Ioan Tegid
Male, Deceased Person
1792 – 1852
Who was Ioan Tegid?
John Jones, commonly known by his bardic name of Ioan Tegid or simply Tegid, was a Welsh clergyman and writer.
He was born at Bala and educated there and at the grammar school in Carmarthen, going on to Jesus College, Oxford. In 1819 he was ordained and became chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford. A scholar of the Welsh language, he was closely associated with both Lady Charlotte Guest and Lady Llanover. He was also a Hebrew scholar, publishing a translation of the Book of Isaiah in 1830. In 1842, he moved to Nevern in Pembrokeshire, and in 1848 became a canon of St David's Cathedral. His collected poems were published posthumously in 1859.
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