Jones, P. Mansell (Percy Mansell), 1889-1968

Percy Mansell Jones, 1889-1968, Professor of French and Romance Studies at the University College of North Wales (now the University of Wales, Bangor), 1937-1951 and subsequently Professor Emeritus of French at the University of Manchester.

Professor Mansell Jones spent his childhood in Carmarthenshire and was educated at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and Oxford University, Balliol College. He travelled to Paris in 1913 to develop his knowledge of literature and became acquainted with several authors including Ezra Pound, Emile Verhaeren and Andre Gide.

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