Clay Jones

David Brinley Clay Jones, OBE, (6 November 1923 – 4 July 1996), known as Clay Jones, was a horticulturist and broadcaster best known as the Chairman of the BBC Radio 4 programme Gardener's Question Time. Previously aged 17 and with a "rich baritone voice", he was invited to the D'Oyly Carte opera company. [1]

He came joint tenth with Carol Klein in the BBC poll for the nation's all-time favourite gardener.

He was appointed OBE in the 1990 Birthday Honours.

References

  1. ↑ Search, Gay (2003). BBC Gardeners' World Through the Years. London: Carlton Books Limited. p. 62. ISBN 1-84442-416-2.

Further reading

  • Michael Leapman, "Obituary: Clay Jones", The Independent, 4 July 1996.
  • Buczacki, Stefan. "Jones, (David Brinley) Clay (1923–1996)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/63170. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)


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