Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, THOMAS JESSE (1873 - 1950), educationalist, statistician, and sociologist Born 4 August 1873 in Llanfachraeth, Anglesey, he emigrated at the age of 11 to the U.S.A. with his widowed mother, a brother, and two sisters, the family settling in Ohio with relatives. He went to the Universities of Washington and Lee (Virginia) and Columbia (New York), graduating M.A. and Ph.D.; he was also B.D. of the Union Theological Seminary. For seven years he was at the Hampton
JONES, THOMAS JOHN RHYS (1916 - 1997), teacher, lecturer and author Prys Jones, 1957). Appointed a Welsh-language organiser for Glamorgan, his office was situated in Cardiff but his main area of work concerned west Glamorgan. A year later, following his appointment to a similar position in Carmarthenshire, he moved his family to Llangadog to live. During this time the publishers Hodder and Stoughton invited his friend J. T. Bowen, a teacher of Welsh at Aberdare Boys
JONES, THOMAS LLEWELYN (1915 - 2009), poet and prolific writer T. Llew Jones, who published about 100 books for children and adults, was born at 1 Bwlch Melyn, Pentre-Cwrt, Carmarthenshire, 11 October 1915, the eldest son of James and Hannah Mary Jones and brother to Edwin Sieffre and Megan Eluned. His father was a weaver at the Derw Mill in Pentre-cwrt. T. Llew married Margaret Enidwen Jones, descended from the Cilie family and they had two children, Emyr
JONES, THOMAS WILLIAM (Baron Maelor of Rhos), (1898 - 1984), Labour politician Socialist and campaigner for miners' causes. He published a volume of reminiscences, Fel Hyn y bu, in 1970. He married on 1 January 1928 Flossy, the daughter of Jonathan Thomas of Birkenhead, who predeceased him. A son and a daughter survived him. The family lived at Ger-y-Llyn, Ponciau, Wrexham, and at Bro Hedd, Clarke Street, Ponciau, Wrexham. He died in a fire at his Wrexham home on 18 November 1984
JONES, WALTER DAVID MICHAEL (1895 - 1974), painter and poet marriage, she had worked as a governess. In 1910, the family suffered the tragic loss of Harold, David's elder brother, who died of tuberculosis. In 1909, at the age of fourteen Jones began studying at the Camberwell School of Art. He was taught draughtsmanship by A. S. Hartrick, who introduced him to Walter Sickert, a crucial artistic influence whom Jones got to know quite well in later years. Hartrick
JONES, WATCYN SAMUEL (1877 - 1964), agricultural administrator and principal of a theological college early education at home in Ogmore House, a house that the family built in the same year as the son's birth. He was educated thereafter at Lampeter school (1890-92), Rev. David Evans's school at Cribyn (1892-94), and for a short time at Llanybydder grammar school, before he was accepted into the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen at the end of 1894. He displayed early scientific tendencies and it is said
JONES, WATKIN (Watcyn o Feirion; 1882 - 1967), postmaster, shopkeeper, folk poet, setter and tutor of cerdd dant Born 12 June 1882 in Tŷ'r nant, Capel Celyn, Merionethshire, son of Robert Jones and Elizabeth (born Watkin). He kept a shop and Post Office in Capel Celyn and carried the post in the Capel Celyn and Arennig area for more than fifty years, walking about 15 miles every day. In his cultured home he brought up a family of singers. He had a rich voice, and much musical creativity, and, being well
JONES, WILLIAM (1755 - 1821), Evangelical cleric family in Jamaica, but he returned early in 1780, took his degree, and was ordained. From 1781 till 1801 he was curate at Broxbourne and Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, and in 1801 became vicar there, despite his fears that his ' Methodism ' would impede the promotion. He corresponded with Charles, and letters of his will be found in D. E. Jenkins's Life of Charles. He died at Broxbourne 12 October 1821
JONES, WILLIAM (1718 - 1773?), early Methodist exhorter, and possibly the first Anglesey Methodist 12 February 1779) of Jane Sacheverell, sister of William Jones and of John Jones (died 1761) of Trefollwyn, sheriff of Anglesey in 1750. She leaves money to her brother ' William Jones, merchant, of Liverpool,' to his son Hugh, then 'a mariner,' and to other members of his family, including 'his present wife,' which implies that he had married more than once. William Jones, then (there is, by the
JONES, WILLIAM (d. 1679), Puritan minister ), not under the Act of Uniformity (1662). Under the Five Mile Act he had to leave Denbigh, and found refuge at Plas Teg, Flintshire, the home of the Trevor family of Trefalun - the father had been a commissioner under the Propagation Act of 1650 and the son was active in furthering Charles II's design of a Declaration of Indulgence in 1672; it is said that land was settled upon him to the value of £20
JONES, Sir WILLIAM (1566 - 1640), judge ?), proceeded without graduating to Furnivall's (1585) and Lincoln's (1587) Inns, was called to the Bar, 1595, and appointed Lent reader in 1616. From 1603 he was legal adviser to his kinsman Sir John Wynn, assisting him in his numerous lawsuits (many against his own wife's nephew, John Griffith II, Cefnamwlch, see the article on that family), and his parliamentary candidatures, and corresponding with him
JONES, WILLIAM (1675? - 1749), mathematician Born at Merddyn, Llanfihangel Tre'r Beirdd, Anglesey. His son's biography says that William Jones was born in 1680, but he was born in 1674 or 1675, the same year as Morris Ap Rhisiart Morris, the father of the Morris brothers of Anglesey; the family removed to Tyddyn-bach, Llanbabo, and when the father died the mother went to live at Clymwr in the same parish - hence the Morris family's

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