E. D. Jones

This article is about the librarian, for the Massachusetts millwright see Edward Dorr Jones.

Evan David Jones CBE, PhD, FSA, (6 December 1903 – 7 March 1987) was the Librarian of the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth from 1958 to 1969.

Dr. Jones was appointed Librarian of the National Library of Wales, the national legal deposit library of Wales, in 1958^[1][2] A biographer, Jones wrote articles on Evan Lewis,^[3] David Jones^[4] and Joseph Harris^[5] among others for the Dictionary of Welsh Biography.

Jones also wrote Victorian and Edwardian Wales from Old Photographs.^[6] He was the editor when the entire works of Welsh bard Lewis Glyn Cothi were published in 1953, through the cooperation of the National Library of Wales and the University of Wales Press Board.^[7]

He was survived by his wife Eleanor Jones.

References

1. 'New National Librarian Appointed' Welsh Gazette 31 7 July 1958.
2. Jones on the Ceredigion County Council website
3. The National Library of Wales Dictionary of Welsh Biography online
4. The National Library of Wales Dictionary of Welsh Biography online
5. The National Library of Wales Dictionary of Welsh Biography online
6. Jones, Evan David Victorian and Edwardian Wales from Old Photographs Published by Batsford Ltd (1981) ISBN 978-0-7134-0125-7
7. Lewis Glyn Cothi on Britannica.com