JONES
,
Sir
HENRY STUART
(
1867
-
1939
),
classical scholar and lexicographer
;
b. at
Hunslet
,
Leeds
,
15 May 1867
, only child of the
Rev.
Henry William
Jones
[
1834
-
1909
] (then
curate
of
Hunslet
) and
Margaret Lawrance
,
née
Baker
; [his grandfather was a
solicitor
at
Bishops Castle
, and the family seems to have been
Cornish
— not (as is often said)
Welsh
]. He was educated at
Rossall school
and
Balliol College
,
Oxford
(classical scholar
1886
). A brilliant university career included the
Hertford, Ireland, and Craven scholarships
, the
Gaisford Prize for Greek prose
, and the
Craven Fellowship
. He was
Fellow
of
Trinity College
1890-1906
and
director of the British School
at
Rome
1903-5
. In
1905
he settled at
Saundersfoot, Pembs.
, in
1919
became
Camden Professor of Ancient History
and
Fellow
of
Brasenose College
,
Oxford
, and in
1927
was appointed
principal
of the
University College of Wales
,
Aberystwyth
. He then applied himself to mastering
Welsh
, and he was active in
Welsh
life,
vice-chancellor of the University
1929-31
, member of the governing body of the
Church in Wales
, and of the councils of
S. David's College
,
Lampeter
,
Trinity College
,
Carmarthen
, and the
National Library of Wales
. He was
knighted
in
1933
, retired from the principalship in
1934
, and d. at
Tenby
29 June 1939
. He m.,
1894
,
Ileen
(daughter of the
Rev.
Edwyn Henry
Vaughan
), who d. in
1931
, and by whom he had one son. He was a
Fellow
of the
British Academy
from
1915
and
president
of the
Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies
1926-9
; a number of its
Journal
was dedicated to him on his seventieth birthday in
1937
. His main work was in classical studies, in all branches of which, including
Greek
music, he had a wide knowledge. He was
editor-in-chief
of the new edition of
Liddell
and
Scott
's
Greek — English Lexicon
(
1925-40
). His numerous publications (bibliography in
Journ. Rom. Stud.
, xxvii, 3-11) included an edition of
Thucydides
(
Oxford Classical Texts
,
1898
),
The Roman Empire
,
1908
, and
A Companion to Roman History
,
1912
.
Bibliography:
-
Proceedings of the British
Academy
, xxvi, 467-78;
-
Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography
1931-40
;
-
Who's who?
,
1939
,
-
[information from his son,
Commander E. H. Stuart Jones
].
Author:
Sir Harold Idris Bell, C.B., D.Litt., Ll.D., F.B.A., F.S.A.,
(1879-1967), Aberystwyth
