John Jones (1792–1852)

Welsh poet, antiquary, and clergyman. Adopted the bardic names Ioan Tegid and Tegid. BA, Oxford, 1818. Chaplain, Christ Church, Oxford, 1819; precentor, 1823. Perpetual curate, St Thomas’s, Oxford, 1823. Incumbent of Nevern parish, Pembrokeshire, from 1841, and prebendary of St David’s Cathedral from 1848. A Hebrew scholar, translator and editor of Welsh literary texts, and a prolific poet.