Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, GWILYM CLEATON (1875 - 1961) Cape Town, Johannesburg, bank manager Race Relations. He had four sisters. He married (1) Esther Anne Davies, Llandeilo; one son and four daughters were born to them. Their son died in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1941 where he was serving as a captain in the Transvaal Scottish Regiment. After his wife's death in 1940 he married (2) Mrs. Alice Lilian Williams, Johannesburg. Cleaton Jones died in Cape Town 30 September 1961 and was cremated.
JONES, HARRY LONGUEVILLE (1806 - 1870), archaeologist and educationalist first of a series of strokes which left him an invalid. He spent his last years mainly in Kensington, London, and remained intellectually active, publishing a collection of his essays shortly before his death at home at 1 Claremont Terrace, Newland Street on 16 November 1870. Jones was buried five days later at All Souls cemetery, Kensal Green. He was survived by his widow and daughters Fanny
JONES, Sir HENRY (1852 - 1922), philosopher the progressive realization of an all-inclusive God of Love, ever moving and yet perfect. His writings were many and varied, the most important being Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher (1891), Lotze (1895), and A Faith that Enquires (1922) - Gifford Lectures delivered at Glasgow in 1920-1. Profoundly interested in social affairs and an ardent liberal, he founded the Glasgow Civic
JONES, HUGH WILLIAM (1802 - 1873), Baptist minister and editor Philip Davies. He died 1 June 1873. He had been twice married; his first wife was a daughter of Titus Lewis, his second the widowed daughter-in-law of Joshua Watkins.
JONES, HUMPHREY OWEN (1878 - 1912), chemist and on the Italian side of Mont Blanc. He married, 1 August 1912, Muriel Gwendolen Edwards, of Bangor, Fellow of the University of Wales and a fellow worker. They both fell to death on 15 August 1912, while climbing on Mont Rouge de Peuteret, and were buried at Courmayeur, Northern Italy.
JONES, JACK (1884 - 1970), author and playwright and India before resuming work as a miner at Merthyr Tydfil. In 1908, he married (1) Laura Grimes Evans of Builth Wells. By the outbreak of war in 1914 he was employed at a colliery near Pontypool because he found that his small wage as a bark-stripper at Builth was insufficient to keep himself, his wife, two sons and a daughter. As a member of the army reserve, he was called up immediately: he was
JONES, JAMES IFANO (1865 - 1955), librarian and bibliographer of his age, was truly remarkable. He was twice married: (1) to Nellie George, daughter of Thomas George, ' fineworker ', 20 January 1901 at Neath registry office. She died in 1911; (2) to Jessie Mary, second daughter of Thomas and Mary Charles, Havod House, Blaenavon, who died 9 June 1953. He died in his home in Penarth, 7 March 1955.
JONES, JOHN (1766? - 1827), classical scholar and Unitarian divine Christ, 1812; A new version of the first three Chapters of Genesis, 1819; A series of … Facts, demonstrating the Truth of the Christian Religion, 1820; A Greek and English Lexicon, 1823; A Reply to … 'a New Trial of the Witnesses', 1824; The principles of Lexicography, 1824; Three Letters in which is demonstrated the Genuineness of 1 … John v. 7, 1825; The Tyro's Greek and English Lexicon, 2nd ed
JONES, JOHN (1796 - 1857), Calvinistic Methodist minister, a celebrated and unusually forceful preacher Born 1 March 1796 at Tan-y-castell, Dolwyddelan, Caernarfonshire, son of John and Elen Jones, and brother of David Jones of Treborth (1805 - 1868). He lost his father when he was 12 years of age. He worked, first of all, on the new main road between Capel Curig and lake Ogwen and then in a quarry at Trefriw. Under the influence of the Beddgelert revival (1819) he joined the congregation at
JONES, JOHN (1807 - 1875), printer Born 13 August 1807, at Tyddyn Siôn, Aber-erch, Caernarfonshire, son of Ellis and Catherine Jones. For a while he had a printing establishment in London, and it was here that the Welsh monthly called Y Cymro was printed, 1830-1. Returning to Wales, he joined the staff of the Carnarvon Herald, and spent the greater part of his life in Caernarvon serving that newspaper. He died 20 December 1875.
JONES, JOHN (1820 - 1907), minister (B) and historian ' meeting house in Llandrindod within five weeks of his death on 1 March 1907. He left one daughter, Mrs. Annie E. Skewis (died 1910) and a son. He travelled widely in Wales and in England to collect funds to clear the debts of the chapels which he had helped to build. In Wales and the Border he was known as Jones the Rock, and was described as ' the nonconformist bishop of Radnorshire.' He published two
JONES, JOHN DANIEL (1865 - 1942), Congregational minister same year. In 1898 he followed J. Ossian Davies as minister of Richmond Hill Church, Bournemouth, where he remained until his retirement to Bryn Banon, near Bala. He married, (1) Emily Cunliffe, of Chorley (died 1917), and had a son, who died in Africa, and a daughter, Myfanwy, who died soon after her father, and, (2) Edith Margery Thompson, of Bournemouth, in 1933. He won for himself a remarkably

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