Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, ISAAC (1804 - 1850), cleric and translator Hebrew scholarship, he was ordained deacon in September 1836, and priest in September 1837. He was licensed to the curacy of Llanfihangel Genau'r Glyn in 1836, and after serving there and at Capel Bangor he went, in February 1840, as curate to Llanedwen and Llanddaniel-fab in Anglesey. He remained there till his death on 2 December 1850, and was buried at Llanidan. He translated two volumes of Gurney's
JONES, JAMES IDWAL (1900 - 1982), headteacher and Labour politician He was born on 30 June 1900, the son of James Jones and Elizabeth Bowyer and was brought up in the Welsh community of Rhos. He was a brother to Thomas William Jones MP, Baron Maelor (1898-1984). He was educated at Ruabon Grammar School and Bangor Normal College. He later gained the degree of B.Sc.(Econ) as an external student of the University of London in 1936. He began his career as a certified
JONES, JAMES IFANO (1865 - 1955), librarian and bibliographer writer. In 1905 his prize play in the Bangor national eisteddfod of 1902 was published, entitled Rhys ap Tewdwr Mawr (a tragedy in three acts). He also published a number of poems, tunes, articles, reviews, and special bibliographies in Welsh and English periodicals. He was a keen eisteddfodwr, a member of the Gorsedd of Bards and an enthusiastic supporter of its supposed antiquity. From 1901 he
JONES, JOHN (Ioan Bryngwyn Bach; 1818 - 1898), working man, astronomer, and linguist Born at Bryngwyn Bach, Dwyran, Anglesey. He commenced life as a farm labourer but was a slate loader at Port Penrhyn, Bangor, from 1848, and studied in his spare time. An excellent astronomer, he constructed two telescopes for himself. A good linguist, he owned twenty-six dictionaries and read the Scriptures in the Welsh, English, Greek, and Hebrew Testaments at his breakfast table. He was also a
JONES, JOHN (1837 - 1906), minister (Presb.) and writer ordained in 1863, but apart from a short period (1872-78) when he was pastor of Capel y Graig near Bangor, he did not serve as a minister of a church. He married a daughter of David Jones, Treborth (1805 - 1868). For some years after 1878 he was manager of a private (family) bank ' Pugh, Jones & Co. ' in Bethesda, but returned to Pwllheli (where he had lived before going to Capel y Graig), and died there
JONES, JOHN (1775 - 1834), cleric; Christened 28 December 1775, son of Roger Jones of Cefn Rug, Corwen, and Elizabeth his wife. He was educated at Ruthin School and Jesus College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1798 and M.A. in 1902. He was ordained deacon in 1799 and priest in 1800 by bishop Cleaver of Bangor, and on the latter occasion he preached the ordination sermon. He was licensed to the curacy of Gyffylliog; in 1802 he
JONES, JOHN (1650 - 1727), dean of Bangor, educationist, and antiquary Llanfair-yn-Neubwll and Llanfihangel-yn-Nhywyn. In 1673 he was collated treasurer of Bangor cathedral and also to Llandecwyn and Llanfihangel-y-traethau; he received Llandegfan in 1683 and Aber in 1684. Bishop Humphrey Humphreys, in 1689, persuaded him to accept the deanery of Bangor, to which Gyffin, Llanfihangel Ysgeifiog, and Llanffinan were annexed. Other preferments were the prebend of Llanfair (St
JONES, JOHN (Vulcan; 1825 - 1889), Wesleyan minister (1858), Tre-garth (1860), Holyhead (1863), Liverpool (1866), Tre-garth (1869), Bangor (1872), Rhyl (1875), Shaw Street, Liverpool (1878), Bangor (1881), Caernarvon (1884), and Tre-garth (1885). He retired in 1887 and died 17 December 1889. He was interested in poetry, politics, and music, but his chief pre-occupations were philosophy and theology and he wrote a great deal on these subjects to the
JONES, JOHN (1786 - 1865), printer and inventor and Bangor). John Jones produced the smallest books ever printed in Welsh; but his printing masterpieces were Mawl yr Arglwydd by John Ellis (1816) and Gronoviana (1860), the first edition of the complete works of Goronwy Owen. These poems were collected by John Jones' son Edward (1826-81), father of Griffith Hartwell Jones, author of Celtic Britain and the Pilgrim Movement (1915). John Jones who
JONES, JOHN (1786? - 1863), cleric and antiquary son of John Jones, Lleddfa, Machynlleth. He went up from Friars School, Bangor, to Jesus College, Oxford, in February 1804 (during the same year he was admitted to Lincoln's Inn), and graduated in 1808. From 1809 to 1815 he was curate of Llanfihangel Ysgeifiog (Anglesey), from 1815 to 1819 curate of Llanfair-is-gaer, and from 1819 rector of Llanllyfni (both in Caernarfonshire). He published seven
JONES, JOHN CHARLES (1904 - 1956), Bishop of Bangor Memorial College, Mukono, Uganda, as tutor in theology. From 1939-45 he was warden and sole administrator at the college. With the assistance of his wife Mary, daughter of William Lewis of Carmarthen and a professional nurse, he established a section to educate the wives of native clergy. He returned to Wales in 1945 as vicar of Llanelli. He was enthroned as Bishop of Bangor, Epiphany 1949 - the first
JONES, JOHN DAVID RHEINALLT (1884 - 1953), philanthropist, founder and Director of the South African Institute of Race Relations Born 5 July 1884 in Llanrug, Caernarfonshire, the youngest son of John Eiddon Jones and Sarah Jones. He was educated at Friars School, Bangor, but in 1897 became a boarder at David Hughes' grammar school, Beaumaris. It was there, in 1900, that he won a School Certificate in English, history, arithmetic, Latin, Welsh (with distinction). He emigrated to South Africa in October 1905. According to

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