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Henry Festing Jones
1851–1928
Best remembered as Samuel Butler’s close friend, literary executor, and biographer, he helped preserve the work and reputation of one of Victorian England’s most unconventional writers. He was also a writer in his own right, with a life that moved from law into literature and music.
4 Audiobooks
Diversions in Sicily
by Henry Festing Jones
Castellinaria, and Other Sicilian Diversions
by Henry Festing Jones
The Samuel Butler Collection at Saint John's College, Cambridge
by A. T. (Augustus Theodore) Bartholomew, Henry Festing Jones
Samuel Butler: A Sketch
by Henry Festing Jones
About the author
Born in 1851, Henry Festing Jones was an English writer who first trained for a legal career before turning more fully toward literary work. He became closely associated with Samuel Butler, and that friendship shaped much of his later reputation.
After Butler’s death, Jones played a central role in editing, managing, and interpreting his friend’s legacy. He wrote memoirs and studies about Butler, including Samuel Butler: A Sketch, and is widely remembered as one of the key figures who kept Butler’s life and ideas in public view.
Jones also wrote travel and reflective prose of his own, and he had a strong interest in music as well as literature. He died in 1928, leaving behind work that is still valued by readers interested in Butler and in the literary world of late Victorian and Edwardian England.