Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, MORGAN - see LEWIS, MORGAN JOHN
JONES, MORGAN GLYNDWR (1905 - 1995), poet, novelist and short story writer
JONES, MORGAN HUGH (1873 - 1930), Calvinistic Methodist historian
JONES, OWEN (Meudwy Môn; 1806 - 1889), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and man of letters Born at Gaerwen-bach, Llanfihangel Ysgeifiog, Anglesey, 15 July 1806. His parents died when he was very small, and he was brought up by his aunt Elizabeth, wife of Morgan Williams, tanner, of Llangefni. When he was 6 years of age he was sent to the village school. Rice Roberts of Plas Llangefni, noticing his rapid progress, paid for his education at Thomas Jones's school, Llangefni, whence he was
JONES, OWEN (1833 - 1899), Calvinistic Methodist minister and man of letters edition (1889) of Llyfry Tri Aderyn did much to revive Morgan Llwyd's popularity; and his book-collecting led to important articles by him in Y Drysorfa - those on Jeremy Owen, in 1887, may be specified. He was a considerable authority on hymnology. His Welsh library has become part of the N.L.W.
JONES (JOHNES), RICHARD (fl. 1564 to c. 1602), printer and bookseller , ballads, and such things, although he printed some more substantial works. He received licences from the Company of Stationers to print a Catechism in Welsh, 1566-7, a ' Sonett or a synners solace made by Hughe Gryffythe prysoner,' in Welsh and English, 1587, ' Epytaphe on the Death of Sir Yevan Lloyd of Yale knighte ' (by the same Hugh Gryffythe), 1587-8, ' Sermon preached by master Doctor Morgan at
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 TUDUR (1921 - 1998), theologian, church historian and public figure John Morgan Jones, a prominent radical theologian, and in Christian doctrine by J. E. Daniel. Daniel was a nationalist and advocate of the neo-Calvinism of Karl Barth, and Tudur empathised with his ideas. After graduating with the highest marks ever recorded in the University of Wales Theology Faculty in 1945, he registered at Mansfield College, Oxford, for advanced studies. His subject was the
JONES, SAMUEL (fl. 1715-1764), Congregational minister and tutor , Llannon, Carmarthenshire, and kept a school there for twenty-two years; among his distinguished pupils were Richard Price, Owen Rees, Thomas Morgan (1720 - 1799), and Noah Jones (Walsall). He moved to Morriston c. 1766; there also he opened a school, with his son as a tutor. He was suspected by some of being an Arian but his sermons testify to his evangelical spirit and opinion. He died 1767. The burial
JONES, THEOPHILUS (1759 - 1812), historian of Brecknock contributed several papers to the Cambrian Register and to Archaeologia. In 1905, Edwin Davies published a volume, Theophilus Jones, Historian, containing these papers, Jones's letters to Edward Davies and Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain), and a biography by Gwenllian E. F. Morgan. To this day, Jones's work is the best of our Welsh county histories - a work of diligent and careful research. The author's
JONES, THOMAS (c. 1622 - 1682), Protestant controversialist (Robert Morgan), who was bent on reannexing the rectory, led to sequestration from his living, which however he later recovered. Towards the violent anti-Popish propaganda of Titus Oates he contributed several tracts (listed in D.N.B.; there is an additional title in Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, 1680-1, 319), defending the Church of England against Rome and himself against his supposed
JONES, THOMAS JOHN RHYS (1916 - 1997), teacher, lecturer and author author was misspelled as T. H. Rhys Jones - for Gwŷr Llên y Ddeunawfed Ganrif, a volume of essays on eighteenth-century Welsh writers, edited by Dyfnallt Morgan, 1966.) A Baptist by conviction and a regular chapel-goer, he was a conscientious objector during the Second World War and for a time worked on his future father-in-law's farm near Llandovery. Appointed a teacher of Welsh at Tonyrefail after

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