Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, ROBERT LLOYD (1878 - 1959), schoolmaster, children's writer and dramatist Born 7 December 1878 in Porthmadog, Caernarfonshire, the sixth of the ten children born to Robert Jones, master mariner, and his wife Elizabeth (née Williams). He was educated at the elementary schools in Porthmadog, Minffordd and Penrhyndeudraeth, the higher grade school, Blaenau Ffestiniog, the grammar school, Bala, and the Normal College, Bangor (1899-1901). He began his career as a teacher in
JONES, ROBERT TUDUR (1921 - 1998), theologian, church historian and public figure Tudur Jones, the son of Thomas Jones, a railway worker, and Elizabeth Jane (neé Williams), a nurse, was born in Tyddyn Gwyn, Llanystumdwy, Eifionydd, Caernarfonshire on June 28 1921. Along with his brother and sister, he was raised in Rhyl, Flintshire. The family were zealous Independents, worshipping regularly at Carmel chapel, under the ministry of Rev T. Ogwen Griffith. The 1904-5 Revival
JONES, ROBERT WILLIAM (Erfyl Fychan; 1899 - 1968), historian, litterateur and eisteddfodwr Born New Year's Day, 1899, in Penygroes, Caernarfonshire, the younger son of Robert William Jones, Brynllwyni, quarryman and small-holder, and Jane his wife, the daughter of Robert Thomas, Drws-y-coed, Nantlle. Educated at Pen-y-groes county school, he entered the teachers' training dept at U.C.W. after World War I and taught for 2 years in Birmingham. He was appointed head-teacher at Trisant
JONES, ROWLAND (1722 - 1774), philologist christened at Llannor in 1722, son of John Williams, Bachellyn, Llanbedrog, Caernarfonshire, a prosperous farmer and an able lawyer, with his office at Bachellyn. The son was educated at Llannor school and afterwards at ysgol ramadeg Botwnnog, and was trained in law at his father's office. Early in life he moved to London, where he practised as a solicitor for some years but on 26 October 1751 he
JONES, SAMUEL (1898 - 1974), journalist, broadcaster and Head of the BBC in Bangor Jones learnt a lot about radio entertainment from the Londoners. He was also aware of the danger of copying the English. When they left he set about producing Welsh entertainment. Among his successes were 'Noson Lawen' (traditional entertainment) that combined the talents of students - Triawd y Coleg [The College Trio: Meredydd Evans, Cledwyn Jones, Robin Williams] - with Charles Williams as Presenter
JONES, SARAH RHIANNON DAVIES (1921 - 2014), author and lecturer 'christendom' by the Headmaster E. Pugh Parry, and those lessons later inspired research for several of her novels. She was also introduced by her Welsh teacher, Aneurin Owen, to works of literature which influenced her. She went on to University College Bangor in 1940 and there she came into contact with a number of influential people such as Professor Ifor Williams, Professor Thomas Parry and Professor R.T
JONES, Sir THOMAS (1614 - 1692), chief justice was of Welsh descent (of the tribe of Ednowain Bendew, for which see Arch.Camb., 1876, 1877, and more directly, 1878), but the family had long been associated with Shropshire, and Sir Thomas himself acquired Welsh denizenship only after his marriage (with Jane Barnard, of Chester), when he took up his residence at Carreghwfa ('Carreghova') Hill, Montgomeryshire. His career is described in D.N.B
JONES, Sir THOMAS (d. 1731), treasurer and secretary of the 'Society of Antient Britons' in London, and author Lane, Gent.', admitted 17 February 1707-8. But in the Gray's Inn register, under 20 November 1713, we find 'Thomas Jones, of Newcastle, co. Glamorgan, gent (admitted to Lincoln's Inn, February 10, 1707, by certificate of John Hungerford, Treasurer.' Despite the week's discrepancy, this would seem to be our man; if so he came from Bridgend. In Old Wales, i, 38, W. R. Williams prints the following
JONES, THOMAS (Twm Shôn Catti; 1532 - 1609), landowner, antiquary, genealogist, and bard described in 1559 as 'Thomas Johns alias Catty.' The name of his first wife is unknown; his second, whom he married in 1607, was Joan, widow of Thomas Williams of Ystrad-ffin and daughter of Sir John Price of Brecon Priory (1502?-1555). His manuscripts begin about 1570. He assisted George Owen and Lewys Dwnn and the officers of the Heralds College. He was steward of Caron in 1601. He died in 1609, the
JONES, THOMAS (Cynhaiarn; 1839 - 1916), lawyer and writer of verse Born 10 February 1839, son of John and Jane Jones, Pen-lôn, Pwllheli. At 13, he began working in a solicitor's office at Portmadoc, and in 1867 qualified as a solicitor; he was afterwards county-court registrar at Portmadoc and Ffestiniog, and town clerk of Cricieth. In politics he was a conservative, in religious adherence a Congregationalist. But he is best known as a writer of verse; he was at
JONES, THOMAS (1761 - 1831), Calvinistic Methodist minister and Biblical commentator Williams, published in 1770, but the dates show that this cannot be right, and D. E. Jenkins has suggested that Jones was concerned rather with the press-correcting of ' John Canne's Bible,' in the edition published in 1796 to compete with Peter Williams and David Jones's edition of the same work. Thomas Jones became a pillar of Calvinistic Methodism in the town, and was one of the trustees of the 1813
JONES, THOMAS (1756 - 1807), mathematician Born at Berriw, Montgomeryshire, 23 June 1756, an illegitimate child. There remains uncertainty as to his parents. According to the tradition recorded by Williams, Montgomeryshire worthies, he was the illegitimate son of Owen Owen, Llifior, Berriew and there is an entry in Berriew register of baptisms 29 June 1756 'Thomas son of Catherine Evans of Llivior'. (Owen had married the heiress of

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