author
A. (Alfred) Seymour-Jones
b. 1862
Best known as a leather expert and industrial writer from Wrexham, he brought practical knowledge of tanning, bookbinding leather, and sheep skins to his books and professional work in the early 20th century.
1 Audiobook
Leather for Libraries
by E. Wyndham Hulme, Cyril Davenport, J. Gordon (James Gordon) Parker, A. (Alfred) Seymour-Jones, F. J. Williamson
About the author
Born in Wrexham in 1862, Alfred Seymour-Jones built his career in the leather trade and became known as a manufacturer, chemist, and technical writer. Sources connected with his family and later probate notices describe him as a well-known leather manufacturer in Wrexham, and records linked to his son identify him with the honor CBE.
His writing grew directly out of that professional expertise. He contributed to Leather for Libraries and wrote The Sheep and Its Skin, a detailed book on sheep, pelts, wool conservation, and the treatment of skins before tanning. The surviving title pages and catalog records present him not simply as an author, but as a specialist writing for readers who cared about craft, materials, and industrial practice.
He was also active in the wider leather world. A history published by the International Union of Leather Technologists and Chemists Societies names A. Seymour Jones among the people who helped organize the 1897 conference that led to the association's foundation. He died in 1925.