UK: Retired solicitor gives two uni projects funding boost

A RETIRED solicitor has donated £50,000 to Aberystwyth University in memory of his brother which will help fund two projects.

The money will go towards a research project into the work of the poet Gwenallt and the development of a Law Room and Moot Court as part of the Old College development.

At a special reception on Tuesday 20 September, retired Wrexham solicitor Francis Glynne Jones presented £50,000 to the university in memory of his late brother Colin Glynne Jones, his father Hywel Glynne Jones, his grandfather Cyril Oswald Jones and great grandfather Humphrey Bradley Jones, the poet Garmonydd.

The donation, made with monies from the estate of his brother, Colin, will be divided equally between the two projects which are led by the Department of Welsh & Celtic Studies the Department of Law & Criminology.

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