Ian Jones (rugby union, born 1940)

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| name = Ian Jones

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| full_name = Ian Conin Jones

| birth_date = {{birth date|1940|03|02|df=y}}

| birth_place = Vryburg, South Africa

| death_date = {{death date and age|2015|06|01|1940|03|02|df=y}}

| death_place = Oxford, England

| height = 6 ft 4 in

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| occupation = Merchant banker

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| university = University of Oxford

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| position = Lock

| repyears1 = 1968

| repteam1 = {{nrut|Wales}}

| repcaps1 = 1

| reppoints1 = 0

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Ian Conin Jones (2 March 1940 — 1 June 2015) was a Welsh international rugby union player.{{cite news |title=Charteris: I'm ready for the challenge |url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-news/charteris-im-ready-challenge-2415050 |work=Wales Online |date=11 November 2004 |language=en}}

Born in Vryburg, South Africa, Jones was raised in the farming community of Malmesbury and came to England on a Rhodes Scholarship, following studies at Stellenbosch University. He attended Queen's College, Oxford, and won three rugby blues, one in their victorious 1964 Varsity match.{{cite news |title=Wales drop 'wonderboy' Jarrett |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/721526442 |work=Evening Standard |date=1 March 1968}}

Jones, a second row, played rugby for London Welsh and won a County Championship with Middlesex in 1967/68. He qualified to represent Wales through his grandparents and was capped in the 1968 Five Nations, with the selectors looking for an improved line-out presence against Ireland at Lansdowne Road, a match lost to a last-minute try to Mick Doyle.{{cite web |title=Obituary: Ian Jones |url=https://community.wru.wales/2015/06/05/obituary-ian-jones/ |website=Welsh Rugby Union |date=5 June 2015}}