Background
Emrys Jones was born in 1920, to Samuel and Anne Jones, in Aberdare, Monmouth, Wales, on the rim of the South Wales coalfield, when the coal and iron industries were about to begin their long decline.
Emrys Jones was born in 1920, to Samuel and Anne Jones, in Aberdare, Monmouth, Wales, on the rim of the South Wales coalfield, when the coal and iron industries were about to begin their long decline.
Bachelor of Science in Geography with honors, University College Wales, Aberystwyth, 1941. Master of Science, University College Wales, Aberystwyth, 1945. Doctor of Philosophy, University College Wales, Aberystwyth, 1947.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1978. DUniv (honorary), Open University, 1990.
Youth He was educated at the Aberdare county school for boys. Marriage & Tertiary Studies Reading geography and anthropology, he took a particular interest in the geography of cities. As a pacifist, he became a conscientious objector in the Second World War, serving as an orderly in a cancer hospital and working as an ambulance driver.
He was appointed to an assistant lectureship at University College London (1947-1950), followed by a lectureship and time as a senior lecturer at Queen"s University, Belfast (1950-1958).
In 1959, he became reader in social geography at London School of Economics (London School of Economics), and a professor (1961-1984). London School of Economics While at London School of Economics he formed a productive relationship with Professor Michael Wise.
He published his Social Geography of Belfast in 1960, and his studies of "the spatial component of human behaviour" resulted in his edited Readings in Social Geography of 1975. He published an Atlas of London with Doctorate.J. Sinclair, producing his first maps in 1968.
Other works included Human Geography (1964), Towns and Cities (1966), Manitoba and his Habitat (1971), The Future of Planning (with Evan Zandt, 1973) and Introduction to Social Geography (with J Eyles, 1977), as well as many journal articles
He became an international consultant in town and regional planning schemes, was involved in the work of the Council for National Academic Awards, and advised polytechnics which were introducing degree courses. Honours Retirement Jones continued to write throughout his retirement, producing Metropolis in 1990. Passionate about his Welsh identity since his youth, Jones gave more time to Wales in his retirement.
He served as chairman (1983-1989) and then president of the council of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (1989-2002), and edited and wrote the greater part of The Welsh in London in 2001.
He was received into the Gorsedd of Bards at the National Eisteddfod in 2005. Death Another daughter, Rhianon, predeceased him.
Fellow University Wales Aberystwyth (honorary). Member Honorary Society Cymmrodorion (president), Athenaeum Club London.
Married Iona Vivien Hughes, August 7, 1948. Children: Catrin, Rhianon.