Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, WILLIAM (1814? - 1895), Wesleyan Reformer,' afterwards Independent minister Bunting; unlike the ' Little Wesleyan ' movement it took little root in North Wales (where Thomas Aubrey, was strong enough to check it), but in South Wales it was more successful, and received the benediction of Independents and Baptists, but not Calvinistic Methodists, save for individuals like David Charles III. William Jones was pastor of four 'Reformer' churches : Elim (Tredegar, Monmouth), Merthyr
JONES, WILLIAM BASIL (TICKELL) (1822 - 1897), bishop ), 10 September 1856, Frances Charlotte Holworthy, who died without issue 21 September 1881, and (2), 6 December 1886, Anne Loxdale, of Aigburth, near Liverpool, who, with a son and two daughters, survived him. He is buried in the family vault at Llangynfelyn. As bishop of S. Davids he continued and developed the work of his two predecessors, Thomas Burgess and Connop Thirlwall. He raised the standard
JONES, WILLIAM COLLISTER (1772 - ?), printer Christened 12 July 1772, son of William and Sarah Jones, Chester. W. C. Jones and Thomas Crane were printing Welsh books in partnership from about 1796; in 1797 they began to print George Lewis, Drych Ysgrythyrol. In 1798 they arranged to print Welsh religious works for Thomas Charles, Bala, and Thomas Jones, Denbigh; in that year, however, the name of Crane disappears from the imprints. W. C
JONES, WILLIAM HENRY (1860 - 1932), journalist and local historian Thomas Watkin Williams, Wellington foundry, Swansea. He published a large number of articles, booklets, and books on the history of persons and places in Wales and England - see a list of twenty-nine publications printed at the end of his History of Swansea and of the Lordship of Gower (Carmarthen, 1920); this work, his History of the Port of Swansea (Carmarthen, 1922), and his Old Karnarvon, 1882
JONES, WILLIAM LEWIS (1866 - 1922), professor of English Born 20 February 1866; son of William Jones, Llangefni, and Hannah Lewis, sister of Thomas Lewis, M.P. for Anglesey. Educated at Friars School, Bangor, he obtained an open scholarship at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in the Easter term, 1884. He read for the Classical Tripos and graduated in 1888; he had won the Members' University Prize in the previous year. After graduation
JONES, WILLIAM SAMUEL (Wil Sam; 1920 - 2007), playwright
JONES-DAVIES, HENRY (1870 - 1955), farmer and pioneer of agricultural co-operation Born 2 January 1870, only son of Thomas and Elizabeth Davies, Bremenda, Llanarthne, Carmarthenshire. He was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Carmarthen, and in addition to farming he began at an early age to take a keen interest in public life. He was the first chairman of Llanarthne parish council, and at the age of 22 he was elected a member of Carmarthenshire County Council
JONES-DAVIES, THOMAS ELLIS (1906 - 1960), doctor and international rugby player
JONES-PIERCE, THOMAS - see PIERCE, THOMAS JONES
KATHERYN of BERAIN (Mam Cymru, The mother of Wales; 1534/5 - 1591) , son and heir of Sir John Salusbury of Llewenni (the settlement deed is dated 11 February 1556/7). They had two sons (a) Thomas (born probably 1564) and (b) John (born 1565 or 1566); John died 1566, before his father; (2) in 1567 to Sir Richard Clough; she went with Clough to Antwerp, where he was concerned in business for Sir Thomas Gresham. It is said that Maurice Wynn of Gwydir proposed to her as
KEMEYS family Cefn Mabli, married, as his first wife, 18 July 1820, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Swinnerton, of Butterton Hall, Staffordshire, and, as his second wife, Vincentia, daughter of W. Brabazon, of Rath House, Louth, 15 April 1841. He died 16 September 1882. CHARLES KEMEYS KEMEYS-TYNTE (1822 - 1891), J.P. and D.L. Politics, Government and Political Movements Public and Social Service, Civil Administration Law Born 16
KENRICK family Wynn Hall, Bron Clydwr, development of Nonconformity there and in Merioneth in the 17th and 18th century. EDWARD KENRICK (died 1741), Bron Clydwr The eldest son of Samuel Kenrick (died 1716) of Fawnog, Bersham, and the grandson of Edward Kenrick (died 1693) of Gwersyllt. Both of these had belonged to the 'Old Meeting' - the congregation first established in Wrexham by Morgan Llwyd - and had provided the premises in which it

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