Terry Jones

Welsh film director, writer, medieval historian, comic performer and mime artist, known as a member of the Monty Python comedy team. He did drama and humour skits at Oxford where he met and joined with John Cleese in the surreal "Monty Python" troupe as well as other musical productions. He followed with a job at the BBC as a script editor, production assistant and jokesmith. Jones met Graham Chapman and Terry Gilliam to write for TV for Monty Python. One of his noted books is "Chaucer's Knight" and a collection of fairy tales.

Jones married twice and had three children. After living for several years with a degenerative aphasia, he gradually lost the ability to speak. He died on 21 January 2020 at age 77 from complications of dementia at his home in North London.