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{{Short description|GB Lions & Wales international rugby union player}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox rugby biography
| name = James Jones
| image =
| caption =
| birth_name = James Phillips Jones
| birth_place = [[Pontypool]], [[Wales]]
| death_place = [[Melbourne]], [[Australia]]
| height =
| weight =
| position = [[Rugby union positions#13. Outside centre & 12. Inside centre|Centre]]
| amatyears1 =
| amatyears2 =
| amatyears3 = 1909-1910
| amatyears4 =
| amatyears5 =
| amatyears6 = 1911-12
| amatteam1 = [[Blackheath F.C.]]
| amatteam2 = [[Guy's, Kings and St. Thomas' Rugby Football Club|Guy's Hospital]]
| amatteam3 = [[Newport RFC]]
| amatteam4 = [[London Welsh RFC|London Welsh]]
| amatteam5 = [[Pontypool RFC]]
| amatteam6 = [[Barbarian F.C.]]
| ru_amclubcaps =
| ru_amclubpoints =
| ru_amupdate =
| repteam1 = [[Wales national rugby union team|Wales]]
| repteam2 = [[British and Irish Lions|British Isles]]
| repyears1 = 1913
| repyears2 = 1908
| repcaps1 = 1
| repcaps2 = 2
| reppoints1 = 3
| reppoints2 = 0
| ru_ntupdate =
| coachteams1 =
| coachyears1 =
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| relatives = [[Jack Jones (rugby union, born 1886)|Jack Jones]], brother<br>[[David Phillips Jones]] (brother)
| school = [[Christ College, Brecon]]
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1883|11|23|df=yes}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|1964|12|04|1883|11|23|df=yes}}
}}

'''James 'Tuan' Jones''' (23 November 1883 – 4 December 1964)<ref>[http://www.espnscrum.com/wales/rugby/player/1978.html Tuan Jones player profile] Scrum.com</ref> was a [[Wales|Welsh]] international [[rugby union]] utility player who played club rugby for several teams, most notably [[Pontypool RFC|Pontypool]] and [[Guy's, Kings and St. Thomas' Rugby Football Club|Guy's Hospital]]. He only won a single cap for [[Wales national rugby union team|Wales]],<ref>[https://archive.today/20110526113942/http://www.wru.co.uk/12750_14256.php?player=31757&includeref=dynamic Welsh Rugby Union player profiles]</ref> but was selected for the [[1908 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia|1908 Anglo-Welsh tour]] to Australia and New Zealand.

==Rugby career==
Jones was one of four rugby playing brothers; [[Jack Jones (rugby union, born 1886)|Jack]] and [[David Phillips Jones|David]] were capped for Wales like James, while the youngest brother Edwin played for club team, Pontypool. As the brothers had the common surname of Jones, the brothers were separated by their nicknames. James was more often known as 'Tuan' and David as 'Ponty'.

Jones left Wales after leaving [[Christ College, Brecon]], moving to London to follow a medical career. While in London, he played for [[Blackheath F.C.|Blackheath]], Guy's Hospital and Welsh exiles, [[London Welsh RFC|London Welsh]]. While representing Guy's Hospital, he was offered a place on [[Arthur Harding]]'s Anglo-Welsh team, which toured Australasia in 1908. He and brother Jack, both made the trip, Jack played in all three tests against New Zealand, while James played alongside him in the final two tests at Wellington and Auckland.

Despite a British Isles tour and captaining both Guy's Hospital and Blackheath, it took Jones until 1913 to be selected for the Welsh national team. His one and only game for Wales was against Scotland as part of the [[1913 Five Nations Championship]]. Under the captaincy of [[Billy Trew]], Jones was part of a winning Welsh side and scored one of two tries.

Jones, a doctor by profession, later emigrated to Australia and practised in [[Melbourne]]. As an old British Lion he was introduced to the [[1959 British Lions tour to Australia and New Zealand|1959 team]] when they toured Australia.<ref>{{cite book |last=Griffiths |first=John|title=British Lions |year=1990 |publisher=Crowood Press |location=Swindon|page=25 |isbn=1-85223-541-1}}</ref> He died in Melbourne in 1964.

===International matches played===
'''Wales'''<ref name="Smith466">Smith (1980), pg 468.</ref>
* {{flagicon|ENG}} [[English national rugby union team|England]] 1912 <ref>England v. Wales, Sunday Times, 21 Jan, 1912</ref>
* {{flagicon|SCO}} [[Scotland national rugby union team|Scotland]] 1913

''International matches played for the British Isles''
* {{flagicon|NZL}} [[All Blacks|New Zealand]] 1908, 1908

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110617053256/http://www.blackandambers.co.uk/Personnel.aspx?pr=177852 Newport RFC player profiles]

==Bibliography==
* {{cite book |last=Smith |first=David |author2=Williams, Gareth |title=Fields of Praise: The Official History of The Welsh Rugby Union |year=1980 |publisher=University of Wales Press |location=Cardiff |isbn=0-7083-0766-3 }}
* {{cite book |last=Thomas |first=Wayne |title=A Century of Welsh Rugby Players |year=1979 |publisher=Ansells Ltd}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{British and Irish Lions 1908}}

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[[Category:Welsh rugby union players]]
[[Category:Rugby union centres]]
[[Category:People educated at Christ College, Brecon]]
[[Category:1883 births]]
[[Category:1964 deaths]]
[[Category:Newport RFC players]]
[[Category:London Welsh RFC players]]
[[Category:Pontypool RFC players]]
[[Category:Barbarian F.C. players]]
[[Category:20th-century Welsh medical doctors]]
[[Category:British & Irish Lions rugby union players from Wales]]
[[Category:Wales international rugby union players]]
[[Category:Rugby union players from Pontypool]]
[[Category:Guy's Hospital RFC players]]

James Phillips Jones - Revision history

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