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. At the age of 17, with a "rich baritone voice", he was invited to join the D'Oyly Carte opera company. 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.
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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, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
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