“ JONES, HENRY ARTHUR (1851– ) , English dramatist, was born at Grandborough, Buckinghamshire, on the 28th of September 1851 the son of Silvanus Jones, a farmer. He began to earn his living early, his spare time being given to literary pursuits. He was twenty-seven before his first piece, Only Round the Corner, was produced at the Exeter Theatre, but within four years of his début as a dramatist he scored a great success by The Silver King (November 1882) , written with Henry Herman, a melodrama produced by Wilson Barrett at the Princess’s Theatre. ”