Eluned Garmon Jones Explained

Eluned Clunes Garmon Jones (née Lloyd, 1897 – 1979) was a Welsh local historian.

She was born Eluned Clunes Lloyd in Bangor in November 1897 to historian John Edward Lloyd and his wife Clementina, née Miller.^[1] She was affectionately known as Lin. Like her brother Edward, Eluned studied at the University of Oxford, where she encouraged the talents of her classmate Margaret Kennedy.^[2] She received a BA from Somerville College in 1920 at the first degree ceremony to award degrees to women there.^[3]

An authority on local history and the place-names of Wales, Lloyd was Tutor and Internal Examiner in Modern History at the University of Liverpool.^{[4] [5]}

In 1923, she married her colleague William Garmon Jones.^[6] She moved back to Bangor in 1945, and died in 1979.^[7]

Notes and References

1. Book: Pryce, Huw . J. E. Lloyd and the Creation of Welsh History: Renewing a Nation's Past . 2011-05-15 . University of Wales Press . 978-0-7083-2390-8 . 53 . en.
2. Book: Powell, Violet . The Constant Novelist: A Study of Margaret Kennedy, 1896-1967 . 1983 . Heinemann . 978-0-434-59951-6 . 114 . en.
3. Book: Oxford University Gazette Vol. 51 1920–1921 . 1921 . 134.
4. Web site: Eluned Garmon Jones, History Papers . Archives Hub.
5. Web site: 2005 . What's in a place-name? . Archives Hub.
6. Book: Who was who Among English and European Authors, 1931-1949 . 1978 . Gale Research Company . 978-0-8103-0040-8 . 780 . en.
7. Pryce (2011), p. 67.