YORKSHIRE: PAINTED AND DESCRIBED & WILD WALES: ITS PEOPLE LANGUAGE AND SCENERY: Two Volumes

Reprints. Both volumes awarded to Brynmor Jones as school prizes in April of 1921 and 1922, both stamped in gilt to their front boards with the coat of arms of Ruabon Grammar School and inscribed to front pastedowns by the Headmaster D. J. Bowen M.S.c., noting Jones' Form (VI).

Sir Brynmor Jones (1903–1989), was born in North Wales and educated at University College of Wales at Bangor and at St John's College, Cambridge. In 1947 he became a professor chair at University College, where he later became Dean of Science, Deputy Principal. When the college achieved full university status in 1954, he became iPro-Vice-Chancellor and, in 1956, Vice-Chancellor. The expanded University of Hull Library, famously presided over by the poet, Philip Larkin, was named after Jones in 1967.

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