Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, SAMUEL (1898 - 1974), journalist, broadcaster and Head of the BBC in Bangor Representative at a radio station that did not exist (until later in 1935) and at a location far removed from Cardiff - at Bangor. Friends consoled him by reminding him of the happy days he had spent in Bangor as a student, and of the views such as the Menai Straits. He responded “I hate the bloody ditch!” He overcame the setback. He started work as head of the new radio station in Bangor on 1 November, 1935
JONES, SARAH RHIANNON DAVIES (1921 - 2014), author and lecturer Pengwern ('The eagle of Pengwern', 1981), a novel set in the time of the Heledd saga poetry, which the author says that she wrote in response to the threat by Gwynfor Evans to go on hunger strike for a Welsh television channel. Dyddiadur Mari Gwyn ('The Diary of Mari Gwyn', 1985) is a novel dealing with the persecution of Catholics in the reign of Elizabeth 1 focusing on the life of the writer and
JONES, TERENCE GRAHAM PARRY (1942 - 2020), actor, director, writer and popular historian Terry Jones was born on 1 February 1942 in Colwyn Bay, Denbighshire, the second son of Alick George Parry-Jones, a bank clerk, and his wife Dilys Louisa (née Newnes). He first met his father on the platform of Colwyn Bay railway station when he returned from India after serving with the RAF during World War Two. When Terry was four, the family moved to Surrey where he attended primary school in
JONES, THOMAS (1648? - 1713), almanack maker, bookseller, printer, and publisher Born at Tre'r Ddôl, near Corwen, possibly on 1 May 1648. At the age of 18 he is said to have gone to London as a tailor; he is afterwards found attending fairs at Chester, Shrewsbury, Wrexham, and Bristol - possibly as a vendor of books. H. R. Plomer (Dict. of Printers and Booksellers… at work… from 1668 to 1775) connects his name with The Character of a Quack Doctor, 1676. In the autumn of 1679
JONES, THOMAS (c. 1622 - 1682), Protestant controversialist (Robert Morgan), who was bent on reannexing the rectory, led to sequestration from his living, which however he later recovered. Towards the violent anti-Popish propaganda of Titus Oates he contributed several tracts (listed in D.N.B.; there is an additional title in Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, 1680-1, 319), defending the Church of England against Rome and himself against his supposed
JONES, THOMAS (1756 - 1820), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author Born at Penucha, Caerwys, Flintshire, freehold of his father Edward, and received a classical education at Caerwys and Holywell. Refusing to prepare for holy orders, he did not go on to a university, but joined the Methodists in 1772, and in 1783 began to preach. He had the supervision of societies in Mold (1795-1804), Ruthin (1804-1806), and Denbigh (1809-1820). He married (1) 1795, Elizabeth
JONES, THOMAS (Twm Shôn Catti; 1532 - 1609), landowner, antiquary, genealogist, and bard Of Fountain Gate near Tregaron, Cardiganshire, the natural son of a Cardiganshire landowner. According to the diary of John Dee he was born 1 August or 10 August 1532 (J. Roberts and Andrew G. Watson, John Dee's Library Catalogue (1990, 45-46). Thomas Jones visited Dee in London in 1590 and Manchester in 1596, and they corresponded with each other in 1597 : Dee called him 'my cousin'. He is
JONES, THOMAS (Taliesin o Eifion; 1820 - 1876), poet the best-known of his works. He became a leading eisteddfodic figure. His 'Brwydr Crogen' is a very early example of a Welsh metrical play. He sent in an awdl to the Wrexham national eisteddfod, 1876, but died 1 June, and the chair awarded for his poem was ceremonially draped in black on the eisteddfod stage - that is why he is best remembered as 'Bardd y Gadair Ddu' (The Bard of the Black Chair).
JONES, THOMAS (Glan Alun; 1811 - 1866), Calvinistic Methodist minister and man of letters - 1908), and another married John Puleston Jones. A son, JOHN THOMAS ALUN JONES, born 23 August 1851, died 1 May 1929, became a C.M. minister and was for many years librarian and registrar of the C.M. College at Bala. A reclusive man, of fastidious literary tastes, he was deeply read in the older Puritans and in the mystics, and wrote well concerning them in periodicals. In 1908 he published a small
JONES, Sir THOMAS ARTEMUS (1871 - 1943), journalist, judge and historian posthumously in 1944, under the title Without my Wig. He contributed many articles to periodicals other than the newspapers by which he was employed, and they all reflect the experience of his humble beginnings and the deep impression which the radical-nationalist revival of the Cymru Fydd movement had upon him, as do also his pronouncements from the Bench. Some of these are listed below: in Wales, 1 (1894
JONES, THOMAS GWYNN (1871 - 1949), poet, writer, translator and scholar ); Cofiant Thomas Gee (1913); Llenyddiaeth y Cymry (1915) - vol. 1 only, to the Tudor period; Traethodau (1910); Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg y Bedwaredd Ganrif ar Bymtheg (1920); Cultural Bases (1921); Welsh Folklore and Folk-custom (1930, 2 ed. 1979). He began writing poetry about the mid-1880s, mainly in the strict metres and many of his first efforts, including prize-winning local eisteddfod entries, were
JONES, THOMAS LLEWELYN (1915 - 2009), poet and prolific writer T. Llew Jones, who published about 100 books for children and adults, was born at 1 Bwlch Melyn, Pentre-Cwrt, Carmarthenshire, 11 October 1915, the eldest son of James and Hannah Mary Jones and brother to Edwin Sieffre and Megan Eluned. His father was a weaver at the Derw Mill in Pentre-cwrt. T. Llew married Margaret Enidwen Jones, descended from the Cilie family and they had two children, Emyr

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