Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, THOMAS PARRY (1935 - 2013), inventor, entrepreneur and philanthropist entering the University College of North Wales, Bangor in 1954, where he graduated in Chemistry in 1958. After graduation he embarked on doctoral research at the University of Alberta, Canada, gaining a PhD in Chromium Chemistry in 1961. After a period as Senior Research Fellow at the Royal Military College of Science and Technology at Shrivenham, Oxfordshire, in 1963 he was appointed Lecturer in
JONES, THOMAS TUDNO (Tudno; 1844 - 1895), cleric and poet the press dealt with topics of the day, especially the disestablishment of the Church of England in Wales, which he opposed. He is best known as a poet, having won the chief prize for an awdl at the national eisteddfod at Pwllheli in 1875, Caernarvon in 1877, Wrexham in 1888, and Bangor in 1890. The sum of his published verse, which is mainly in the strict metres, is considerable, but it is not very
JONES, THOMAS WILLIAM (Baron Maelor of Rhos), (1898 - 1984), Labour politician undertook six months hard labour. Jones then became a student at Bangor Normal College, 1920-22, where he qualified as a certified teacher, was a schoolmaster from 1922 until 1940, and was a welfare officer with the Ministry of Labour, 1940-46. In 1946 he was appointed a welfare, education and public relations officer with the North Wales Power and Electric Co., a body which became MANWEB in 1951, and he
JONES, TOM ELLIS (1900 - 1975), Baptist minister and college Principal entry into the Baptist College in Bangor and the University College of North Wales, Bangor. He graduated in the Arts in 1923 and in Theology in 1926. That year he accepted a call to pastor the Welsh Baptist church in Ebenezer, Mold, and he was ordained to serve there and in its mission in Maes-y-dre. In April 1928 he married Edith Gwendoline Jones from Penuel, Bangor. They had one daughter, Luned. Tom
JONES, TREVOR ALEC (1924 - 1983), Labour politician He was born at Clydach Vale on 12 August 1924, the son of Alexander (Alec) Jones. He was educated at Rhondda County Boys' Grammar School, Porth. He worked as a clerk to the Rhondda UDC, 1940-42, and served in the RAF, 1942-45. He then attended Bangor Normal College, 1945-47, and worked as a teacher at Essex, 1947-49, and at Blaenclydach secondary school, 1949-67. Alec Jones had joined the Labour
JONES, WATCYN SAMUEL (1877 - 1964), agricultural administrator and principal of a theological college ; he moved to University College, Bangor in 1900 and gained a B.A. there in 1902, one of John Morris-Jones's first honours class. He gained a B.Sc. at the same college, pursuing additionally the new courses in agriculture and forestry and returned to Aberystwyth for another course in agriculture (N.D.D.). He was invited, with a scholarship, to be an assistant tutor at the School of Rural Economy at
JONES, WILLIAM (1857 - 1915), Member of Parliament Born in 1857 at Ceint Bach near Llangefni, to Richard and Alice Jones. He became pupil, and afterwards pupil-teacher, at the British school there; for two years (1873-5) at the Bangor Normal College. For a short period he was head master of the Goginan school in north Cardigan, before migrating to London to become assistant at Wallington Road in north London (1879-88). He was a member of the
JONES, WILLIAM (1718 - 1773?), early Methodist exhorter, and possibly the first Anglesey Methodist hear no more of him; and it is far from certain that he was the William Jones whose burial on 25 July 1773 is recorded in Llangefni parish register. As the writer of the above article has now pointed out, in his recent book Methodistiaeth Fore Môn (Caernarvon, 1955), p. 94, William Jones of Trefollwyn cannot have been the man who died in 1773. Henllys MS. 138 at Bangor is a copy of the will (signed
JONES, WILLIAM (1896 - 1961), poet and minister Born 24 September 1896 at Trefriw, Caernarfonshire, son of Henry Jones, Congregationalist minister, and his wife Margaret (Madgie), daughter of William Jones, Presbyterian minister of Trawsfynydd. He was educated at Llanrwst county school (1908) and he entered University College of North Wales Bangor in 1914 and Bala-Bangor College 1914-16. He graduated in Welsh and Hebrew in 1917. He was
JONES, WILLIAM ARTHUR (1892 - 1970), musician the end of his life. He was brought up in a musical home; his mother gave him piano lessons from an early age, and he later studied organ playing with John Williams, Caernarfon, and with Roland Rogers, organist of Bangor cathedral. After short periods as organist and pianist to the Honourable F.G. Wynn at Glynllifon, Llandwrog, and from 1910 to 1915 as organist and choirmaster at Rug chapel, Corwen
JONES, WILLIAM ELWYN EDWARDS (1904 - 1989), Labour politician He was born on 4 January 1904 [some sources cite 1905], the son of the Reverend Robert William Jones, a minister with the Calvinistic Methodists at Bootle, and Elizabeth Jane, his wife. He was educated at Bottle Secondary School and Ffestiniog Grammar School and the University College of North Wales, Bangor and the University of London. He qualified as a solicitor in 1927, was appointed clerk to
JONES, WILLIAM GARMON (1884 - 1937), professor of history and librarian of Liverpool University Miscellany); ' Bosworth Field, an episode of Welsh history ' (Trans. Liverpool Welsh National Society), 1912; York and Lancaster (Bell's 'Source Books of English History'); ' Welsh Nationalism and Henry Tudor ' (The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1917-18). In 1923 he married Eluned, only daughter of (Sir) John Edward Lloyd of Bangor. He died 28 May 1937 and was buried in the family

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