Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JOHN, GEORGE (1918 - 1994), minister (Bapt) and college principal of his own sermons and talks entitled Gardd Duw was published in 1999 under the editorship of Desmond Davies. His other publications are sparce, although, for ten years, he was a member of the panel entrusted with the translation of the Apocrypha for new Welsh translation of the Bible, Y Beibl Cymraeg Newydd and he prepared the draft translation of some of the longest books, including 1 Macabees
JOHNES, THOMAS (1748 - 1816), landowner and man of letters Cardiganshire, 1800-16. Johnes married (1) 1779, Maria Burgh of Monmouth (died 1782), daughter of the Rev. Henry Burgh, Monmouth, and (2) in 1782, his cousin Jane Johnes of Dolau Cothi, Carmarthenshire (1759 - 1834). In 1783 he settled at Hafod Uchtryd, near Cwmystwyth, Cardiganshire, and devoted himself to improving the estate. A new mansion was built for him by Thomas Baldwin (see D.N.B.); this was extended
JOHNS, DAVID (fl. 1569-1586), cleric and poet A native of Merioneth. In a letter to be found in B.M. MS. 9817 he calls himself 'David Johns al's ap John ap Hugh ap Howel,' and 'Howel ap Jenkyn o Ynys y Maengwyn,' in whose praise Tudur Aled had written, was his ancestor. David ap John was ordained deacon on 1 November 1569, and priest (' David ap John, alias Johns ') Christmas Day 1570. He was collated to Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, 22 September
JONES family Llwyn-rhys, -natured,' and adds that it was he who got him introduced to Roger Coke, grandson of Sir Edward Coke. He was living in Clerkenwell in 1696. It is difficult to compile a full bibliography of his writings, as he sometimes wrote anonymously, but his literary activity between 1697 and 1720 can be summarized thus: (1) The Secret History of White-Hall from the Restoration to the abdication of … King James
JONES family, smiths, poets, musicians and preachers Cilie, published a pamphlet on the Old Testament, Llên a Dysgeidiaeth Cyfnod: I: Hanes Israel (1929); he prepared entries for the Geiriadur Beiblaidd (1926); he left a manuscript which was published in 1977 under the title Hunangofiant gwas fferm; he published a short drama, 'Y ngwr i' in Y Llenor (October 1926); his englynion and light verse were published in Awen ysgafn y Cilie, 1976. He married (1) in 1906
JONES, ALFRED ERNEST (1879 - 1958), psychoanalyst and Sigmund Freud's official biographer before being elected a Fellow of his old college in London. Late in his life, he received many honours including the F.R.C.P. (1942), the D.Sc. (Wales) honoris causa, (1954), but long before that he had been elected an honorary member of several foreign psychoanalytical Societies. In February 1917, he married (1) Morfydd Llwyn Owen, and after her death in September 1918, he married (2) Katherine Jökl
JONES, Sir CYNAN (ALBERT) EVANS (Cynan; 1895 - 1970), poet, dramatist and eisteddfodwr Welsh plays on behalf of the Lord Chamberlain, a post which he held till the abolition of censorship in 1968. Cynan was awarded the degree of D.Litt. honoris causa by the University of Wales in 1961, and in 1963 was elected honorary freeman of his native town of Pwllheli. He was appointed C.B.E. in 1949, and knighted in 1969. He married (1) Ellen J. Jones of Pwllheli in 1921, and there was a son and
JONES, DAFYDD (1711 - 1777), hymn-writer Born 1711 at Cwm-gogerddan, Caeo, Carmarthenshire, son of Daniel John, drover. He too was a drover, and was converted in Troed-rhiw-dalar chapel while returning home after a cattle-drove. He joined the Crug-y-bar Independent church of which he was a prominent member for the rest of his life. He married (1) Ann Jones of Llanddewibrefi, and (2) - Price of Hafod Dafolog, Llanwrda. He went to Hafod
JONES, DAFYDD RHYS (1877 - 1946), schoolmaster and musician . At his suggestion Cymdeithas Cymry Ariannin was formed during the national eisteddfod in Denbigh in 1939, and he was elected its president. After retiring he farmed Maesybeudy, Pontrhydygroes, and he took a particular interest in agriculture. He married twice: (1) in 1902, Jane daughter of John and Mary Morgan, Hafodnewydd, who died in 1904; they had one daughter; (2) in 1927, Daisy, daughter of
JONES, DANIEL OWEN (1880 - 1951) Madagascar, minister (Congl.) and missionary that same year. His first station was Ambohimanga, the old capital, where he ministered to eight churches and a school. On 1 May 1912, at Faravohitra Memorial Church, Antananarivo, he married Hilda Victoria Smith, a member of the Anglican church at Watford, who had travelled out there in March to marry him. They had four daughters. He was moved to Ambopotsy in 1915 to superintend a wide circle of
JONES, DAVID (1736 - 1810), Methodist cleric priest in 1760, and was curate of Trefddyn and Caldicot, Monmouth, the same year. He then went to a parish near Bristol, moving to Crudwell, Wiltshire, in 1764. There he came into contact with the countess of Huntingdon, and in 1767 was given the living of Llan-gan, Glamorganshire, by lady Charlotte Edwin. He married (1) Sinah Bowen of Gwaunifor (died 1792), and (2) Mrs. Bowen Parry of Maenorowen
JONES, DAVID (Welsh Freeholder; 1765 - 1816), barrister and author , and practised in London and on the Oxford and South Wales circuits. In 1800 he graduated from Caius College, Cambridge (M.A. in 1803). Under the pseudonym of ' Welsh Freeholder ' he championed the cause of freedom against the attacks of Samuel Horsley, bishop of S. Davids, in a series of pamphlets: (1) A Letter to the Right Rev. Samuel, Lord Bishop of St. David's, 1791, (2) Thoughts on the Riots at

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