Welsh Journals

(1952-62), then as lecturer in Welsh to St David's College, Lampeter (1962- 6), and afterwards as head of Celtic Studies in the University of Liverpool. From 1974-88 he was Professor of Welsh at St David's, Lampeter, by then St David's University College of Wales, Lampeter. He did not sever his connection with the college on his retirement but continued to act as director of the Research Centre which he had helped establish. For four years before he retired Simon Evans had been Deputy- Principal and his wisdom and efficiency in that office were generously acknowledged by Principal (now Lord) Brian Morris in the Festschrift in his honour which appeared in two volumes in 1990. The Festschrift also contains a bibliography of his many contributions to Welsh scholarship. All his work was characterised by scrupulous conscientiousness, great attention to detail and wide-encompassing thoroughness. His Welsh and English grammars of Middle Welsh have become classics, and his Historia Gruffud vab Kenan, one of the primary texts submitted for his D.Litt degree, is typical in that although the text is just over thirty pages, the introduction runs to over 300 and the notes and indexes to more than another 100 pages. But it must not be thought that his interests were merely linguistic. In the fields of the history of religion in Wales, his Welsh and English editions of the Welsh life of St David, his edition of Doble's Lives of the Welsh Saints, and his Medieval Religious Literature are important. He published more than one article on the Cannarthenshire hymn-writer Morgan Rhys, and it is significant that his last volume was a history of the Presbyterian Chapel in Llanfynydd to which he was always ready to acknowledge a profound debt. It was a matter of great satisfaction to him that he was helped to produce that volume by his son, Dr Dafydd H Evans, who has already proved himself a scholar worthy of his father. J E Caerwyn Williams Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth THE REVD PROFESSOR ROBERT TUDUR JONES, DPhil, DD, DLitt (1921-1998) Ever since the eighteenth century, Welsh Nonconformity has been well served by its historians: Joshua Thomas, Thomas Rees and Dr Thomas Richards to mention but three, but of them none surpassed R Tudur Jones in the scope,