Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, EVAN (Ieuan Gwynedd; 1820 - 1852), Independent minister, and journalist appointment by L. Williams, the Dolgelley banker, but was soon found inefficient. Between 1836 and 1839 he tried to open schools at Brithdir, Rhyd-y-main, Llanwddyn, and Pen-y-bont. He failed in every attempt because the public would not support him. He began to preach in Sardis chapel, Llanwddyn, 18 March 1838. In May 1839 he was appointed an assistant master at the Dr. Daniel Williams school at Bangor
JONES, EVAN (1777 - 1819), Baptist minister , in 1797, in the attack on ' Siôn Singer ' (John Williams, died 1807). He was to have been pastor at Pen-y-bont, but he had objections to 'the imposition of hands,' and accordingly preferred to accept a call (5 November 1800) from the newly-founded church of Bethania at Cardigan, where he also kept school. In the meantime, the 1799 schism among the Welsh Baptists had broken out, and Jones entered
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 DAVID (1903 - 1987), librarian and archivist E. D. Jones was born in Llangeitho, Ceredigion, on 6 December 1903, the eldest of the seven children of Evan Jones, farmer of Y Wenallt, and his wife Jane. He was educated at Tregaron County School and at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he graduated with honours in Welsh in 1926 and in History in 1927. Awarded the Sir John Williams research scholarship, 1928-29, he began to
JONES, EZZELINA GWENHWYFAR (1921 - 2012), artist and sculptor Ezzelina Jones was born in Pontarddulais on 28 June 1921, the second of the three children of Godfrey Hugh Beddoe Williams, a doubler in the Clayton Tin Works, and his wife Elizabeth Mary Williams. She had two sisters, Elizabeth Jane (Betty) and Rita. In the early years Ezzelina was known in the family as Gwen or Gwenhwyfar. It appears that she was given the unusual name of Ezzelina in memory of
JONES, FRANCES MÔN (1919 - 2000), harpist and teacher Frances Môn Jones was born on 20 October 1919 at Broughton near Wrexham, the daughter of David Charles Davies and his wife Mary Jane (née Goodwin). She was educated at the local school and Grove Park Grammar School in Wrexham, and mastered Welsh as a schoolgirl, in spite of not hearing the language at home. She began to play the organ at Pisgah chapel in Broughton at the age of 14, but a year
JONES, GRIFFITH (1683 - 1761), cleric and educational reformer times before bishop Ottley, chancellor Edward Jones, and David Havard, bishop's deputy at the bishop's Court at Carmarthen, for ignoring Church laws and customs. On 27 July 1716 he was appointed by his patron, Sir John Philipps, to the rectory of Llanddowror, Carmarthenshire. Here, S.P.C.K. duties received much of his attention, and, together with Moses Williams and Erasmus Saunders, he supported
JONES, GWENAN (1889 - 1971), educationalist and author , 1910-1914, completing an M.A. dissertation in her spare time, a comparison of two texts of Brut y Brenhinedd. During this time she was invited by Ifor Williams to join the Macwyaid and her contributions were published in Y Brython under the pseudonym Macwyes y Llyn. She was awarded a scholarship to study the relationship between drama in medieval Wales and Cornwall and in England under the
JONES, GWILYM CLEATON (1875 - 1961) Cape Town, Johannesburg, bank manager election for the Caernarfon boroughs. Cleaton Jones was educated at Bala grammar school. He succeeded in the introductory examination of the Incorporated Law Society of England and Wales in 1889. By 1893 he had started working with Williams Company, Old Bank, Chester. He emigrated to South Africa (Cape Colony at the time) in November 1902, soon after the death of his elder brother, Eiddon Rhys, of whom
JONES, GWILYM RICHARD (Gwilym Aman; 1874 - 1953), musician, conductor of choirs and singing festivals, hymnist Born in Siop y Bont, Brynaman, Carmarthenshire, on 12 April 1874, the son of Richard Jones and his wife Elizabeth Mathew. The father, a successful baritone, came from Tŷcroes and settled, after his marriage, in Brynaman; his son grew up in the midst of the lively culture of that area during the heyday of Watcyn Wyn (Watkin Hezekiah Williams and Gwydderig (Richard Williams, 1842 - 1917). Gwilym R
JONES, GWILYM THOMAS (1908 - 1956), solicitor and administrator , and then the University College of North Wales, Bangor, where he graduated with an M.A. degree in Law. In 1936, whilst working as a solicitor in Pwllheli, he was appointed as official court translator for the trial of the 'Penyberth Three' - Saunders Lewis, Lewis Valentine, and D. J. Williams - at Caernarfon and then at the Old Bailey in London when the case was transferred there. In 1938, he became
JONES, HARRY LONGUEVILLE (1806 - 1870) ) of uniting the two North Wales dioceses had already brought him into friendship with John Williams (ab Ithel), and their common interest in antiquarian matters led them to initiate and edit Archaeologia Cambrensis in January 1846, and to found the Cambrian Archaeological Association in 1847. Jones bore the costs of Archæologia Cambrensis up to 1850, and seems to have lost much money over it. But

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