page_title: Anne Griffith-Jones
section_title: Retirement
hierarchical_section_title: Anne Griffith-Jones / Retirement
caption_attribution_description: English: Miss Anne Griffith-Jones (centre) receiving her retirement gifts from Dr. Charles Wilson and Laurette Shearman, two of Tanglin's first intake of pupils, in 1957.
context_page_description: Anne Laugharne Phillips Griffith-Jones OBE was a British educationalist who founded 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 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.
context_section_description: In 1958, Griffith-Jones retired to the Cameron Highlands and the British European Association, now the British Association of Singapore, took over the private company, 'Tanglin School Limited'.
  While residing at the resort, Griffith-Jones became actively involved in sport and social work. For many years, she served as Secretary of the Cameron Highlands Church (which is presently known as All Souls' Church).
  In mid-1958, she offered to donate a site adjoining the former Slim School grounds for the erection of a school chapel. However, after consultation with the District Officer, it was established that the State Government would not alienate any further land to the British Forces based at the retreat. Subsequently, she transferred the land to the Anglican Diocese on the understanding that a small church would be built on it. 
  The construction of the church commenced in 1958. The Nissen hut  structure was completed in September that same year. The name 'All Souls' Church' was given at the church's consecration on Thursday, 30 April 1959. The Right Rev H W Baines, Bishop of Singapore and Malaya, conducted the services.
caption: Miss Griffith-Jones (centre) receiving her retirement gifts from Dr Charles Wilson and Laurette Shearman, two of Tanglin Trust School's first intake of pupils, in 1957. Photo credit: Tanglin Trust School.
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