Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JOHNS, DAVID (fl. 1569-1586), cleric and poet period, e.g. that of Siôn Dafydd Rhys to the grammar he published in 1592. The voluminous notes in the manuscript are also important. Two of his prose translations from Latin are to be found in Peniarth MS 159 under the titles 'Gweddi Saint Awgwstin' and 'Dengran gwahaniaeth kristnogion y byd.' Some writers have confused him with 'Syr' Thomas Jones.
JONES, Syr THOMAS (d. 1622?), cleric and poet , 282), taken he alleges, ' from the book of Harri Siôn of Pontypool ' - how truthfully we cannot tell, any more than we can check W. O. Pughe's statement in Cambrian Biography (but derived in all probability from Iolo) that Thomas Jones took part in an eisteddfod at Llandaff in 1588. It is, however, certain that a Thomas Johns was vicar of Llandeilo Bertholeu (and in residence there) in 1560 (Browne
JONES, CAIN, almanac-maker Son of John Edwards ('Siôn y Potiau'). The date of his birth is not known, but his brother Abel (who became a Baptist minister at Merthyr Tydfil) was christened at Llansantffraid Glyn Ceiriog, 21 December 1740, and it may be argued that Cain was senior to Abel. Upon the death of Gwilym Howell, in 1775, he undertook the editorship of the Welsh almanac Tymmhorol, ac wybrennol Newyddion. He was
JONES, DAFYDD (Dafydd Siôn Siâms; 1743 - 1831), musician, poet, and book-binder
JONES, DAFYDD (1711 - 1777), hymn-writer to live c. 1763 and died 30 August 1777; he was buried at Crug-y-bar. He is remembered as a hymn-writer. A hymn written by him appeared in one of the parts of Williams of Pantycelyn's Aleluia, 1747. He began to translate into Welsh the psalms and hymns of Isaac Watts and these were published in two volumes: Salmau Dafydd, 1753 (2nd imp., 1766) and Hymnau a Chaniadau Ysprydol, 1775. He also
JONES, DAFYDD RHYS (1877 - 1946), schoolmaster and musician Born 10 June 1877 in Maes Comet, Drofa Dulog, Patagonia, one of the 10 children of Dafydd Jones and Rachel (née Williams) his wife. The father was among the first group to land on the beaches of Patagonia. He came from the Blaenporth area, Cardiganshire, of the same family as John Jones, Blaenannerch (1807 - 1875). His mother's family had emigrated from Bryn-mawr to the Welsh settlement in Rio
JONES, DANIEL OWEN (1880 - 1951) Madagascar, minister (Congl.) and missionary Born at Tŷ-gwyn, Rhiw-Siôn, Cwm-cou, Cardiganshire, near Newcastle Emlyn, 23 February 1880, son of David and Rebecca Jones. He was educated at Tre-wen British School. At 16 years of age he began preaching in Tre-wen chapel under the ministry of David Evans (who later became his brother-in-law). He received further education at Newcastle Emlyn grammar school, the Old College School in Carmarthen
JONES, DAVID (1708? - 1785) Trefriw, poet, collector of manuscripts, publisher, and printer Little is known about his birth and early years. His father's name is given as Siôn ap Dafydd in NLW MS 476E and NLW MS 3107B, and his mother's as Jane ferch Elizabeth Rowland in B.M. Add. MS. 14888, and Jane ferch Dafydd ap Sion in NLW MS 3107B. He married Gwen ferch Richard ap Rhys (NLW MS 3107B), but the date of his marriage is uncertain; Trefriw parish records note a marriage between a David
JONES, DAVID (1736 - 1810), Methodist cleric short booklets; (a) Llythyr oddi wrth Dafydd ab Ioan y Pererin at Ioan ab Gwilim (Trevecka, 1784) which contains a short memoir of Christopher Bassett, and (b) A Funeral Sermon … of the late Countess Dowager of Huntingdon (London, 1791).
JONES, DAVID (Dafydd Brydydd Hir, Dafydd Siôn Pirs; 1732 - 1782?), poet, tailor, and schoolmaster
JONES, DAVID RICHARD (1832 - 1916), poet D.R. Jones to be a good poet. Before this the author had published Hanes Bywyd yr 'Hen Sion Llwyd' (Cambria, Wisconsin, 1897), whilst ' Rhiangerdd Mona'r Gelli,' (which had taken the prize at an eisteddfod in Cambria) appeared in Y Drych, 30 July and 6 August 1903, and a poem ' Yr Ysgrwd yn y Gilgell ' in the same newspaper on 24 July 1902.
JONES, DAVID WATKIN (Dafydd Morganwg; 1832 - 1905), poet, historian, and geologist

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