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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)
- JONES, OWEN (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, See also:OWEN (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 (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time and See also:money to its collection. Assisted by See also:Edward See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William of Glamorgan (Iolo Morganwg) and Dr. 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. 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.
End of Article: JONES, OWEN (1741-1814)
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