Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, THOMAS (1777 - 1847), translator, schoolmaster and minister (CM) elder in Caergeiliog and began preaching with the Methodists in 1808. By 1816 he had moved to Penyrallt, Bodedern, and then to Llain-llwyd, Amlwch, where he died. He kept a school in Amlwch and published there a book on arithmetic, Rhifiadur (1827); he succeeded David Griffiths as master of the Nonconformists' school. During the last 20 years of his life he translated a number of English books
JONES, THOMAS (c. 1622 - 1682), Protestant controversialist persecutors. The allegations that he refused the bishopric of Bangor in 1665 and solicited it through his old patron the duke of York on a false rumour of bishop Humphrey Lloyd's death in 1681 both rest on insufficient evidence. He died on 8 October 1682 at Totteridge, Hants., where he was the guest of Richard Baxter's brother-in-law Francis Charlton. Anthony Wood asserts that he was ' troubled with a
JONES, WILLIAM (1770 - 1837), Calvinistic Methodist minister widow, of Mathafarn (the ancestral home of Dafydd Llwyd ap Llywelyn) in Llanwrin, Montgomeryshire, and removed there, setting up as a cattle dealer. He began preaching in 1802. In 1805, he removed to the neighbouring farm of Dôl-y-fonddu, where he died 1 March 1837. There is a memoir (1840) by John Hughes of Pontrobert.
JONES, Sir WILLIAM (1566 - 1640), judge was the eldest son of William ap Griffith ap John (died 1587) and of his first wife, Margaret, daughter of Humphrey Wynn ap Maredudd of Cesail Gyfarch (died 1583), first cousin to the grandfather of Sir John Wynn of Gwydir. His great-grandfather, John ap Robert ap Llywelyn ab Ithel, alias John Roberts, of Castellmarch (Llangïan), was among the first batch of Caernarvonshire local officials
JONES, WILLIAM (1675? - 1749), mathematician refering to those whom he knew and several of Newton's MSS. to the 3rd Earl Macclesfield, who refused Morris further access to them. The earl talked of giving them to the British Museum, but many of these remained in the earl's home, Shirburn Castle. Angharad Llwyd tells us that she too offered to complete the catalogue but was told that the manuscripts ' were not worth the trouble.' But in 1899 many
KENRICK family Wynn Hall, Bron Clydwr, development of Nonconformity there and in Merioneth in the 17th and 18th century. EDWARD KENRICK (died 1741), Bron Clydwr The eldest son of Samuel Kenrick (died 1716) of Fawnog, Bersham, and the grandson of Edward Kenrick (died 1693) of Gwersyllt. Both of these had belonged to the 'Old Meeting' - the congregation first established in Wrexham by Morgan Llwyd - and had provided the premises in which it
LANGFORD family Allington, Humphrey Lloyd, sheriff of Montgomeryshire, 1540, and it was his grandson, Thomas Langford, who wrote the pedigree manuscript Bodewryd MS 102D), William, Roger, David, Mathew, Elizabeth, Catherine, and Ann. By his second wife, Marsli, daughter of John ab Ieuan ap Howell of Trefriw, he had Thomas, George, Owen, Jane, Ellen, Jane (2), and Alice. JOHN He married Catherine, daughter of John ap Harry Jervis
LEWIS family Llwyn-du, Llangelynnin Huw ap Dafydd ap Hywel ap Gronw, of Llangelynnin. Their son, HUMPHERY OWEN I 'ap Huw,' of Llwyn-du, 'gent.', married Elizabeth Powell of Llangynog, Montgomeryshire. Of their numerous children, four were: Owen Humphrey II (below), JOHN, who emigrated to Pennsylvania, SAMUEL, who also emigrated but returned to Llangelynnin and died there in 1677, and ANNE, who married Ellis ap Rees of Bryn Mawr
LEWIS ab EDWARD (fl. c. 1560), poet He hailed from Bodfari, Denbighshire. Wiliam Thomas ab Edward, the scribe mentioned in Peniarth MS 122: Poetry, &c. (509), is also associated with Bodfari. Lewis ab Edward was also known as Lewis Meirchion, but is often confused with Lewis Môn, a poet who fl. c. 1480-1527. His elegy on the death of Edmund Llwyd of Glynllifon (died 1541) is possibly one of his early compositions. He was present at
LEWIS POWYS (fl. c. 1530), poet He composed cywyddau to ' Sir ' Owen Poole, vicar of Aberyw (Berriw) c. 1527-33, and to Edward and Roger, sons of Humphrey Kynaston. He also composed a cywydd and an awdl to Lewis Gwynn, the constable of Bishop's Castle (died 1552), a distinguished patron of the bards.
LEWIS, OWEN (1533 - 1594), bishop of Cassano, Born 27 December 1533, son, according to Humphrey Humphreys (Wood, Athenae Oxoniensis, ed. Bliss, ii, col. 837 n.), of a free-holder living in the parish of Llanfeirian (now Llangadwaladr), Anglesey. He was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, of which he was elected a perpetual Fellow in 1554. He graduated B.C.L. 21 February 1558-9 but rather than conform to the new dispensation under
LEWIS, WILLIAM MORRIS (1839 - 1917), minister (Presb.) Born 9 May 1839 at Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, son of the Rev. Enoch Lewis and his wife. He was educated at the seminary of Dr. George Rees; Bala College; Normal College, Swansea and Trefeca College. He began to preach in 1856, and was ordained in 1863. In 1859 he married Lettice Maria Lloyd, and they settled in Tŷ Llwyd, near Holywell, in the parish of Llandeloy, Pembrokeshire. They built

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