Eluned Garmon Jones

Eluned Clunes Garmon Jones (née Lloyd, 1897 – 1979) was a Welsh local historian.

She was born Eluned Clunes Lloyd in Bangor in November 1897 to historian John Edward Lloyd and his wife Clementina, née Miller.^[1] She was affectionately known as Lin. Like her brother Edward, Eluned studied at the University of Oxford, where she encouraged the talents of her classmate Margaret Kennedy.^[2] She received a BA from Somerville College in 1920 at the first degree ceremony to award degrees to women there.^[3]

An authority on local history and the place-names of Wales, Lloyd was Tutor and Internal Examiner in Modern History at the University of Liverpool.^[4][5]

In 1923, she married her colleague William Garmon Jones.^[6] She moved back to Bangor in 1945, and died in 1979.^[7]