Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, DAVID (1770 - 1831), Congregational minister, hymnist, and musician 1826); this work included a treatise entitled Egwyddorion neu Dôn-raddau Peroriaeth a amcanwyd yn bennaf er anogaeth a chynorthwy i bobl ieuanc. In 1831 he went to Manchester to collect money in aid of the weak churches. He died 25 August 1831 at Liverpool as the result of an accident; he was buried at Holywell.
JONES, DAVID (1788 - 1859), Independent minister he began preaching. On 3 July 1822 he was called to the pastorate of Gwynfe (at a considerable distance from his home); he greatly increased the membership there, and retained office till his death. But he also took temporary charges from time to time - at Capel Isaac (1832-42) and at Crug-y-bar (1826-9), and he was the chief founder of Siloam (1822) at Pont-ar-Gothi. Articles by him appeared in
JONES, DAVID JOHN TAWE (1885 - 1949), musician orchestra. He died at his home in Golders Green, London, 3 May 1949, aged 64, and was buried in Rhyd-y-fro. He was survived by his widow, Elizabeth.
JONES, DAVID WATKIN (Dafydd Morganwg; 1832 - 1905), poet, historian, and geologist of Glamorgan. His best known work is Yr Ysgol Farddol, a textbook of Welsh prosody, first published in 1869. He also published a very useful Welsh grammar entitled Yr Ysgol Gymreig. He was the editor of the Welsh poetry column of the Cardiff Times for several years. In 1888 he became the first president of the Cardiff Cymmrodorion Society. He died 25 April 1905 at Cardiff.
JONES, EMRYS (1920 - 2006), geographer Emrys Jones was born at 3 Henry Street, Aberaman, Aberdare, Glamorganshire, 17 August 1920. His parents were Samuel and Annie (née Williams) Jones. The geologist Sir Alwyn Williams, his mother's nephew, was a cousin. From his upbringing in the mining valleys, and like many of his contemporaries of the depression years, he inherited a tradition of total commitment to Wales, its language and
JONES, EVAN (Ieuan Gwynedd; 1820 - 1852), Independent minister, and journalist 1845, when his course was finished, he was ordained minister of Saron Independent chapel, Tredegar. He married Catherine, third daughter of John Sankey of Rorrington Hall, Marton, at Marton on 11 November 1845. The only child of the marriage died in infancy, and the mother also died, 25 April 1847. Towards the end of 1847 he gave up his ministry at Tredegar owing to ill-health and, about the same
JONES, EVAN (Gwrwst ab Bleddyn Flaidd, Gwrwst; 1793 - 1855), Baptist minister and littérateur Born at Llanddoget, Denbighshire, 26 August 1793. He began to preach when he was 18 years old, and became missionary to Llŷn and Eifionydd in 1815. He was ordained at Garn Dolbenmaen, 25 November 1817, and moved in 1820 to Llangollen, in 1822 to Dolgelley, and in September 1823 to Castleton, Monmouth, where he remained until his death on 1 December 1855. In 1824 he married Mary Morgan, Maesyfelin
JONES, EVAN (Ieuan Buallt; 1850 - 1928), farmer, and local antiquary , yn bennaf fel y'i clybuwyd yng Nghantref Buallt, o gasgliad Evan Jones (Swansea, 1925). He died 3 February 1928, at Tyn-y-pant, Llanwrtyd. Part of his collection was bequeathed to the National Library of Wales. Extensive collections of his MSS are in the Museum of Welsh Life, St. Fagans - nos. 1793/1-654, 2038/1-137 and 2384/1-186.
JONES, EVAN DAVID (1903 - 1987), librarian and archivist and organisations, great and small. The variety is represented by a few of the offices he held: president of the Cambrian Archaeological Association, 1962-3, president of the Welsh Harp Society, 1965-80, president of the Welsh Bibliographical Society, 1968-85, president of the Union of Welsh Independents, 1974-5. But in his retirement he dedicated himself above all to his editorship of the
JONES, GARETH RICHARD VAUGHAN (1905 - 1935), linguist and journalist engaged on three enquiries, (1) in the U.S.A. on economic trends, (2) in Italy on relief measures in the Pontine Marshes, (3) in Soviet Russia on conditions of living. He joined the staff of the Western Mail in 1933, and in 1934 began a round-the-world-tour. After a hazardous journey through mid-China, he was murdered by bandits in Inner Mongolia on 12 August 1935. A University of Wales Memorial
JONES, GRIFFITH (1683 - 1761), cleric and educational reformer Cymyn (1702 - 1782), was rejected more than once, but owing to the influence of Evan Evans, vicar of Clydeu, Pembrokeshire, he was at last ordained by bishop George Bull on 19 September 1708 (deacon) and 25 September 1708 (priest). His first curacies were at Penbryn, Cardiganshire (1708), Penrieth, Pembrokeshire (1709), and Laugharne, Carmarthenshire (1709), where he was also master of a S.P.C.K
JONES, GWENAN (1889 - 1971), educationalist and author Gwenan Jones was born on 3 November 1889 on Gelli Isaf farm, Waun y Bala. She was baptised by the Rev. Michael D. Jones, and the name given to her was Gwen Ann, a combination of the names of her mother, Ann Catherine, and her grandmother, Gwen Jones. (It was at university that she started to use the name Gwenan.) Her grandmother, a poor but able and gifted widow, was the central figure in her

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