Anne Griffith-Jones, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Anne Griffith-Jones

Educationist who founded the Tanglin Trust School in Singapore

Date of Birth: 15-Apr-1890

Place of Birth: Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1973

Profession: education activist

Nationality: Wales, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Anne Laugharne Phillips Griffith-Jones OBE (born June 1891–died 1973) was the founder of Singapore's Tanglin Preparatory School, which is now known as the Tanglin Trust School. Born in London, England, Griffith-Jones was the youngest of 11 children and daughter of a Welsh barrister.
Her brother, John, was father of Mervyn Griffith-Jones, the prosecuting barrister (later judge) involved in the 1960 prosecution of Penguin Books for the publication of D.
H.
Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover and the 1963 trial of Stephen Ward relating to the Profumo affair.She, along with many women of her time, had no formal qualifications.
During World War I, she served as a welfare officer at a munitions factory in Wales, for which she was awarded an MBE.