John Harris Jones (28 August 182721 July 1885) was a

Calvinistic Methodist Calvinistic Methodists were born out of the 18th-century Welsh Methodist revival and survive as a body of Christians now forming the Presbyterian Church of Wales. Calvinistic Methodism became a major denomination in Wales, growing rapidly in the 1 ...

minister and classical tutor at Trevecca College.

Personal life

Jones was born to John and Elizabeth Jones at Waunwthan in

Llangeler Llangeler () is a hamlet and community located in north Carmarthenshire, Wales. The name is believed to refer to St. Gelert. Llangeler parish covers a wide area including to the west, the textile village of Drefach Felindre, Waungilwen, Cwmpengr ...

, Carmarthenshire. At the age of two, he and his family moved to his mother's old home in Pen-y-banc. He died at Southport in 1885 and is buried at Clos-Y-Graig.

Education

Jones went to Saron Chapel at an independent school. At the age of 12, he transferred to a grammar school in Newcastle Emlyn run by Unitarian minister John Davies. He spent a year at the

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before joining the Presbyterian Academy in Carmarthen, where he studied for five years. At 17, while still at school, John Harris began preaching. He was the first Welsh Calvinistic Methodist to win the Dr. Williams Scholarship in 1849, after which he then went on to study at the

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. In 1852, John Harris Jones completed his graduation with The Lord Jeffreys Gold Medal, acknowledging his academic excellence in Greek. He continued to study, first at

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and later at the University of Halle for his PhD.

Career

Jones was ordained in 1859 and became a classical tutor at Trevecka College from 1865 to 1885. In 1879, he moderated for the South Wales C.M. Association. In 1858, Jones translated the portion of

Ibn Abd al-Hakam Abu'l Qāsim ʿAbd ar-Raḥman bin ʿAbdullah bin ʿAbd al-Ḥakam (Arabic: أبو القاسم عبد الرحمن بن عبد الله بن عبد الحكم), generally known simply as Ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam (Arabic: ابن عبد الحكم) (801 ...

's ''The Conquest of Egypt and North Africa and Spain (Andalusia)'' covering only the

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from Arabic.

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