Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, Sir ALFRED LEWIS (1845 - 1909) Born 24 February 1845, at Carmarthen, son of Daniel Jones by his wife, Mary, daughter of Henry Williams, rector of Llanedy, Carmarthenshire. The family moved to Liverpool when he was 2 years of age. Commencing his career as a ship's apprentice, he became a clerk in the firm of Fletcher and Parr, shipping agents, and rose to be manager of the firm. He subsequently became one of the leading figures
JONES, ALICE GRAY (Ceridwen Peris; 1852 - 1943), author Born December 1852 at Llanllyfni, Caernarfonshire, daughter of David and Ellen Jones. Her father was a brother of Rev. John Jones, Brynrodyn, and her mother a cousin of Rev. John John Roberts, ' Iolo Caernarfon '. She was educated at Dolbadarn primary school and at the Swansea Training College, and was headmistress of her old school prior to her marriage in 1881 to Rev. William Jones, minister at
JONES, ALWYN RICE (1934 - 2007), Archbishop of Wales Alwyn Rice Jones was born on 25 March 1934 in Capel Curig, Caernarfonshire, the only child of John Griffith Jones, a slate quarryman, and his wife Annie. Both his parents died young, and he was orphaned at the age of fourteen. He grew up in a Welsh-speaking community and Welsh remained his first language. Jones attended Llanrwst Grammar School and then won a scholarship to read Welsh at St
JONES, AMBROSE (d. 1678), bishop of Kildare - see JONES, MICHAEL
JONES, ANEURIN (Aneurin Fardd; 1822 - 1904), man of letters Born 27 October 1822 at the Church House, Bedwas, Monmouthshire, son of John Jones (Shôn Fardd), who was subsequently a miller at Gelli-groes, Pontllan-fraith. He received a good education and served his apprenticeship as an architect and civil engineer. He followed his profession at Gelligroes, and after the death of his father took over the mill as well, in addition to cultivating a little land
JONES, ARTHUR (1776 - 1860), Independent minister he kept one of the Dr. Williams charity-schools which, on the death of Benjamin Jones (1756 - 1823), had been transferred from Pwllheli to Bangor. He published Pynciau Athrawiaethol, 1838, and Rhetoric, neu Areithyddiaeth Ysgrythyrol, 1810. Early in his ministry he took a prominent part in the theological controversies of the day, and was one of the first in Wales to preach the ideas of Edward
JONES, ARTHUR (fl. 18th century), poet, of Llangadwaladr, Denbighshire, and sexton of Ruabon (where he died)
JONES, ARTHUR LLEWELLIN - see MACHEN, ARTHUR
JONES, AUDREY EVELYN (1929 - 2014), teacher and campaigner for women's rights Audrey Jones was born on 15 October 1929 in Bushey, Hertfordshire, the eldest of three children of John Henry Reed (1901-1971), a police officer, and Evelyn Mary Reed, (née Tofield, 1898-1938), a newsagent. She had a brother Bernard (born 1936) and a sister Marion (born 1938). After her mother's early death, the family moved to Essex. Audrey won a place in Chelmsford County High School for Girls
JONES, BASSETT (fl. 1634-1659), scholar and physician Son of Richard Jones, of Michaelston-super-Ely, and Jane, his wife, daughter of Thomas Bassett, esquire and high sheriff, of Miskin, Glamorganshire Bassett entered Jesus College, Oxford, in 1634, and afterwards the Dutch university of Franeker, and other seats of learning on the Continent, where he studied physics and chemistry. He returned home, and in 1648 (the year of the battle of St. Fagans
JONES, BENJAMIN (1865 - 1953), Chancellor of Bangor Cathedral Born in Minffordd, Llangeinwen, Anglesey, May 17, 1865, son of Thomas Jones, a farm labourer and his wife Ann (née Williams). After a period of student-teaching in St. Paul's School Bangor he decided to enter the Church. He was educated 1889-90 in Bangor school of theology where reading, preaching and ministering (under the wing of the church hostel) were taught, and in 1890 became a member of
JONES, BENJAMIN (P[rif] A[rwyddfardd] Môn; 1788 - 1841), poet, writer, and Baptist apologete Born 1788, son of William Jones, Treddaniel, one of the earliest Baptist deacons at Holyhead, and Elizabeth Roberts, daughter of William Roberts, Garreg-fawr. He was baptized at Holyhead by Christmas Evans in 1811, and spent his whole life there, as a draper, until his death on 19 February 1841. He married, 12 October 1810, Mary, daughter of Edward Parry of Holyhead, and thirteen children were

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