Eric Gethyn-Jones

Canon John Eric Gethyn-Jones MBE FSA (9 October 1909 – 9 November 1995)[1] was a clergyman and historian of Gloucestershire.

[3] Gethyn-Jones was ordained a priest in 1935[1] and eventually succeeded his father as vicar of St Mary's Church, Dymock, in 1955.

During the Second World War he served in the Royal Army Chaplains' Department and was awarded the MBE in 1945[6] for bravery in Normandy having been involved with the rescue of wounded soldiers on the ill-fated ship MV Derrycunihy (1943) in 1944.

The Reverend Gethyn-Jones wrote about these poets in his first publication and in 1957 he was approached by the American Embassy with a request to escort Robert Frost, on a visit to receive an honorary degree from the University of Oxford, around the area in which he resided during a brief spell in England from 1912 to 1915.

[8] As vicar of Berkeley he resided in The Chantry, the former home of Edward Jenner, pioneer of the smallpox vaccination.