Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, WILLIAM (1718 - 1773?), early Methodist exhorter, and possibly the first Anglesey Methodist by the historians of Anglesey Methodism, and Robert Jones of Rhos-lan, though he never mentions him by name, seems to hint at the reasons for his eclipse. It is certain that he adhered to Harris at the disruption, but Harris soon fell foul of him, thinking him an Antinomian. And Thomas William (1717 - 1765) of Eglwysilan hints in 1751 that Jones had become a Moravian. However that may have been, we
JONES, WILLIAM (d. 1679), Puritan minister a year; he was at Plas Teg when a licence was issued to him to preach under the Indulgence of 1672, dated 28 October. A few years later he joined the coadjutors of Thomas Gouge in translating religious books into Welsh - the two which he translated were originally written by Gouge himself, and both appeared in 1676 with the titles Gair i Bechaduriaid, a Gair i'r Sainct and Principlau neu Bennau y
JONES, WILLIAM (1755 - 1821), Evangelical cleric One of the friends of Thomas Charles; born 18 November 1755 at Abergavenny, son of John Jones, clockmaker. He went to Jesus College, Oxford, in 1773 or 1774, and remained there till 1777 (Charles was there in 1775, and Jones was then his ' very intimate friend'); Jones, as his diaries begun at Oxford show, was a tolerably good scholar. Early in 1778, he became tutor in a Government servant's
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 (Gwrgant; 1803 - 1886), lawyer and writer name of Gwilym Brwynog. He published a book called Gwreiddiau yr Iaith Gymraeg. Gwrgant was a popular adjudicator at eisteddfodau; as one of the three adjudicators at the Rhuddlan eisteddfod (1850) he read the adjudication awarding the chair prize for a poem in the open metres to Evan Evans (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd). Gwrgant took an active part in London Welsh activities all his life; he was a member
JONES, WILLIAM (Bleddyn; 1829? - 1903), antiquary, local historian, geologist, and collector of folk-lore , at the Caernarvon national eisteddfod in 1862, which won much praise, was published in Y Brython, 1862, 75-93, and reprinted under the title of Llawlyfr ar Ddaiareg Sir Gaernarfon, 1863. He collected much of the materials of his uncle John Thomas (Siôn Wyn o Eifion, 1786 - 1859), which were published in Gwaith Barddonol Sion Wyn o Eifion, 1861. Autograph letters from him, essays by him on folk-lore
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

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