Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, THOMAS (1752 - 1845), cleric Born at Cefn yr Esgair, Hafod, Cardiganshire, 2 April 1752, son of John Thomas. In 1765 he went to school at Ystrad Meurig, and after nine years there he was ordained deacon in September 1774 and licensed to a curacy at Eglwys-fach and Llangynfelyn, Cardiganshire. In 1779 he moved to Leintwardine, Herefordshire, and after serving at Longnor (Salop), Oswestry, and Loppington, he went to Great
JONES, THOMAS (d. 1676), cleric
JONES, THOMAS (1777 - 1847), translator, schoolmaster and minister (CM) , including some science volumes, for the monoglot Welsh reader. He published Yr anianydd Cristionogol (Thomas Dick, 1842), Traethawd ar Ddaearyddiaeth (1844) and theological works, e.g. Scot ar y prophwydi, and Hanes gwaith y prynedigaeth (1829). He died 6 July 1847 aged 70, having been a preacher for 39 years. He was buried in his native parish of Llanfwrog.
JONES, THOMAS (Gogrynwr; 1822 - 1854), doctor and musician
JONES, THOMAS (Glan Alun; 1811 - 1866), Calvinistic Methodist minister and man of letters - 1908), and another married John Puleston Jones. A son, JOHN THOMAS ALUN JONES, born 23 August 1851, died 1 May 1929, became a C.M. minister and was for many years librarian and registrar of the C.M. College at Bala. A reclusive man, of fastidious literary tastes, he was deeply read in the older Puritans and in the mystics, and wrote well concerning them in periodicals. In 1908 he published a small
JONES, THOMAS (1818 - 1898), parish clerk ) was presented to the National Library of Wales in 1919 by archdeacon Albert Owen Evans. It is of value because it is representative of what was being composed by contemporaries, known and lesser-known, of Thomas Jones. He died 25 March 1898.
JONES, THOMAS (1810 - 1849), Calvinistic Methodist missionary
JONES, THOMAS (1910 - 1972), Welsh scholar Thomas Jones was born in Allt-wen, Pontardawe, Glamorganshire, the eldest of William and Elizabeth Jones's seven children: the father, who had emigrated from rural Carmarthenshire, worked in the local tinplate works. Educated in Ystalyfera grammar school, Thomas Jones entered the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, in 1928 as the holder of a State Scholarship and graduated with first-class
JONES, THOMAS (1742 - 1803), landscape painter Born 26 September 1742, second son of Thomas and Hannah Jones of Trevonen in Cefnllys, Radnorshire. His parents moved to Pencerrig in Llanelwedd near Builth, which still remains the property of the family. He entered Christ College School at Brecon in 1753 and there first developed an interest in pictures and in drawing. He moved in 1758 to the school at Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire, kept by
JONES, THOMAS (Canrhawdfardd; 1823 - 1904), preacher, printer, and musician
JONES, THOMAS (1908 - 1990), trade unionist and Spanish Civil War veteran was the last British member of the International Brigade to return home. By this time both his parents had died. Because of his exploits in Spain, he was henceforward known locally as 'Twm Sbaen' or 'Tom Spain'. In 1942 he married a widow from Rhos, Rosa Edwards (née Thomas), whose husband had died of tuberculosis in 1941. They had two children, Keith and Moira, and he treated the two children from
JONES, THOMAS (c. 1622 - 1682), Protestant controversialist

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