Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, DAVID (Dafydd Brydydd Hir, Dafydd Siôn Pirs; 1732 - 1782?), poet, tailor, and schoolmaster Christened 29 October 1732, son of John Pierce and his wife Anne who kept the 'Harp' inn at Llanfair-talhaearn, Denbighshire. The poet Talhaiarn quotes David Jones's self-portrait: 'long, lanky, hirsute, and thirsty.' He was the boon-companion of Ieuan Fardd when Ieuan was curate of Llanfair; other cronies of his were Robert Thomas and John Powel - according to Additional Letters of the Morrises
JONES, DAVID HUGH (Dewi Arfon; 1833 - 1869), minister (CM), schoolmaster and poet a teacher in the British School, Llanrwst. He became a close friend of Trebor Mai (Robert Williams) and other local poets. While in Llanrwst he became interested in poetry. He was the teacher when John Lloyd Williams, musician and botanist, was a pupil there. Towards the end of this period, he began to preach. However, it was in Capel Coch, Llanberis, in 1861, that he was officially accepted by
JONES, EDWARD (d. 1586), conspirator was the eldest son of Edward Jones of Plas Cadwgan, Denbighshire, and of Cornhill, London - tailor to Mary Tudor and master of the wardrobe to Elizabeth I - who was the son of John ap David ap Robert, a descendant of Cynwrig ap Rhiwallon. Edward Jones the elder (sheriff of his county in 1576), died at Cadwgan in 1581, leaving substantial legacies to North Wales relations and money for founding a
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 (1790 - 1860), minister (Presb.) excelled not so much as a preacher but as an educator and an expert on the property, constitution and discipline of his Connexion. He married Mary, daughter of David Davies, Machynlleth, and sister of Robert Davies (1790 - 1841). He died 29 August 1860, and was the first to be interred in Aberystwyth town cemetery.
JONES, EVAN (1836 - 1915), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and publicist at Machynlleth. He married, while he was at Corris, Jane Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Jones, Bala; they had two daughters and a son. His wife predeceased him. He was a leader in his connexion, moderator of the North Wales Methodist Association in 1897, and moderator of the General Assembly in 1898-9. He was practically the founder of the Calvinistic Methodist Bookroom, and was general editor of
JONES, EVAN (Gwrwst ab Bleddyn Flaidd, Gwrwst; 1793 - 1855), Baptist minister and littérateur , S. Lythans, and twelve children were born of the marriage. His ministry at Castleton was very successful, the number of members increasing, branches being established at S. Mellons in 1833, and S. Brides, Wentloog, in 1838, and several members including J.R. Morgan (Lleurwg), becoming ministers of religion. He was friendly with some of the most prominent literary men of his day, such as Robert
JONES, FRANCES MÔN (1919 - 2000), harpist and teacher Society from 1957 to 1985, she became a Vice-President from 1985 to 1988, and its President from 1988 until her death. She was also Secretary of the Welsh Folk Dance Society from 1959 to 1971 and a Vice-President from 1975 to 2000, and when the Society for the Traditional Instruments of Wales, Clera, was founded in 1996, was elected its Honorary President. She married the Methodist minister Robert Môn
JONES, HUGH ROBERT (1894 - 1930), founder of the Welsh Nationalist party Born 3 June 1894 at Deiniolen, Caernarfonshire, son of Robert Hugh Jones and Ellen his wife, the former descended from the old Bodnithoedd family and the latter from the family which produced John Elias and Ieuan o Leyn. When be was 3 years old he went to the boys' school Clwt-y-bont, where he remained until he was 13. Thence he went to the quarry to follow his father's calling, receiving a
JONES, HUMPHREY (Bryfdir; 1867 - 1947), poet and 'compère' of eisteddfodau Born 13 December 1867, in Cwm Croesor, Merionethshire, son of John Jones a smallholder and Mary (née Roberts) and grandson of Robert Roberts of Erw Fawr who founded the Sunday school at Llanfrothen. He lived practically the whole of his life in Blaenau Ffestiniog. After leaving school at the age of 12 he became a quarryman and eventually attained an official position. He learned the rudiments of
JONES, JAMES IDWAL (1900 - 1982), headteacher and Labour politician Robert Richards MP. He continued to represent Wrexham until his retirement from parliament in June 1970. He was chairman of the Welsh Parliamentary Party, 1957-58, and of the Welsh Labour Group, 1960-61. In 1965 he also served as a member of the Commons Group Reviewing Electoral Law and Procedure. During his parliamentary career he was instrumental in securing many new industries for the Wrexham area
JONES, JOHN (Tegid, Ioan Tegid; 1792 - 1852), cleric and man of letters ed. in 1842 and was praised by eminent Hebraists on the Continent. Welsh studies, however, filled a more important place in his interests. In his youth at Bala, he had taken his place in the bardic succession of the region, receiving his instruction at the hands of Robert William, whom he commemorated in an elegy, and in his turn becoming the instructor of Charles Saunderson. As a poet (his poetry

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