About David James Jones
Lived 1886 – 1947 (aged 60–61). David James Jones was a British philosopher.
David James Jones (22 December 1886 – 23 July 1947), was a Welsh philosopher and academic.
He was born in Pontarddulais and went to school in Gowerton. He studied at Cardiff University and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. In 1915 he was ordained as a Presbyterian minister, and served as a chaplain on the Western Front in World War I.
Works Hanes Athroniaeth: Y Cyfnod Groegaidd (1939)
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British philosopher
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David James Jones was born in 1886 in Pontarddulais.
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