William Henry Samuel JonesFBA (8 April 1876 – 4 February 1963) was a British writer, translator, and academic. He was nicknamedMalaria Jones, because of his theory thatmalaria was instrumental in the downfall of the classical civilizations of Greece and Rome.

Jones was born and raised inBirmingham, and educated atAston Grammar School andKing Edward's School, Birmingham. He enteredSelwyn College, Cambridge in 1894, graduatingB.A. 1897,M.A. 1902,Litt.D. 1925.^[1] He taught Classics atThe Perse School in Cambridge, and was appointed a Fellow ofSt Catharine's College, Cambridge in 1908, serving the college as Dean, Steward and Bursar, and President. He wrote two histories of the college, published in 1936 and 1951.^[2]

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• W. H. S. Jones (1907).Malaria: a neglected factor in the history of Greece and Rome. with an introduction by R. Ross and a concluding chapter byG. G. Ellett.
• W. H. S. Jones (1909).Malaria and Greek history. Manchester: University Press.
• W. H. S. Jones (1936).A history of St Catharine's College. Cambridge University Press.
• W. H. S. Jones (1947).The Medical Writings of Anonymus Londinensis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Works by W. H. S. Jones atLibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

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