Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, DAVID STANLEY (1860 - 1919), Congregationalist minister Born 28 June 1860 at Pantrasol, Llanarth, Cardiganshire, one of the four children of Abraham Jones, of the Llandysul neighbourhood, and his wife Elizabeth, who hailed from near Llangeitho. The father had to seek work in Glamorgan, and the upbringing of the children fell to the mother, on the small homestead of Tŷ-rhos. David (known as ' Dafi Tŷ-rhos') had little schooling, mostly at Talygarreg
JONES, Sir DAVID THOMAS ROCYN - see ROCYN-JONES, Sir DAVID THOMAS
JONES, DAVID WATKIN (Dafydd Morganwg; 1832 - 1905), poet, historian, and geologist Born at Merthyr Tydfil, 14 February 1832, he was the son of John Jones, a Cardiganshire man and cousin of Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion, 1792 - 1846). He was at work underground before he was 10, and after declining an offer to be educated for orders in the Church of England, he became, through his own perseverance, an underground fireman by 1859, and in the same year achieved his first
JONES, DELME BRYN - see BRYN-JONES, DELME
JONES, DIC - see JONES, RICHARD LEWIS
JONES, DILL - see JONES, DILLWYN OWEN PATON
JONES, DILLWYN OWEN PATON (1923 - 1984), jazz pianist Dill Jones was born on 19 August 1923 at Sunny Side, Newcastle Emlyn, the son of John Islwyn Paton Jones, a bank manager, and his wife Lavinia (née Bevan). He inherited musical gifts from both sides, his father being a good singer and his mother a gifted pianist. After attending Llandovery College where he heard jazz recordings for the first time, he worked in a bank while playing the piano at
JONES, DORA HERBERT (1890 - 1974), singer and administrator Dora Herbert Jones was born in Llangollen on 26 August 1890, the fifth and youngest of the daughters of John and Eleanor Rowlands (née Edwards). She was baptized Deborah Jarrett Rowlands, but known by the name Dora from childhood. Her father kept a grocer's shop which was an island of Welshness in an anglicised town. She was educated at the Llangollen County School and in 1908 went to the
JONES, E. D. - see JONES, EVAN DAVID
JONES, EDGAR (1912 - 1991), minister, pastor, scholar Edgar Jones, a miner's son, was born in Ynys-hir, Rhondda 11 March 1912. He was educated in the village school and the Rhondda Boys' County School, Porth. He was obliged to leave school to work in the local colliery but he continued to study with the aim of entering the ministry. He was accepted to University College Cardiff where he graduated B.A. with honours in Hebrew, and then proceeded to
JONES, EDGAR WILLIAM (1868 - 1953), educationalist and broadcaster Born 13 December 1868 at Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, Montgomeryshire, the son of Richard Bellis Jones, schoolmaster, and Hannah (née Vaughan). He was educated at his father's school and later at the Northern Institute at Liverpool and at Oswestry High School under Owen Owen. From 1885 to 1890, he was a student at University College of Wales Aberystwyth, returning after a period of teaching at
JONES, EDMUND (1702 - 1793), Independent minister, and author 1734. In 1727 and 1728 he on the one side and Miles Harry on the other were the protagonists in acrimonious public debates on adult baptism which were held at Blaenau Gwent in Aberystruth where there was a strong Baptist church. Edmund Jones had charge of the branch of Penmaen church which met at Ty'n llwyn farm in Ebwy Fawr and had expected to succeed to the pastorate of Penmaen, which, however

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