Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, LEWIS (fl. 1703) Pandy, Llan-uwchllyn, poet Three examples of his work remain, these being ' Ymddiddan rhwng y Cybydd a'r Trugarog,' ' Cyngor i'r Gôf o Rôs y Gwaliau,' and ' Cerdd i ŵr ifanc oedd yn glaf o gariad merch.' It is not clear whether there was any connection between him and two other poets from Llanuwchllyn - ROBERT JONES and ROLANT JONES (fl. 1762). A love ballad composed by the former is found in NLW MS 645B (34b), and
JONES, MOSES OWEN (1842 - 1908), schoolmaster, musician, and eisteddfodwr he was at Borough Road he came to know the Tonic Solfa system of musical notation; in 1868 he became precentor of Carmel Congregational chapel, Treherbert; he also acted as the chapel organist. He composed and published a large number of anthems, part-songs, songs, and hymn-tunes. Some of his hymn-tunes are in Y Caniedydd Cynulleidfaol; he was one of the editors of the 1895 edition of that hymnal
JONES, RICHARD (1771? - 1833), Calvinistic Methodist minister and writer in any man-made dogma, and composed two catechisms on the Bible, one elementary and one advanced. Several of his articles are to be found in Seren Gomer, Goleuad Cymru, and Y Drysorfa, under the pseudonym ' Cymro Gwyllt.' About 1815, when the painful controversy about Redemption and Atonement was at its height, and when his old friend, John Elias, was walking very near the edge of the precipice
JONES, RICHARD LEWIS (1934 - 2009), poet and farmer Lewis (1980-) and Esyllt Mair (1980-1981). Esyllt was born with Downes Syndrome and died within a few months. The poem which Dic composed in her memory is regarded as one of the most powerful elegies in the Welsh language. Two of the children, the actress and singer Delyth Wyn and the television personality and musician Brychan Llyr have become familiar voices and faces on the Welsh media. Following
JONES, RICHARD ROBERT (Dic Aberdaron; 1779 - 1843), polyglot in literature, and it is said that he could read whole books and yet gain hardly any knowledge of their contents. The compilation of his Welsh-Greek-Hebrew dictionary occupied him during the years 1831 and 1832, but he did not succeed in securing a sufficient number of subscribers for its publication. He died at S. Asaph 18 December 1843 and was buried there; his epitaph was composed by Ellis Owen
JONES, THOMAS (Y Bardd Cloff; 1768 - 1828), poet Born (probably) in Llandysilio, Denbighshire. At the age of 12 he went to work in the Long Acre (London) counting-house of a Mathew Davies [a Cardiganshire man, and a Cymmrodor ]. His literary interest was chiefly in Welsh poetry. He became a member of the Society of Gwyneddigion in 1789, and shortly afterwards became its recorder. An awdl composed by him in praise of the Society was published in
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 LLEWELYN (1915 - 2009), poet and prolific writer to read his work and the children idolised him. Two of his books were made into TV films and one of them, Tân ar y Comin, was translated into a number of languages. A cd of his reading of Lleuad yn Olau was published. He composed children's verse, publishing two collections, Penillion y Plant (1965) and Cerddi Newydd i Blant (1973). The two were later combined in a single volume under the original
JONES, WATKIN (Watcyn o Feirion; 1882 - 1967), postmaster, shopkeeper, folk poet, setter and tutor of cerdd dant widely known in the 1940s and 50s, travelling far and near to hold classes in setting words to folk tunes for penillion singing. During the same period he prepared settings for numerous less experienced penillion singers. For years he was the conductor of the Cwmtirmynach cerdd dant choir which won many prizes at eisteddfodau. He also composed many airs for penillion singing, such as 'Murmur Tryweryn
JONES, WILLIAM OWEN (Eos y Gogledd; 1868 - 1928), musician study music under Joseph Parry. From 1907 to 1927 he lived in Glamorgan - at Cilfynydd and afterwards at Merthyr Tydfil, being choir-master of Soar Chapel in the latter place. He conducted choirs and composed songs (e.g., ' Telynau'r Saint') and anthems. But he is best remembered in connection with his work for penillion -singing - both as a singer, exponent, and adjudicator. He returned to Blaenau
KYFFIN, EDWARD (c. 1558 - 1603), cleric and composer of metrical psalms , states that Kyffin had composed about fifty metrical psalms before he fell a victim to the plague in 1603. In one only of the three variant forms of the preliminary pages of Psalmae y Brenhinol Brophvvyd Dafydh … by Wiliam Middelton, 1603, there appears, on pp. 3-4, an elegy to the author, 'Mawl-gerdh farwnad i gapten William Middelton,' by Kyffin. It is not certain whether he or another of the same
LEWIS ab EDWARD (fl. c. 1560), poet the wedding feast of Wiliam Llwyd ab Elisau of Rhiwaedog and Elizabeth, daughter of Owain ap Siôn of Llwydiarth, at Rhiwaedog, 20 October 1555, where, together with Simwnt Fychan and Siôn Tudur, he composed mocking englynion to Gruffudd Hiraethog who was the victim of buffoonery at the feast. He graduated as a pencerdd at the Caerwys eisteddfod of 1568 and thus belongs to the last generation of the

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