Barry Jones obituary

My friend Barry Jones, who has died aged 77, was a distinguished scholar of politics and government who had a big influence on the course of Welsh devolution.

Barry was born in Whitford, north Wales, one of two sons of Eluned (nee Mathews), a maths teacher, and Frank Jones, a headteacher. He was educated at Rhyl grammar school and after graduation from Swansea University took an MA in politics at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. On his return to the UK, he taught at St Mary’s College in Twickenham, south-west London, before starting a long career at the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology, later merged with Cardiff University.