John Morris-Jones, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

John Morris-Jones

Welsh writer

Date of Birth: 17-Oct-1864

Place of Birth: Llandrygarn, Wales, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 16-Apr-1929

Profession: poet

Nationality: Wales, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About John Morris-Jones

  • Sir John Morris-Jones (17 October 1864 – 16 April 1929) was a Welsh grammarian, academic and Welsh-language poet. Morris-Jones was born Jones, at Trefor in the parish of Llandrygarn, Anglesey.
  • In 1868 the family moved to Llanfairpwllgwyngyll where he received elementary education.
  • In 1876 he entered Friars School, Bangor.
  • In 1879 the headmaster of Friars School, Daniel Lewis Lloyd, was appointed to Christ College, Brecon, and Morris-Jones accompanied him there.
  • In 1883 he attended Jesus College, Oxford, where he graduated with honours in mathematics in 1887.While at Oxford, Morris-Jones studied Welsh books and manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, and attended lectures by Sir John Rhys (1840–1915), the professor of Celtic.
  • Morris-Jones and Rhys prepared an edition of The Elucidarium and other tracts in Welsh from Llyvyr agkyr Llandewivrevi A.D.
  • 1346 (The Book of the Anchorite of Llanddewi Brefi), a collection of Medieval Welsh manuscripts in Jesus College Library, which they published in 1894.
  • Morris-Jones was one of the original members of Cymdeithas Dafydd ap Gwilym (the Dafydd ap Gwilym Society), which was founded in 1886 and is still a students' society.In 1889 Morris-Jones was appointed as a lecturer in Welsh at the University College of North Wales, Bangor (now Bangor University) where he was promoted to professor in 1895, a post he held until his death. Morris-Jones worked to standardise Welsh orthography.
  • His works, Welsh Orthography (1893) and A Welsh Grammar, Historical and Comparative: phonology and accidence (1913), added to the status of the language and thus were well received in Wales.
  • He was also founder and editor of the literary journal, Y Beirniad, published between 1911 and 1919.
  • Morris-Jones was knighted in 1918, after which he used the surname Morris-Jones.Morris-Jones was a commissioner of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales from 1920.In addition to his own poetry, Morris-Jones published influential translations into Welsh of the German poet Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) and the Persian Omar Khayyam (1048–1131).In 1897 Morris-Jones married Mary Hughes of Llanfairpwllgwyngyll.
  • They had four daughters.
  • He died in Bangor on 16 April 1929, aged 64.The Welsh-speaking hall of residence at Bangor University is named Neuadd John Morris-Jones (John Morris-Jones Hall) in his honour.

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