Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, WILLIAM (1675? - 1749), mathematician ' nickname, ' Pabo,' for William Jones. The father was John George; the mother was Elizabeth Rowland, of the family of Bodwigan, Llanddeusant (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 3), and Elizabeth's mother was of the family of Tregaian and therefore, according to Lewis Morris (Add. M.L., p. 190), related to the Morris family's father and mother. He was at school at Llanfechell, and showed such skill as a calculator
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 ELLIS (Cawrdaf; 1795 - 1848), poet and man of letters leaders of the 'Little Wesley' schism]. He was enrolled as a member of several Cymreigyddion societies and wrote awdlau for eisteddfodic competitions on such subjects as 'A Welshman's longing for his country,' 1820; 'The regency of George IV,' 1824; 'The Druids of the Isle of Britain,' 1834; 'Job,' 1840. His prose work, The Bard, or the Welsh Hermit, 1830, an account of imaginary journeys to various
JOSHUA, SETH (1858 - 1925), minister (Presb.) Born 10 April 1858 in Ty Capel, Trosnant Uchaf, Pontypool, Monmouth, son of George Joshua and Mary (née Walden) his wife. He married Mary Rees, Llantrisant, in Neath, Glamorganshire, 23 September 1883, and they had eight children (one son, Peter, was a minister and a popular evangelist in America; another son, Lyn, was responsible with Mai Jones for the radio programme ' We'll keep a welcome in
KELSEY, ALFRED JOHN (1929 - 1992), association football player many including Les Morris, a local football manager, who had been on Arsenal's books during the pre-war years. Morris arranged for the young Kelsey to receive trials with his former club, and the club was sufficiently impressed with his performance to offer him an immediate contract, and he signed for the Highbury giants in 1949. Initially he acted as the understudy to the dependable George Swindin
KEMEYS family Cefn Mabli, March 1822, J.P., D.L., for Monmouthshire and Somerset, colonel Somerset Militia. He married, as his first wife, 2 November 1848, Mary, daughter of George Frome, of Puncknoll, Dorset; as his second wife, 1873, Hannah Lewis; and, as his third, 1879, Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Fothergill, M.P., Tenby. He died 10 January 1891. HALSWELL MILBORNE KEMEYS-TYNTE (1852 - 1899), J.P. and D.L. Politics
KENYON family Gredington, Peel Hall, defence of lord George Gordon in 1780; as judge, he presided over the trial of Stockdale for libel, in 1789, and, for a period, over the trial of Warren Hastings; he also tried Edward Jones, fl. 1741-1806. He was lord lieutenant of the county of Flint 1796-8, and 'Custos Rotulorum' from 1796 until his death. He married, 16 October 1773, at Deane, Lancashire, his cousin Mary, third daughter of George
KILMISTER, IAN FRASER (1945 - 2015), musician Ian Fraser Kilmister was born on 24 December 1945 in Stoke-on-Trent, the son of Sidney Davy Albert Kilmister and his wife Jessie Milda, 'June' (née Simpson). His father, a former RAF chaplain, deserted the family when Ian was just three months old and he was raised by his mother and grandmother in a small Staffordshire town. When he was ten years old his mother married George Willis and the
LANGFORD family Allington, Humphrey Lloyd, sheriff of Montgomeryshire, 1540, and it was his grandson, Thomas Langford, who wrote the pedigree manuscript Bodewryd MS 102D), William, Roger, David, Mathew, Elizabeth, Catherine, and Ann. By his second wife, Marsli, daughter of John ab Ieuan ap Howell of Trefriw, he had Thomas, George, Owen, Jane, Ellen, Jane (2), and Alice. JOHN He married Catherine, daughter of John ap Harry Jervis
LEWIS of CAERLEON (fl. 1491), mathematician, theologian, doctor of medicine, and teacher at Oxford a grant for life to be one of the knights of the king's alms in the chapel or church of S. Mary the Virgin, S. George the Martyr, and S. Edward the Confessor at Windsor castle, a grant which was repeated in the same terms 14 September 1491. The King's Book of Payments of May 1510 records a reward of £100 in gold to Master Lewis, the princess of Castile's physician, but it is not certain whether
LEWIS, ERASMUS (1670 - 1754), writer of 'news-letters' and holder of posts under the Government Born at Abercothy, about six miles from Carmarthen. He went to Westminster School in 1686 and to S. John's College, Cambridge, 1690, graduating in 1693. In October 1698 he was in Berlin with his 'cousin,' George Stepney, and writing 'news-letters' to George Ellis, M.P.; at the same time he was seeking some Government post. As his career is described in the D.N.B. this account can be brief. He
LEWIS, GEORGE (1763 - 1822), theologian and Independent minister there, and George Lewis was invited by the Congregational Board in London to manage the Academy at Wrexham. In 1815 he received two calls, one from Liverpool and one from Llanfyllin. The Board was unwilling to allow the Academy to be moved from Wales but raised no objection to its being moved from Wrexham to Llanfyllin (1815-21). In 1821 he moved it again to Newtown, but died within six months, 5 June

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