Abel J. Jones

Rudolf Eucken: a Philosophy of Life (Dodo Press) Abel J. Jones

Abel John Jones (1878-1949) was a Welsh writer. He studied at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth from 1898 to 1901, and was awarded a BSc. He taught science and mathematics and was Senior Master at Narberth County Intermediate School, Pembrokeshire, from 1904 to 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 he was Scholar of Clare College, Cambridge reading for the Moral Sciences Tripos (BA 1908, MA 1912). After leaving Cambridge, he taught in elementary and secondary schools and lectured in Philosophy at Clare College before his appointment as an assistant lecturer in the Education Department of the University College, Cardiff. He became the youngest person to be appointed one of His Majesty's Inspector of Schools in Wales (1910-1938). During the years 1914-1918, he was Secretary for War Savings in Glamorgan for which he was later awarded an OBE. He had at least nine books published, the first of which concerned Rudolf Eucken: A Philosophy of Life (1912).