Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, GWILYM CLEATON (1875 - 1961) Cape Town, Johannesburg, bank manager Born 25 March 1875 in Llanrug, Caernarfonshire, the second son of John Eiddon Jones and Sarah Jones. His father was a minister in the Presbyterian Church of Wales. He supported D. Lloyd George and in a letter of sympathy which the statesman sent to his widow from the National Liberal Club dated 16 October 1903, he acknowledged that it was Eiddon Jones who had first asked him to stand in an
JONES, JACK (1884 - 1970), author and playwright two exhausting lecture-tours in the United States and Canada, and later he visited troops on the European battlefronts, in Belgium and Holland in 1944, in Italy in 1945. He also produced The Man David (1944), 'an imaginary presentation, based on fact, of the life of David Lloyd George from 1880 to 1914 '. In the general election of 1945 he supported the candidature of Conservative, Sir James Grigg
JONES, JAMES IFANO (1865 - 1955), librarian and bibliographer of his age, was truly remarkable. He was twice married: (1) to Nellie George, daughter of Thomas George, ' fineworker ', 20 January 1901 at Neath registry office. She died in 1911; (2) to Jessie Mary, second daughter of Thomas and Mary Charles, Havod House, Blaenavon, who died 9 June 1953. He died in his home in Penarth, 7 March 1955.
JONES, JOHN (1725? - 1796), musician Born c. 1725. He was appointed organist at Middle Temple on 24 November 1749, organist at Charterhouse (as successor to Dr. Pepusch) 2 July 1753, and organist at St. Paul's cathedral, Christmas 1755. He published some salm-tunes in 1785; one of these was sung when George III visited St. Paul's, 23 April 1789, and also at the annual services for the children of the ' Welch Charity '. After hearing
JONES, JOHN (1837 - 1906), minister (Presb.) and writer Born December 1837, son of George Jones, Abercin (Abercain), Llanystumdwy, Caernarfonshire, see Caernarvonshire Historical Society Transactions, 1945, 46-8, 54, and the chart in J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 211 (although this particular branch of the pedigree is not included in it). He served in drapers' shops in Caernarfon and London, but he began to preach and went to Bala College in 1861. He was
JONES, JOHN (1766? - 1827), classical scholar and Unitarian divine George Dyer, Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire. He was a member of the Philological Society of Manchester, and (in 1818?) was awarded the LL.D. degree of Aberdeen University. He was also a trustee of the Dr. Daniel Williams foundations, and a few years before his death became a member of the Royal Society of Literature. He died at Great Coram Street, London, 10 January 1827. His publications are indicative
JONES, JOHN EMRYS (1914 - 1991), secretary and organiser of Labour Party Wales remained following the passage of the Leasehold Reform Act of 1967. In the general election of July 1945 Jones had served as the political agent for George Thomas and had helped to ensure that the party made seven gains in that watershed general election. He also served as the chairman of the Cardiff North Divisional Labour Party. His hobbies were reading and writing. He married in 1935 Stella, the
JONES, JOHN RICE (1759 - 1824), lawyer and settler in the American mid-west sailed for Philadelphia, returning in the course of the year for his wife and his son, John Rice, but leaving behind an infant daughter, Maria. In 1786 he moved to Kentucky (then federal territory, not yet admitted as a state), and fought in the warsagainst the Indigenous inhabitants under George Rogers Clarke, ending as commissary-general at Vincennes (later in Indiana), where he received a grant of
JONES, JOSIAH TOWYN (1858 - 1925), Congregational minister, and Member of Parliament a leading figure on the Liberal platform, in close alliance with T. E. Ellis and afterwards with David Lloyd George. In 1912 he became Member of Parliament for East Carmarthenshire, in 1917 Welsh Whip and Junior Lord of the Treasury. From 1918 he represented Llanelly in the Coalition Parliament, resigning his seat owing to ill-health in 1922. He died 16 November 1925 at Ammanford.
JONES, MICHAEL (1787 - 1853), Independent minister and first principal of the Bala Independent College himself keeping a school at Neuaddlwyd. After about two years he was admitted to Wrexham Academy to study first under Jenkin Lewis and later under George Lewis. In 1814 he was ordained as successor to George Lewis at Llanuwchllyn. At that time the Welsh nonconformists of every denomination were seething with theological controversies, and it was not long before the ministry of Michael Jones provided the
JONES, NANSI RICHARDS (Telynores Maldwyn; 1888 - 1979), harpist years between 1908 and 1910. Following this she went to the Guildhall in London for formal harp tuition from Madame Arnold. Whilst in London she made the most of all opportunities, amongst which was playing for Lloyd George and his family in 10 Downing Street. In 1911 she entertained the royal family in Plas Machynlleth during the investiture of Edward VIII and as a result was able to call herself the
JONES, OWEN GLYNNE (1867 - 1899), mountaineer and schoolteacher new climbs but in developing the technique of rock-climbing. In 1894 he contributed a section on Cadair Idris and the Aran mountain to volume two of Haskett Smith 's, Climbing in the British Isles; he then began to prepare his own more substantial and influential work, with its combination of instruction and adventure. In April 1896, he called unannounced on the photographer brothers George and

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