T. Harri Jones

Who was T. Harri Jones?

Thomas Henry "Harri" Jones was a Welsh poet and university lecturer.

Jones was born at Cwm Crogau, near Llanafan-Fawr, Brecknockshire. He served in the Royal Navy from 1941–1946 during World War II. He attended University of Wales, Aberystwyth, graduating in English in 1947 and gaining a Master of Arts in 1949. He taught in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England from 1951–1959. In 1959 he accepted an appointment as a lecturer in English at University of Newcastle in Newcastle, New South Wales, and so emigrated to Australia. He drowned accidentally at Newcastle in January 1965. He was survived by his wife, Madeline Scott, and three daughters.

Jones wrote poetry in English rather than Welsh. Although his father spoke Welsh, Harri and his siblings adopted their mother’s language, English.