Eric Malcolm Jones

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Sir Eric Malcolm Jones KCMG CB CBE (27 April 1907-24 December 1986) is a former director of the British signals intelligence agency, GCHQ, a post he held from 1952 to 1960.

Career

Born in Buxton in Derbyshire and educated at King's School, Macclesfield,^[1] Jones spent the early part of his life as a manager in a Manchester textile factory.^[2] He joined the Royal Air Force reserve in 1940 and was then posted to Bletchley Park.^[1] From April 1943, Jones was the head of Hut 3, which was responsible for intelligence on the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe.^[1]

After the War he went to Washington D.C. as representative of British Signals Intelligence.^[1] He was made Deputy Director of GCHQ in 1950 and was the Director of GCHQ from April 1952 until 1960.^[1] He received a knighthood in 1957.^[1]

In retirement he became a Non-Executive Director of Simon Engineering.^[1]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 D. R. Nicoll, Jones, Sir Eric Malcolm (1907-1986), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004
↑ R. A. Ratcliff, Delusions of Intelligence: Enigma, Ultra, and the End of Secure Ciphers, Cambridge University Press, 2006

Government offices
Preceded by Sir Edward Travis	Director of GCHQ April 1952 - 1960	Succeeded by Sir Clive Loehnis

Persondata
Name	Jones, Eric Malcolm
Alternative names
Short description	Director of GCHQ
Date of birth	1907
Place of birth
Date of death	1986
Place of death

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