Martin Furnival Jones
Sir Edward Martin Furnival Jones CBE was Director General of MI5, the United Kingdom's internal security service, from 1965 until 1972.Career
Born in High Barnet and educated at Highgate School, Furnival Jones was a Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge graduate, having read modern and mediaeval languages, and 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 was commissioned into the Intelligence Corps, transferring to the Security Service, MI5, in 1941.
He was Director-General of MI5 from 1965 to 1972.Personal life
A well-liked member of the community in the Hampstead Garden Suburb where he lived, Jones was a tennis player and bird watcher and loved to perform in amateur theatre in both the local groups; the Play and Pageant Union and Speedwell Players. It was during a production of I Remember Mama that he first met his wife, Margaret.
