Jane Spickernell

Lady Jane Akers-Jones, MBE (8 March 1929 – 6 October 2002) was an influential member of the Hong Kong Girl Guides Association (HKGGA) and its longest serving Chief Commissioner. Family and personal life Jane Akers-Jones, née Spickernell, was born in Paddington, London on 8 March 1929. She was the eldest child of Sir Frank Todd Spickernell KBE CB CVO DSO RN (1885–1956) and Lady Amice Ivy Delves Spickernell (née Broughton) (1901–1974). She met Sir David Akers-Jones (1927–2019) whilst he was studying at Brasenose College, Oxford and she was an actress appearing with the Liverpool Playhouse. They married on 8 September 1951. They adopted two children, Simon Akers-Jones (d. 1981) and Bryony Akers-Jones. The family attended the Anglican Christ Church in Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong. Akers-Jones died of liver cancer at the Queen Mary Hospital, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong, on 6 October 2002 aged 73. Her funeral was held at St John's Cathedral, Central, Hong Kong. Among the mourners were then Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, Chief Secretary Donald Tsang Yam-kuen, tycoon Li Ka-shing and film star, Jackie Chan.