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Published: 1951. First Edition. Inscribed and Signed by Author. Inscribed "To Lionel, in remembrance of happy South African days" dated 1957. This probably refers to Lionel Curtis. DESCRIPTION: Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Portrait frontispiece. Red soft card DJ with gilt and black lettering. Language: English. Book Condition: Very Good: Very light wear to lightly bruised corners, edges and spine ends. Bump to upper rear spine edge. Clean sharp cloth. Tightly bound with light spotting intact endpapers and strong hinges. Minor spotting to half title and verso of front and rear endpapers. Inscription to title page with minor spotting. Clean unmarked pages. Toned and spotted upper text block edge. DJ Condition: Fair: Heavy chipping and creasing to top edge of DJ especially at spine end. Marks to front cover and sunning to spine Pages 496. Size: 8vo 23cm by 14.5cm. PROVENANCE: INSCRIPTION: Sir Roderick Jones to Lionel [Curtis]. SIR GEORGER RODERICK JONES KBE (21 October 1877 - 23 January 1962) was a British journalist and news agency manager, who for most of his career worked for Reuters. From 1916, he was a significant shareholder in the company. Jones was born in Dukinfield, Cheshire, the only son of Roderick Patrick Jones, a Manchester hat salesman, by his marriage to Christina Drennan Gibb. His parents had been married at St Saviours church, Manchester, on 13 September 1877, the month before his birth. His father was then a salesman, and his grandfather, John Jones, a butcher. In 1894, Jones took up an invitation to join an aunt in Pretoria, then in the South African Republic. In 1895, he took a job as sub-editor on the Pretoria Press and later that year became an assistant to the Reuters correspondent in the Republic. In 1896, Joness interview with Leander Starr Jameson in the aftermath of the Jameson Raid was networked internationally. In 1905, he became general manager of the Reuters office for British South Africa. In April 1915, during the First World War, the Reuters general manager in London, Baron Herbert de Reuter, killed himself a few days after his wife had died, and with the company in financial difficulties. In October 1915, Jones was appointed as general manager. In 1916, he and the company chairman, Mark Napier, who was himself a financier, bought the company, with money being advanced to Jones by Sir Starr Jameson, chairman of the British South Africa Company. During the rest of the War, Reuters followed a carefully patriotic line, so much so that Jones was accused of being the British governments Head of Propaganda. He was knighted in the 1918 New Year Honours, in recognition of his services to journalism. In 1923, Reuters became the first news agency to use radio for sending news to its subscribers. Jones became chairman of Reuters as well as general manager and retired from those posts in 1941. Seller Inventory # 1220
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Title: A Life in Reuters; Autobiography And Story ...
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, London
Publication Date: 1951
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Fair
Signed: Inscribed and Signed by Author
Edition: 1st Edition.
