Sir Walter Benton Jones, 2nd Baronet (26 September 1880 – 5 December 1967) succeeded to the Baronetcy on the death of his father in 1936. He was educated at

Repton School Repton School is a 13–18 co-educational, private, boarding and day school in the public school tradition, in Repton, Derbyshire, England. Sir John Port of Etwall, on his death in 1557, left funds to create a grammar school which was th ...

and

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any ...

. He succeeded his father in 1915 as managing director of Rother Vale Collieries which owned mines around

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, near

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and, like his father, became a prominent industrialist with numerous interests and directorships in mining, steel and banking in Yorkshire and elsewhere. He lived at Whirlow Brook Hall,

Sheffield Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, situated south of Leeds and east of Manchester. The city is the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield. It is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire and some of its so ...

, Yorkshire which he built in about 1906 and later at the family seat Irnham Hall, Irnham,

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. He married Lily Fawcett and was succeeded by their son Peter (9 January 1911 – 11 November 1972). His other children were Pamela (24 March 1908 – 22 January 1997) and Rachel Mary (15 November 1918 – 2002).

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1880 births 1967 deaths Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom People educated at Repton School Businesspeople from Sheffield People from South Kesteven District 20th-century English businesspeople {{UK-baronet-stub