Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, Sir DAVID THOMAS ROCYN - see ROCYN-JONES, Sir DAVID THOMAS
JONES, DAVID WATKIN (Dafydd Morganwg; 1832 - 1905), poet, historian, and geologist
JONES, EDGAR (1912 - 1991), minister, pastor, scholar Testament in the simple language of his childhood but with clarity and enthusiasm. He continued to preach and to write after his retirement to Swansea where he also held a number of Old Testament classes for church members of his denomination. In November 1940, a few months after his ordination, he married Eirlys, the daughter of David Overton, his beloved minister in Ynys-hir, and they were the parents
JONES, EDMUND (1702 - 1793), Independent minister, and author , went in 1740 to Philip David. Disappointed, he removed in July 1740 to Pontypool and settled at the Transh, where he built an Independent meeting house but still retained charge of the Ebwy Fawr congregation. According to George Whitefield he sold his books for £15 to complete the building. A strong Calvinist and a zealous Evangelical, he was responsible for bringing Howel Harris to preach for the
JONES, EDMUND DAVID (1869 - 1941), schoolmaster and author Born in Trawsfynydd, Merionethshire, 9 September 1869. His father died when the child was very young and he was brought up by a mother of great ability and his grandfather David Jones, a prominent figure with the Scottish Baptists. He acknowledged his debt to the headmaster of the village school and to his teachers at Blaenau Ffestiniog secondary school. In 1885 he went to Bala grammar school and
JONES, EDWARD (fl. 1781-1840), member, from 1781 of the London Gwyneddigion 1840, says that Jones ' is the author of some law works '.] Little is said about Jones in Leathart's book on the Gwyneddigion, though on p. 31 he has an amusing account of a squabble between him and David Samwell. W.O. Pughe described him to Leathart as 'a prominent orator,' and David Samwell (The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1926-7, 130) recounts his participation in a
JONES, EDWARD (d. 1586), conspirator was the eldest son of Edward Jones of Plas Cadwgan, Denbighshire, and of Cornhill, London - tailor to Mary Tudor and master of the wardrobe to Elizabeth I - who was the son of John ap David ap Robert, a descendant of Cynwrig ap Rhiwallon. Edward Jones the elder (sheriff of his county in 1576), died at Cadwgan in 1581, leaving substantial legacies to North Wales relations and money for founding a
JONES, EDWARD (1790 - 1860), minister (Presb.) excelled not so much as a preacher but as an educator and an expert on the property, constitution and discipline of his Connexion. He married Mary, daughter of David Davies, Machynlleth, and sister of Robert Davies (1790 - 1841). He died 29 August 1860, and was the first to be interred in Aberystwyth town cemetery.
JONES, EDWARD (Iorwerth Ceitho; 1838? - 1930), carpenter and eisteddfodwr Born c. 1838, the youngest of six children of Thomas and Eleanor Jones of Ffos-dwn, Dihewyd, Cardiganshire. When he was about 5 years old the family moved to the tenement of Bryn Haidd in Nantcwnlle. He was apprenticed as a carpenter with David Davies, Brynhyfryd, Bwlch-y-llan, who specialized in the making of threshing machines. He migrated to London to serve in a milk-walk and to tend cattle
JONES, EMRYS (1920 - 2006), geographer Daryll Forde and Emrys Bowen. The Department was then entitled 'Geography and Anthropology' and although there was little formal teaching of anthropology the nature of the geography taught was strongly influenced by it. The later appointment of Alwyn D. Rees in 1946 was to have a strong confirming influence on the nature of the material taught and researched. It was against this background that Emrys
JONES, EMYR WYN (1907 - 1999), cardiologist and author for due recognition of the Welsh language within the health service. In 1936 he married Enid Llywelyn Williams (1909-1967), daughter of Dr David Llewelyn Williams and sister to Alun Llywelyn-Williams. They had one daughter, Carys (b. 1937) and one son, Gareth Wyn (b. 1940). During the intense bombing of Liverpool in the Second World War, the family moved first to Enid's parents' house in Old Colwyn
JONES, ENID WYN (1909 - 1967), a prominent worker in religious, social and medical fields Born 17 January 1909 in Wrexham, Denbighshire, daughter of Dr. David Llewelyn Williams and Margaret Williams. The poet Alun Llywelyn-Williams was her brother. The family moved to Cardiff just before World War I, but she was brought up at Rhyl during the war. She was a pupil at the Welsh Girls' School, Ashford, from 1919 to 1926, and afterwards was trained as a nurse at Cardiff Royal Infirmary. On

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