Henry Jones (philosopher)
{{Short description|Welsh philosopher and academic (1852–1922)}}
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{{Infobox philosopher
|region = Western philosophy
|era = 19th-century philosophy
|image = HenryJonesPhilosopher.jpg
|name = Sir Henry Jones
|birth_date = 30 November 1852
|birth_place = Llangernyw, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (now Llangernyw,
Conwy County Borough, Wales, UK)
|death_date = 4 February 1922
|death_place =
|alma_mater = University of Glasgow
|institutions =University College, Aberystwyth
University College of North Wales, Bangor
|school_tradition = British idealism
|main_interests = Political philosophy
|notable_ideas =
}}
Sir Henry Jones, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|commas=on|CH|FBA|size=}} (30 November 1852 – 4 February 1922) was a Welsh philosopher and academic.
Biography
Jones was born in Llangernyw, now in Conwy County Borough, the son of a shoemaker. After working as an apprentice to his father, he studied at Bangor Normal College and became a teacher at Brynamman. Having decided to enter the Presbyterian ministry, he went to the University of Glasgow on a scholarship. After graduating, he obtained a fellowship, and went on to study at Oxford and in Germany. In 1882 he married Annie Walker, a Scotswoman, and later returned to live in Scotland.{{cite DWB|id=s-JONE-HEN-1852|author=Daniel Davies|title=Jones, Sir Henry|access-date=26 November 2023}}
Jones was appointed a lecturer at the University College, Aberystwyth, in 1882, before becoming a professor at the University College of North Wales, Bangor in 1884. In 1894, he became Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, where he remained until 1922.{{cite web |title=University of Glasgow :: International Story :: Sir Henry Jones |URL=https://www.internationalstory.gla.ac.uk/person/?id=WH0187 |accessdate=9 August 2023 |website=www.internationalstory.gla.ac.uk}}
A Liberal and a friend of David Lloyd George, he was instrumental in the passing of the Welsh Intermediate Education Act 1889, and worked for the establishment of the University of Wales and the introduction of a penny rate for education.
He was knighted in 1912 and was appointed Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1922, shortly before his death.{{London Gazette|issue=32563|date=31 December 1921|page=10716|supp=y}}
The Sir Henry Jones Memorial Prize (for moral philosophy), founded in 1934, is awarded annually in October.{{cite web |title=University of Glasgow :: Story :: Prizes: Sir Henry Jones Memorial Prize |url=https://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/award/?id=305 |accessdate=4 December 2018 |website=www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk}}
Family
By his wife Annie, Jones had two daughters and four sons. A son and daughter died in youth. All their three surviving children fought in the First World War, the youngest of whom, Lieutenant Arthur Meredydd Jones, MC, was killed on active service in France.{{cite web|url=https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/871926/arthur-meredydd-jones/|title=Lieutenant Arthur Meredydd Jones|website=CWGC|access-date=26 November 2023}} Another son, Captain James Walker Jones, DSO, spent much of his career in Burma. A third son, Lieutenant Elias Henry Jones, also served in Burma and became notorious for his escape from a Turkish prisoner of war camp in 1918.{{cite DWB|id=s2-JONE-HEN-1883 |title=Jones, Elias Henry |access-date=26 November 2023}}
Philosophy
Jones supported philosophical idealism.Rashdall, H. (1910). Reviewed Work: Idealism as a Practical Creedby Henry Jones. International Journal of Ethics 21 (1): 107-110.Lindsay, A. D. (1926). The Idealism of Caird and Jones. Journal of Philosophical Studies 1 (2): 171-182. His philosophy has been described by Daniel Davies as "essentially Caird's version of Hegelian idealism".
Works
- Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher (1891)
- [https://archive.org/details/acriticalaccount00jonesuoft A Critical Account of the Philosophy of Lotze] (1895)
- [https://archive.org/details/immortalitysoul00jonegoog The Immortality of the Soul in the Poems of Tennyson and Browning] the Essex Hall Lecture for 1905 (1907) also online as a PDF file from the [https://web.archive.org/web/20111125055525/http://unitarian.org.uk/docs/publications/1905_Essex_Hall_Lecture.pdf Unitarians UK website]
- [https://archive.org/details/idealismpractic00joneuoft Idealism as a Practical Creed] (1909)
- [https://archive.org/details/workingfaithofso00joneuoft The Working Faith of the Social Reformer: and other essays] (1910)
- [https://archive.org/details/socialpowersthre00jonerich Social Powers: three popular lectures on the environment, the press and the pulpit] (1913)
- [https://archive.org/details/principlescitiz00jonegoog The Principles of Citizenship] (1919)
- [https://archive.org/details/thelifeandphilo00joneuoft The Life and Philosophy of Edward Caird] joint author with J H Muirhead (1921)
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20130529002928/http://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=89 A Faith that Enquires] Gifford Lectures (1922)
- [https://archive.org/details/oldmemoriesautob00joneuoft Old Memories: An Autobiography] edited by Thomas Jones (1923)
- [https://archive.org/details/essaysonliteratu00jone Essays on Literature and Education] edited by H J W Hetherington (undated but perhaps 1924).
See also The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Jones by H J W Hetherington (1925) - further information online as a PDF file from [http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/europ/resources/Henry%20Jones%20biography.pdf Cardiff University website]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
References
External links
- {{Gutenberg author |id=Jones,+Henry,+Sir | name=Henry Jones}}
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Henry Jones |birth=1852 |death=1922 |sopt=t }}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20130529002928/http://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=89 Henry Jones] biographical notes and download available from the Gifford Lectures website
- [https://amgueddfasyrhenryjones.org.uk/cwm/index.php?_cmd=&lng=en Sir Henry Jones Museum]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304070359/http://cheshire.cent.gla.ac.uk/ead/search?operation=summary&rsid=20882&firstrec=1&numreq=20&highlight=1&hitposition=0#rightcol Sir Henry Jones Papers at Glasgow University Archives]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20151120162957/http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/foxweb/huntsearch/DetailedResults.fwx?collection=art&SearchTerm=44239&reqMethod=Link Portrait of Sir Henry Jones] in the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery of the University of Glasgow.
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