Forester and bryologist Eustace Jones was born in Stafford and educated in Walsall. He began studying at Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1928 and graduated with a PhD in 1937. He had joined the Oxford Forestry School as a lecturer in 1934 and remained there for his entire career, retiring in 1972.

Jones' specialist subjects were the genera Acer and Quercus, whose accounts he provided in the "Biological Flora of the British Isles" series in the Journal of Ecology. An authority on temperate forests, he often worked in the Wye Valley and Forest of Dean, establishing a significant long-term woodland monitoring study in the former in the 1950s at Lady Park Wood. He edited R.S. Troup's Silvicultural Systems (1952) and was an editor of the journal Forestry from 1970-1978.

Jones was also interested in bryology and was a member of the British Bryological Society. He was interested in African hepatics in particular. E.W. Jones's Liverwort and Hornwort Flora of West Africa, edited by M.J. Wigginton, was published posthumously in 2004.

Jones' main collections are held at the Fielding Druce Herbarium (OXF). In addition there are about 800 bryophytes held at Oxford County Museum. The genus Jonesiobryum B.H.Allen & Pursell was named in his honour.

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J.G. Duckett and A.R. Perry, 2004, "Eustace Wilkinson Jones (1909-1992) a bibliographic portrait", in M. Wiggington et al. eds, Eustace Jones' Hepatic Flora of West Africa
P. Jones, 1993, Journal of Bryology, 17(4): 545
M. Lawley, "Eustace Wilkinson Jones (1909-1992)":
http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/bbs/Learning/Bryohistory/Bygone%20Bryologists/EUSTACE%20WILKINSON%20JONES.pdf, accessed 11 May 2012
P.S. Savill, C.M. Perrins, K.J. Kirby and N. Fisher (eds), 2010, Wytham Woods, Oxford’s Ecological Laboratory.