Dictionary of Welsh Biography

IORWERTH DRWYNDWN (d. c. 1174), prince of Gwynedd Elder son of Owain Gwynedd by Gwladus, daughter of Llywarch ap Trahaearn. He married a princess of Powys, namely Marared, daughter of Madog ap Maredudd, by whom he had one son, the future Llywelyn ap Iorwerth. In the partition of his father's territories he received Arfon and probably Nanconwy. Shortly afterwards he disappears from view, probably dying about the time of the usurpation of power in
JOAN (d. 1237), princess and diplomat benefited. Joan assumed the role of political diplomat and counsellor, acting as one of Llywelyn's principal arbitrators with the English Crown during the reigns of both King John and Henry III, her half-brother. The Welsh chronicles record Joan's first official act as political emissary in August 1211 after a successful royal campaign was launched against the prince of Gwynedd, who was forced into
JONES, EDMUND (1702 - 1793), Independent minister, and author devoid of poetic feeling but an incessant recorder and chronicler of religious developments, and his name recurs in almost every work dealing with 18th century Wales. An excellent article on him appeared in Yr Adolygydd, 1850, by Evan Jones (Ieuan Gwynedd), reprinted later in his collected works.
JONES, EMYR WYN (1907 - 1999), cardiologist and author University of Wales in 1987 and in 1997 admitted as a full member of the Welsh Academy. Over the years he served on numerous public bodies, including the Boards of both the National Library and National Museum of Wales, the University of Wales Court, Cardiff Medical College Council, Denbighshire Historical Society, Undeb Cymru Fydd and the Cymmrodorion Society. Emyr Wyn Jones died at Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor
JONES, EVAN (Ieuan Gwynedd; 1820 - 1852), Independent minister, and journalist . That lasted until October the same year when he decided to become a student at the school kept by the Rev. J. Jones at Marton, Salop. When his teacher died in November 1840, Ieuan Gwynedd took his place as minister of the local church, meanwhile continuing his studies under the Rev. T. Jones of Minsterley. In September 1841 he was admitted to Brecon College where he remained for four years. In July
JONES, GLANVILLE REES JEFFREYS (1923 - 1996), historical geographer of Gwynedd in the 13th century', MA 1949. In this he examined the defensive measures adopted by the thirteenth-century princes of Gwynedd, not only their castle-building but the entire economic organisation that lay behind their commissariat arrangements. The essay inaugurated a sustained programme of study of the economic and social organisation of the lands ruled by the princes. Traditional
JONES, IEUAN SAMUEL (1918 - 2004), minister (Cong.) Church, Nantyffyllon, Maesteg, at the end of July 1943. He and his wife moved to Bethesda, Arfon, in 1947. It was there that their son, Gwynedd, was born. Later, the church at Bethmaca, Glasinfryn, was added to the pastorate. During his time in Bethesda, Ieuan became an expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls on the Hebrew texts of which he had been working, and he gained his M.A.(University of Wales) in 1951
JONES, JOHN WILLIAM (1883 - 1954), author, collector of letters and papers, publisher, antiquary and folk poet written it ('wedi i'r bardd ei hun ei hysgrifennu'). He lectured a great deal to literary societies on the poets of his locality and he collected many of the works of the poets and authors of Gwynedd, e.g. Alafon, Elfyn, Isallt, W. Pari Huws, Gwilym Prysor, Carneddog (Richard Griffith), Glaslyn (Richard Jones Owen), Barlwydon, Gwilym Morgan, Awena Rhun, Glyn Myfyr, Llifon (William Griffith Owen, and
JONES, MORDECAI (1813 - 1880), promoter of British Schools, colliery proprietor, etc. School Society in South Wales, and a contributor to the Normal School, Brecon (1846). He incurred the wrath of the editor of The Principality, Ieuan Gwynedd by supporting the efforts of David Charles III, Trevecka, in the face of the strong opposition of the Independents and Baptists, to combine Government aid with voluntary charity. He agreed with the policy of the North Wales Calvinistic Methodist
JONES, OWEN VAUGHAN (1907 - 1986), obstetrician and gynaecologist Owen Vaughan Jones was born at Pengwern, Llanwnda, Gwynedd, on 27 December 1907, the second son of John Edmund Jones (1874-1965), farmer, and his wife Mary (née Jones, 1877-1960). After primary school in Llanwnda he attended Caernarfon County School, and went on to Liverpool University to study medicine, graduating in 1931. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh in 1934
JONES, PETER (Pedr Fardd; 1775 - 1845), poet and hymnist entitled ' Manteision ac Anfanteision Ystad Priodas.' He was a contributor to periodicals such as Seren Gomer and Goleuad Gwynedd. He died at Liverpool, 26 January 1845, and was buried in the churchyard of S. Paul's there; David James (1803 - 1871) officiated at the funeral. In J. H. Morris, Hanes Methodistiaeth Liverpool, i, 119-24, there are fuller details of Peter Jones's somewhat troubled career at
JONES, SARAH RHIANNON DAVIES (1921 - 2014), author and lecturer again in 1990. Rhiannon Davies Jones was a Welsh Nationalist, and her beliefs and responses to political events of the period are clearly reflected in her work. The events relating to the Investiture of 1969 influenced Llys Aberffraw ('The court of Aberffraw'), a novel about Owain Gwynedd which won the Crown at the Anglesey Eisteddfod in 1973 and was published in 1977. Similarly in the case of Eryr

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