Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, GRIFFITH RHYS (Caradog; 1834 - 1897), conductor of a once well-known South Wales choir, 'Côr Caradog' compete at the Crystal Palace, London, and Caradog was chosen as conductor. His choir numbered 456, the members coming from various districts in South Wales. The contest, which took place on 10 July 1872, was won by 'Côr Caradog,' one of the competitors being a London choir led by Joseph Proudman. Later the choir sang before the prince and princess of Wales. After the dissolution of the 'Côr Mawr,' as
JONES, GWILYM RICHARD (Gwilym Aman; 1874 - 1953), musician, conductor of choirs and singing festivals, hymnist . Jones was given music lessons by Joseph Parry, then choirmaster at Ebenezer Independent chapel, Swansea. In Brynaman, there was a famous choir, conducted by John Jones (Pen-crug) and with David Vaughan Thomas as the accompanist; this rich musical tradition was an inspiration to a young musician like Gwilym R. Jones who was born to be a conductor of choirs. The first post he held was choirmaster at
JONES, Sir HENRY (1852 - 1922), philosopher
JONES, Sir HENRY STUART (1867 - 1939), classical scholar and lexicographer
JONES, HUGH (1749 - 1825), translator and hymnist religious nature. His first work was Cydymmaith i'r hwsmon, 1774 (reprinted by Sir Owen M. Edwards, and in 1949 by the University of Wales Press). He published two volumes of verse - Gardd y Caniadau, 1776, and Hymnau Newyddion, 1797. This latter volume contained his well-known hymn 'O tyn y gorchudd yn y mynydd hyn.' Among the works he translated was Thomas Brooks 'Golden Apples for young people, and a
JONES, HUMPHREY OWEN (1878 - 1912), chemist the University Chemical Laboratory and Fellow and lecturer of Clare College. He carried out a considerable amount of chemical research of high merit and was soon recognized as an authority on the Stereochemistry of Nitrogen and on Fuel Oils. With Sir James Dewar he studied the metallic carbonyls. He was elected F.R.S. early in 1912. A mountaineer of repute, he spent his leisure climbing in Snowdonia
JONES, IDWAL (1899 - 1966), educationist and university professor Trans. of the Cymm., 1933), the broadcast history lessons, ' Y plentyn a'r Eglwys ', and ' Y Bardd a'r Athro '. He possessed an inherent nobility of spirit, and even in his last days of illness he was a strikingly elegant and charming personality. On June 29, 1933 he married Kitty, daughter of Sir John Herbert Lewis of Plas Penucha, Caerwys; and this was no doubt what impelled him to compile the
JONES, JACK (1884 - 1970), author and playwright two exhausting lecture-tours in the United States and Canada, and later he visited troops on the European battlefronts, in Belgium and Holland in 1944, in Italy in 1945. He also produced The Man David (1944), 'an imaginary presentation, based on fact, of the life of David Lloyd George from 1880 to 1914 '. In the general election of 1945 he supported the candidature of Conservative, Sir James Grigg
JONES, JAMES IFANO (1865 - 1955), librarian and bibliographer University of Wales awarded him an honorary M.A. degree. His historical works included his lengthy study of ' Dan Isaac Davies and the Bilingual Movement ', which appeared in J. Vyrnwy Morgan, ed., Welsh Political and Educational Leaders in the Victorian era, 1908; The Early History of Nonconformity in Cardiff, 1912; and ' Sir Mathew Cradock and some of his contemporaries ' in Archæologia Cambrensis, 1919
JONES, JENKIN (1623 - ?), captain in the Parliamentary army and Puritan preacher He was born at Tŷ Mawr in Llanddetty parish, Brecknock, matriculated at Jesus College, Oxford, in 1639, and married as second wife Barbara, daughter of Sir Anthony Mansell of Briton Ferry, niece to Bussy Mansell, who was very prominent on the Parliament's side in Glamorgan. Jones speedily came to the front in the Civil War both as soldier and as preacher; he was convinced that the Baptists were
JONES, JOHN (1772 - 1837), barrister, translator, and historian Born at Derwydd, near Llandebie, Carmarthenshire, 17 August 1772. Little is known of his early years; it is said that although his early education was scanty, he became well read in the classics. He was for some time a master at Wimbledon, having (Sir) Robert Peel as one of his pupils. Later he studied in Germany, subsequently receiving the degree of LL.D. at Jena University. After returning to
JONES, JOHN (1801 - 1856), Independent minister, and controversialist Born 10 April 1801 at Tan-yr-ogof near Abergele. He worked as a miner and collier until he went to Llangollen as Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn's clerk. He first came into prominence as a lecturer on temperance, and it was he who was the secretary of the great temperance meeting held at Caernarvon in 1837. In 1839 he moved to Rhosllannerchrugog where he joined the Independents and began to preach. He

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