Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JEFFREYS, GEORGE (1st baron Jeffreys of Wem), (1645 - 1689), judge Born at Acton, Wrexham, on 15 May 1645, the sixth son of John Jeffreys and his wife Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Ireland of Bewsey, Lancashire ('a very pious good woman ' according to her son). His grandfather JOHN JEFFREYS (died 1622), chief justice of the Anglesey circuit of the Great Sessions, who had first adopted the family surname, laid the foundations of Acton estate by expanding and
JENKINS, EVAN (1895 - 1959), poet Treorci on two occasions, the crown at the Anglesey eisteddfod, and prizes for lyrics, an englyn, a sonnet and a cywydd at national eisteddfodau. When the last of his sisters left the old home he moved to live with her and her husband at Ffynnon Fawr. About a year before his death he moved to live with his two sisters at Minawel, where he died 2 November 1959. He was buried in his brother John's grave
JOAN (d. 1237), princess and diplomat Wales' for the pardon of one Robert, son of Reginald, who was accused in the death of William, son of Ralph of Credenhill. Joan died on 2 February 1237 at the royal palace of Aber. Her body was transported across the Menai Strait to Anglesey and she was buried near the manor of Llan-faes. Llywelyn founded the Franciscan friary of Llan-faes in her memory. It is widely believed that it is Joan's effigy
JOHN ap JOHN (1625? - 1697), the apostle of the Quakers in Wales acquired disciples of some distinction such as Richard Davies of Cloddiau Cochion and the Lloyd family of Dolobran. From 1667 on, he was organizing and consolidating the movement, establishing monthly meetings, half-yearly meetings, and, in 1682, a yearly meeting. By 1686 the Quakers had begun to infiltrate into Anglesey - ' truth hath got some entrance into Anglesey.' But, so severe was the persecution
JOHN, EDWARD THOMAS (1857 - 1931), industrialist and politician later still these works joined forces with Bolckow Vaughan's works at Linthorpe to form the Linthorpe-Dinsdale smelting company. After retiring from active management, John took up politics. He was Liberal M.P. for east Denbighshire 1910-18, but was defeated in the 'coupon' election of 1918 by Sir D.S. Davies, and was again unsuccessful as a Labour candidate in Anglesey (1922) - he resided at that
JONES, BENJAMIN (1865 - 1953), Chancellor of Bangor Cathedral Born in Minffordd, Llangeinwen, Anglesey, May 17, 1865, son of Thomas Jones, a farm labourer and his wife Ann (née Williams). After a period of student-teaching in St. Paul's School Bangor he decided to enter the Church. He was educated 1889-90 in Bangor school of theology where reading, preaching and ministering (under the wing of the church hostel) were taught, and in 1890 became a member of
JONES, BENJAMIN (P[rif] A[rwyddfardd] Môn; 1788 - 1841), poet, writer, and Baptist apologete Amddiffyniad o Brynedigaeth Neillduol, 1832, the latter a translation from the English of William Rushton, junr., Liverpool. A group of his personal manuscripts has been preserved in the collection of William Roberts (Nefydd) in the National Library of Wales, including an incomplete history of the Baptists in Anglesey.
JONES, BENJAMIN (1756 - 1823), Independent minister the church at Henllan, where he began to preach at the age of 18. In 1775 he went to the Abergavenny Academy and in 1779 was ordained minister of Pencader church. In 1784 he moved to Anglesey to take charge of the churches of Rhos-y-meirch and Capel Mawr; in 1789 he went to Pen-lan, Pwllheli. His ministry in Anglesey gave him the opportunity of starting a number of new churches, e.g. at Talwrn
JONES, Sir CYNAN (ALBERT) EVANS (Cynan; 1895 - 1970), poet, dramatist and eisteddfodwr , and later as chaplain. After the war he entered Bala (CM) Theological College, and in 1920 he was ordained and inducted pastor of the Presbyterian church at Penmaen-mawr. In 1931 he relinquished his pastorate on appointment as Regional Tutor for Anglesey under the Extramural Department of University College, Bangor, and from 1936 until his retirement in 1960 he was Staff Tutor in the Department
JONES, DAVID (Dafydd Brydydd Hir, Dafydd Siôn Pirs; 1732 - 1782?), poet, tailor, and schoolmaster of Anglesey (1735-86) (p. 736) he wrote an elegy upon the latter. J.H. Davies gives a list of printed ballads by him (Bibliography of Welsh Ballads, 85, 676, 684, 721); the most famous of these was his song in praise of the harp. Some of his work appeared in Cyfaill y Cymro, 1767. It is believed that he died c. 1782.
JONES, EDWARD (fl. 1781-1840), member, from 1781 of the London Gwyneddigion he was secretary in 1782, president in 1785, and life-member of council; as his nickname implies, he hailed from Anglesey. Though he was generally spoken of as ' Jones of the Temple,' his name appears in no register of any Inn of Court, and it seems more probable that he was a lawyer's clerk - so also Robert Hughes (1744 - 1785), known to have been a clerk, is described as 'of the Temple.' Gwilym
JONES, EDWARD OWEN (E.O.J.; 1871 - 1953), journalist and writer of englynion Born in May 1871 at Welford, Northamptonshire, where his father, ' Berwron ', was a farm bailiff, but in 1875 the family moved to Llosg-yr-odyn, Y Gaerwen, Anglesey. He was apprenticed to the printer's trade at the Bangor office of the North Wales Chronicle in 1887; then in 1903 he succeeded Hugh Edwards as editor of Y Clorianydd, the Anglesey weekly paper, at Llangefni, and held the post for 48

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