Abel J. Jones

Abel John Jones OBE (26 May 1878 – 8 May 1949), was a Welsh writer.

Jones was born in Rhymney, Bedwellty, Monmouthshire. His parents, David Rees Jones and Hannah Jones (née Evans) and his sister Annie and brothers Rees and David Rees spoke only Welsh whereas Abel spoke Welsh and English (and later German) fluently. He originally left school at the age of fourteen to work in a shop: after fifteen months he became a pupil-teacher for five years.

He was involved with Guglielmo Marconi's first wireless signal transmission over water on 13 May 1897 from Lavernock Point to Flatholm Island in south Wales.

Abel studied at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth from 1898–1901, and was awarded a BSc.

He taught science and mathematics and was Senior Master at Narberth County Intermediate School, Pembrokeshire, from February 1904 to July 1905 under the headmastership of John Morgan MA.

From 1905 to 1906 he studied at the German University of Jena under the philosopher Rudolf Christoph Eucken and was awarded a PhD. From 1906 Abel was Scholar of Clare College, Cambridge reading for the Moral Sciences Tripos (BA 1908, MA 1912).

After leaving Cambridge, Abel taught in elementary and secondary schools (including Bootham School, York)and lectured in Philosophy at Clare College before his appointment as an assistant lecturer in the Education Department of the University College, Cardiff.

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