JONES, JOHN EDWARD (1801 - 1866), Unitarian minister, schoolmaster, and first editor of Yr Ymofynydd

Born 7 July 1801 at Carmarthen, where his father was a deacon at Lammas Street chapel. He was educated at David Peter's school and at Carmarthen Academy (1817-21). At the end of his course he received a call from the churches of Bridgend and Betws, where he spent the remainder of his life and where he kept a school until 1842. When Yr Ymofynydd was started he was appointed its first editor, a position he held for thirteen years in all (September 1847 to April 1854; January 1859 to June 1865). He was tutor at Carmarthen for six months in the early part of 1860. He was useful in his circle and did a good day's work. Apart from his articles in Yr Ymofynydd, he published a Welsh sermon, Grist yn un a'r Tad, 1847. He died 25 February 1866 and was buried at Carmarthen.

Author

• Reverend Thomas Oswald Williams, (1888 - 1965)

Sources

• Yr Ymofynnydd, 1894, 265
• Yr Athraw, 1866, 185, 360
• The Unitarian Students at the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen … 1796–1901 (1901), 25
• E. Pan Jones, Oriel Coleg Presbyteraidd, Caerfyrddin: yn cynwys hanes yr holl fyfyrwyr fu yn y coleg o 1796 hyd 1899 (Merthyr Tydfil 1909), 36-7
• Monthly Repository, 1821, 317; 1822, 64

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q20733390

Published date: 1959

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