biography
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Morris-Jones, Sir John
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originally John Jones
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| lived:
| (1864–1929)
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| biography:
| Scholar, poet, and teacher, born in Llandrygarn, Anglesey, NW Wales, UK. He studied at Oxford, and became the first professor of Welsh at the University College of North Wales, Bangor. His devotion to the Welsh language and literature, through teaching and writing, helped restore classical standards to Welsh poetry. Works include A Welsh Grammar, Historical and Comparative (1913), Cerdd Dafod (1925, The Art of Poetry), and Orgraff yr Iaith Gymraeg (1928, The Orthography of the Welsh Language). The unfinished Welsh Syntax (1931) was published posthumously. |
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