Jones, Robert (1792-1835)

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Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, June 8, 1787. Of ‘Denbyshire.’ [2nd s. of Edward, attorney, and Margaret, of Plas-yn-Llan, Llangynhafal, Denbighs. Bapt. there Oct. 24, 1769.] ' Matric. Michs. 1787; Scholar, 1787; B.A. 1791; M.A. 1794; B.D. 1802. Fellow, 1791-1808. Junior Proctor, 1800-1. Ord. priest (Ely) May 22, 1796. R. of Souldern, Oxon., 1806-35, but had a licence of non-residence for long intervals, the benefice house being unfit for occupation. An intimate friend of Wordsworth; as undergraduates visited the Continent July-Oct. 1790, their wanderings being described in the sixth book of The Prelude. In 1791 and 1793 Wordsworth visited him at his residence in the Vale of Clwydd, as recorded in The Prelude and Descriptive Sketches, and was also a visitor at Souldern, the Seventh Sonnet in Part Three of Miscellaneous Sonnets, entitled A parsonage in Oxfordshire, referring to that place. He again visited Jones in 1824, meeting him at Llanrwst; he was then in the ‘Valley of Meditation’ (Glyn Mavyn) in ‘a Curacy with a comfortable parsonage.’ Died Apr. 3, 1835, at Plas-yn-Llan, Llangynhafal. Buried there. M.I. in Llangynhafal church. (St John's Coll. Adm., IV. 339; G. Mag., 1835, I. 666; G. MacL. Harper, William Wordsworth, his Life, Works, and Influence, II. 370-1.)

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