Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, JOHN EDWARD (IOAN MAESGRUG; 1914 - 1998) Born 23 December 1914 at 35 Mulliner Street, Liverpool, son of Thomas Robert Jones and his wife Elizabeth Jane (Roberts); he subsequently lived at a number of other addresses in Liverpool. He was educated at Sefton Park Council School and the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys. He was employed at the British Engine Boiler and Electrical Insurance Co, Manchester, 1933-45 but studied in his
JONES, JOHN TYWI (1870 - 1948), Baptist minister and journalist , we will have broken our communion with the best of the nation's life in the past '. Increasing anglicization led Tarian y Gweithiwr to include some English reports. J. Tywi Jones formed the Tarian Publishing Co., Ltd. to safeguard the newspaper as a Welsh -language publication and he became the editor from 1914 until its demise in 1934. He was a convinced pacifist and a liberal in his theology. He
JONES, LEWIS (1702? - 1772), Independent minister its pastor help in the years preceding his own ordination at Llanedy. However that may be, Jones was for many years very successful at Bridgend. He was an enthusiastic preacher, a zealous Calvinist, and (like his friend Edmund Jones, who refers frequently to him in his letters and diaries) one of the small band of Dissenting ministers who co-operated with Howel Harris in the early years of the
JONES, LEWIS DAVIES (Llew Tegid; 1851 - 1928), eisteddfodwr cemetery. Llew Tegid produced a considerable amount of literary work, and co-operated with John Lloyd Williams (died 1943) in the work of the Welsh Folk-Song Society. He wrote Welsh words for many of the folk-songs which came to light. But he is best remembered as an eisteddfod conductor. He first appeared in this capacity at a national eisteddfod at Bangor in 1902, and with one exception (1905
JONES, MICHAEL (d. 1649), soldier , where he married (c. 1600) a sister of James Ussher (afterwards primate), and became successively dean of Ardagh (co. Longford) 1606-25, and of Cashel (where he restored the cathedral), 1607, prebendary of Ely, 1629-38, and (despite Laud's dislike for his Puritanism) bishop of Killaloe from 1633 to his death on 2 November 1646, at the reputed age of 104. He was joined in Ireland by two brothers
JONES, OWEN WYNNE (Glasynys; 1828 - 1870), cleric, antiquary, story-writer, and poet , where Eben Fardd was his neighbour. In 1855 he was sent to take charge of a school at Llanfachreth, Meironnydd, where he came into contact with Ab Ithel, who was then at Llan-ym-mawddwy; they co-operated in arranging eisteddfodau in which Glasynys competed. He then joined the Rev. William Hughes at Beddgelert and probably went on to a college in Birmingham. He was ordained deacon 2 December 1860 by
JONES, PHILIP (1618 - 1674), colonel in the Parliamentary army and member of Cromwell's Second (or 'Other') House . One of the witnesses of his last will was Robert Thomas of Llanfihangel by Cowbridge, M.P. for Cardiff, and one of the five commissioners at Neath in 1655 who declared that the Propagation accounts of Philip Jones and his co-adjutors were correct to the nearest penny. And the name of his youngest son, Oliver, born in 1654, was a living memory of the old friendship with Cromwell and his family.
JONES, RICHARD LEWIS (1934 - 2009), poet and farmer over the Gorsedd ceremonies in the National Eisteddfod that was held that year in Cardiff. By the following year he was in poor health and was unable to attend the Eisteddfod at Bala. He died on 18 August 2009 of pancreatic cancer and was buried in the cemetery of Blaenannerch Chapel. One of his most famous couplets has been carved on the gravestone:Mae alaw pan ddistawoYn mynnu canu'n y co'.
JONES, ROBERT (1560 - 1615), priest, of the Society of Jesus , linking in close co-operation the recusant gentry, Welsh secular clergy and Welsh Jesuits, including Frs. Powell and Bennett. Money was provided through one of Fr. Jones's converts, lady Frances Morgan of Llantarnam, where he lived for long periods. The fund sufficed to maintain two Jesuits in North Wales and two in South Wales, and was later used by Frs. John Salusbury, S.J. and Charles Gwynne, S.J. to
JONES, ROBERT ISAAC (Alltud Eifion; 1813 - 1905), pharmacist, littérateur and printer beginning of 1859 it became a monthly magazine; Daniel Silvan Evans was co-editor till 1860, but owing to lack of support publication ceased in 1863. He was a keen eisteddfodwr, and wrote a good deal of verse, but did not excel. He published and edited Gwaith Barddonol Sion Wyn o Eifion, 1861; Cyff Beuno (Eben Fardd), 1863; Cell Meudwy (Ellis Owen), 1877; John Ystumllyn, 1888; Yr Emynydd Cristionogol
JONES, TERENCE GRAHAM PARRY (1942 - 2020), actor, director, writer and popular historian ovation at the BAFTA Cymru Awards when he was given a Lifetime Achievement award for his outstanding contribution to television and film. Supported by his friend and Monty Python co-star Michael Palin this acclaim was a final public farewell for Terry Jones. Palin said Jones was 'very Welsh in his attitudes, his passion, his energy and inventiveness'. Jones married Alison Telfer in 1970 and they had two
JONES, Sir THOMAS (d. 1731), treasurer and secretary of the 'Society of Antient Britons' in London, and author Lane, Gent.', admitted 17 February 1707-8. But in the Gray's Inn register, under 20 November 1713, we find 'Thomas Jones, of Newcastle, co. Glamorgan, gent (admitted to Lincoln's Inn, February 10, 1707, by certificate of John Hungerford, Treasurer.' Despite the week's discrepancy, this would seem to be our man; if so he came from Bridgend. In Old Wales, i, 38, W. R. Williams prints the following

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