Background
STUART-Jones, Henry was born on May 15, 1867 in Leeds. Son of late Reverend Henry William Jones, Vicar of Saint Andrew’s, Ramsbottom, Manchester, and Margaret Lawrance Baker.
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STUART-Jones, Henry was born on May 15, 1867 in Leeds. Son of late Reverend Henry William Jones, Vicar of Saint Andrew’s, Ramsbottom, Manchester, and Margaret Lawrance Baker.
Studied at Rossall School. Balliol College, Oxford (Classical Scholar, 1886. Jenkyns Exhibitioner, 1890).
Hertford Scholarship, 1886.
First Class Classical Moderations, 1888. Ireland and Craven Scholarships, 1888.
Gaisford Prize (Greek Prose), 1890. First Class Liter® Humaniores, 1890.
Master of Arts.
Stuart Jones began in 1911 the revision of A Greek-English Lexicon, the standard dictionary of ancient Greek, with the assistance of Roderick McKenzie. A preliminary edition was published under the supervision of Stuart Jones and McKenzie in 1925, but the completed revision was published by Oxford University Press in 1940 only after both men"s deaths. In a preface to the revision, the Press described Stuart Jones in these terms:
Sir Henry was the ideal Editor.
His wide range of knowledge and his exact scholarship, his persistent devotion to his task even in periods of ill health, his tactful assiduity in consulting experts and his skill in co-ordinating their results, gave the work at once its consistency and its elasticity.
Stuart Jones began his relationship with Wales when, in 1927, he became a candidate for the principalship of the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth. His tenure in Wales would prove to be an enthusiastic one: during his time there, he learned the Welsh language and served on the committees of a number of Welsh institutions, including the council of Street David"s College, Lampeter, as well as Trinity College, Carmarthen, and the National Library of Wales.
He also served as vice-chancellor of the federal University of Wales in 1929 and 1930. He was also elected (in 1928) to a Welsh Supernumerary Fellowship of Jesus College, Oxford in his capacity as Principal of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.
He died on 29 June 1939.
German Archaeological Institute.
Spouse 1894, Ileen, o.daughter of late Edwyn Henry Vaughan of Harrow School, and Henrieita Caroline M‘Causland.