Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, THOMAS JESSE (1873 - 1950), educationalist, statistician, and sociologist Born 4 August 1873 in Llanfachraeth, Anglesey, he emigrated at the age of 11 to the U.S.A. with his widowed mother, a brother, and two sisters, the family settling in Ohio with relatives. He went to the Universities of Washington and Lee (Virginia) and Columbia (New York), graduating M.A. and Ph.D.; he was also B.D. of the Union Theological Seminary. For seven years he was at the Hampton
JONES, THOMAS PARRY (1935 - 2013), inventor, entrepreneur and philanthropist Tom Parry Jones was born on 27 March 1935 at Dwyran, Anglesey, and was brought up at Carreglefn in the same county, the eldest of three children of Owen Thomas Jones (1916-1999, a farmer, and Grace Parry (1917-2018), his wife. He attended Carreglefn Primary School and the Sir Thomas Jones School, Amlwch. After leaving school he worked at an ICI factory in Northwich, Cheshire, subsequently
JONES, THOMAS TUDNO (Tudno; 1844 - 1895), cleric and poet edited the Conservative newspaper, Llais y Wlad. He married in 1879 Mary Rowlands, Tŷ Cristion, Bodedern, Anglesey, and had two children, a son and daughter, both of whom died young. After a course at S. Bees College, which he entered in 1881, he was ordained in 1883. He served as curate of the Welsh church in Liverpool, at Llanyblodwel, and at Llanrwst, where he died, 18 May 1895. His contributions to
JONES, THOMAS WILLIAM (Baron Maelor of Rhos), (1898 - 1984), Labour politician chairman of the Ruabon bench of magistrates for twenty years. Jones had joined the ILP in 1919 and served as the chairman of both the Wrexham Trades Council and the North Wales Labour Federation. He was short-listed as a prospective parliamentary candidate for Anglesey in 1931, but withdrew in favour of Megan Lloyd George, the Independent Liberal candidate and sitting MP for the county. He unsuccessfully
JONES, WALTER (d. 1819) Cefn Rug,, commissioner under land enclosure acts He was estate agent for Sir Robert Williames Vaughan which brought him into public notice in the county, e.g. as commissioner for the militia and trustee under the Barmouth Harbour Act (37 Geo, III. cap. 50). From 1806 onwards he served, almost continuously, as commissioner under the aegis of parliamentary acts dealing successively with land enclosure in the counties of Anglesey, Caernarfon
JONES, WILLIAM (1857 - 1915), Member of Parliament of the most eloquent speakers, in Welsh and English, in the whole country. He was not chosen as Liberal candidate for Anglesey, though he had numerous and fervid supporters; but in 1894 he easily secured the Liberal candidature for Arvon, and in 1895 became its M.P. with a substantial majority; he retained the seat till 1915. Very soon he became one of the most ready and effective speakers in the
JONES, WILLIAM (1718 - 1773?), early Methodist exhorter, and possibly the first Anglesey Methodist Christened 28 July 1718, son of Hugh Jones of Trefollwyn near Llangefni, who was coroner and high constable. He was converted by Howel Harris, perhaps in Llŷn in 1741, became closely associated with the leaders of Welsh Methodism and with the Wesleys, and was active in introducing Methodism into Anglesey - his letters (1747-9) are of great value as evidence of this penetration. Yet he is ignored
JONES, Sir WILLIAM (1566 - 1640), judge Selden to draft charges against Buckingham in the parliament of 1626, and in that of 1628 he was associated with Edward Littleton, Member of Parliament for Caernarvon and justice of the Anglesey circuit (who had married his sister Elizabeth) in preparation for the Petition of Right; and after the dissolution he undertook the defence of one of the members on trial for seditious conduct in the House. He
JONES, WILLIAM (1675? - 1749), mathematician Born at Merddyn, Llanfihangel Tre'r Beirdd, Anglesey. His son's biography says that William Jones was born in 1680, but he was born in 1674 or 1675, the same year as Morris Ap Rhisiart Morris, the father of the Morris brothers of Anglesey; the family removed to Tyddyn-bach, Llanbabo, and when the father died the mother went to live at Clymwr in the same parish - hence the Morris family's
JONES, WILLIAM (1806 - 1873), cleric and man of letters Born, it is said, at Newborough (Anglesey). He received baptism at Liverpool, 2 September 1821, at the hands of Daniel Jones (1788 - 1862), and soon began to preach; from 1823 till 1827 he was in the Baptist college at Bradford, and afterwards for a short time at Glasgow University. He was ordained minister at Llangefni, Christmas 1828, but removed to Holywell in 1830. There, he set on foot a
JONES, WILLIAM (1814? - 1895), Wesleyan Reformer,' afterwards Independent minister Born in 1814 or 1815 at Bodedern, Anglesey. He joined the 'Little Wesleyans' (see Owens, Owen), and was one of their preachers in 1837; in 1841 he was a missioner of theirs at Liverpool, and in 1842 editor of their short-lived (one year) periodical, Blaguryn y Diwygiad. By 1846, however, he was pastor of a church there belonging to the parallel movement, the ' Wesleyan Methodist Association '; in
JONES, WILLIAM LEWIS (1866 - 1922), professor of English Born 20 February 1866; son of William Jones, Llangefni, and Hannah Lewis, sister of Thomas Lewis, M.P. for Anglesey. Educated at Friars School, Bangor, he obtained an open scholarship at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in the Easter term, 1884. He read for the Classical Tripos and graduated in 1888; he had won the Members' University Prize in the previous year. After graduation

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