Hugh Jones (1508–1574) was the

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Life

Jones was descended from a family of that name from

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, to which also belonged Sir Hugh Johnys of Llandimore. He was educated at

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, probably at

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, and was admitted to the degree of

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on 24 July 1541, being then described as ‘chaplain.’ He was first beneficed in Wales, but on 4 January 1557 he was instituted to the vicarage of Banwell, Somerset. By 1560 he had returned to Wales, and at that date was prebendary of Llandaff and rector of

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in the same diocese. On 17 April 1567 he was, on

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's recommendation, elected bishop of Llandaff.Strype, Parker, i. 405 The see was greatly impoverished, and Jones was, as Godwin has observed, the first Welshman that was preferred to it for the space of three hundred years. He died at

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in November 1574, and was buried on the 15th of the same month within the church there. He married Anne Henson, by whom he had several daughters.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Hugh 1508 births 1574 deaths 16th-century Welsh Anglican bishops Bishops of Llandaff Alumni of the University of Oxford