Dr Ernest Jones was a key figure in the advancement of psychoanalysis in Britain and abroad. One of Sigmund Freud’s closest associates and staunchest supporters, he wrote an exhaustive three-volume biography of Freud. Jones entered Llandovery College in January 1893, and he left in 1896, aged 16, to study Medicine at the University of Wales, Cardiff. He regretted that there was no teaching of Welsh in the College at that time, “although one patriotic boy used to go to the town to take lessons from the local curate. It was a deficiency for which I have never ceased to blame my old school, and I am glad to hear it has long since been remedied.” He recalled how there were two very cold winters during his schooldays, and that he enjoyed skating on the river from Llandovery to Llangadog. Fifty years later he wrote the standard work on Figure Skating. By 1908 Jones was Professor of Psychiatry at Toronto, and in the same year he, with Carl Jung, organized the first psychoanalytic congress at Salzburg, where he first met Freud. His principal contributions to psychoanalytic theory developed from his application of psychoanalytic principles to anthropology, folklore, art and literature. Largely through his efforts the British Medical Association recognized psychoanalysis in 1929. During the 1930s, Jones helped many displaced German analysts to resettle in England and other countries. After the Nazi takeover of Austria in 1938, Jones played a critical role in enabling the ailing Freud and his family to go to London. Jones’s first marriage was to the Welsh composer Morfydd Llwyn Owen, who died tragically at the age of 26.