Sir Henry Jones was a Welsh

Wales

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 philosopher and academic.

He was born in Llangernyw, Denbighshire

Denbighshire

Denbighshire is a county in north-east Wales. It is named after the historic county of Denbighshire, but has substantially different borders. Denbighshire has the distinction of being the oldest inhabited part of Wales. Pontnewydd Palaeolithic site has remains of Neanderthals from 225,000 years...

, the son of a shoemaker. After working as an apprentice to his father, he studied at Bangor Normal College

Bangor Normal College

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 and became a teacher at Brynamman

Brynamman

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. Having decided to enter the Presbyterian ministry, he went to the University of Glasgow

University of Glasgow

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 on a scholarship. After graduating, he obtained a fellowship, and went on to study at Oxford and in Germany. In 1882 he married a Scotswoman, and later returned to live in Scotland.

He was instrumental in the passing of the Intermediate Education Act of 1889, and worked for the establishment of the University of Wales

University of Wales

The University of Wales was a confederal university founded in 1893. It had accredited institutions throughout Wales, and formerly accredited courses in Britain and abroad, with over 100,000 students, but in October 2011, after a number of scandals, it withdrew all accreditation, and it was...

 and the introduction of a penny rate for education. He was knighted in 1912.

Works

• Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher (1891)
• A Critical Account of the Philosophy of Lotze (1895)
• A Faith that Enquires (1922)

External links

• Sir Henry Jones Museum
• Portrait of Sir Henry Jones in the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery
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   of the University of Glasgow
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