Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, TERENCE GRAHAM PARRY (1942 - 2020), actor, director, writer and popular historian Terry Jones was born on 1 February 1942 in Colwyn Bay, Denbighshire, the second son of Alick George Parry-Jones, a bank clerk, and his wife Dilys Louisa (née Newnes). He first met his father on the platform of Colwyn Bay railway station when he returned from India after serving with the RAF during World War Two. When Terry was four, the family moved to Surrey where he attended primary school in
JONES, THEOPHILUS (1759 - 1812), historian of Brecknock Llandovery), and went to live in his father's former house in Lion Street, which still stands - it was the house in which bishop George Bull had died. It would seem that the History of the County of Brecknock was conceived c. 1800. The first volume appeared in 1805, the second (dedicated to Edward Davies) in 1809. In his later years Jones was very friendly with Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc). He died 15
JONES, Sir THEOPHILUS (d. 1685), governor of Dublin - see JONES, MICHAEL
JONES, THEOPHILUS - see JONES, JENKIN
JONES, Sir THOMAS (1614 - 1692), chief justice was of Welsh descent (of the tribe of Ednowain Bendew, for which see Arch.Camb., 1876, 1877, and more directly, 1878), but the family had long been associated with Shropshire, and Sir Thomas himself acquired Welsh denizenship only after his marriage (with Jane Barnard, of Chester), when he took up his residence at Carreghwfa ('Carreghova') Hill, Montgomeryshire. His career is described in D.N.B
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 Welsh version of the Thirty-nine Articles, and the metrical psalms of Edmund Prys. Another substantial London publication was Y Gymraeg yn ei Disgleirdeb, 1688, a Welsh - English dictionary. By about this time Thomas Jones was working up a substantial business as a bookseller with selling-agents at Chester, Abergavenny, Bala, Dolgelley, Llanfyllin, Oswestry, Welshpool, and Shrewsbury. When he actually
JONES, THOMAS (c. 1622 - 1682), Protestant controversialist
JONES, THOMAS (1756 - 1820), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author Jones of Mold, a devout and wealthy woman who died in 1797 leaving him most of her property; (2) 1804, A. Maysmor of Llanelidan; (3) 1806, Mary Lloyd of Llanrwst. In 1784 he met Thomas Charles of Bala, and their close friendship brought him into touch with the religious world outside Wales and with such movements as the Bible Society, the London Missionary Society, and the circulating schools. He
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 Author of the pamphlet The Rise and Progress of the … Society of Antient Britons, 1717, frequently reprinted (in part) by that society. He was knighted in 1715 when the society presented a loyal address to George I, and is then described as 'Thomas Jones, of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister at Law.' The only entry in that Inn's admission Register which seems to suit is that of 'Thomas Jones, of Chancery
JONES, THOMAS (1720? - 1790), cleric and author

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