JONES, RICHARD (1603? - 1673), schoolmaster and translator of religious works

Son of John Lewis of Llansannan, Denbighshire. Educated at Balliol College, Oxford, he graduated B.A. February 1628-9, and M.A. June 1633. Under the Commonwealth he became an itinerant minister and subsequently a schoolmaster in Denbigh Free School. He is known to have been appointed to Denbigh School before February 1656-7, probably a short time previously. He was ejected in 1660. He died August 1673. The first of his translations to be published was Galwad i'r Annychweledig, 1659, from Richard Baxter's Call to the Unconverted. In a composite volume published in 1672 by Stephen Hughes appears his Rhodfa Feunyddiol y Christion, translated from Henry Oasland's Christian's Daily Walk, and Amdo i Babyddiaeth, from Richard Baxter's A Winding Sheet for Popery. Hyfforddiadau Christionogol, translated from T. Gouge's Christian Directions, appeared in 1675, posthumously, as also did Bellach neu Byth, a translation of Baxter's Now or Never in 1677.

Author

• Griffith Milwyn Griffiths

Sources

• Foster, Alumni Oxonienses: the members of the University of Oxford
• Thomas Shankland, in Seren Gomer, 1906, 210-20
• T. Richards, A History of the Puritan Movement in Wales (1920)
• J. C. Morrice, Wales in the Seventeenth Century its literature and men of letters and action (Bangor 1918)
• H. Lewis in The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1930-1
• T. Parry, Hanes Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg hyd 1900 (1944)
• Thomas Rees, History of Protestant Nonconformity in Wales from its rise in 1633 to the present time (London 1883)

Additional Links

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• Wikidata: Q18672103

Published date: 1959

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