Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, JOHN CAIN (d. 1826?), poet - see JONES, CAIN
JONES, JOHN CHARLES (1904 - 1956), Bishop of Bangor
JONES, JOHN DANIEL (1865 - 1942), Congregational minister a schoolmaster. The mother married, secondly, in 1877 the Rev. David Morgan Bynner, a Congregational minister at Chorley where they went to live. John Daniel was only 12 years of age when he left Wales and he spent his working life in England, returning to Merioneth when he retired in 1937. He had been reared with the Calvinistic Methodists by his grandparents and he bore characteristics of that
JONES, JOHN DAVID RHEINALLT (1884 - 1953), philanthropist, founder and Director of the South African Institute of Race Relations Born 5 July 1884 in Llanrug, Caernarfonshire, the youngest son of John Eiddon Jones and Sarah Jones. He was educated at Friars School, Bangor, but in 1897 became a boarder at David Hughes' grammar school, Beaumaris. It was there, in 1900, that he won a School Certificate in English, history, arithmetic, Latin, Welsh (with distinction). He emigrated to South Africa in October 1905. According to
JONES, JOHN EDWARD (IOAN MAESGRUG; 1914 - 1998)
JONES, JOHN EDWARD (1905 - 1970), secretary and organiser of Plaid Cymru there with J.E. again as secretary. As a result of his extraordinary organising talent the branch flourished and became the largest in the Party. He returned to Wales in 1930 as secretary and organiser of Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru. In Glan-rhyd (Presb.) chapel on 27 July 1940 he married Olwen Roberts, the sister of John Iorwerth Roberts, and they had a son and daughter. He possessed a tough character
JONES, JOHN EDWARD (Iorwerth Twrog; 1886 - 1934), schoolmaster, poet, and penillion -singer He was born in the old School House, Maentwrog, Merionethshire, 12 May 1886, the son of John Ellis and Kate Jones. His father was a capable musician who, for fifty years, had been organist at Maentwrog church. ' J.E.,' as he was known throughout Wales, was educated at Maentwrog school where he became a pupil teacher. In 1905 he moved to Corris, and thence to Aber-carn, Monmouth. He went for
JONES, JOHN EDWARD (1801 - 1866), Unitarian minister, schoolmaster, and first editor of Yr Ymofynydd
JONES, JOHN EIDDON (1841 - 1903), Calvinistic Methodist minister, eisteddfod enthusiast, and temperance advocate
JONES, JOHN EMRYS (1914 - 1991), secretary and organiser of Labour Party Wales
JONES, JOHN EVANS (1839 - 1893), journalist 1872 was appointed editor of The Caernarvon and Denbigh Herald at Caernarvon; after the death of John James Hughes (Alfardd), editor of Yr Herald Cymraeg, in 1875, he was appointed his successor, but resigned in 1879, confining himself to the English paper. He also edited for a while a monthly, Y Darlunydd, issued from the same office, for which he wrote over the pen-name ' Y Cwilsyn Gwyn.' He was
JONES, JOHN FOULKES (1826 - 1880), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born at Machynlleth, 6 June 1826, son of John Jones of Fron Deg (Wrexham) and his wife Lydia, daughter of Thomas Foulkes and grand-daughter of Simon Lloyd of Bala. Foulkes Jones at the age of 13 was sent to the recently opened C.M. College at Bala, under Lewis Edwards and David Charles. Deciding (1843) to enter the ministry, he returned to Bala for a second period, and thence went (1844) to

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