Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JOHN, MARY HANNAH (1874 - 1962), singer and revivalist May John was born at 4 Canning Street, Ton Pentre in the Rhondda on 26 January 1874, the sixth of the seven children of Morgan John (1841-1909), manager of a shoeshop, and his wife Mary (née James, 1840-1930). The Johns were a devout Calvinistic Methodist family, Morgan John being a deacon at Jerusalem Chapel in Ton Pentre. The family was a very musical one, and May began to sing when still very
JOHNES, ARTHUR JAMES (1809 - 1871), county court judge Born 4 February 1809, the son of Edward Johnes of Garthmyl, Montgomeryshire, and Mary his wife, who was a Davies of Llifior, and thus connected with the family of Owen of Cefn-hafodau. He was educated at Oswestry grammar school and University College, London, and called to the Bar from Lincoln's Inn in 1835. In 1847 he was appointed a county court judge in North Wales and part of South Wales, and
JOHNS, WILLIAM (1771 - 1845), Unitarian minister, tutor, and writer Born in 1771 in Cilmaenllwyd parish on the Pembrokeshire border of Carmarthenshire. Nothing is known of his family, but it may be noted that the surname John(s) recurs frequently in the records of the Independent congregation of Glandŵr, Pembrokeshire (see J. Lloyd James, Hanes Eglwys Glandŵr, 141-3), which had charge of the Independents of Cilmaenllwyd. The accounts of his early years are
JOHNSON, AUBREY RODWAY (1901 - 1985), university professor and Hebrew scholar from tuberculosis and he was forced to retire when Aubrey was only two years old. Generous members of the Leamington congregation provided the family with a home in West Malvern, but within two years the father had died and the family relocated to Newport, Monmouth, to be near Beatrice Johnson's sister. There, the widow ran a boarding house to support her young family. Aubrey was educated in an
JONES family, smiths, poets, musicians and preachers Cilie, They farmed Cilie, a farm of over 300 acres above the sea between Llangrannog and New Quay, Cardiganshire. Jeremiah Jones, the father (9 April 1855 - 19 February 1902) was a smith from a family of smiths in northern Pembrokeshire, a family which had, according to tradition, a close relationship to the poets of Cwmdu, near Newcastle Emlyn (see Siencyn Thomas, and John Jenkin). Jeremiah and his
JONES family Llwyn-rhys, This family was closely associated with early Nonconformity in mid-Cardiganshire. Llwynrhys was a cruck-framed long-house built in the 15th century in the parish of Llanbadarn Odwyn (Peate, Welsh House, 78-9). The house was licensed, as that of JOHN JONES, for Morgan Howell to preach there, 28 October 1672 (Richards, Wales under the Indulgence, 156); and about the same time an additional room was
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, ARTHUR (1776 - 1860), Independent minister Born 12 February 1776 at Llanrwst, his mother being descended from bishop William Morgan's family. After living for some time in Liverpool he became a schoolmaster at Capel Garmon where he began to preach. He married as his first wife a daughter of Twm o'r Nant and they lived for a time at Denbigh. He had hitherto been a Calvinistic Methodist, but he now joined the Independents and received a
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, BENJAMIN (1865 - 1953), Chancellor of Bangor Cathedral the Church's publications. He edited Yr Haul, 1913-20, and Y Llan, 1919-38, and was concerned with a project for a bilingual paper for the Church in Wales, Y Llan and Church News and the Church Family Newspaper. His service to the religious press during World War I and in the difficult times immediately after disestablishment was firm and wise. He was a member of the governing body of the Church in
JONES, BENJAMIN (1756 - 1823), Independent minister , Amlwch, and Beaumaris, but after his move to Pwllheli he does not appear to have had the same interest in opening new churches in the surrounding country-side. He was considered an able theologian and a man of wise counsel. He and his family were closely connected with the schism at Llanuwchllyn in the days of Michael Jones (1787 - 1853). It was under his ministry that, on Easter Sunday 1796, at Pen
JONES, CALVERT RICHARD (1802 - 1877), pioneer photographer, artist and priest Born 4 December 1802 at Verandah, Swansea, Glamorganshire, son of Calvert Richard Jones. He was the third of his family to bear the name. His grandfather inherited part of the estate of 'the Herberts of Swansea ' in the 18th c. He and his father (1766 - 1847) were prominent citizens of Swansea and benefactors of the town. He was educated at Eton, and Oriel College, Oxford, where he graduated

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