Noel Jones (diplomat)

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Noel Andrew Stephen Jones (22 December 1940 – 21 November 1995) was an Indian-born British diplomat, British ambassador to Kazakhstan from 1993 to 1995. He was the first British ambassador to have come from an ethnic minority.

His father, Ernest Walter Jones, was a domiciled European who worked in the Telegraph Department in India; his mother, Merlyn Edith Jones (née Jones), was an Anglo-Indian woman, daughter of a Postmaster of Madras.

Noel Jones came to live in England, where he married Jean Rosemary Cheval.

He entered the diplomatic service and was appointed British ambassador to Kazakhstan in 1993.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xKkjEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Noel+Jones%22+diplomat&pg=PT178|title=Diplomatic Identity in Postwar Britain: The Deconstruction of the Foreign Office "Type", 1945–1997|author=James Southern|year=2021|publisher=Taylor & Francis}} His career was cut short by his death in 1995, at the age of 54. He was survived by his widow, Jean, and his children Mark and Alison.