Alfred Adrian Brookholding Jones [commonly known as Adrian Jones; also known as Captain Adrian Jones] was born in Ludlow, Shropshire, England on 9 February 1845. After qualifying as a veterinary surgeon, in 1867 he joined the Army and served as a professional soldier until 1890. Throughout his military career he also painted and sketched, particularly horses and their riders, and in the early 1880s took lessons with the sculptor Charles Bell Birch (1832-1893).

Having left the Army, in 1891 he moved to 147 Church Street, Chelsea, next door to the Chelsea Arts Club, and settled down to a new career as a professional artist. In 1884, whilst still in the Army, he began exhibiting at the Royal Academy in London and continued to do so regularly until 1935. He also exhibited at Baillie Gallery, Grosvenor Gallery, London Salon, Royal Institute of Oil Painters in London, and The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers; Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool; and at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.

Notable among Jones' commissions were Persimmon (1895), an equestrian statue for the Sandringham Stud in Norfolk; Royal Marines Memorial (1903) located on The Mall, London; South African War Memorial (1904), an equestrian statue for Government House, Adelaide, South Australia; an equestrian statue of Redvers Buller (1905) for Exeter, Devon; the Carabiniers Boer War memorial (1906) for Ranelagh Gardens, Chelsea Embankment, London; an equestrian statue of Prince George, Duke of Cambridge (1907); Peace descending on the Quadriga of War (1912), a sculptural group above Wellington Arch, Hyde Park Corner, London; war memorial for Castle Gardens, Bridgnorth, Shropshire (1922); Royal Gloucestershire Hussars Memorial (1922) for College Green, Gloucester; Cavalry of the Empire Memorial, an equestrian statue (1924) originally located at Stanhope Gate and now Hyde Park, London; and war memorial (1924) for Windsor Circus, Uxbridge, London

Jones was elected a Fellow of Royal Society of British Sculptors (FRBS) in 1923 and was awarded the Royal Society of British Sculptors Gold Medal in 1935. He was also Chairman of the Chelsea Arts Club from 1906 to 1908. He died at his home, 147 Church Street, Chelsea, on 24 January 1938.

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