Robert Albert Jones of Liverpool was a barrister and gifted mathematician. His great interests were politics, the land question and education. He is the author of The land question and a land bill with special reference to Wales (1887). His lifelong association with the University College of North Wales, Bangor was commemorated with a college prize for mathematics in his name following his death in 1892 at the age of forty-one.
From the guide to the Letters of R.A. Jones of Liverpool, 1884 - 1888, (Bangor University)