Alfred Lewis Jones

Alfred Lewis Jones was born in Picton Place, Carmarthen, on 24 February 1845, of what can best be described as respectable, middle-class Welsh parents.¹ Alfred’s father was Daniel Jones, a Currier or leather-worker by trade, and also the reputed owner of the Carmarthen newspaperThe Welshman.His grandfather was Charles Jones, also a Currier, who at one time had been an alderman of Carmarthen, and his great-grandfather was John Lewis who had kept the Half Moon Hotel in Carmarthen at the beginning of the nineteenth century.² Mary Jean Jones, Alfred’s mother, was the eldest daughter of the Revd. Henry Williams,