Full name | Ian Conin Jones | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 2 March 1940 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Vryburg, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 1 June 2015 | (aged 75)||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Oxford, England | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 4 in (193 cm) | ||||||||||||||||
University | University of Oxford | ||||||||||||||||
Occupation(s) | Merchant banker | ||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||
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Ian Conin Jones (2 March 1940 — 1 June 2015) was a Welsh international rugby union player.[1]
Born in Vryburg, South Africa, Jones was raised in the farming community of Malmesbury and came to England on a Rhodes Scholarship, following studies at Stellenbosch University. He attended Queen's College, Oxford, and won three rugby blues, one in their victorious 1964 Varsity match.[2]
Jones, a second row, played rugby for London Welsh and won a County Championship with Middlesex in 1967/68. He qualified to represent Wales through his grandparents and was capped in the 1968 Five Nations, with the selectors looking for an improved line-out presence against Ireland at Lansdowne Road, a match lost to a last-minute try to Mick Doyle.[3]