Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, JOHN, army officer - see VINCENT
JONES, JOHN (1787 - 1860), Calvinistic Methodist minister - see JONES, EDWARD
JONES, JOHN (d. c.1717), Dissenter - see JONES, JOHN
JONES, JOHN (1786 - 1865), printer and inventor Baptized 7 May 1786, son of Ismael Davies (son of Dafydd Jones, Trefriw (1708? - 1785)) and Jane, his wife. After Dafydd Jones died in 1785, Ismael Davies continued working his father's printing press at Bryn Pyll, Trefriw. According to family tradition, John Jones was apprenticed to a blacksmith, but he also learnt the printer's craft, and from 1810 onwards there is a noticeable improvement in
JONES, JOHN (1820 - 1907), minister (B) and historian by John's efforts at Evenjobb in 1849. John also conducted a day school in Gladestry chapel, the salary derived from the Edward Gough charity. In 1849 he married Anne Roberts (born 1825 in Cheltenham but of a Methodist family) of Abbey Cwmhir. For a few years before her death she kept a girls' school in Kington. She and her husband had eight children, six of whom died young. John Jones held
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 (1837 - 1906), minister (Presb.) and writer 19 or 20 June 1906; he was buried at Glanadda, Bangor. He led a fairly prosperous life; he travelled much; he was interested in geology and geography, and wrote much on these subjects for the Traethodydd. He also published biographies of two eccentric ministers, Michael Roberts of Pwllheli and John Jones, Bryn'rodyn.
JONES, JOHN (1725? - 1796), musician
JONES, JOHN BOWEN (1829 - 1905), Congregational minister and writer
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

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