Born in
High Barnet and educated at
Highgate School, Furnival Jones was a
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge graduate, having read modern and medieval languages, as well as law. He was admitted as a solicitor in England in 1937, joining the leading City of London law firm
Slaughter and May. When the Second World War broke out, Furnival Jones joined the
British Army. After training, he was commissioned into the
Intelligence Corps on 26 October 1940 as a
second lieutenant. He transferred to the
MI5 in 1941. and awarded the
Bronze Star Medal by the United States "in recognition of distinguished services in the cause of the Allies". He was Director-General of MI5 from 1965 to 1972. ==Personal life==