match in February 1954, scoring eight runs and taking two wickets in a Plunket Shield fixture against Canterbury at Carisbrook in Dunedin. Although he did not return to the Otago first-class side, he did play two fixtures in 1956–57 for the side, including the annual fixture against Southland. Jones retired to Christchurch where he died in July 2015 at the age of 86. His ashes were buried at

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in Dunedin alongside his wife who had died in 1962 at the age of 27. The couple had two sons.Genealogy and grave location enquiries: Jones, Jean Lorna
cemeteries search, Dunedin City Council. Retrieved 19 October 2021.

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* 1929 births 2015 deaths People from Naseby, New Zealand New Zealand cricketers Otago cricketers Burials at Andersons Bay Cemetery {{NewZealand-cricket-bio-1920s-stub