Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, EZZELINA GWENHWYFAR (1921 - 2012), artist and sculptor Ezzelina Samuel, the daughter of one of Gwen's father's co-workers, who tragically died at the age of 24 in 1919. Gwen and her sisters had a secure and happy childhood and the family were an integral part of the vitality that was the hallmark of village life at the time. When Gwen was eight this happiness was cruelly shattered by the death of her mother, an experience which was to influence her
JONES, GARETH RICHARD VAUGHAN (1905 - 1935), journalist that the Soviet authorities were responsible for his death, although there are suspicions that the Japanese were also involved. His ashes were interred in Merthyr Dyfan Cemetery, Barry. After his death the Western Mail co-operated with an initiative to raise money for a scholarship in his memory, including the publication of In Search of News which contains a selection of Jones's articles. Gareth
JONES, GEORGE DANIEL (1877 - 1955), master printer Montgomeryshire Printing and Stationery Co. in Newtown, and here he occasionally set some of the printing for the Gregynog Press. During this period he lost his only son and daughter - both teenagers. He retired to Aberystwyth towards the end of World War II and helped the Cambrian News during this critical period until shortly before his death 2 September 1955. He was buried in Aberystwyth's Public Cemetery
JONES, GWILYM CLEATON (1875 - 1961) Cape Town, Johannesburg, bank manager national treasurer of the National War Fund. He was also manager of the Heynes Mathew Co., Ltd. from 1937 until 1958. He acted as honorary treasurer of the Cape Western Regional Committee South African Institute of Race Relations. On the strength of his ability as an administrator as well as his legal knowledge, he was invited to serve on a sub-committee called to form a constitution for the Institute of
JONES, HARRY LONGUEVILLE (1806 - 1870), archaeologist and educationalist 1848 he had relocated from Manchester to Beaumaris, from where he later moved to the nearby village of Llandegfan. By this time, Welsh antiquities had become his principal concern, as he had taken the lead, in co-operation with his fellow Anglican John Williams Ab Ithel, in establishing the journal Archaeologia Cambrensis (1846) and the ensuing Cambrian Archaeological Association (1847). These were
JONES, HUGH (1831 - 1883), Baptist minister and college principal pastorate of the Llandudno Baptist church, and was ordained for the work in 1857. In 1859 he became co-pastor with John Prichard at Llangollen and Glyndyfrdwy, and in 1862 became classical tutor at the newly-founded Baptist College at Llangollen, succeeding John Prichard five years later as principal of the college. A testimonial was presented to him in 1877 to enable him to make a tour through
JONES, HUGH (Cromwell o Went; 1800 - 1872), Congregational minister un-co-ordinated, and Hugh Jones took upon himself to introduce some kind of order and co-ordination, with the result that he was suspected by some of being disloyal to the old regime amongst Congregationalists. He came to be regarded as the oracle of the Congregationalists in Monmouthshire; he was a skilful debater, platform speaker, and writer; he also contributed much to denominational magazines
JONES, HUGH ROBERT (1894 - 1930), founder of the Welsh Nationalist party state of his health compelled him to leave the quarry in the course of the 1914-18 war, and he found work at Liverpool in the firm of Morris and Jones. After a time he returned home to take up an appointment as secretary of the Co-operative Society in his village, pending his appointment as clerk in the Society's head office at Manchester. He returned home a second time and became a commercial
JONES, JOHN (CYNDDYLAN) (1841 - 1930), preacher and theologian catalogues of the N.L.W. nor the B.L. as one of his series of Studies.] At a later period he published Welsh commentaries on the Gospel according to S. John, and the Epistle to the Philippians, Yr Epistol at y Colossiaid, a volume of sermons, Athrylith a Gras, Cysondeb y Ffydd (4 vols.), and Primeval Revelation (Davies Lecture, 1896), studies of the first eight chapters of Genesis. He was also co-editor
JONES, JOHN (Mathetes; 1821 - 1878), Baptist minister and littérateur -rhyd, 27 May 1846, and moved to the Temple, Newport, 1854, Llangollen (co-pastor with John Prichard (1796 - 1875)), 1857, Llanfachraeth (Anglesey), 1859, Pyle, 1861, Penuel, Rhymney, 1862 (with Siloam, Tafarnau-bach, 1871-1875), and Briton Ferry, 1877. He died at the latter place 18 November 1878, and was buried at Pant, Dowlais. He was married three times and was the father of six children. He
JONES, JOHN (1837 - 1906), minister (Presb.) and writer ordained in 1863, but apart from a short period (1872-78) when he was pastor of Capel y Graig near Bangor, he did not serve as a minister of a church. He married a daughter of David Jones, Treborth (1805 - 1868). For some years after 1878 he was manager of a private (family) bank ' Pugh, Jones & Co. ' in Bethesda, but returned to Pwllheli (where he had lived before going to Capel y Graig), and died there
JONES, JOHN DAVID RHEINALLT (1884 - 1953), philanthropist, founder and Director of the South African Institute of Race Relations department of Bantu studies from 1929 and was a guest lecturer on racial relations. In 1937 he was chosen as the first representative of the Africans of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State in the South African parliament. He also established the Inter-university Committee on African Studies to promote and co-ordinate research. He arranged a national conference of European and Bantu representatives in

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