Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, ROWLAND (1722 - 1774), philologist influence on the linguistic theories of William Owen Pughe, especially on his dictionary. He published the following books: (1) The Origin of Languages and Nations, Hieroglyfically, Etymologically, and Topographically defined and fixed, after the Method of an English, Celtic, Greek, and Latin English Lexicon, 1764 : (2) Hieroglyphic, or a Grammatical Introduction to an Universal Hieroglyfic Language
JONES, SAMUEL (1898 - 1974), journalist, broadcaster and Head of the BBC in Bangor Commemoration service was conducted at Penuel Baptist Chapel, where he was a member, on 20 September 1974. Owen Edwards, Controller of BBC Wales, said that Sam Jones had the gift of working on three key wavelengths - being on the same wavelength as his audience, the same wavelength as the talents he'd discovered and as the staff he led. He laid the foundations of radio development during his time in Cardiff
JONES, SAMUEL (fl. 1715-1764), Congregational minister and tutor , Llannon, Carmarthenshire, and kept a school there for twenty-two years; among his distinguished pupils were Richard Price, Owen Rees, Thomas Morgan (1720 - 1799), and Noah Jones (Walsall). He moved to Morriston c. 1766; there also he opened a school, with his son as a tutor. He was suspected by some of being an Arian but his sermons testify to his evangelical spirit and opinion. He died 1767. The burial
JONES, SAMUEL (1681? - 1719), Dissenting Academy tutor uncles) minister at Nailsworth (Walter Evans in NLW MSS 10327B)]. Samuel Jones was at Abergavenny under Roger Griffith. When Griffith conformed (1702), it is alleged that the Academy was transferred to Knill, Radnorshire, in charge of John Weaver, but this is incorrect - it was to Shrewsbury, under the care of James Owen, that Samuel Jones and the other students removed. On James Owen's death (1706
JONES, SAMUEL (1628 - 1697), Nonconformist minister and schoolmaster . Richard Price, James Owen, and Philip Pugh. Samuel Jones was a convinced Nonconformist, but liberal-minded and tolerant. In spite of all appeals made to him to conform he remained true to his principles to the end. His correspondence with a bishop and archdeacon of Llandaff and his letter to a friend are historical documents. Under the Act of Indulgence, 1672, he secured several licences to hold
JONES, SARAH RHIANNON DAVIES (1921 - 2014), author and lecturer Rhiannon Davies Jones was born on 4 November 1921 in Llanbedr, Meirioneth, the second daughter of Hugh Davies Jones (1872-1924), a Baptist minister, and his wife Laura (née Owen, 1887-1977), a teacher. She had one sister, Annie Davies Evans (née Jones). Her father was brought up near Oswestry, but his original family home was Derwen Fawr farm, Corwen, which the family had to leave in the 1880s
JONES, SHÂN EMLYN (1936 - 1997), singer Shân Emlyn was born in Oxford on 8 February 1936, the daughter of Emlyn Jones and his wife Joanna (née Owen). The family lived in Oxford, where the father was a clerk in Morris Motors and a member of the works band, until the beginning of the Second World War, when they returned to Wales, settling first in Felinheli and then in Pwllheli. With a trombonist father and a mother who was a music
JONES, THOMAS (Twm Shôn Catti; 1532 - 1609), landowner, antiquary, genealogist, and bard described in 1559 as 'Thomas Johns alias Catty.' The name of his first wife is unknown; his second, whom he married in 1607, was Joan, widow of Thomas Williams of Ystrad-ffin and daughter of Sir John Price of Brecon Priory (1502?-1555). His manuscripts begin about 1570. He assisted George Owen and Lewys Dwnn and the officers of the Heralds College. He was steward of Caron in 1601. He died in 1609, the
JONES, THOMAS (Cynhaiarn; 1839 - 1916), lawyer and writer of verse his best in short pieces, and particularly in satiric verse - a satire of his gained the prize at the national eisteddfod of 1892 at Rhyl. He was also a master of the englyn. Much of his verse was printed in periodicals; much, too, is unlikely to appear in print, being in rabelaisian vein. He was in his early days a member of the literary circle which gathered around Ellis Owen of Cefn-y-meusydd. In
JONES, THOMAS (1756 - 1807), mathematician Born at Berriw, Montgomeryshire, 23 June 1756, an illegitimate child. There remains uncertainty as to his parents. According to the tradition recorded by Williams, Montgomeryshire worthies, he was the illegitimate son of Owen Owen, Llifior, Berriew and there is an entry in Berriew register of baptisms 29 June 1756 'Thomas son of Catherine Evans of Llivior'. (Owen had married the heiress of
JONES, THOMAS (Glan Alun; 1811 - 1866), Calvinistic Methodist minister and man of letters sermons, political speeches, and verse, flowed without effort. Daniel Owen in Y Geninen, 1886, describes him as hasty and busy, dabbling in everything, but kindly and simple; Ceiriog commemorated him in Y Drysorfa, 1868; and Gwalchmai in Y Dysgedydd, 1879. It may be remarked that few have won tributes from three such men of letters as these. One of his daughters married the missionary John Roberts (1842
JONES, THOMAS (1818 - 1898), parish clerk ) was presented to the National Library of Wales in 1919 by archdeacon Albert Owen Evans. It is of value because it is representative of what was being composed by contemporaries, known and lesser-known, of Thomas Jones. He died 25 March 1898.

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