JONES, JOHN (1761 - 1822), Calvinistic Methodist minister

Born at Tyddyn-Dafydd-Ddu, in the parish of Llandwrog, Caernarfonshire, but he was brought up in Caernarvon town until he was 17 years of age, and attended a school kept by one Thomas Brown. He was apprenticed to a barber at Mold but, after two years, returned to his family which, by this time, was living at Amlwch, Anglesey. During the course of a visit paid by David Morris (1744 - 1791) of Twr-gwyn, to Anglesey he was convinced and in 1784 began to preach. He was a strong, powerfully built man, and his ministry was incisive and convincing. He is said to have converted 180 in the course of one meeting. When he was 35 years of age he married Mary Williams, heiress of Pen-y-bryn, Edern, where he spent the remainder of his life; he is usually known as ' John Jones of Edern.' He was ordained in 1814 and died 9 August 1822.

Author

• Reverend Richard Thomas, (1872 - 1950)

Sources

• Owen Thomas, Cofiant y Parchedig John Jones, Talsarn: mewn cysylltiad a hanes duwinyddiaeth a phregethu Cymru (Wrexham 1874), ii, 825
• Y Drysorfa, 1851, 159
• Methodistiaeth Cymru (1851–6), ii, 267
• Josiah Thomas Jones, Geiriadur Bywgraffyddol o Enwogion Cymru (Aberdâr 1867-70), ii, 9-11
• T. R. Roberts, Eminent Welshmen: a short biographical dictionary of Welshmen... from the earliest times to the present (1908)
• Geirlyfr Bywgraffiadol o Enwogion Cymru (1870), 607

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q20733496

Published date: 1959

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