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{{Short description|Welsh philosopher and academic (1852–1922)}}
{{Infobox philosopher
|region           = [[Philosophy:Western philosophy|Western philosophy]]
|era              = [[Philosophy:19th-century philosophy|19th-century philosophy]]
|image            = HenryJonesPhilosopher.jpg
|name             = Sir Henry Jones
|birth_date       = 30 November 1852
|birth_place      = Llangernyw, [[History:United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]] (now Llangernyw,
Conwy County Borough, Wales, UK)
|death_date       = 4 February 1922
|death_place      =
|alma_mater       = [[Organization:University of Glasgow|University of Glasgow]]
|institutions     = 
|school_tradition = [[Philosophy:British idealism|British idealism]]
|main_interests   = [[Philosophy:Political philosophy|Political philosophy]]
|notable_ideas    = 
|influences       = [[Biography:Edward Caird|Edward Caird]]
|influenced       = [[Biography:John Anderson (philosopher)|John Anderson]]<ref name=SEP>[https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/anderson-john/ John Anderson (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)]</ref> 
}}
'''Sir Henry Jones''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|commas=on|CH|FBA|size=100%}} (30 November 1852 &ndash; 4 February 1922) was a Welsh philosopher and academic.

==Biography==
Jones was born in Llangernyw, now in Conwy County Borough, the son of a shoemaker. After working as an apprentice to his father, he studied at Bangor Normal College and became a teacher at Brynamman. Having decided to enter the Presbyterian ministry, he went to the [[Organization:University of Glasgow|University of Glasgow]] on a scholarship. After graduating, he obtained a fellowship, and went on to study at Oxford and in Germany. In 1882 he married Annie Walker, a Scotswoman, and later returned to live in Scotland.<ref name="DWB">{{cite DWB|id=s-JONE-HEN-1852|author=Daniel Davies|title=Jones, Sir Henry|access-date=26 November 2023}}</ref>

Jones was appointed a lecturer at the University College, Aberystwyth, in 1882, before becoming a professor at the University College of North Wales, Bangor in 1884. In 1894, he became Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, where he remained until 1922.<ref>{{cite web |title=University of Glasgow :: International Story :: Sir Henry Jones |URL=https://www.internationalstory.gla.ac.uk/person/?id=WH0187 |accessdate=9 August 2023 |website=www.internationalstory.gla.ac.uk}} </ref>

A Liberal and a friend of David Lloyd George, he was instrumental in the passing of the Welsh Intermediate Education Act 1889, and worked for the establishment of the University of Wales and the introduction of a penny rate for education. 

He was knighted in 1912 and was appointed Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1922, shortly before his death.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=32563|date=31 December 1921|page=10716|supp=y}}</ref>

The Sir Henry Jones Memorial Prize (for moral philosophy), founded in 1934, is awarded annually in October.<ref>{{cite web |title=University of Glasgow :: Story :: Prizes: Sir Henry Jones Memorial Prize |url=https://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/award/?id=305 |accessdate=4 December 2018 |website=www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk}}</ref>

== Family ==
By his wife Annie, Jones had two daughters and four sons. A son and daughter died in youth. All their three surviving children fought in the First World War, the youngest of whom, Lieutenant Arthur Meredydd Jones, MC, was killed on active service in France.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/871926/arthur-meredydd-jones/|title=Lieutenant Arthur Meredydd Jones|website=CWGC|access-date=26 November 2023}}</ref> Another son, Captain James Walker Jones, DSO, spent much of his career in Burma. A third son, Lieutenant Elias Henry Jones, also served in Burma and became notorious for his escape from a Turkish prisoner of war camp in 1918.<ref>{{cite DWB|id=s2-JONE-HEN-1883 |title=Jones, Elias Henry |access-date=26 November 2023}}</ref>

== Philosophy ==
Jones supported philosophical [[Philosophy:Idealism|idealism]].<ref>Rashdall, H. (1910). ''Reviewed Work: Idealism as a Practical Creedby Henry Jones''. ''International Journal of Ethics'' 21 (1): 107-110.</ref><ref>Lindsay, A. D. (1926). ''The Idealism of Caird and Jones''. ''Journal of Philosophical Studies'' 1 (2): 171-182.</ref> His philosophy has been described as "essentially Caird's version of Hegelian idealism".{{cn|date=January 2023}}

==Works==
*''Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher'' (1891)
*[https://archive.org/details/acriticalaccount00jonesuoft ''A Critical Account of the Philosophy of Lotze''] (1895)
*[https://archive.org/details/immortalitysoul00jonegoog ''The Immortality of the Soul in the Poems of Tennyson and Browning''] the Essex Hall Lecture for 1905 (1907) also online as a PDF file from the [https://web.archive.org/web/20111125055525/http://unitarian.org.uk/docs/publications/1905_Essex_Hall_Lecture.pdf ''Unitarians UK website'']   
*[https://archive.org/details/idealismpractic00joneuoft ''Idealism as a Practical Creed''] (1909) 
*[https://archive.org/details/workingfaithofso00joneuoft ''The Working Faith of the Social Reformer: and other essays''] (1910)
*[https://archive.org/details/socialpowersthre00jonerich ''Social Powers: three popular lectures on the environment, the press and the pulpit''] (1913)
*[https://archive.org/details/principlescitiz00jonegoog ''The Principles of Citizenship''] (1919)
*[https://archive.org/details/thelifeandphilo00joneuoft ''The Life and Philosophy of Edward Caird''] joint author with J H Muirhead (1921)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130529002928/http://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=89 ''A Faith that Enquires''] Gifford Lectures (1922)
*[https://archive.org/details/oldmemoriesautob00joneuoft ''Old Memories: An Autobiography''] edited by Thomas Jones (1923)
*[https://archive.org/details/essaysonliteratu00jone ''Essays on Literature and Education''] edited by H J W Hetherington (undated but perhaps 1924).

See also ''The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Jones'' by H J W Hetherington (1925) - further information online as a PDF file from [http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/europ/resources/Henry%20Jones%20biography.pdf ''Cardiff University website'']{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Gutenberg author |id=Jones,+Henry,+Sir | name=Henry Jones}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Henry Jones |birth=1852 |death=1922 |sopt=t }}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130529002928/http://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=89 ''Henry Jones''] biographical notes and download available from the Gifford Lectures website  
*[https://amgueddfasyrhenryjones.org.uk/cwm/index.php?_cmd=&lng=en Sir Henry Jones Museum] 
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304070359/http://cheshire.cent.gla.ac.uk/ead/search?operation=summary&rsid=20882&firstrec=1&numreq=20&highlight=1&hitposition=0#rightcol Sir Henry Jones Papers at Glasgow University Archives]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20151120162957/http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/foxweb/huntsearch/DetailedResults.fwx?collection=art&SearchTerm=44239&reqMethod=Link Portrait of Sir Henry Jones] in the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery of the [[Organization:University of Glasgow|University of Glasgow]].


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