Alfredo Jones Brown

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Alfredo Jones Brown (Montevideo, 1876 - 1950) was a Uruguayan architect.

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His father, Enrique Agustín Jones de Elía, was of British descent; and his mother, Natividad Brown Blanco, was a granddaughter of admiral William Brown.

He graduated as an architect at the University of the Republic.

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