Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, MICHAEL (d. 1649), soldier army raised to combat the Irish rebellion of 1641, but protesting against the truce of 1643 joined the Roundhead forces in England to fight its author, Charles I. He operated as colonel of horse mainly on the North Wales border, beating back Prince Maurice at Holt bridge in March 1645, and helping to negotiate the surrender of Chester (1 February 1646) after joining Thomas Mytton to defeat relieving
JONES, MORDECAI (1813 - 1880), promoter of British Schools, colliery proprietor, etc. School Society in South Wales, and a contributor to the Normal School, Brecon (1846). He incurred the wrath of the editor of The Principality, Ieuan Gwynedd by supporting the efforts of David Charles III, Trevecka, in the face of the strong opposition of the Independents and Baptists, to combine Government aid with voluntary charity. He agreed with the policy of the North Wales Calvinistic Methodist
JONES, MORRIS CHARLES (1819 - 1893), antiquary, and founder of the Powysland Club, Welshpool
JONES, NATHANIEL CYNHAFAL (1832 - 1905), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and poet ) edited Charles o'r Bala, a Welsh fortnightly magazine for the use of Sunday schools. He published several volumes of his poems - Fy Awenydd, 1859, Elias y Thesbiad, 1869, Y Messiah, 1895, Y Bibl, 1895, Charles o'r Bala, 1898, and he and Richard Mills wrote a Welsh biography, Buchdraeth y Parch. John Mills, 1881. His chief literary accomplishment was the editing of the works of William Williams of
JONES, OWEN (1787 - 1828), pioneer in Sunday school work 1820, a catechism, Arweinydd i Wybodaeth. It has been said of him that no one but Thomas Charles did more than he to promote Sunday schools in North Wales. Lewis Edwards (then only a lad of 19) published an elegy upon him in Goleuad Cymru (1829, 311), and John Hughes (1775 - 1854) of Pontrobert in 1830 published a memoir of him, with an elegy.
JONES, (WILLIAM JOHN) PARRY (1891 - 1963), singer joined the Blaina Choral Society and came to the notice of Norman McLeod, a teacher of voice production. He decided to follow a career as a professional tenor, and with the help of Lord Rhondda (David Alfred Thomas and others, he went to the Royal College of Music in London to study with Albert Visetti, Thomas Frederick Dunhill and Sir Charles Villiers Stanford. He later studied singing in Italy (with
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 (1745 - 1829), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter and author description of the Methodist revival in Wales and its effects. This last book is his masterpiece; the writing is terse, the descriptions are lively, and it is permeated with the fervour of the revival. Robert Jones had a hand in preventing Thomas Charles from leaving Wales in 1784 and also in persuading him to agree to the ordination of Methodist preachers as ministers in 1811 [he himself was not ordained
JONES, ROBERT (1706? - 1742), country gentleman Born at Fonmon Castle, Glamorganshire, son of Robert Jones (1681 - 1715?), M.P. for Glamorgan (1710, 1713, and 1714), and great-grandson of colonel Philip Jones. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was a contemporary of Charles Wesley (matriculated 24 April 1724), but returned to his estate at Fonmon without graduating. He was sheriff of Glamorgan in 1729. In 1732 he married Mary
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, SAMUEL (1898 - 1974), journalist, broadcaster and Head of the BBC in Bangor Jones learnt a lot about radio entertainment from the Londoners. He was also aware of the danger of copying the English. When they left he set about producing Welsh entertainment. Among his successes were 'Noson Lawen' (traditional entertainment) that combined the talents of students - Triawd y Coleg [The College Trio: Meredydd Evans, Cledwyn Jones, Robin Williams] - with Charles Williams as Presenter
JONES, Sir THOMAS (1614 - 1692), chief justice under Charles II) led to his committal to custody for a while in 1689. He died at Carreghwfa, 31 May 1692, and was buried in S. Alkmonds church, Shrewsbury.

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