Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, THOMAS (1756 - 1820), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author Jones of Mold, a devout and wealthy woman who died in 1797 leaving him most of her property; (2) 1804, A. Maysmor of Llanelidan; (3) 1806, Mary Lloyd of Llanrwst. In 1784 he met Thomas Charles of Bala, and their close friendship brought him into touch with the religious world outside Wales and with such movements as the Bible Society, the London Missionary Society, and the circulating schools. He
JONES, THOMAS (1752 - 1845), cleric Creaton in Northants, where he was curate for forty-three years. For the last eighteen of these (1810-28) he was also curate of Spratton. In 1828, at the age of 76, he was appointed rector of Creaton, resigning in 1833. He died 7 January 1845 and was buried at Spratton. Jones corresponded with Thomas Charles about the foundation of Sunday schools, and himself founded one at Creaton in 1789. He also
JONES, THOMAS (1908 - 1990), trade unionist and Spanish Civil War veteran committed member of the Labour party for the rest of his life. During the 1930s, he became active in the Labour movement as chair of the Rhos Labour Party and the Rhos Peace Council. In September 1934 he was one of the rescuers at the Gresford colliery disaster where 266 miners lost their lives and the following year he was involved in a bitter strike at Bersham colliery. The growth of fascism in Europe
JONES, THOMAS (1870 - 1955), university professor, civil servant, administrator, author in 1945 and Chairman from 1952 to 1954. From 1934 to 1940 he was a member of the Unemployment Assistance Board. He was appointed C.H. in 1929. Jones was a man of exceptional drive and energy. Although he abandoned his intention of becoming a minister of the church, the social teaching of the Scriptures remained his chief inspiration. Thomas Charles Edwards, Joseph Mazzini, Sir Henry Jones and
JONES, THOMAS JOHN RHYS (1916 - 1997), teacher, lecturer and author Welsh-language writer T. Hughes Jones. He and his family settled in Gresford where he took over the editorship of Yr Athro ('The Teacher'), the journal of Undeb Athrawon Cymreig (1960-64). Following the death of J. T. Bowen, he prepared a new version of Teach Yourself Welsh entitled Teach Yourself Living Welsh (1977). He took early retirement due to his wife's poor state of health, and he and Stella
JONES, Sir WILLIAM (1566 - 1640), judge following year; he held, jointly with his brother Charles, the reversion to the office of prothonotary and clerk to the crown in Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire, which they surrendered in 1636; and from 1655-60 he was recorder of Shrewsbury. GRIFFITH JONES, the second son, was put on the commission of array for Caernarvonshire by Charles I (12 August 1642), but soon became involved in a quarrel with John
JONES, WILLIAM (d. 1679), Puritan minister ), not under the Act of Uniformity (1662). Under the Five Mile Act he had to leave Denbigh, and found refuge at Plas Teg, Flintshire, the home of the Trevor family of Trefalun - the father had been a commissioner under the Propagation Act of 1650 and the son was active in furthering Charles II's design of a Declaration of Indulgence in 1672; it is said that land was settled upon him to the value of £20
JONES, WILLIAM (1755 - 1821), Evangelical cleric One of the friends of Thomas Charles; born 18 November 1755 at Abergavenny, son of John Jones, clockmaker. He went to Jesus College, Oxford, in 1773 or 1774, and remained there till 1777 (Charles was there in 1775, and Jones was then his ' very intimate friend'); Jones, as his diaries begun at Oxford show, was a tolerably good scholar. Early in 1778, he became tutor in a Government servant's
JONES, WILLIAM (1814? - 1895), Wesleyan Reformer,' afterwards Independent minister Bunting; unlike the ' Little Wesleyan ' movement it took little root in North Wales (where Thomas Aubrey, was strong enough to check it), but in South Wales it was more successful, and received the benediction of Independents and Baptists, but not Calvinistic Methodists, save for individuals like David Charles III. William Jones was pastor of four 'Reformer' churches : Elim (Tredegar, Monmouth), Merthyr
JONES, WILLIAM (1762 - 1846), Scotch-Baptist minister, editor, and author Born 17 June 1762, at Parkside, Gresford, son of William and Mary Jones; he spent his early youth at Poulton. He moved to Chester in 1780 and was baptized there by Archibald McLean. In 1793 he opened a bookshop at Liverpool, and was appointed elder of the new church formed there by McLean and J. R. Jones 'of Ramoth ', around 1798-9. Finally, in 1812, he became minister of Windmill Street church
JONES, WILLIAM (Bleddyn; 1829? - 1903), antiquary, local historian, geologist, and collector of folk-lore Born at Beddgelert, 1829, son of John Jones, sexton (who is referred to in Charles Kingsley, Two Years Ago) and Catrin Williams. He was apprenticed to a tailor at Caernarvon in 1841, but apart from a brief spell at Portmadoc he spent his life in business at Llangollen, and died there 30 January 1903. He shared the prize with Owen Wynne Jones (Glasynys) for an essay on the antiquities of the
JONES, WILLIAM (1834 - 1895), Baptist minister . A volume of these sermons, entitled Yr Angel Mawr a'r Llyfr Bychan (Llangollen, 1899), was edited by T. T. Jones, Cardiff, and a selection of his sayings appeared under the title of Drychfeddyliau Detholedig (London, 1907). He was also well known as a lecturer on such subjects as 'Prometheus,' 'John Bunyan,' and 'Charles Dickens.'

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