Talhaiarn

John Jones (19 January 1810 – October 1869), known by his bardic name of Talhaiarn, was a Welsh poet and architect.

[1] Jones was born at the Harp Inn (now known as Hafod y Gân) in Llanfair Talhaearn, Denbighshire.

[2] After that he served with ecclesiastical architects in London, being employed, for instance, by Sir Joseph Paxton to oversee the building of the Crystal Palace.

Suffering from ill health, he returned to Wales in 1865 and in 1869 killed himself by shooting himself in his bedroom at the Harp Inn.

His bardic name is derived conventionally from the place of his birth, but probably refers also to Talhaearn Tad Awen, a noted 6th-century Welsh poet.