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OWEN JONES (1741-1814)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 500 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OWEN JONES (1741-1814)  , Welsh
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antiquary, was born on the 3rd of September 1741 at Llanvihangel Glyn y Myvyr in Denbighshire . In 176o he entered the service of a
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London
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firm of furriers, to whose business he ultimately succeeded . He had from boyhood studied Welsh literature, and later devoted time and
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money to its collection . Assisted by
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Edward William of Glamorgan (Iolo Morganwg) and Dr . Owen Pughe, he published, at a cost of more than r000, the well-known Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales (1801-1807), a collection of pieces dating from the 6th to the 14th century . The
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manuscripts which he had brought together are deposited in the
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British Museum; the material not utilized in the Myvyrian Archaiology amounts to Too volumes, containing 16,000 pages of verse and 15,300 pages of
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prose . Jones was the founder of the Gwyneddigion Society (1772) in London for the encouragement of Welsh studies and literature; and he began in 1805 a miscellany—the Greal—of which only one
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volume appeared . An edition of the poems of Davydd ab Gwilyin was also issued at his expense . He died on the 26th of December 1814 at his business premises in Upper
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Thames Street, London .

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