John Prichard-Jones

Sir John Prichard-Jones, 1st Baronet (31 May 1841 – 17 October 1917) was a self-made Welsh business man of the Victorian and Edwardian era. His main business was the London West End department store Dickins & Jones.

For most of his life, he was known as John Jones. In 1878, he was married as John Pritchard Jones; and in 1910 was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant of Anglesey. In July 1910, he was created a Baronet,

As well as his house in Wales, Jones had an English country house at Elstree, in Hertfordshire called Maes yr Hâv.

Personal life On 27 February 1878, at St Mary Abbots, Kensington, Jones married firstly Mary Coggan Coate, a daughter of Vincent Coate, late of Muchelney, Somerset. She died in October 1901.

In 1905, Jones's English address was Newborough, Canfield Gardens, South Hampstead, N.W. With his new wife, he had two sons:

John Prichard-Jones (1913–2007), educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, who was called to the bar from Gray's Inn and during the Second World War was commissioned into The Bays, rising to the rank of captain. In August 1937, he married Heather Nugent, daughter of Sir Walter Nugent. Their son David John Walter Prichard-Jones (born 1943) is the present baronet.

The Prichard Jones Institute The Prichard Jones Institute, opened in 1905 at Newborough, Anglesey, may be described as a community centre for the people of Newborough. It consisted of a library, facilities for exhibitions, meetings and lectures. Also on the site were cottages made available to local elderly people, subject to certain criteria, who would also be paid a pension from a fund established by Sir John Prichard-Jones. The fund was financed through monies gained from a property in London, but unfortunately the property was destroyed through bombing during World War II. Without this fund the building had fallen into disrepair and required renovation.

The Institute is a registered charity.

In 2006 the Pritchard Jones Institute was one of the buildings nominated for the BBC television show Restoration.