 His father worked firstly in Brighton and then in Liverpool, where the younger Jones received his schooling.After contracting typhoid in his youth, the younger Jones decided on a career in medicine and set his heart on orthopedic surgery after he underwent an operation to remove a hemangioma.He joined the Medical School of Liverpool University, graduating with a first-class Bachelor of Science degree in 1922, his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery degrees two years later, and a Masters of Orthopedic Surgery in 1926.