JONES, ROBERT (1769 - 1835), cleric

and friend of William Wordsworth; born at Plas-yn-llan, Llangynhafal, near Ruthin, in November 1769, the son of Edward Jones, attorney. He was educated at Ruthin Grammar School and S. John's College, Cambridge, where he was a fellow-student of Wordsworth 's. He accompanied the poet on one walking tour on the Continent in 1790, and on another through North Wales in 1791. Ordained at S. Asaph in 1792, Jones was a Fellow of his college until 1806, when he became rector of Souldern, Oxfordshire. Wordsworth visited him at Souldern in 1820, and again in 1824 at the parsonage, Llanfihangel-glyn-myfyr, near Corwen. Jones remained rector of Souldern for the rest of his life, but spent various periods in North Wales. He died, unmarried, at Plas-yn-llan on 5 April 1835.

He was a descendant of Richard Jones (1603? - 1673).

Author

• Reverend Trevor Hugh Bowen

Sources

• T. H. Bowen, 'Robert Jones' in English, Spring 1950
• [1]The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Poems Written in Youth, Poems Referring to the Period of Childhood, Oxford, 1940. [2]The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Poems Founded on the Affections, Poems on the Naming of Places, Poems of Fancy, Poems of the Imagination, Oxford, 1944. [3]The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Evening Voluntaries, Itinerary Poems of 1833 (Oxford 1947), (ed. E. de Selincourt), iii, 452
• Llechid Jones Manuscript at the National Library of Wales 23
• D. M. Lloyd, 'Wordsworth and Wales' in The National Library of Wales Journal, vi, 338-52

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q20734341

Published date: 1959

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