Biography on idwal jones wife

He gained his M. He had teaching experience at Llanmorlais elementary school, Glamorganshire from ; then at the Westminster City secondary school ; and in he took evening classes at the Working Men's College, London. He was the first Dean in the Faculty of Education at that college and established close academic links with Trinity College Carmarthen as well as with teachers and children within the wide Faculty hinterland.

He was responsible for officially initiating the teaching of a subject apart from Welsh through the medium of Welsh in the University of Wales, and argued the case for this development with exceptional skill and perceptivity. He was an able committee-man: like all professors of Education he was weighed down with innumerable committees, but in such places he proved himself a generous and formidable advocate, completely unswerving in his stand for Welsh causes.

Much of the success in establishing Welsh as a recognised medium of instruction at University level is due to him.

JONES, IDWAL ( - ), educationist

Under his leadership the Department of Education at Aberystwyth developed as a significant international centre for bilingual studies. He himself lectured through the medium of Welsh on psychology in , and was one of the pioneers writing on modern psychology in the Welsh language e. He possessed an inherent nobility of spirit, and even in his last days of illness he was a strikingly elegant and charming personality.

On June 29, he married Kitty, daughter of Sir John Herbert Lewis of Plas Penucha, Caerwys; and this was no doubt what impelled him to compile the standard bibliography of Thomas Jones of Denbigh and to edit a new edition of that Methodist leader's autobiography in He was forced by ill-health to retire prematurely from his chair in , due to an infirmity caused to a great extent by overwork during the war-years.

He died January 3, at Caerwys and was buried in Colwyn Bay. It is free to use and does not receive grant support. A donation would help us maintain and improve the site so that we can continue to acknowledge Welsh men and women who have made notable contributions to life in Wales and beyond. Find out more on our sponsorship page.