Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, MEREDYDD (1919 - 2015), campaigner, musician, philosopher and television producer and Margaret Williams, demanding the best for the Welsh-language service and commissioning series such as Hob y Deri Dando, Fo a Fe, Disc a Dawn, and Ryan a Ronnie; series that are considered classics, and talents that to this day are amongst the brightest Wales has seen. He applied for the post of Head of Programs in 1969 but without success and perhaps not without an element of relief. In the same
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, JOHN MORGAN (1838 - 1921), Calvinistic Methodist minster Born 15 July 1838 at Llanddewibrefi, Cardiganshire. His family moved to Dowlais, and after working there as a carpenter, he entered the ministry (1864). He was educated at Trevecka College (1866-9), ordained in 1870, and ministered in turn to churches at Deri (1869), Ystalyfera (1871), Treforest (1873), and Pembroke Terrace, Cardiff (1875-1912). For the last fourteen years of his life he was

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