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Thomas Johnes

(1748-1816), Translator, farmer, landscape architect; owner of the Hafod estate and politician; MP for Cardiganshire and Radnorshire

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'"Monstrosities" of 1799, - scene, Kensington Gardens'

by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 25 June 1799
NPG D12699

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Andrea Sutton

24 December 2021, 16:53

He complained to his friend James Edward Smith, founder of Linnean Society, that "Saxon" visitors, i.e. English treated Hafod as "un pays conquis." He grew up at Croft Castle that had been owned by the man who married one of Glyndwr's daughters, Janet, and adopted the Welsh Wyvern, a wounded black dragon. He was a Welsh Patriot. I have written a book in which this stuff features. For Love of the Land. Waiting to see if Y Lolfa will publish it.

Andrea Sutton

03 December 2021, 18:17

|He also translated Froissart into English.
Elisabeth Inglis- Jones has written an excellent biography of him and Hafod called Peacocks in Paradise. He wrote about animal husbandry and farming in the Welsh uplands. He won 5 medals for tree planting. He planted 3 million. Tragically undervalued and he fell into despair and fled to Dawlish.

Anna Pavord

21 July 2015, 11:06

You describe Thomas Johnes (1748-1816) as a translator. Yes - he did translate Welsh ms into English but surely his chief claim to fame is as the creator of Hafod in Cardiganshire, which until his death was the sine qua non of picturesque taste. Why does the Gillray etching come up as the only result of a Johnes search?