Edmund Britten Jones

Edmund Britten Jones was born in Adelaide on 8 October 1888.

He was educated at Christian Brothers' College and Xavier College before attending  the University of Adelaide.  He was awarded a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery in 1910.

While at University, Jones played for the Adelaide University Cricket Club (including the Intervarsity Cricket team) and received a Blue in 1911.  He was also on the Intervarsity Athletics Team.

He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship at the University of Oxford in 1912.

He also played 44 games (43 league and 1 state) for the North Adelaide football club (1907 to 1910).

Jones served as Captain with the RAM Royal Army Medical Corps from 1914 to 1920.  He also served in the Second World War as a Lieutenant Colonel at the 2nd Australian General Hospital.

Jones held many important posts in the medical world. He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and of the Royal Australian College of Physicians, and a leading member of the British Medical Association. He was medical secretary of the SA branch from 1927 to 1929, president in 1934/5 and SA representative on the Federal Council in 1937.

He was a councillor of the Royal Australian College of Physicians in 1944. During a distinguished career Sir Edmund Britten Jones was president of the Medical Benevolent Association in 1949, and president of the Medical Board of SA in 1950.

Among other outstanding activities was his work with the University of Adelaide. He served as a member of the University Council from 1944 to 1946 and was acting lecturer on medical diseases of children in 1933 (during the absence of Dr Mayo).

Jones, who took a life-long interest in children's ailments, was honorary consulting physician to the Adelaide Children's Hospital and the Queen Victoria Maternity Hospital.

Edmund received his knighthood in the New Year honours list in 1953, only months before his death.