Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, ARTHUR (1776 - 1860), Independent minister Born 12 February 1776 at Llanrwst, his mother being descended from bishop William Morgan's family. After living for some time in Liverpool he became a schoolmaster at Capel Garmon where he began to preach. He married as his first wife a daughter of Twm o'r Nant and they lived for a time at Denbigh. He had hitherto been a Calvinistic Methodist, but he now joined the Independents and received a
JONES, GLADYS MAY (1899 - 1960), pianist, composer and producer of light programmes on radio ', ' Merry-go-round ' and ' Silver Chords '. Much of the music included in these series were her own compositions and these broadcasts provided an opening for several artists who became prominent figures in English light entertainment. She wrote the music for the radio performance of Twm Sion Cati, the first Welsh pantomime ever broadcast on radio. She was an inspired radio personality. She tried to base
JONES, JOHN (1786 - 1865), printer and inventor , Egluryn Ffraethineb and a number of works by Twm o'r Nant. He was also responsible for a number of periodicals and many odd, recreative or unusual booklets, such as a version of Robinson Crusoe, Hanes Judas Iscariot, Hanes y Lleuad, Bywyd Turpin Leidr and Faunula Grustensis, as well as Gwaith Aristotle (first printed by his brother Robert (1803 - 1850) at Conwy in 1826; Robert also printed at Pwllheli
JONES, ROBERT EVAN (1869 - 1956), collector of books and manuscripts establishing a memorial fund to O.M. Edwards of which he became secretary. But he was best known as a collector of books and manuscripts. It is thought that he had more than ten thousand volumes in his personal library. More specifically he collected manuscripts and rare documents belonging to Charles Ashton and Thomas Edwards, ' Twm o'r Nant '. He had an interesting collection of the letters of Peter
JONES, THOMAS (Twm Shôn Catti; 1532 - 1609), landowner, antiquary, genealogist, and bard
JONES, THOMAS (1908 - 1990), trade unionist and Spanish Civil War veteran was the last British member of the International Brigade to return home. By this time both his parents had died. Because of his exploits in Spain, he was henceforward known locally as 'Twm Sbaen' or 'Tom Spain'. In 1942 he married a widow from Rhos, Rosa Edwards (née Thomas), whose husband had died of tuberculosis in 1941. They had two children, Keith and Moira, and he treated the two children from
JONES, THOMAS HUGHES (1895 - 1966), poet, writer and teacher nickname ' Tom (or, Twm), the poet ' in Tregaron and the surrounding district. He did not neglect his school work; a wide reader and possessing of a remarkable memory, he obtained the Higher Certificate (Central Welsh Board) in English, Latin, Welsh and history. He entered the University College, Aberystwyth in 1913 and took a leading role in student activities. He was awarded the Cynddelw Scholarship in
JONES, WILLIAM SAMUEL (Wil Sam; 1920 - 2007), playwright (Cymeriadau Eifionydd), Newyddion Ffoltia Mawr (a collection of his humorous columns in Y Cymro) and a book of verse, Rhigymau Wil Sam. In his last years he was an enthusiastic member of Twm Morys's poetry class in Llanystumdwy. Wil Sam received numerous honours towards the end of his life. The Welsh Academy organised a meeting to celebrate his seventieth birthday in 1990, and in 1995 he won a Bafta Cymru
MORRIS, JAN (1926 - 2020), writer married in 1949 Elizabeth Tuckniss (1924-2024). They had five children: Mark (1952), Henry (1953), Virginia (1960), Tom (1961, later known as Twm Morys) and Susan (1964). She graduated with a BA in 1951, and joined the staff of The Times. Fate presented Morris with her first great break: at the age of 26, accompanying the 1953 Everest expedition led by Colonel John Hunt. The Times had bought exclusive
OWEN, DANIEL (1836 - 1895), novelist Born 20 October 1836 at 53 Maes-y-dref, Mold, Flintshire, the youngest of six children. His father, a coal miner, lost his life, as did two of his sons, when the Argoed coal mine was flooded; Daniel Owen's mother belonged to the family of Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant). He received but little education in his childhood. When he was twelve he began a five years' apprenticeship to a tailor; later
OWEN, GEORGE (c. 1552 - 1613), historian, antiquary, and genealogist ('Twm Sion Cati'), and other antiquaries and genealogists of his day. He was the centre of a small group of writers in Pembrokeshire which included George Owen Harry, Robert Holland, and George William Griffith, and he gave his patronage and the hospitality of Henllys to many of the Welsh bards of the period. His most important work is ' The Description of Penbrockshire ' which appears to owe
OWEN, THOMAS ELLIS (1764 - 1814), cleric .), 1802; the former drew a retort, The Welsh Methodists Vindicated, 1802, from Thomas Charles and Thomas Jones, and a furious attack in verse, 'Cân ar Berson Paris' (Llandyfrydog is near Parys Montain) from Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), 1802.

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