Sir Eric Malcom Jones KCMG CB CBE

Jones was born in Buxton, Derbyshire on the 27th April 1907. He joined GC&CS at Bletchley in 1942 after spending the early part of the war in the RAF Reserves.

From April 1943 he ran Hut 3, which was where the teams working on the translation and analysis of Luftwaffe and German Army decrypts here homed. The cataloguing system he introduced was revolutionary and a report that Jones wrote on instigating a more multi-service approach to analysis on site was adopted. He was described affectionately as the 'King of Calm' whilst working at Bletchley. Peter Calvocoressi who worked under Jones at Bletchley was to say of him 'he respected and probably admired the intellectual qualities of his subordinates, but was not intimidated by them and showed that since whether they approved or not, he had been appointed to govern them, he would do so.’ Jones played a critical role in coordinating Bletchley Park’s intelligence collection efforts in the run up to D-Day in June 1944.

After the war Jones was deployed to the USA as a liaison officer for GCHQ and was appointed a Deputy Director in 1950. He became the Director of GCHQ from April 1952 to May 1960, and during his tenure shaped the intelligence provision during the Suez Crisis in 1956.
He died on the 24th December 1986.