Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, JOHN (Poet Jones; 1788 - 1858), spinner, sailor and poet paraphrases of Aesop, and selling his works in the market. In 1856, he published a small book of them, Poems by John Jones. He died 19 June 1858; Ceiriog and Creuddynfab were present at his funeral.
JONES, JOHN (1725? - 1796), musician
JONES, JOHN (1700 - 1770), cleric and controversialist son of John Jones, Llanilar, Cardiganshire - not from Carmarthenshire, as said in D.N.B. He went to Worcester College, Oxford, in 1721. He was ordained priest in 1726 and became curate of King's Walden, Hertfordshire, and afterwards of Abbot's Ripton, Huntingdonshire, becoming vicar of Alconbury, in the same county, in 1741. Although he became rector of Bolnhurst, 1750-7, and curate to Dr. Young
JONES, JOHN (Idrisyn; 1804 - 1887), cleric and author
JONES, JOHN (Humilis; 1818 - 1869), Wesleyan minister, editor, translator, and essayist
JONES, JOHN (Myllin; 1800 - 1826), poet
JONES, JOHN (Leander; 1575 - 1636), Benedictine monk and scholar Born at Llanfrynach, Brecknock, probably son of Thomas ap John of Tŷ Mawr, and Janet his wife. Brought up as a Protestant, he proceeded in 1591 from Merchant Taylors ' to S. John's College, Oxford, of which he was elected a Fellow in 1593. On account of his Romanist leanings he was deprived of his Fellowship in 1595-6, and left Oxford to study theology with the Jesuits at Valladolid, having in
JONES, JOHN (1731 - 1813), early Welsh Moravian Born at Llanfaredd, Radnorshire, near Builth, 21 August 1731. He is first heard of as a member of Rhos-goch Moravian Society (Radnorshire), and 'a farmer ' (1755). By 1762 he was a member of Leominster Congregation, living however at Llanfihangel-tal-y-llyn, and married to a daughter of the ' Justice Prothero ' who is mentioned by John Wesley (3 May 1743) in his Journal. He remarried, living at
JONES, JOHN (1807 - 1875), Calvinistic Methodist minister
JONES, JOHN (Shoni Sguborfawr; c.1810 - 1867), Rebecca rioter representations were later made on this account, also, to gain some mitigation of his sentence. He became a prize-fighter, and when the Taff Vale Railway was opened to Merthyr in 1840, it was celebrated by a bare-fist encounter between 'Shoni' and John Nash, railman, the champion of Cyfarthfa. It was recalled later that 'Shoni' was a defender of dumb animals, and that he had, on occasion, thrashed hauliers for
JONES, JOHN (1772 - 1837), barrister, translator, and historian
JONES, JOHN (1807 - 1875), printer

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