Sir Clement Wakefield Jones
(1880-1963), Civil servantSitter in 3 portraits
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 13 September 1946
NPG x168646
by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass negative, 13 September 1946
NPG x188244
by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass negative, 13 September 1946
NPG x188245
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Tim, Lord Clement-jones
21 August 2018, 23:47
Very extensive career. Editor of Granta at Cambridge. Spent 1902-1909 in the United States after Cambridge working for Booth & Co in New York. Honeymooned in Brazil. Served in World War I, Captain Royal Welch Fusilers-served in Dardanelles campaign. Assistant Secretary to the British War Cabinet in 1916 and Secretary to the British Empire Delegation at the Peace Conference in Paris 1919. Chairman Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) 1949-1952. Chairman Commonwealth Shipping Committee 1947-63.
Partner from 1909 and then Director of Alfred Booth & Co, a Liverpool leather merchant which branched into shipping in the 19th C and then after WW1 into construction with the compensation from its losses of merchant ships. Director of BOAC (the predecessor of BA). Director of Sea Insurance Company from 1912.
Governor and Almoner of Christ’s Hospital. Governor of Haileybury.
Wrote a number of monographs on prominent colleagues eg Lord Curzon, a number of privately published books such as Chief Officer in China and John Bolton of Storrs and several books on British Shipping.
He received the CB in 1919 and a knighthood in 1946.
His obituary was published in the Times on 31st October 1963. His main papers including an unpublished book about the Paris Peace Conference are with the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Other family papers including a scrapbook of his Cambridge days are with TCJ.
Together with Enid, his wife, he was a keen walker and wrote several books about walking in Westmorland.including “A Tour in Westmorland” which is still regarded as authoritative and is to be found at http://www.fivenine.co.uk/local_history_notebook/A%20Tour%20in%20Westmorland/contents.htm.
and “Walks in North Westmorland”. He bought Godmond Hall a farm in Burneside which included the Gurnal Dubs tarn.
His papers are in the Bodleian Library Oxford. See the Catalogue here:
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/modern/jones-clement/jones-clement.html
Brother of Rt Rev Herbert Gresford Jones
Brother of Sir Vincent Jones KBE
Uncle of Rt Rev Michael Gresford-Jones