CACrown ArchivesThe cinema collection
Menu
Research dossier · People & Ideas

Rael Jones

English composer and multi-instrumentalist

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
People and ideasInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ113451486
Source-derived summary

Rael Jones is an English composer and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known for scoring Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, My Cousin Rachel, Suite Française and Harlots.

Career

Jones graduated in Music and Sound Recording from the Tonmeister course at the University of Surrey in 2004. He collaborated with director Mat Whitecross in Oasis: Supersonic and Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams.

Selected filmography

As composer

Film

2024 : Seize Them!

2024 : Role Play

2024 : Mad About the Boy: The Noel Coward Story

2022 : Mrs.

Editorial summary

“Rael Jones” enters the record as english composer and multi-instrumentalist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Rael, Jones and English can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 2024, 2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1982-05-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Rael, Jones and English.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Rael Jones” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Rael, Jones and English provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q113451486. VIAF identifies the subject as 216149196499174791892. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2004, 2024 and 2022.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

Best used for
  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
Verify next

Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Rael Jones”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Rael Jones primary sources, Rael Jones archive and Rael research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Rael Jones”?
  2. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
Subject index

Search terms from this dossier

Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Rael Jones” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.