Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, JOHN (1645 - 1709), cleric
JONES, JOHN (1775 - 1834), cleric;
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
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 -rhyd, 27 May 1846, and moved to the Temple, Newport, 1854, Llangollen (co-pastor with John Prichard (1796 - 1875)), 1857, Llanfachraeth (Anglesey), 1859, Pyle, 1861, Penuel, Rhymney, 1862 (with Siloam, Tafarnau-bach, 1871-1875), and Briton Ferry, 1877. He died at the latter place 18 November 1878, and was buried at Pant, Dowlais. He was married three times and was the father of six children. He
JONES, JOHN (1801 - 1856), Independent minister, and controversialist
JONES, JOHN (Tegid, Ioan Tegid; 1792 - 1852), cleric and man of letters which he prepared for the S.P.C.K. in 1828; strong protests came from W. Bruce Knight and John Roberts of Tremeirchion (1775 - 1829). Tegid had in 1820 published a tract, Traethawd ar Gadwedigaeth yr Iaith Gymraeg, championing Pughe's views; and now he published (1829) a reply to Roberts, a Welsh tract on 'the correct spelling of Welsh' (1830), and a reply (1831) to Knight. Fortunately the Old
JONES, JOHN (Ivon; 1820 - 1898), man of letters
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 Christ, 1812; A new version of the first three Chapters of Genesis, 1819; A series of … Facts, demonstrating the Truth of the Christian Religion, 1820; A Greek and English Lexicon, 1823; A Reply to … 'a New Trial of the Witnesses', 1824; The principles of Lexicography, 1824; Three Letters in which is demonstrated the Genuineness of 1 … John v. 7, 1825; The Tyro's Greek and English Lexicon, 2nd ed

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