Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, LEWIS (d. 1646), bishop - see JONES, MICHAEL
JONES, LEWIS (d. 1646), bishop - see JONES, MICHAEL
JONES, LEWIS CARTER- - see CARTER-JONES, LEWIS
JONES, LEWIS DAVIES (Llew Tegid; 1851 - 1928), eisteddfodwr
JONES, LEWIS EVAN (d. 1860), printer - see JONES, RICHARD
JONES, MAURICE (1863 - 1957), priest and college principal Born 21 June 1863, at Trawsfynydd, Merionethshire, 2nd son of William Jones, shoemaker, and his wife Catherine. He was educated at the local school and with scholarships proceeded to Friars School, Bangor, Christ College, Brecon, where Dr. D. Lewis Lloyd was headmaster, and Jesus College, Oxford, where he graduated with 1st-class hons. in divinity, 1886. He gained the degrees of M.A. and B.D. in
JONES, MICHAEL (d. 1649), soldier Of Irish birth but Welsh family, being sixth in descent from Gruffydd Derwas, lord of Nannau and ancestor of the family of Nannau as well as (on the female side) of John Jones the regicide. His father, Welsh-born LEWIS JONES (son of John Wynn ap John) went from Merioneth to Brasenose College, Oxford, c. 1562, proceeding straight from B.A. to a Fellowship of All Souls (1569), thence to Ireland
JONES, MICHAEL (1787 - 1853), Independent minister and first principal of the Bala Independent College himself keeping a school at Neuaddlwyd. After about two years he was admitted to Wrexham Academy to study first under Jenkin Lewis and later under George Lewis. In 1814 he was ordained as successor to George Lewis at Llanuwchllyn. At that time the Welsh nonconformists of every denomination were seething with theological controversies, and it was not long before the ministry of Michael Jones provided the
JONES, MICHAEL DANIEL (1822 - 1898), Independent minister and principal of the Independent College at Bala , and at a committee held at Shrewsbury (1879) - 'The Decapitation Committee,' as his partisans called it - he was dismissed. For some time after this the Independents had two colleges at Bala, one under M. D. Jones at Bodiwan and the other, which belonged to the 'New Constitution' at Plas-yn-dre. This was in charge of Thomas Lewis (1837 - 1892), and was transferred to Bangor in 1886. In the end, both
JONES, MORGAN GLYNDWR (1905 - 1995), poet, novelist and short story writer wrote of being 'swept off my feet by the unfamiliar music' of the cywyddwyr, their brilliant imagery and 'their sharp response to the visual beauty of the world'. By the 1932 he was a member of an evening class taught by Saunders Lewis and, as he began to find his own voice as a poet, he was already translating from Welsh poetry. However, Jones never fell under the spell of Saunders Lewis politically
JONES, MORGAN HUGH (1873 - 1930), Calvinistic Methodist historian thence to Water Street church, Carmarthen, where he remained till 1906; he married a daughter of one of his predecessors, John Wyndham Lewis (they had one daughter). At Carmarthen he took a leading part in the foundation (1905) of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society, and was for twenty-one years editor of its Transactions. But he left in 1906 to become one of the tutors of the C.M. preparatory
JONES, OWEN (1787 - 1828), pioneer in Sunday school work 1820, a catechism, Arweinydd i Wybodaeth. It has been said of him that no one but Thomas Charles did more than he to promote Sunday schools in North Wales. Lewis Edwards (then only a lad of 19) published an elegy upon him in Goleuad Cymru (1829, 311), and John Hughes (1775 - 1854) of Pontrobert in 1830 published a memoir of him, with an elegy.

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