Arthur Kenneth Jones Explained

A. K. Jones
Birth Date:	7 September 1887 ^[1]
Birth Place:	Southampton
Death Date:	first quarter 1975^[2]
Death Place:	Salisbury

Arthur Kenneth Jones known as A. K. Jones (1887 – 1975) was an English international badminton player. He was born in Southampton.

Career

Arthur Kenneth Jones won the 1925 All England Badminton Championships in the men's doubles event. Until 1977 the tournament was the unofficial world championships.Jones was a pioneer of the sport. In 1925–26 he belonged to an English touring team, who travelled to Canada and the United States for two months to develop the sport in those countries on behalf of the Canadian Badminton Association which had recently been formed in 1921.^{[3] [4]}

Personal life

He was a bank clerk by profession and lived in Richmond, Surrey. He died in Salisbury.

External links

• All England Champions 1899–2007
• Records of the Badminton Association of England

Notes and References

1. Web site: Index entry. 5 April 2021. FreeBMD. ONS.
2. Web site: Index entry. 5 April 2021. FreeBMD. ONS.
3. Web site: Badminton : An Illustrated History - From ancient pastime to Olympic sport. Google Books.
4. Web site: UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, Southampton, England 1926. Ancestry UK.