page_title: Alice Gray Jones
section_title: Early life and career
hierarchical_section_title: Alice Gray Jones / Early life and career
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context_page_description: Alice Gray Jones was a Welsh writer and editor, known by the pseudonym "Ceridwen Peris". She was an active temperance campaigner, and a co-founder of the North Wales Women's Temperance Union.
context_section_description: She was born in the village of Trefor, Gwynedd, near Llanberis, close to where her father's family owned a woollen mill. Her mother was a cousin of the prominent minister and writer John John Roberts, known as "Iolo Caernarfon".  After an education at Dolbadarn Primary School and Swansea Training College, she worked as a schoolteacher, eventually becoming head of the school at Dolbadarn which she had attended as a child. In 1881 she married the Rev William (or Williams) Jones. His ministry was at Four Crosses, where she was involved in organising the local Temperance Union.  In 1893, she also became a governor of Pwllheli County School.
caption: Four Crosses near Pwllheli
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