Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, THOMAS (Y Bardd Cloff; 1768 - 1828), poet 1799, another on S. David's Day in 1802, and a volume of his poetry was published in 1828. He was given complete charge of his employer's business in 1803, and in 1813 he became co-partner. He became treasurer of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion when it was re-formed in 1820, and was awarded a gold medal for the best pryddest composed on the occasion. He became president of the Society of
JONES, THOMAS (1908 - 1990), trade unionist and Spanish Civil War veteran secretary. This was a difficult task, as there were rivalries between some north and south officers as well as among members, but Jones commented: 'For too long the hills have divided us - now we must be united.' At the same time, despite some earlier misgivings, he became an enthusiastic promoter of the concept of establishing a Wales TUC, recognising the need for unions to co-operate in the changing
JONES, Sir THOMAS ARTEMUS (1871 - 1943), journalist, judge and historian Casement for treason in 1916. In 1909 he himself brought a libel action against Messers E. Hulton & Co. for using his name in a defamatory manner in the Sunday Chronicle (12 July 1908): the defendants carried the case to the House of Lords, but were unsuccessful, and the note normally inserted in novels to the effect that all characters in them are fictitious is the result of this action. In 1919 he
JONES, THOMAS IVOR (1896 - 1969), solicitor . Articled to Thomas Davies Jones, his mother's brother, he was admitted solicitor in 1921, and joined his uncle's firm, T.D. Jones and Co. of Fleet Street, London, carrying on the practice after his uncle's death for the rest of his life. A faithful and hard-working member at Charing Cross Road Welsh Presbyterian church (in particular as a Sunday school teacher for many years), he was elected elder in
JONES, THOMAS JOHN RHYS (1916 - 1997), teacher, lecturer and author ' Grammar School, to produce the first edition of Teach Yourself Welsh (1960), which they co-wrote. The book proved to be so successful in sales terms that it persuaded the publishers to publish its subsequent sister volume Teach Yourself Irish. After four years in Carmarthenshire, he was appointed principal lecturer in Welsh at Cartrefle College of Education in Wrexham, as successor to the well-known
JONES, THOMAS WILLIAM (Baron Maelor of Rhos), (1898 - 1984), Labour politician undertook six months hard labour. Jones then became a student at Bangor Normal College, 1920-22, where he qualified as a certified teacher, was a schoolmaster from 1922 until 1940, and was a welfare officer with the Ministry of Labour, 1940-46. In 1946 he was appointed a welfare, education and public relations officer with the North Wales Power and Electric Co., a body which became MANWEB in 1951, and he
JONES, Sir WILLIAM (1566 - 1640), judge appointed under the Act of Union (1542) and became sheriff of the county in 1548. His grandfather, Griffith ap John, entered the service of John Dudley, earl of Warwick (later duke of Northumberland), co-regent for Edward VI, and was made constable of Caernarvon castle (1549). John was the ancestor from whom the surname Jones was adopted by some of the brothers of William ap Griffith, and consistently
JONES, WILLIAM GARMON (1884 - 1937), professor of history and librarian of Liverpool University Born 15 November 1884 at Birkenhead, son of William Jones of Birkenhead (of the firm of Jones, Burton and Co., engineers, Liverpool) and Jane Jones of Mold. He was educated at King William's College, Isle of Man, his intention being to qualify for a business career. He actually worked in a Liverpool office for two years and in 1903 went to Liverpool University to study for a degree in engineering
JONES, WILLIAM SAMUEL (Wil Sam; 1920 - 2007), playwright hearing the dialect of Eifionydd on their lips. He drove children to Chwilog School for a quarter of a century. In 1956 Emyr Humphreys gave him his first commission to write a radio play, which led to the comedy 'I Bant y Bwgan'. Wil Sam admitted that in writing for radio he constantly had the stage in the back of his mind. He and Emyr Humphreys co-authored the play 'Dinas' in 1970. In 1962 Wil Sam was
JONES-DAVIES, HENRY (1870 - 1955), farmer and pioneer of agricultural co-operation , becoming chairman of the council in 1902 and later chairman of the education committee. In 1908 he became County Land Agent for Carmarthenshire, and in the same year he became a Justice of the Peace for the county, and later chairman of Carmarthen County Petty Sessions. But, without doubt, Jones-Davies's most significant contribution was as a pioneer of agricultural co-operation in Wales. In 1902, during
KEMEYS family Cefn Mabli, , Government and Political Movements Public and Social Service, Civil Administration Law Born 1852, J.P. and D.L. for Monmouthshire, J.P. for Glamorgan and Somerset. He married 25 September 1875, Rosabelle, daughter of Theobald Walsh of co. Kildare. He died 18 February 1899. CHARLES THEODORE HALSWELL KEMEYS-TYNTE (1876 - 1934), J.P. Public and Social Service, Civil Administration Law Born 18 September 1876
KENRICK family Wynn Hall, Bron Clydwr, co-defendant in the suit before the Great Sessions at Wrexham (18 March 1788), in which the 'New' Meeting maintained against the 'Old' its right to use the graveyard devised by Daniel Lloyd (died 1655) to Morgan Llwyd's congregation; another son, SAMUEL KENRICK, a Unitarian and an accomplished linguist who travelled widely (as a tutor) and met Rousseau and Voltaire in France, joined his brother

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