Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, LEWIS (fl. 1703) Pandy, Llan-uwchllyn, poet Three examples of his work remain, these being ' Ymddiddan rhwng y Cybydd a'r Trugarog,' ' Cyngor i'r Gôf o Rôs y Gwaliau,' and ' Cerdd i ŵr ifanc oedd yn glaf o gariad merch.' It is not clear whether there was any connection between him and two other poets from Llanuwchllyn - ROBERT JONES and ROLANT JONES (fl. 1762). A love ballad composed by the former is found in NLW MS 645B (34b), and
JONES, LEWIS (Rhuddenfab; 1835 - 1915), printer, poet, and journalist Born 15 June 1835 in Stryd-y-Cerrig, near Llanfwrog church, Ruthin, son of John and Margaret Jones. On 8 April 1845 he was bound apprentice under Isaac Clarke, in the printing office of Mrs. Nathan Maddocks, Ruthin. He was a competitor at eisteddfodau over a long period; he also acted as adjudicator. In NLW MS 5515C are minutes, in his autograph, of committees which met at Ruthin in connection
JONES, LEWIS (1837 - 1904), pioneer in Patagonia, and writer Born at Caernarvon. He moved to Holyhead where, in conjunction with his fellow-printer Evan Jones (afterwards of Caernarvon) (1836 - 1915) he edited the Pwnsh Cymraeg. He then went to Liverpool where he became one of the leaders of the Welsh Colony movement. In 1862 he was sent with Capt. T. Love Jones-Parry to explore Patagonia, and returned with a report so highly coloured as to be misleading
JONES, Sir LEWIS (1884 - 1968), industrialist and politician Born 13 February 1884, the eldest son of Evan and Margaret Jones, Tegfan, College Street, Ammanford, Carmarthenshire. His father, who spent his whole life in the tinplate industry (he died in 1934) was a devoted Congregationalist, and one of the first members of the Ammanford Urban District Council. Lewis Jones was educated at Ammanford secondary school and Reading University, where he spent five
JONES, LEWIS (d. 1646), bishop - see JONES, MICHAEL
JONES, LEWIS (1808 - 1854), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author C.M. chapel. He was the son-in-law of the hymn-writer William Edwards, 1773 - 1853. A copious writer, he published in 1841 a biography of the Rev. Richard Jones (1784 - 1840) of Bala, on whom see Geirlyfr Bywgraffiadol o Enwogion Cymru and William Williams, Methodistiaeth Dwyrain Meirionydd, 577-9; besides this, he published other books. There are good articles by him in Y Drysorfa; and he was
JONES, LEWIS (d. 1646), bishop - see JONES, MICHAEL
JONES, LEWIS CARTER- - see CARTER-JONES, LEWIS
JONES, LEWIS DAVIES (Llew Tegid; 1851 - 1928), eisteddfodwr
JONES, LEWIS EVAN (d. 1860), printer - see JONES, RICHARD
JONES, LLEWELYN (1894 - 1960), minister (Presb.), editor and author Born in 1894 at Llandegfan, Anglesey, son of J.E. Jones, minister (Presb.) and his wife of that place. He was educated at Holyhead county school, the University College, Bangor (where he graduated B.A.), and Mansfield College, Oxford (B.Litt.). He gained an M.A. degree of the University of Wales in 1921 for his thesis on the hymnology of the Methodist Revival, with par- ticular reference to the
JONES, MAGDALEN, author - see JONES, ROBERT

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