Additional papers of John Harry Jones, including note-books of lectures on economics and politics given by him and others at Cardiff, Liverpool, Glasgow and elsewhere, 1903-1921

Description

Professor John Harry Jones (1881-1973) was professor of economics at Leeds from 1919 to 1946. He graduated at Cardiff in 1903 where his principal teachers had been S J Chapman and C J Hamilton. He subsequently obtained a research fellowship and visited Leipzig and Berlin. In 1914 he published a book on the tin-plate industry, developed from his MA thesis. He was an assistant lecturer at Liverpool from 1907 to 1909 and a lecturer at Glasgow from 1909 to 1913 where he was much involved in the School of Social Study and Training as well as in the regular work of the department. During the First World War he was seconded to work in the Ministries of Munitions and of Labour.


These papers comprise mainly early note-books containing various lecture notes. There are notes which Jones took as an undergraduate at Cardiff and others which he made later for his own lectures at Liverpool and Glasgow. There are also note-books compiled by other students of economics and politics during the same period, both from Jones's lectures and from those of others. All these lecture notes cast interesting light on the academic teaching of economics and politics before the First World War.


We are indebted to the School of Economic Studies in the University of Leeds, and to its Chairman, for their very kind donation of these papers to the Brotherton Library in October 1980. The collection also includes an analysis of the contents of the lecture note-books made by Dr. M A Hudson of the School, for which we are grateful. We are especially grateful, also, to the University Archivists at Glasgow and Liverpool, and to the Deputy Librarian, University College, Cardiff, for help on a number of points of local detail.


Includes notes taken by Mary Macdonald (Glasgow, 1912-13), R.A. Macdonald (Liverpool, 1906-7) and Jonathan Grey Morgans (Cardiff, 1903-4). Apart from Jones, lecturers include E.C.K. Gonner (Liverpool, 1906-7), D.H. McGregor (?Cambridge, 1903), Donald McKay Stalker (Glasgow, 1912-3) and, by inference, C.J. Hamilton (Cardiff, 1902-4). Also included is an analysis of most of the note-books by Dr M.A. Hudson.

Biography or history

John Harry Jones was Professor of Economics at Leeds 1919-1946. He was born in Wales and graduated at Cardiff in 1903. After further study at Leipzig and Berlin he lectured at Liverpool and Glasgow before coming to Leeds. During the First World War he served in the Ministries of Munitions and of Labour. Later he served on a number of Royal Commissions and Boards, notably the Nova Scotia Royal Commission of Economic Enquiry in 1934

System of arrangement

The MS 497 catalogue is based on an historic inventory, created in 1980. The arrangement of material does not necessarily represent the original order of the archive and it is considered partly processed by an archivist. When making requests to consult, please be aware that there may be discrepancies between description and physical arrangement. The retrievable unit for this collection is file level.

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Related material

For other papers of Professor Jones see MSS 178, 272, 407 and 515. The Brotherton Library has a further collection of Professor Jones's papers, mainly in connection with his studies of the coal industry (Special Collections MS 407; handlist 50).

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