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829 - 840 of 1940 for "david lloyd george"

  • JONES, DAVID RICHARD (1832 - 1916), poet
  • JONES, DAVID ROCYN (1847 - 1915), bonesetter - see JONES, THOMAS ROCYN
  • 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
  • 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, EDMUND OSBORNE (1858 - 1931), cleric Born at Barmouth, 24 September 1858, second son of John Jones, rector of Llanaber with Barmouth, and Adelaide his wife. He was educated at Dolgelley grammar school and Friars School, Bangor, under the headmaster-ship of D. L. Lloyd. He matriculated at Oxford in October 1876, as a Postmaster of Merton College, was placed in the first class in classical Moderations in 1878, and in the third class
  • 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 (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 (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