High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Charles Jones (1830–1913) was Ealing`s first architect, engineer and surveyor. He held these posts for fifty years. He is admired to this day, by both local residents and visitors, for his pleasing, well proportioned and functional civic buildings. He first started working for the Council on a commission only basis in 1863 until he was given a salaried post in 1882, which he held until he retired in 1913, shortly before his death the same year.