Figure 1.-- Threre is a photogrtaph of Gareth with his mum when he was about 6. Photograph attached |
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Gareth was born in Wales in 1905. His father was the headmaster of Barry County Boy’s School. His mother had worked in the Ukraine in the late 19th century. She had been the governess to the children of a steel industrialist. It was position she enjoyed. Gareth’s mum also liked living the Ukraine. As a boy Gareth listened to the stories his mother told about as the adventurous life she led as a governess in the Ukraine. His mother’s stories had given him a longing to visit the Ukraine. The chance to go came in the early 1930’s after he had graduated from university. He joined Lloyd George’s staff has its Foreign Affairs Adviser. This position came with opportunity to travel. The first country he visited was the Ukraine. It was his reporting that revealed the causes of the wide spread famine which had gripped the region. He had the makings of becoming a great journalist but in 1935 he was murdered while investigating a news story in China.
Gareth's mother was Annie Gwen Jones. She had worked in the Ukraine as a governess to Arthur Hughes. He had been appointed by Tsar Nicholas to manage a steel mill in the Ukraine. She worked there for 3 years. It was her experiences in this position then gave Gareth a longing to visit this region of Russia.
His father was Edgar Jones. He was headmaster of Barry County Boy’s School. It was a position he held for 35 years.
Gareth was a pupil at his father’s school in Barry. He attended university College of Wales, afterwards he studied at the University of Strasbourg. He won a scholarship to Trinity College Cambridge. He gained a first in Russian. This was a language he spoke fluently. He was also fluent in French and German.
Jones worked on the staff of Lloyd George, a World War I prime minister. The post Jones held was Foreign Affairs Adviser. This was a position that involved overseas travel. He was able to visit the Ukraine. He was there during the Great Famine of the early 1930sc engineered by Stalin. He reporting alerted the British public to the terrible things that were then happening in the Ukraine by starteling reports published in The Times. Some historians report that a British Official at the Embassy in Moscow travelled all over Russia to places that he was not supposed to go to and reported on the Great Famine. The British Government thus apparently knew before Gareth Jones reported in The Times. Jones was covering a news story in China in its pursuit he was murdered by bandits (1935).
Siriol Collery, Margaret. Internet Web site: "A Pictorial History of Gareth Vaughan Jones". Lecture given to the Oxford Ukrainian Society, May 11, 2006. Photograph from this source also.
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