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The death of Ernest Jones on February 11, 1958 marks the passing of the last of a small group of pioneers who became closely associated with Sigmund Freud in the earliest period of the development of psychoanalysis.
Dr. Jones's unusual talents and tireless energy were chiefly devoted to his clinical work, his scientific contributions to the literature, and his participation in all phases of psychoanalytic activity and organization.
Dr. Jones rendered great service to psychoanalysis by keeping alive his personal and professional contact with the analysts on the European mainland through the difficult days of World War I, and in the Second World War his vigilance and indefatigable planning were even more valuable in helping colleagues to escape from Nazi-controlled territory. This culminated in the rescue of Professor Freud and his family, and their eventual emigration to London in 1938.
He was a founder of the American Psychoanalytic Association in 1911, and of the British Psychoanalytic Society in 1913. He remained Honorary President of the International Psychoanalytic Association which he was active in establishing in 1910.
It was a fitting crown to his full and rewarding life that Ernest Jones, shortly before his death, completed the third and last volume of his monumental biography, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud.