RISE OF A SHOEMAKER
A few weeks ago Mr. Lloyd George handed over to> the trustees' the deeds of a whitewashed cottago in a North Wales village, which was the birthplace of Sir Henry. Jones, who from being a village cobbler rose to be Professor of Philosophy at Glasgow University. Hundreds of people came to the remote village, miles from the nearest railway station, for the ceremony, standing bareheaded on tSie hillside before the cottage throughout the proceedings. When shown tho little workshop where Sir Henry had mended the villagers' shoes until he was 18 years of ago, Mr. Lloyd George said it reminded him of his own boyhood days, for there was a workshop at the cottage where ho lived with his uiielc, Mr. Richard Lloyd, to •whom he owed so much. Sir Henry Jones was born in 3352 and died in 1922/ His early schooling- ended, when he was about 32 years of age. . • • . ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 94, 18 October 1934, Page 8
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