HARDING
,
Sir
JOHN DORNEY
(
1809
-
1868
),
Queen's Advocate
;
b. at
Rockfield, Mon.
, in
1809
. For some time he was a private pupil under
Thomas
Arnold
and then proceeded to
Oriel College
,
Oxford
, to complete his education.
He obtained his
B.A.
degree in
1830
,
M.A.
1833
and
D.C.L.
in
1837
. In that year he commenced to practise as an
advocate
at
Doctors’ Commons
. In
1852
he was appointed
Queen's Advocate
, a post which he retained until
1862
. He was
knighted
24 March 1852
. His
Essay on the influence of Welsh Tradition upon European Literature
, which secured a prize offered by the
Abergavenny Cymreigyddion Society
in
1838
, was published in
1839
. He d.
24 Nov. 1868
at the age of fifty-nine.
Bibliography:
-
National Library of Wales Manuscript
9259 (93);
-
Eminent Welshmen
, 1908
;
-
Foster
,
Alumni Oxonienses
;
-
E. G. Salisbury
,
Border Counties' Worthies
,
1878-80
.
Author:
Miss Nansi Ceridwen Jones, Aberystwyth
