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See also:

• JONES
• JONES, ALFRED GILPIN (1824-1906)
• JONES, EBENEZER (182o-186o)
• JONES, ERNEST CHARLES (1819-1869)
• JONES, HENRY (1831-1899)
• JONES, HENRY ARTHUR (1851- )
• JONES, INIGO (1573-1651)
• JONES, JOHN (c. 1800-1882)
• JONES, MICHAEL (d. 1649)
• OWEN JONES (1741-1814)
• JONES, OWEN (1809-1874)
• JONES, RICHARD (179o-1855)
• JONES, SIR ALFRED LEWIS (1845-1909)
• JONES, SIR WILLIAM (1746-1794)
• JONES, THOMAS RUPERT (1819– )
• JONES, WILLIAM (1726-1800)

JONES (1741-1814)  , Welsh antiquary, was born on the 3rd of September 1741 at Llanvihangel Glyn y Myvyr in Denbighshire . In 176o he entered the service of a London firm of furriers, to whose business he ultimately succeeded . He had from boyhood studied Welsh literature, and later devoted time and money to its collection . Assisted by 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 manuscripts which he had brought together are deposited in the 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 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 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 Thames Street, London .