Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, RICHARD (1757? - 1814), cleric and writer Born 1757? ordained deacon (Bangor) 1782, with no degree given, but priested in 1783 as B.A. of Jesus College, Oxford; he was licensed to the curacy of Ruthin, and may well have been usher at Ruthin school (other instances of this at Ruthin are known), for his obituary in The Cambrian says he was ' critically versed in the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin languages. ' On 10 July 1806 he was instituted as
JONES, RICHARD ROBERT (Dic Aberdaron; 1779 - 1843), polyglot Liverpool in 1804 and London in 1807, and stayed for short periods at Bangor, at Caernarvon, and in Anglesey. In the course of his wanderings he found opportunities to learn Hebrew, and also modern languages, such as Spanish and Italian. The large number of books which he always carried about his person he had sometimes to sell in order to procure food and clothing, and buy back again. He took no interest
JONES, ROBERT ALBERT (1851 - 1892), barrister and educationist fund, and the interest is still used for a higher mathematics prize at the University of Wales, Bangor. He married, 26 February 1890, Harriet Agnes Thompson, daughter of Joseph Thompson, 'gentleman', of Willow Hall, Sowerby Bridge, Yorkshire. She died 4 November 1902, aged 47, and was buried at Toxteth cemetery.
JONES, ROBERT LLOYD (1878 - 1959), schoolmaster, children's writer and dramatist Born 7 December 1878 in Porthmadog, Caernarfonshire, the sixth of the ten children born to Robert Jones, master mariner, and his wife Elizabeth (née Williams). He was educated at the elementary schools in Porthmadog, Minffordd and Penrhyndeudraeth, the higher grade school, Blaenau Ffestiniog, the grammar school, Bala, and the Normal College, Bangor (1899-1901). He began his career as a teacher in
JONES, ROBERT TUDUR (1921 - 1998), theologian, church historian and public figure . Even though he gained a scholarship to Jesus College, Oxford, Tudur bowed to family pressure and entered the University of Wales, Bangor, and followed courses in Welsh, under Professor Sir Ifor Williams, and philosophy. He graduated with First-Class Honours in Philosophy in 1942. He went on to train for the Independent ministry in Bala Bangor College in Bangor and was steeped in church history by
JONES, SAMUEL (1898 - 1974), journalist, broadcaster and Head of the BBC in Bangor enlisted in the Royal Navy and spent nearly two years as 'Ordinary Signalman.' He left the Navy on 10 February, 1919. In the autumn of 1919 he resumed his formal education at the University College of North Wales, Bangor. He played for the College Rugby club and, later, the Hockey club. He won his Education Certificate - second class - in his third year 1922-23. He graduated the following year, 1924, in
JONES, SARAH RHIANNON DAVIES (1921 - 2014), author and lecturer 'christendom' by the Headmaster E. Pugh Parry, and those lessons later inspired research for several of her novels. She was also introduced by her Welsh teacher, Aneurin Owen, to works of literature which influenced her. She went on to University College Bangor in 1940 and there she came into contact with a number of influential people such as Professor Ifor Williams, Professor Thomas Parry and Professor R.T
JONES, SHÂN EMLYN (1936 - 1997), singer lecturer Ceridwen Lloyd Davies of Bangor, who offered to teach her, and as a pupil at Pwllheli Grammar School she was strongly influenced by the music master John Newman. While still in her teens she appeared on radio and television, travelling to London at the age of fifteen to sing on a TV programme. She featured on the front page of the Welsh newspaper Y Cymro on 26 February 1954, dressed in her Welsh
JONES, THOMAS (c. 1622 - 1682), Protestant controversialist , but was made chaplain at Ludlow to Richard, earl Carbery, the president of the revived Council of Wales, and in 1663 domestic and naval chaplain to the duke of York. On 11 November 1665 his patron's influence secured him presentation by the Crown to the rectory of Llandyrnog, Denbighshire, during an interregnum in the see of Bangor, to which the living had formerly been annexed; and when in 1666 he
JONES, Sir THOMAS ARTEMUS (1871 - 1943), journalist, judge and historian posts which he held were the Readership of the Middle Temple and the Vice-Presidency of the University College of North Wales, Bangor. He died 15 October 1943 and was buried in Bangor Public Cemetery.
JONES, THOMAS GWYNN (1871 - 1949), poet, writer, translator and scholar later published in Gwlad y Gân a Chaniadau Eraill (1902). W.J. Gruffydd in 1949 referred to the poem as juvenilia but recalled its effect on him as a thunderbolt. In 1902 also his poem 'Ymadawiad Arthur' won the chair at the Bangor national eisteddfod, under the adjudication of John Morris-Jones, a poem which secured for him a unique place in the emerging world of new Welsh poetry. He again won the
JONES, THOMAS LLECHID (1867 - 1946), cleric, author and bibliographer Born 4 December 1867, at Tyddyn Uchaf, Llanllechid, Caernarfonshire, son of Hugh Jones and Catherine his wife. He was educated at the University College, Bangor and St. David's College, Lampeter, where he took his B.A. degree in 1896. In the following year he was ordained deacon with licence to the curacy of St. David's, Blaenau Ffestiniog. He proceeded to priest's orders in 1899, and became

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