Philip Jones (historian)

Philip James Jones, FBA, FRHistS (19 November 1921 – 26 March 2006) was a British medieval historian, known for his work on medieval and Renaissance Italy.

Born in London, Jones was educated at St Dunstan's College and Wadham College, Oxford, and Magdalen College, Oxford. He was assistant lecturer at the University of Glasgow from 1949 to 1950, lecturer at the University of Leeds from 1950 to 1961, reader at Leeds from 1961 to 1963, and fellow and tutor at Brasenose College, Oxford from 1963 until his retirement.