Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, GEORGE DANIEL (1877 - 1955), master printer Montgomeryshire Printing and Stationery Co. in Newtown, and here he occasionally set some of the printing for the Gregynog Press. During this period he lost his only son and daughter - both teenagers. He retired to Aberystwyth towards the end of World War II and helped the Cambrian News during this critical period until shortly before his death 2 September 1955. He was buried in Aberystwyth's Public Cemetery
JONES, GLADYS MAY (1899 - 1960), pianist, composer and producer of light programmes on radio Born 16 February 1899 in Newport, Monmouth, the only child of Thomas John Jones, stationmaster of Newport and his wife Beatrice. When she was 8 yrs old D. Vaughan Thomas heard her playing the piano at an eisteddfod and he suggested to her mother that she had a brilliant future as a pianist provided she was sent to a competent teacher. At the age of 10 she was appointed organist of Mynydd Seion
JONES, GRIFFITH (1683 - 1761), cleric and educational reformer . school founded by Sir John Philipps and John Pember. On 3 July 1711 he was appointed rector of Llandeilo-Abercywyn, Carmarthenshire. At Laugharne and Llandeilo-Abercywyn he became known as a great preacher, and thousands gathered to hear him from all parts of South Wales. Bishop Adam Ottley, on 8 May 1714, complained about his 'going about preaching on week days in Churches, Churchyards, and sometimes
JONES, GWILYM CLEATON (1875 - 1961) Cape Town, Johannesburg, bank manager Race Relations. He had four sisters. He married (1) Esther Anne Davies, Llandeilo; one son and four daughters were born to them. Their son died in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1941 where he was serving as a captain in the Transvaal Scottish Regiment. After his wife's death in 1940 he married (2) Mrs. Alice Lilian Williams, Johannesburg. Cleaton Jones died in Cape Town 30 September 1961 and was cremated.
JONES, GWILYM EIRWYN (EIRWYN PONTSHÂN; 1922 - 1994), carpenter, entertainer, nationalist house in Borth. This experience was the basis for one of Eirwyn's classics, the modern parable 'Senedd Jôns y Ffish' (Twyll Dyn 8) about the failure of the 1979 referendum. The family lived in several places in north Cardiganshire, including Glyn Helyg in Bro Gynin, Y Bwthyn in Pen-y-garn and Troedrhiwfelen near Tre Taliesin, before eventually moving back to the south of the county to live at Pengelli
JONES, GWILYM THOMAS (1908 - 1956), solicitor and administrator Assistant Solicitor of Caernarfonshire County Council. In 1942, he was appointed Deputy Clerk of Caernarfonshire County Council, and in 1945 Clerk of the Council. Whilst a student at Bangor, he met Marion Hughes from Llanelli, who was studying in the Department of Welsh. They married in 1940, and made their home at 'Penlan', 2 Llys Meirion, Caernarfon. They had three sons: Geraint (b. 1942), who died of
JONES, HARRY LONGUEVILLE (1806 - 1870), archaeologist and educationalist marriage (14 May 1835) to Fanny (née Weston, 1814-after 2 April 1871) of Wellington, Shropshire, Jones and his wife moved to Paris. Why the couple chose Paris is unknown. Claims that Jones had family connections with the city appear ill-founded, and the lower cost of living than in England may be sufficient explanation. Jones supported himself as a journalist on the English-language daily newspaper
JONES, HARRY LONGUEVILLE (1806 - 1870) Born in 1806 in London, son of Edward Jones (of Wrexham). His family connections are recounted in A Hundred Tears of Welsh Archaeology (11-2) and his career up to 1846 there and (more fully) in D.N.B. In 1846, he came to live at Llandegfan (Anglesey), and at the end of 1838 was appointed inspector of Church schools for Wales, an office which he resigned in 1864. Opposition to the project (1844
JONES, HUMPHREY ROWLAND (1832 - 1895), evangelist his discharge he resumed preaching and took charge of small Welsh churches at Cambria and South Bend, Minnesota. He died at Chilton, Wisconsin, 8 May 1895, and was buried at Brant, Wisconsin.
JONES, HUW (1700? - 1782), poet, publisher, and one of the principal Welsh balladists of the 18th century He spent the whole of his working life as a farm labourer. He wrote over 100 poems which were published, together with one or two poems by other writers of the period, in 79 pamphlets, mostly of 8 pages and generally bearing some such title as ' Two New Poems ' or ' Three New Poems.' Of these, 19 are undated. With regard to the rest, the earliest bears the date 1727 and the last belongs to the
JONES, ISAAC (1804 - 1850), cleric and translator Born 2 May 1804 in the parish of Llanychaearn, near Aberystwyth, son of a weaver. He was first educated by his father, and was reported to be able to read Latin at the age of 7. He went to a school in the parish, and then to a grammar school at Aberystwyth. Subsequently he taught there, and was headmaster from 1828 to 1834. After two years at S. David's College, Lampeter, where he won the Eldon
JONES, JACK (1884 - 1970), author and playwright Cardiff and at other centres in Wales; and in 1949 he spent three months in the United States promoting the cause. Compared with much of his earlier work, his five novels of the 1950s Lily of the Valley and Lucky Lear, 1952, Time and the Business, 1953, Choral Symphony, 1955 and Come Night: End Day, 1956, reveal a sharp decline in literary standards. In 1954, he married (2) Gladys Morgan, a library

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