Mr. Henry Arthur Jones is the son of a Buckinghamshire farmer, and was
born at Granbrough. At fourteen he had just left school, and entered
commercial life at Ramsgate. Strangely enough, Mr. Jones was never in a
theatre till he was eighteen. At the age of nineteen he wrote his first
play, which has never been acted. Indeed, Mr. Jones was twenty-eight
when he made his first bow as a playwright, with "A Clerical Error," at
the Court. Then he rose rapidly, and within three years he had earned
both fame and fortune by "The Silver King," the production of which
marks the date of our third photograph. The subsequent work of Mr.
Jones is too well known to need mention here.
[Illustration: _From a Photo._| AGE 13. |_by Marioni._]
[Illustration: _From a Photo. by_| AGE 19. |_The London Portrait Co._]
[Illustration: _From a Photo. by_| AGE 32. |_W. & D. Downey._]
[Illustration: _From a Photo. by_| AGE 40. |_Elliott & Fry._]
[Illustration: _From a Photo. by_| AGE 6. |_J.S. Lonsdale._]
[Illustration: _From a Photo. by_| AGE 18. |_Elliott & Fry._]