Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, THOMAS (1810 - 1849), Calvinistic Methodist missionary Born 24 January 1810 to Edward and Mary Jones, Tan-y-ffridd, Llangynyw, Montgomeryshire. Originally a wheelwright, he became miller at Llifior, Berriw. About 1835 he began preaching; he was one of the first of Lewis Edwards's students at Bala (1837). Desiring to become a missionary, he offered himself to the London Missionary Society, which however refused to send him to India, thinking that his
JONES, THOMAS (1769 - 1850), Baptist minister leadership of Thomas Jones remaining faithful to the Old Baptists and the other under the guidance of John Edwards forming itself into a separate church within the connexion of John Richard Jones. Thomas Jones and John Edwards had also since 1795 been joint ministers of the Baptist church of the Vale of Clwyd, and in 1797 the split in Glynceiriog church spread to this church as well. Thomas Jones was the
JONES, THOMAS (1752 - 1845), cleric Creaton in Northants, where he was curate for forty-three years. For the last eighteen of these (1810-28) he was also curate of Spratton. In 1828, at the age of 76, he was appointed rector of Creaton, resigning in 1833. He died 7 January 1845 and was buried at Spratton. Jones corresponded with Thomas Charles about the foundation of Sunday schools, and himself founded one at Creaton in 1789. He also
JONES, THOMAS (Y Bardd Cloff; 1768 - 1828), poet
JONES, THOMAS (1908 - 1990), trade unionist and Spanish Civil War veteran Although he was a proud Welsh-speaking Welshman, Tom Jones was in fact born in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, on 13 October 1908, the son of a Welsh collier and an English kitchen maid. His father, William Jones, was a native of the Mold area of Flintshire who had moved to Lancashire with his Staffordshire-born wife Mary (née Clayton) because of the higher wages paid at the Bryn Hall colliery
JONES, THOMAS (1870 - 1955), university professor, civil servant, administrator, author in 1945 and Chairman from 1952 to 1954. From 1934 to 1940 he was a member of the Unemployment Assistance Board. He was appointed C.H. in 1929. Jones was a man of exceptional drive and energy. Although he abandoned his intention of becoming a minister of the church, the social teaching of the Scriptures remained his chief inspiration. Thomas Charles Edwards, Joseph Mazzini, Sir Henry Jones and
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 (1777 - 1847), translator, schoolmaster and minister (CM) Born in Llanfwrog, Anglesey, in 1777. He was fortunate enough to receive some schooling with a cleric in his home area. He and two of his brothers, Rice Jones, Pen-clawdd, Glamorganshire, and Robert Jones, Congl. minister, Corwen, Meironnydd, were preachers. In 1803 he and his wife, Margaret, moved to Ty'nyrefail, Llanynghenedl, Anglesey, where they had at least 8 children. He was elected an
JONES, THOMAS (Gogrynwr; 1822 - 1854), doctor and musician
JONES, THOMAS, vicar - see JONES, JOHN
JONES, THOMAS, early Welsh Moravian - see JONES, JOHN
JONES, Sir THOMAS ARTEMUS (1871 - 1943), journalist, judge and historian Born 18 February 1871 at 22, Lôn Abram, Denbigh, the sixth son of Thomas Jones, stonemason. At 11 years of age, he left the National School to work at the station bookstall, and while there, he taught himself shorthand. In 1886 he was appointed junior reporter on the Denbighshire Free Press, for which he reported the Tithe War. He left Denbigh in 1889 to work on newspapers in Herefordshire, East

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