Papá Jones

Herbert Richard Jones was born into a British bourgeois family on 8 September 1885 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, then a British colony. By then, football had already taken a deep root in the British colonies, and soon it gained followers among the local youth, such as Herbert, who began playing this sport in the many hometown teams that had been founded. ==Sporting career==

Cádiz In 1905, the 20-year-old Jones was sent to Cádiz to work as a translator in a customs agency, eventually settling there, where he married Maria Teresa Medina, the daughter of a soldier in the San Fernando Navy. making his debut for the first team on 17 November 1912, in a friendly match against Betis FC, helping his side to a 3–0 win. In the 1914 final, which took place on 1 March at Sevilla's ground, he scored a goal to help his side to a 2–1 victory over Sevilla in front of more than 3,000 spectators. He had a good relationship with Alba, Other activities In addition to his work within Real Betis, he also worked as a referee; in January 1916, for instance, he refereed the quarter-finals of the Andalusian Championship between Español de Cádiz and Málaga, which ended in a victory for his former club, who went on to claim the title. In April 1917, he spent some time in Cadiz with his family, and in early 1918, he was elected the vice-secretary of the Southern Regional Federation. ==Later life and death==

Jones remained in Seville until 1918, when his country called him up to enlist in the British army during the First World War. Some sources wrongly state that he died during the later stages of the conflict in 1918, somewhere in the Middle East, but in reality, Jones only died in Streatham, London, on 29 September 1950, at the age of 65. ==Legacy==

In April 2018, Jones was the subject of a tribute by Betis during the halftime of a league match against Las Palmas, in which his grandchildren, María Luisa Stuchfield and Charles Stuchfield, received a number 1 shirt bearing the name "Papá Jones". ==Honours==

Real Betis • Copa Seville • Champions (1): 1914 == References ==