JONES, LLEWELYN (1894 - 1960), minister (Presb.), editor and author

Born in 1894 at Llandegfan, Anglesey, son of J.E. Jones, minister (Presb.) and his wife of that place. He was educated at Holyhead county school, the University College, Bangor (where he graduated B.A.), and Mansfield College, Oxford (B.Litt.). He gained an M.A. degree of the University of Wales in 1921 for his thesis on the hymnology of the Methodist Revival, with par- ticular reference to the hymns of Williams, Pantycelyn. He was ordained in 1922, and served his ministry at Colwyn Bay (1922-24), Moriah, Utica, U.S.A. (1924-31), and Douglas Road, Liverpool (1931-51). In 1951 he was appointed general secretary of the Presbyterian Missionary Society, and visited the mission fields in India, Pakistan and Brittany. In 1926 he married Elizabeth Margaret Edwards, and they had two sons. He died 24 December 1960.

During the period he spent in Utica he published a history of Moriah. He gave great service to Welsh life on Merseyside, establishing centres for Urdd Gobaith Cymru, editing Y Glannau from 1944 onwards, and serving as a member of the editorial board of Y Ffordd (a journal for the youth of the Presb. church). He also published Llawlyfr ar genhadaeth bersonol (1939). His most important contribution, however, was Aleluia gan y Parch, William Williams Pant y Celyn (1926), a diplomatic edition of parts I-VI of Aleluia, 1744-47 by Williams, Pantycelyn, with a valuable introduction. Since copies of Aleluia are so very scarce, this volume is invaluable to students of William Williams ' hymns.

Author

• Reverend Gomer Morgan Roberts, (1904 - 1993)

Sources

• Who's who in the Free Churches? (1951), 346
• Y Goleuad, 8 February 1961
• Blwyddiadur y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, 1962, 259-60

Additional Links

• VIAF: 106838184
• Wikidata: Q20804738

Published date: 2001

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