JONES, WILLIAM (1764 - 1822), hymn writer

Name: William Jones
Date of birth: 1764
Date of death: 1822
Gender: Male
Occupation: hymn writer
Area of activity: Poetry; Religion
Author: Robert Thomas Jenkins

Born at Cynwyd, Meironnydd. He went to Bala as a lad, and was a weaver in a factory belonging to Simon Lloyd; he became a Calvinistic Methodist elder. In 1819 he published Aberth Moliant, neu Ychydig Hymnau; one or more of these hymns of his will be found in practically all our present-day hymnaries. He died 2 May 1822, aged 58.

Author

Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, (1881 - 1969)

Sources

W. Williams, Methodistiaeth Dwyrain Meirionydd (1902), 1902, 573
J. Thickens, Emynau a'u Hawduriaid (1945), 1945

Additional Links

Wikidata: Q13132361

Published date: 1959

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