G.I. Jones interviewed by Alan Macfarlane, filmed by Sarah Harrison, 22^nd April 1989

0:00:17 1905 Birth in South Africa; parentage; memories of South Africa; memories of Ireland;

0:08:30 c1911 Antafagasta, Chile; father Canon of the Diocese of the Falkland Islands; schooled by father

0:11:25 1915 Returned to England  to school - St John’s, Leatherhead; left there by parents who returned to Chile; guardian was manager of Royal Liverpool Seamen’s Orphanage

0:14:00 Trauma of school; effect of war on the school; choir; classics taught well as school founded for the sons of the poorer clergy but did history

0:21:02 1923 Welsh scholarship at Jesus College, Oxford; parents returned to England 1924-5 and father joined Church of Wales; memories of Oxford, particularly rugger – played for the London Welsh; history at Oxford – Geronwy Edwards

0:27:27 Colonial Service; wanted to go to Sudan but got into the West African section; yellow fever; Acting Assistant District Officer in Coterpenny?, Eastern Nigeria; recruitment from universities rather than the army as previously

0:34:08 Language training in Ibibio but posted to Ibo regions; no need to speak anything but English; Colonial Services exam

0:37:15 Role of Colonial Officers not specified; responsible for keeping order and dealing with village disputes; Blue Book

0:41:50 Court system; magistrate’s role; examples of adjudications

0:50:17 Advantage of being a District Officer before telephones; land cases; Ibo’s sophisticated use of law; Gluckman v: Bohannan’s views on African law

0:58:04 Witchcraft cases; Tiv witchcraft