John Eyton-Jones


John Arthur Eyton-Jones was a Welsh international footballer. He was part of the Wales national football team between 1883 and 1884, playing 4 matches and scoring 1 goal. He played his first match on 17 March 1883 against Ireland and his last match on 29 March 1884 against Scotland.

Early life

Eyton-Jones was born in Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales, is a member of the Eyton-Jones family, and was an uncle of William Eyton-Jones. He was educated at the Grove Park School in Wrexham where he was a younger contemporary of Robert Armstrong-Jones.

Sporting and Football Career

Eyton-Jones played football with the Wrexham Hare and Hounds Club.
He was part of the Wales national football team between 1883 and 1884, playing 4 matches and scoring 1 goal. He played his first match on 17 March 1883 against Ireland and his last match on 29 March 1884 against Scotland.
He also played for Everton in 1888.

Military Service

Eyton-Jones served as a medical officer in the 1st Volunteer Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, and saw action in World War I as a Captain with the Royal Army Medical Corps.

Personal life

Eyton-Jones worked as a local doctor and surgeon in the Wrexham area and lived at Abbotsfield on Grosvenor Road. This elegant neo-gothic Grade II Listed house was designed by architect James Reynolds Gummow of the Wrexham architect family in the 1860s as a private residence, and was purchased by Eyton-Jones in 1895.