Doctor Henry Walton Jones, Senior was a Scottish professor of medieval literature, expert on Grail lore, the father of the American archaeologist Indiana Jones, the husband of Anna Mary Jones and the former pupil of Helen Margaret Seymour. Despite getting Indy into the world of archaeology by taking the his family on an educational tour across the world, Jones had a difficult relationship with his son, which worsened following the untimely death of Anna in 1912. The two drifted further apart after World War I but when the Joneses were reunited during their search for the Holy Grail nineteen years later, near-death experiences for the both of them at the hands of the Nazis undid their estrangement and strengthened the connection between father and son. Over the years following the Grail crusade, Henry Sr. occassionally accompanied Indiana on other adventures which included a pursuit of the Spear of Longinus towards the close of World War II, and he later filled in for the younger Jones as professor at Barnett College in 1947. He hoped his son would eventually settle down but passed away in 1951 before that could come to be.