Eldred D. Jones


Eldred D. Jones
BornEldred Durosimi Jones
(1925-01-06)6 January 1925
Freetown, British Sierra Leone
Died21 March 2020(2020-03-21) (aged 95)
Freetown, Sierra Leone
OccupationLiterary critic, university professor, university principal
NationalityBritish Subject, Sierra Leonean
EducationCMS Grammar School, Freetown; Fourah Bay College; Corpus Christi College, Oxford' University of Durham

Professor Eldred Durosimi Jones (6 January 1925 – 21 March 2020) was a Sierra Leonean academic and literary critic, known for his book Othello's Countrymen: A Study of Africa in the Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama. He was a principal of Fourah Bay College. Jones died in Freetown, Sierra Leone, on Saturday, 21 March 2020.