Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, JOHN DANIEL (1865 - 1942), Congregational minister a schoolmaster. The mother married, secondly, in 1877 the Rev. David Morgan Bynner, a Congregational minister at Chorley where they went to live. John Daniel was only 12 years of age when he left Wales and he spent his working life in England, returning to Merioneth when he retired in 1937. He had been reared with the Calvinistic Methodists by his grandparents and he bore characteristics of that
JONES, JOHN EMRYS (1914 - 1991), secretary and organiser of Labour Party Wales his retirement in 1979 he was awarded a CBE. He was succeeded by Hubert Morgan as organiser to Labour Party Wales. He died on 24 December 1991 at his home in Bristol. Emrys Jones possessed a calm personality and he was not given to displays of great emotion. He was unfailingly supportive and sincere, with a deep sense of commitment. He was also very self-effacing, sometimes to the point of
JONES, JOHN HERBERT (Je Aitsh; 1860 - 1943), journalist and author 1932. In 1941 he went with his daughter and her husband to live at Pen-y-groes, Caernarfonshire, where he died 23 March 1943. He published a text (1915) of Llyfr y Tri Aderyn (Morgan Llwyd) and several books which included some of his own more important articles from Y Brython. His chief works are: O'r Mwg i'r Mynydd (1913), Swp o Rug (1920), and Moelystota (1932).
JONES, JOHN MORGAN (1861 - 1935), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author
JONES, JOHN MORGAN (1838 - 1921), Calvinistic Methodist minster , and Y Deonglwr; he published Cofiant David Morgan, Pant, Cefncoedycymer, in 1887, commentaries (in Welsh) on Hebrews, Ephesians, and Acts, Yr Efengylau ('Davies Lecture,' 1906), Y Tadau Methodistaidd, 1895-7, with W. Morgan, and other works. He died 22 May 1921.
JONES, JOHN MORGAN (1873 - 1946), minister (Congl.) and Principal of Bala-Bangor College, Bangor
JONES, JOHN WILLIAM (1883 - 1954), author, collector of letters and papers, publisher, antiquary and folk poet written it ('wedi i'r bardd ei hun ei hysgrifennu'). He lectured a great deal to literary societies on the poets of his locality and he collected many of the works of the poets and authors of Gwynedd, e.g. Alafon, Elfyn, Isallt, W. Pari Huws, Gwilym Prysor, Carneddog (Richard Griffith), Glaslyn (Richard Jones Owen), Barlwydon, Gwilym Morgan, Awena Rhun, Glyn Myfyr, Llifon (William Griffith Owen, and
JONES, JONATHAN (1745 - 1832), Independent minister Born near Llanfihangel in the parish of Abergwili, Carmarthenshire, 1745, the youngest of five children of John and Mary Morgan. His parents worshipped at the Pant-teg Congregational chapel. He was apprenticed as a blacksmith, like his father, and worked for William Thomas, Llanllwni, whose smithy he took over when the latter removed to Llanwennog. He became a member of the Congregational church
JONES, LEWIS (1837 - 1904), pioneer in Patagonia, and writer and started two newspapers - Ein Breiniad, 1878, and Y Dravod, 1891; the latter is still being published. A lecture given before the Cymmrodorion in 1885, when he was visiting Wales, was subsequently published, and his book Y Wladfa Gymreig was published in 1898. He had two daughters - Eluned Morgan and another who married Llwyd ap Iwan, son of Michael D. Jones. Lewis Jones was a gallant leader in
JONES, MORGAN (1768 - 1835), Independent minister
JONES, MORGAN (fl. mid 17th century) South Wales, Baptist preacher needed for a teaching licence, early in 1662. What became of the Newcastle minister has not been ascertained. Both Morgans must be carefully distinguished from the Morgan Jones [ 1662 - 1730, on whom see Joshua Thomas, Hanes Bed., 104-16 passim ] who loyally and conscientiously ministered to the Baptists of the Swansea - Llanelly district in the first decades of the 18th century (c. 1689-1730).
JONES, MORGAN (1717? - 1780), Congregational minister

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