Terry Jones

Terence Graham Parry Jones was a Welsh comedian screenwriter actor film director childrens author popular historian political commentator and TV documentary host He is best known as a member of the Monty Python comedy team At the age of 4 the Jones family moved to Surrey in England Jones attended primary school at Esher COE school and later attended the Royal Grammar School in Guildford where he was school captain in the 196061 academic year He later read English at St Edmund Hall Oxford but strayed into history While there he performed comedy with future Monty Python castmate Michael Palin in The Oxford Revue Jones appeared in the comedy TV series Twice a Fortnight with Michael Palin Graeme Garden Bill Oddie and Jonathan Lynn as well as the television series The Complete and Utter History of Britain 1969 He appeared in Do Not Adjust Your Set 196769 with Michael Palin Eric Idle and David Jason He wrote for The Frost Report and several other David Frost programmes