JONES, JOHN (1807 - 1875), printer

Name: John Jones
Date of birth: 1807
Date of death: 1875
Parent: Catherine Jones
Parent: Ellis Jones
Gender: Male
Occupation: printer
Area of activity: Printing and Publishing
Author: Griffith Milwyn Griffiths

Born 13 August 1807, at Tyddyn Siôn, Aber-erch, Caernarfonshire, son of Ellis and Catherine Jones. For a while he had a printing establishment in London, and it was here that the Welsh monthly called Y Cymro was printed, 1830-1. Returning to Wales, he joined the staff of the Carnarvon Herald, and spent the greater part of his life in Caernarvon serving that newspaper. He died 20 December 1875.

Author

Griffith Milwyn Griffiths

Sources

T. R. Roberts, Eminent Welshmen: a short biographical dictionary of Welshmen... from the earliest times to the present (1908)
Bye-Gones, relating to Wales and the Border Counties, 1902, 381
Baner ac Amserau Cymru, 29 December 1875
H. Blackwell, NLW MSS 9262A: A Dictionary of Welsh Biography
Denbighshire Historical Society Transactions, 17 October 1969

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Wikidata: Q20733506

Published date: 1959

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