Hall-Jones John

Hall-Jones, John 1927-2015

John Hall-Jones was an outstanding avocational historian who both before and particularly after his retirement from otolaryngology researched and published many books on his native Southland. He produced over books in the process.

While never want to excavation of sites he was no mean filed archaeologists and the physical location of referenced historic sites always challenged him to find the sites and the archaeological remains were well recorded and illustrated in his books.

His autobiography is A Life Of Adventures 2015 ISBN 9780473333799.

Online obituaries can be found here: http://beattiesbookblog.blogspot.co.nz/2015/12/southern-historian-john-hall-jones-dies.html http://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/news/obituaries/75255211/john-halljones-surgeon-adventurer-historian-author--19272015