Thomas Gwynn Jones or T. Gwynn Jones (10 October 1871 – 7 March 1949) was a leading Welsh poet, scholar, literary critic, novelist, translator, and journalist who did important work in Welsh literature, Welsh education, and the study of Welsh folk tales[1] in the first half of the twentieth century. He was also an accomplished translator into Welsh of works from English, German, Greek, and Irish.
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Jones was born in Betws-yn-Rhos, Denbighshire, north Wales, near Abergele. He was educated in Denbigh and Abergele.
In 1890 he was a sub-editor on the Welsh-language newspaper Baner ac Amserau Cymru (Y Faner). He wrote a famous biography of the great Liberal publisher Thomas Gee, whose work influenced Jones throughout his life. After many years as a journalist, Jones worked at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, and later as a lecturer in the Welsh department at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he became a professor in 1919.
He won the Chair at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in Bangor in 1902 for his ode, Ymadawiad Arthur. His major work was an edition of the fifteenth century poet, Tudur Aled.
A strong opponent of the First World War, Jones walked out of the Tabernacle Chapel in Aberystwyth when the minister offered a prayer for a British victory in the war.
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