Background
Jones was born in Wrexham, Denbighshire but brought up in Llaneilian on Ynys Môn, north Wales.
Jones was born in Wrexham, Denbighshire but brought up in Llaneilian on Ynys Môn, north Wales.
He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, matriculating in 1956.
He taught at Dolgellau for a year, before becoming a lecturer at University College, Bangor In 1974, he became Bangor"s head of the Department of Welsh Language and Literature and a professor