Walter Jones was a Welsh Anglican

priest A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in partic ...

in the mid 16th Century. Jones was educated at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. He held livings at

Hodgeston Hodgeston is a small village and parish a mile southeast of Lamphey, south Pembrokeshire, Wales, and is in the Community (Wales), community of Lamphey. It is on the A4139 road, A4139 Pembroke Dock to Tenby road. Other surrounding villages are Fre ...

and Aberporth. He was

Archdeacon of Brecon An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in the Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, St Thomas Christians, Eastern Orthodox churches and some other Christian denominations, above that of mos ...

from 1561 until 1567."The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Saint David" Manby, G.W. p127: London; Edward Harding; 1801 He was then

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of Long Marston until his death in 1577.

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1577 deaths Archdeacons of Brecon 16th-century Welsh Anglican priests Alumni of the University of Oxford {{Welsh-Anglican-clergy-stub