Anne Griffith-Jones

Who was Anne Griffith-Jones?

Anne Laugharne Phillips Griffith-Jones OBE was the founder of Singapore's Tanglin Preparatory School which is now known as the Tanglin Trust School.

Born in Pembrokeshire, Wales, Griffith-Jones was the youngest of 13 children and daughter of a Welsh barrister. 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.