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

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