Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, JOHN (1645 - 1709), cleric the son (or grandson) of Matthew Jones of Pen-tyrch, Glamorganshire, he was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, of which he was successively scholar and Fellow. He took the degrees of B.A. (1666), M.A. (1670), B.C.L. (1673), and D.C.L. (1677). He was licensed to practice medicine in 1678 and did so at Windsor. He was admitted licentiate of the College of Physicians in 1677, and appointed
JONES, JOHN (1775 - 1834), cleric; Christened 28 December 1775, son of Roger Jones of Cefn Rug, Corwen, and Elizabeth his wife. He was educated at Ruthin School and Jesus College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1798 and M.A. in 1902. He was ordained deacon in 1799 and priest in 1800 by bishop Cleaver of Bangor, and on the latter occasion he preached the ordination sermon. He was licensed to the curacy of Gyffylliog; in 1802 he
JONES, JOHN (1761 - 1822), Calvinistic Methodist minister -gwyn, to Anglesey he was convinced and in 1784 began to preach. He was a strong, powerfully built man, and his ministry was incisive and convincing. He is said to have converted 180 in the course of one meeting. When he was 35 years of age he married Mary Williams, heiress of Pen-y-bryn, Edern, where he spent the remainder of his life; he is usually known as ' John Jones of Edern.' He was ordained in
JONES, JOHN (Idris Fychan; 1825 - 1887), shoemaker and harpist (in Welsh) on 'Singing with the harp' and at the Chester eisteddfod of 1866 for an essay (also in Welsh) on ' The history and antiquity of singing to the accompaniment of the harp '; for the latter see the Transactions of the Hon. Society of Cymmrodorion, 1885. He bought at a Manchester secondhand store in 1879 (fifty years after the death of its owner) a harp which had belonged to Edward Jones
JONES, JOHN (1773 - 1853), cleric Born 31 March 1773, the eldest of the thirteen children of Thomas and Lowri Jones, Dolgellau, Meironnydd. Thomas Jones was a businessman and financier, founder of the first bank in Dolgellau, and a relative of David Richards, ' Dafydd Ionawr '. John Jones was educated in Dolgellau, Ruthin Grammar School and Jesus College, Oxford where he graduated B.A. in 1796 (M.A. in 1800). He was curate in
JONES, JOHN (Mephiboseth; 1850 - 1926), Baptist minister, poet, and author Born at Llangoed, Anglesey, 7 April 1850, the fourth of seven children of John Jones and Ellen Roberts, his wife. He had little education; at an early age he was working in the slate quarries, but in 1870 when he began to preach he attended the local church school and later spent a term at Beaumaris. In 1872, before entering the Baptist College at Llangollen, he had pastoral charge of several
JONES, JOHN (Mathetes; 1821 - 1878), Baptist minister and littérateur Born at Bancyfelin, Cilrhedyn, 16 July 1821, eldest child of Roger and Mary Jones, and brought up at Tan-yr-helyg, Cenarth. He went to work in a colliery at Dowlais in 1837, and became a member of Caersalem Church in 1839. He delivered his first sermon at Hirwaun in 1841, and entered Haverfordwest College in August 1843, after a short course at Cardigan grammar school. He was ordained at Porth-y
JONES, JOHN (1801 - 1856), Independent minister, and controversialist unreliable. He could shape a good lyric, and his song ' Deio Bach ' became very well known. Among his works will be found: Y Bedyddiwr, 1842; Adroddiad o'r Ddadl ar Fedydd yn Rhymni rhwng T. G. Jones a J. Jones o Langollen … 1841; Brad y Drôch, 1841; Catecism Bedydd, 1842; Adroddiad Dadl Llantrisant, 1842; Testament yr Ysgol Sabothol, 1849; Y Seren Foreu, 1846. Daniel Jones, (1811 - 1861), the Mormon, was
JONES, JOHN (Tegid, Ioan Tegid; 1792 - 1852), cleric and man of letters Born at Bala, 10 February 1792, first son and third child of Henry and Catherine Jones; according to Elizabeth Davis, the mother had a pretty large millinery business, and Tegid's prolonged sojourn at schools suggests that his family was not too badly off. He speaks of a brother, David (born 1794, a banker), a sister Elen christened 29 January 1787, and another Gwen, born 1788, who died young
JONES, JOHN (Ivon; 1820 - 1898), man of letters Born 10 May 1820 to David and Hannah Jones, Spite, Bethel, Mynydd-bach, Cardiganshire. He obtained a little formal education from a retired exciseman and one-time pupil at Ystrad Meurig, Owen Morris, who kept school at Bethel. In 1835, he was apprenticed to the grocery trade at Canton House, Aberystwyth. Upon his marriage in February 1848 he established his own grocery business in Princess Street
JONES, JOHN (1650 - 1727), dean of Bangor, educationist, and antiquary Born at Plas Gwyn, Pentraeth, Anglesey, 2 June 1650, son of Rowland Jones and Margaret, daughter of John Williams of Chwaen Issa, Llantrisant, Anglesey. His brother's grandchild married Paul Panton, the antiquary. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated M.A., 1668, and later B.D. and D.D., 1689, he took holy orders and was preferred in 1672 to Rhoscolyn and its chapelries of
JONES, JOHN (1766? - 1827), classical scholar and Unitarian divine

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