Tag: Welsh landed families

• The Scholar Priest: The Life and Legacy of John Cartwright Jones (1831–1875)

  In the long arc of the Jones Glandwr family story, few figures embody the union of intellect, faith, and social ambition as completely as John Cartwright Jones. Born into London privilege yet anchored in Welsh heritage, he lived at the crossroads of Victorian transformation – a clergyman shaped by Oxford scholarship, a family patriarch whose…

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  01/02/2026

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  19th century Wales, Arthur Owen Jones, Bishopsgate London, Breaston Derbyshire, Christ Church Oxford, family history, Francis Jones OBE, Glandwr Estate, history, John Cartwright Jones, Jonah Jones cricketer, Jones family history, Jones Glandwr family, literature, Llanaber burial ground, Llyfnant Valley, Local history, Merchant Taylors School, Nottinghamshire history, Oxford Movement era, poetry, Royal Navy chaplaincy, Shelton Nottinghamshire, Texas pioneers, Thrumpton, Tynycoed, Victorian biography, Victorian Church of England, Victorian clergy, Welsh emigrants to Texas, Welsh genealogy, Welsh history, Welsh landed families

• 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,…

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  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