Tag: Glandwr Hall

• Hugh Wynn Wilding Jones (1896–1918)

  Education, Inheritance, and the Long Road to Dojran The life of Hugh Wynn Wilding Jones sits at the intersection of Edwardian inheritance, elite education, and the totalising demands of the First World War. His story is not merely that of a young officer killed in action, but of a man whose life trajectory, intellectual formation,…

  antonydaviesfrsa

  22/01/2026

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  Battle of Dojran, books, British Army officers, Corpus Christi College Oxford, Edwardian Britain, family history, First World War, Genealogy, Glandwr Hall, Great War, Heirs and inheritance, history, Hugh Wynn Wilding-Jones, Junior officers, Lewis gun, military biography, Officer Training Corps, Oxford University, Postcards from the Great War, Private correspondence, Remembering the fallen, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, Salonika Campaign, Tonbridge School, War illness and convalescence, Welsh landed families, ww1

• William Halse Gatty Jones (1825 – 1897): From Gold-Rush Melbourne to the Hills of Merioneth

  My first cousin four times removed, William Halse Gatty Jones, lived a life that stretched across two hemispheres and mirrored the restless energy of the nineteenth century. Born in London on 8 March 1825, he began as a City solicitor, made his fortune amid the Australian gold rush, and returned to Wales to become a…

  antonydaviesfrsa

  29/09/2025

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  Australian legal history, Borthwnog Estate, City of London history, family history, family history blog, Gatty Jones, Genealogy, Glandwr Hall, history, Jones family history, Law Institute of Victoria, Melbourne gold rush, Merionethshire history, nineteenth century Wales, scotland, Skinners Company, Victorian Legislative Assembly, Victorian Wales, Wales, Welsh ancestors, Welsh diaspora, Welsh emigrants Australia, Welsh genealogy, Welsh landed gentry, William Halse Gatty Jones