Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, SAMUEL (1628 - 1697), Nonconformist minister and schoolmaster Born in the district of Chirk, Denbighshire, son of John Roberts, Corwen - the son taking his father's Christian name as a surname. Nothing is known of his early education. He matriculated in the University of Oxford as from All Soul's College, became a Fellow of Jesus College [ c. 1653 ] and a lecturer there, received holy orders at Taunton, Somerset, and was appointed vicar of Llangynwyd
JONES, SAMUEL MAURICE (1853 - 1932), artist Born at Mochdre, Denbighshire, 1853, son of the Rev. John Jones (1820 - 1886), Calvinistic Methodist minister. He was educated at Caernarvon, Liverpool, and London; in London he met Ruskin and Holman Hunt and had his work criticized by them. Deciding to devote himself to painting, he settled at Caernarvon as a landscape painter, working mainly in water-colour, his favourite fields being the
JONES, SHÂN EMLYN (1936 - 1997), singer lecturer Ceridwen Lloyd Davies of Bangor, who offered to teach her, and as a pupil at Pwllheli Grammar School she was strongly influenced by the music master John Newman. While still in her teens she appeared on radio and television, travelling to London at the age of fifteen to sing on a TV programme. She featured on the front page of the Welsh newspaper Y Cymro on 26 February 1954, dressed in her Welsh
JONES, TERENCE GRAHAM PARRY (1942 - 2020), actor, director, writer and popular historian inventiveness took a lot of pressure off the writers who no longer had to dream up a killer line to round off a sketch. Jones's talents as a writer and actor then extended into directing The Holy Grail with his fellow Python Terry Gilliam before taking sole directorial charge of Life of Brian in 1979 and The Meaning of Life in 1983. Fellow Python John Cleese said: 'Of his many achievements, for me the
JONES, THOMAS (Cynhaiarn; 1839 - 1916), lawyer and writer of verse Born 10 February 1839, son of John and Jane Jones, Pen-lôn, Pwllheli. At 13, he began working in a solicitor's office at Portmadoc, and in 1867 qualified as a solicitor; he was afterwards county-court registrar at Portmadoc and Ffestiniog, and town clerk of Cricieth. In politics he was a conservative, in religious adherence a Congregationalist. But he is best known as a writer of verse; he was at
JONES, THOMAS (1648? - 1713), almanack maker, bookseller, printer, and publisher Escusion, 1698, and the Welsh version of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, i.e. Taith y Pererin, 1699, were printed at Shrewsbury. Jones was busy compiling, printing, and publishing Welsh books and thereby establishing the position of Shrewsbury as a most important centre for the publication and sale of Welsh books. Details as to the various places in Shrewsbury where he lived or worked are given in
JONES, THOMAS (c. 1622 - 1682), Protestant controversialist Born at Oswestry, the son of John Williams (son of William ap Meredith of Pwllheli), and probably nephew of Henry Williams, town clerk of Oswestry in 1623. His studies at Jesus College, Oxford, interrupted by the Civil War, were resumed in 1646, when on taking the covenant he was awarded a Fellowship at University College by the parliamentary visitors before graduating (B.A. 23 February 1650, M.A
JONES, THOMAS (Twm Shôn Catti; 1532 - 1609), landowner, antiquary, genealogist, and bard Of Fountain Gate near Tregaron, Cardiganshire, the natural son of a Cardiganshire landowner. According to the diary of John Dee he was born 1 August or 10 August 1532 (J. Roberts and Andrew G. Watson, John Dee's Library Catalogue (1990, 45-46). Thomas Jones visited Dee in London in 1590 and Manchester in 1596, and they corresponded with each other in 1597 : Dee called him 'my cousin'. He is
JONES, Sir THOMAS (d. 1731), treasurer and secretary of the 'Society of Antient Britons' in London, and author Lane, Gent.', admitted 17 February 1707-8. But in the Gray's Inn register, under 20 November 1713, we find 'Thomas Jones, of Newcastle, co. Glamorgan, gent (admitted to Lincoln's Inn, February 10, 1707, by certificate of John Hungerford, Treasurer.' Despite the week's discrepancy, this would seem to be our man; if so he came from Bridgend. In Old Wales, i, 38, W. R. Williams prints the following
JONES, THOMAS (1819 - 1882), Independent minister Born at Rhayader, Radnorshire, 17 July 1819, son of John Jones (died 1829), a commercial traveller. He was apprenticed with a flannel manufacturer at Llanwrtyd, but in 1831 became a collier at Bryn-mawr, and later (1839) at Llanelly,Carmarthenshire. He began preaching with the Calvinistic Methodists, but joined the Independents in 1841. After some schooling at Llanelly and at Rhyd-y-bont, he was
JONES, THOMAS (1860 - 1932), farmer and poet published Caneuon, 1902; Beirdd Uwchaled [an anthology of the poets of that region], 1930; and Pitar Paw, 1932. He wrote the life of John Jones of Glan-y-gors for the 2nd imp. of Seren Tan Gwmwl, 1923, and some of his writings are to be found in Cymru (O.M.E.), Gen., Yr Haul, etc. He was an authority on setting penillion to the accompaniment of the harp.
JONES, THOMAS (Canrhawdfardd; 1823 - 1904), preacher, printer, and musician Born 2 July 1823 at Bwlch-y-creigiau, near Nannerch, Flintshire, the son of John and Mary Jones. He learned to read music when quite young; when only 16 he led the singing in the local Wesleyan chapel. He also started to hold music classes in the districts surrounding his home. In 1849 he began to preach with the Wesleyans; in 1851 he moved to a place near Holywell and, from there, to Lixwm. In

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