Edward Jones (lacrosse)

Edward Percy Jones was a British lacrosse player who won a silver medal with the Great Britain team at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Born in Greenwich, England, on 12 July 1881, he played as a second home and was probably the most dangerous attacking player in the south of England in the early twentieth century. Being ambidextrous gave him a large advantage and made him a prolific scorer. He learned the game at Ley's School in Cambridge and on leaving in 1898 joined West London Lacrosse Club, with which he lost the 1899 English Club Championship final for the Iroquois Cup to Stockport. He was first selected for the South against the North in 1900, made his England debut against Ireland that year and kept playing until the First World War. He died in Marylebone on 17 November 1951.