Five Hundred Carats: An interesting jewel heist story from an 19th century Welsh author

George Chetwynd Griffith-Jones was born on 20th August, 1857, in Plymouth, South-West England to a clergyman father who was frequently moved to different parishes.

Although Griffith did briefly attend school there were only limited funds to provide a formal education for him and his elder brother. Consequently, they were primarily home schooled with their father teaching them Latin and Greek and their mother, French. There was also an extensive family library which Griffith devoured.

At 15 h...