Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, DAVID STANLEY (1860 - 1919), Congregationalist minister , under John Thomas, a grandson of Thomas Phillips of Neuadd-lwyd. He was received into church membership at Pisgah, Talgarreg. Apprenticed to a tailor when not yet 12, he afterwards worked at Cwrtnewydd, and later in a shop at Lampeter, but found neither place congenial; nor did a move to Ffestiniog in North Wales prove auspicious. He returned to South Wales, settling down at Deri, Glamorganshire
JONES, DAVID WATKIN (Dafydd Morganwg; 1832 - 1905), poet, historian, and geologist Born at Merthyr Tydfil, 14 February 1832, he was the son of John Jones, a Cardiganshire man and cousin of Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion, 1792 - 1846). He was at work underground before he was 10, and after declining an offer to be educated for orders in the Church of England, he became, through his own perseverance, an underground fireman by 1859, and in the same year achieved his first
JONES, DILLWYN OWEN PATON (1923 - 1984), jazz pianist Dill Jones was born on 19 August 1923 at Sunny Side, Newcastle Emlyn, the son of John Islwyn Paton Jones, a bank manager, and his wife Lavinia (née Bevan). He inherited musical gifts from both sides, his father being a good singer and his mother a gifted pianist. After attending Llandovery College where he heard jazz recordings for the first time, he worked in a bank while playing the piano at
JONES, DORA HERBERT (1890 - 1974), singer and administrator Dora Herbert Jones was born in Llangollen on 26 August 1890, the fifth and youngest of the daughters of John and Eleanor Rowlands (née Edwards). She was baptized Deborah Jarrett Rowlands, but known by the name Dora from childhood. Her father kept a grocer's shop which was an island of Welshness in an anglicised town. She was educated at the Llangollen County School and in 1908 went to the
JONES, EDGAR WILLIAM (1868 - 1953), educationalist and broadcaster , went as a tutor to the grandchildren of John Hughes (1814 - 1889), the pioneer in the development of Russian metallurgy, at Yuzovka, in the Donets basin. They had three children, Gareth and two daughters, Gwyneth and Eirian. He died 1 May 1953.
JONES, EDMUND (1702 - 1793), Independent minister, and author Born in the parish of Aberystruth, Monmouth, 1 April 1702, son of John and Catherine Lewis of Pen-llwyn, a small holding (near the present Nant-y-glo railway station). Both parents were members of the Independent church at Penmaen. His only education was gained from the curate of Aberystruth, Howel Prosser. He began preaching in 1722, assisted the minister at Penmaen, and was ordained there in
JONES, EDMUND DAVID (1869 - 1941), schoolmaster and author interests are represented in the English volumes which he edited for grammar schools, e.g. a selection of poems by James Russell Lowell which he considered to be instrumental to lead children to appreciate beauty (Select Poems …. 1906); Of King's Treasures, 1907, from Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin, whose influence upon him as a Christian Socialist was marked; Poems of Wales, 1914, and two volumes in
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 (1790 - 1860), minister (Presb.) Born 11 September 1790, son of Edward Jones, Rhiwlas, in the parish of Llanfihangel Genau'r-glyn, Cardiganshire, and Mary his wife. He was taught to be a saddler, and at the age of 20 he went to London, where he heard John Elias preach, and thence to Bristol. He returned to his native district and began to preach with the Calvinistic Methodists; he was ordained to the ministry in 1829. He
JONES, EDWARD (1826 - 1902), Calvinistic Methodist historian Born at Cae-garw, Dyffryn Ardudwy, Meironnydd, to John and Gwen Jones. The father died when the son was but a child, and Edward worked on farms up to 1853, when he went to Bala College with a view to becoming a schoolmaster. After training at Borough Road, he was for a short time a teacher at Blaenau Ffestiniog, but in 1854 was given a school at Llanllechid, Caernarfonshire, where he remained
JONES, EDWARD (1775 - 1838), Wesleyan minister 1838. A list of the articles published by him in Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd will be found in H. Wesl. Gymr., i, 276. It is said that he co-operated with John Bryan in publishing in 1805 a collection of hymns, but T. Jones Humphreys was of opinion that Edward Jones of Bathafarn (1778 - 1837) was the joint editor of that production.

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