Personal Life
He was born on 9 May 1891.
In 1916 he married Elizabeth Schofield.
Jeffery was a Quaker, and in 1916 in the First World War spent a short time in prison as a conscientious objector, and further time at the Home Office Work Centre in Wakefield. In 1934 he gave the Swarthmore Lecture to the Yearly Meeting of Quakers, under the title Christ, Yesterday And Today. He died on 27 April 1957.
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