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((Short description|Welsh mathematician and physicist))
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[[File:John Viriamu Jones.jpg|thumb|John Viriamu Jones]]
'''John Viriamu Jones''', [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]] (2 January 1856 – 1 June 1901), was a [[Wales|Welsh]] scientist, who worked on measuring the [[ohm]], and an educationalist who was instrumental in establishing the [[University of Sheffield]] and [[Cardiff University]].<ref name="dwb">((cite book
 | last = Jones
 | first = Edgar William
 | contribution = Jones, John Viriamu (1856–1901), first principal of the University College, Cardiff
 | year = 1959
 | title = [[Dictionary of Welsh Biography|Dictionary of Welsh Biography Down To 1940]]
 | editor-last = Lloyd | editor-first = John Edward
 | editor2-last = Jenkins | editor2-first = R. T.
 | editor3-last = Davies | editor3-first = W. Ll.
 | editor4-last = Davies | editor4-first = M. B.
 | publisher = [[Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion]]
 | place = London
 | page = 489
 | access-date = 16 November 2019
 | chapter-url = https://biography.wales/article/s-JONE-VIR-1856
)) (Reproduced on the [[Dictionary of Welsh Biography]] website of the [[National Library of Wales]].)</ref><ref name="obit_nature">((cite journal
 | last = Ayrton
 | first = W. E.
 | author-link = William Edward Ayrton
 | title = Viriamu Jones
 | journal = [[Nature (journal)|Nature]]
 | volume = 64
 | pages = 161–162
 | date = 1901
 | issue = 1650
 | doi = 10.1038/064161a0
 | s2cid = 12605566
 | url = https://archive.org/details/nature641901lock/page/161
 | access-date = 16 November 2019
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 ))</ref>

==Early life and studies==
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John Viriamu Jones was born on 2 January 1856 in Pentrepoeth in [[Swansea]],<ref name="dwb"/> the third of the six children of [[Thomas Jones (minister)|Thomas Jones]], a celebrated  Independent clergyman, and Jane Jones. He was named after the missionary and martyr [[John Williams (missionary)|John Williams]] –  'Viriamu' being the [[Erromanga languages|Erromanga]] for "Williams". His older siblings were [[David Brynmor Jones|David Brynmor]] (b. 1851) and Annie; his younger brothers were Irvonwy, [[Leifchild Jones, 1st Baron Rhayader|Leifchild Stratten]] (b. 1862) and Morlais Glasfryn. His older brother, [[David Brynmor Jones]], and younger brother, [[Leifchild Jones, 1st Baron Rhayader]], both achieved prominence in public life.

In 1858, Jones's parents moved to London, and he was educated firstly at a private school in Reading, then at [[University College School]] in London. In 1867 his mother died, and at the end of 1869 his father left London and returned to Swansea, where he stayed until 1877; and John Viriamu continued his education at the [[Normal College]], Swansea, before entering [[University College London]] at the age of 16. He obtained his first degree there at age 19 and in 1874 won a scholarship to the [[University of Oxford]] ([[Balliol College, Oxford|Balliol college]]), where he became a friend of [[Benjamin Jowett]] and obtained first class honours in both mathematics and physics.<ref name="dwb"/>

==Career==
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In 1881, at the early age of twenty-five, Jones became principal of Firth College in [[Sheffield]] – later the [[University of Sheffield]]. In 1882 he married Sarah Katherine Wills, daughter of William Ridout Wills, the brother of judge Sir [[Alfred Wills]].

In 1883, still in his twenties, Jones became the first principal of the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire (afterwards [[Cardiff University]]) and the head of its Physics Department.<ref name="dwb"/> At the same time he became principal of the Cardiff Technical School (forerunner of the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology (UWIST)).

In 1895, he was appointed the first vice-chancellor of the [[University of Wales]]; and he also worked to raise the standard of secondary education in Wales. He became an ''[[ex officio]]'' [[Fellow#Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin|Fellow]] of [[Jesus College, Oxford]] 1897–98. Amid all these activities he found time to pursue scientific research, and in 1894 he was elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society]] for his work on measuring the [[ohm]].

Jones died suddenly in Geneva in June 1901, at the age of forty-five.  His body was returned to [[Swansea]], to be buried near his father at St Thomas's cemetery.<ref name="dwb"/>

==Further reading==
* K. V. Jones, ''Life of John Viriamu Jones'' (1915).
* E. B. Poulton, ''John Viriamu Jones and other Oxford memories'' (1911).

==References==
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==External links==
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*[[Ernest George Hardy|Hardy, E. G.]], ''Jesus College'' – Appendix III: List of Fellows. (1899) F. E. Robinson & Co., London. 
*[https://archive.org/details/johnviriamujones00pouluoft  Biography by Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton]

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