Author Margaret Dowland
Hector Percy Jones was born in 1878 in Aberdare, Glamorgan. His father was Evan Jones a works manager and secretary, his mother Mary Price. He took up his post at Antingham and Southrepps School on the1st of February 1913. He married Maud Hough in Leicestershire, where Maud was born in 1902, they never had children. He started his teaching career in Aberdare in 1895, then he moved to Culham College for two years. He then taught in two different schools in Kettering, and his last school before Antingham and Southrepps was Bawdeswell.
During the first world war Hector applied to the Managers of the School for leave to join the St Johns Ambulance Brigade for the duration of the war. Reluctantly they agreed but fortunately he reconsidered his position and stayed at his post to the benefit of all his pupils.
Mr. Jones had a keen interest in teaching the children horticulture and allowed the school to use part of the garden as a fruit plot. The school reports also indicate a keen interest in geography. He received glowing inspectors reports throughout his time at Antingham and Southrepps School.
Mr. Jones was an active member of the Masons and very involved in the welfare of the men in the village. With his own money he bought two adjoining run down cottages in Lower Street in the 1930s which were to be converted into a men’s reading room. The work was done by its members. This building is now the Social Club.
His wife Maud was an active member of the school staff teaching throughout the school. They both retired in 1938 and went to live in Cromer where they both died in 1954.