Calvert Richard Jones

Place: Swansea

Born: 1802

Death: 1877

Biography:

Calvert Richard Jones was a Welsh mathematician and painter, best known for his seascapes. He belonged to a wealthy Swansea family and was educated at Eton and Oriel College, Oxford. He was rector of Loughor and a friend of both John Dillwyn Llewelyn and Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot. Jones is credited with having taken the first photograph in Wales, a daguerrotype of Margam Castle, in 1841. During the 1840s and 1850s, he took many photographs of the Swansea area and travelled with his camera in France, Italy, and Malta. He also developed his own technique for taking panoramic photographs by overlapping images.