John Prichard-Jones

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Sir John Prichard-Jones, 1st Baronet was born at Tyn-y-Coed, a small farm at Newborough, Anglesey.

When he was fourteen he was apprenticed to a draper in Caernarfon and afterwards moved to Pwllheli, then Bangor and eventually, when he was nineteen, to London.

In 1872 he entered the firm of Dickins, Smith & Stevens in Regent Street.

Here he was successively promoted, to buyer, manager, director, chairman of the board and finally to partner, when the name of the store was changed to Dickins & Jones.