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JONES, HARRY LONGUEVILLE (1806 - 1870), cleric, antiquary, and inspector of schools

Born in 1806 in London, son of Edward Jones (of Wrexham). His family connections are recounted in A Hundred Tears of Welsh Archaeology (11-2) and his career up to 1846 there and (more fully) in D.N.B.

In 1846, he came to live at Llandegfan (Anglesey), and at the end of 1838 was appointed inspector of Church schools for Wales, an office which he resigned in 1864. Opposition to the project (1844) of uniting the two North Wales dioceses had already brought him into friendship with John Williams (ab Ithel), and their common interest in antiquarian matters led them to initiate and edit Archaeologia Cambrensis in January 1846, and to found the Cambrian Archaeological Association in 1847. Jones bore the costs of Archæologia Cambrensis up to 1850, and seems to have lost much money over it. But when Williams became sole editor, divergences between the two men emerged - Williams's enthusiastic 'Druidism' assorted ill with Jones's scientific temper. In 1852, Williams resigned the editorship, and in 1855 Jones resumed it, retaining it till his death (of paralysis) on 16 November 1870.

Over and above numerous articles (illustrated by himself) in Archæologia Cambrensis, Jones published several books, of which there is a list in D.N.B.

Author

• Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, (1881 - 1969)

Sources

• Obituary in Archaeologia Cambrensis, 1871, 94-6
• Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, giving date of death and recording him as 31st wrangler
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• A Hundred Years of Welsh Archaeology

Published date: 1959

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