JONES, DAVID (1793 - 1825), minister in the countess of Huntingdon's connexion, an able linguist, and one of the joint authors (with Thomas Keyworth) of Principia Hebraica, 1817

Name: David Jones
Date of birth: 1793
Date of death: 1825
Parent: Thomas Jones
Gender: Male
Occupation: minister in the countess of Huntingdon's connexion, an able linguist, and one of the joint authors (with Thomas Keyworth) of Principia Hebraica, 1817
Area of activity: Literature and Writing; Religion; Scholarship and Languages
Author: Rhiannon Francis Roberts

he was the son of Thomas Jones (1761 - 1831) of Carmarthen, and was born at Cwmcreigiau-fach in the parish of Llanfihangel Iorath, Carmarthenshire, 11 February 1793. He received a good education, privately to begin with and then at David Peter's school, Carmarthen, the Presbyterian Academy in the same town, and Cheshunt College, Hertfordshire; he studied Arabic, Syriac, and Persian in addition to Hebrew and the classical languages. He was ordained in 1814, and in 1821, after being at Hereford for a period, succeeded W. Kemp as minister at Swansea. His health gave way and he was advised to spend the winter of 1823-4 in the South of France; on his way home he visited Brittany. Accepting an offer made by the Bible Society he returned to Brittany towards the end of 1824, began to learn Breton himself, and did much to secure the translation of the New Testament into the Breton language. He died at Cheshunt 1 September 1825, a few weeks after being appointed classical tutor there.

Author

Rhiannon Francis Roberts, (1923 - 1990)

Sources

The Evangelical Register, or magazine for the Connexion of the late Countess of Huntingdon (London 1825-43), 1825 (150, 242), 1826 (65)
Lleuad yr Oes sef, amgeueddfa fisol o wybodaeth mewn crefydd, moes, athroniaeth a hanes (Swansea 1827-1830), May 1827
The Gentleman's Magazine, 1825, ii, 285
Seren Gomer, 1824 (438), 1825 (93)
The life and times of Selina, countess of Huntingdon (London 1839), 1844, ii, 116, 530
Geirlyfr Bywgraffiadol o Enwogion Cymru (1870), 572-3
Bye-Gones, relating to Wales and the Border Counties, 1882-3, 164
Y Brython (Tremadog) (2nd ed.), 411
E. Pan Jones, Oriel Coleg Presbyteraidd, Caerfyrddin: yn cynwys hanes yr holl fyfyrwyr fu yn y coleg o 1796 hyd 1899 (Merthyr Tydfil 1909), 29
notes by Dr. T. Witton Davies in N.L.W.
Dr. L. Dujardin, La vie et les Oeuvres de Jean-FranÃ§ois-Marie-Maurice-Agathe Le Gonidec grammairien et lexicographe breton, 1775-1838 (Brest 1949) (Brest, 1949)
Josiah Thomas Jones, Geiriadur Bywgraffyddol o Enwogion Cymru (AberdÃ¢r 1867-70), ii, 17

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Wikidata: Q20732848

Published date: 1959

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