George William Jones
George William Jones  (4 February 1938 – 14 April 2017) was emeritus professor of government at the London School of Economics and the biographer, with Bernard Donoughue, of Herbert Morrison.

Jones was a longtime member of the Greater London Group at LSE and in time became co-chair of it.

He was appointed OBE in the 1999 Birthday Honours for services to the National Consumer Council.

Selected publications
Herbert Morrison: Portrait of a Politician. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1973.
"The Prime Ministers' Secretaries: Politicians or Administrators?" in J.G. Griffith (ed.), From Politics to Administration. Allen and Unwin, London, 1975.
West European Prime Ministers. Frank Cass, London, 1991. (Editor)
At the Centre of Whitehall. Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1998. (With J.M. Lee & J. Burnham).
At Power's Elbow: Aides to the Prime Minister from Robert Walpole to David Cameron. Biteback Publishing, London, 2013. (With Andrew Blick)

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1938 births
2017 deaths
Academics of the London School of Economics
English people of Welsh descent
English political scientists
Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
People educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School
Alumni of Nuffield College, Oxford
Labour Party (UK) parliamentary candidates