Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUGHES, ROBERT (Robin Ddu yr Ail o Fôn; 1744 - 1785), poet Born at Ceint Bach, Penmynydd, Anglesey. He was taught by Ellis Thomas, curate of Llanfair Mathafarn Eithaf and was trained as a lawyer's clerk in Emrys Lewis of Trysglwyn's office at Beaumaris. He was a schoolmaster successively at Penmynydd, Heneglwys, Cerrig-ceinwen, Bodedern, and Amlwch; from 1763 to 1783 he was clerk to Ratcliffe Sidebottom, barrister-at-law, of Essex Court, Temple, London
JAMES, DAVID EMRYS (Dewi Emrys; 1881 - 1952), minister (Congl.), writer and poet Born 26 May 1881 at Majorca House, New Quay, Cardiganshire, son of Thomas Emrys James, a Congl. minister in Llandudno at the time, and Mary Ellen (née Jones), his wife, the daughter of a master mariner. The mother returned to New Quay to give birth to the child who was named David Edward, but the name Emrys was adopted later. When he was 7 years old his father received a call to be pastor of
JAMES, EDWARD (1839 - 1904), Congregational minister Born at Llanfachraeth, Anglesey, 12 June 1839, the eldest child of John and Margaret James, and brother of O. Waldo James. He became a member at Bodedern in 1853, and started to preach at Tabernacle, Holyhead, in 1858, under the ministry of William Griffith. In 1859, at the request of his intimate friend William Ambrose (Emrys), Portmadoc, he moved to Gorseddau, near Penmorfa, to conduct
JOHN, EWART STANLEY (1924 - 2007), theologian, Welsh Congregationalist minister, college professor and principal who, on occasions, in spite of his disciplined and controlled approach, would be utterly overwhelmed by the nature of the faith to which he dedicated his whole life to proclaim and elucidate. His latter years were spent at Y Gilfach Glyd, Heol Emrys, Fishguard. He died at Withybush Hospital, Haverfordwest on Friday, 24 August 2007, and his funeral service was held at Parc Gwyn Cremtorium chapel
JONES, EMRYS (1920 - 2006), geographer Emrys Jones was born at 3 Henry Street, Aberaman, Aberdare, Glamorganshire, 17 August 1920. His parents were Samuel and Annie (née Williams) Jones. The geologist Sir Alwyn Williams, his mother's nephew, was a cousin. From his upbringing in the mining valleys, and like many of his contemporaries of the depression years, he inherited a tradition of total commitment to Wales, its language and
JONES, GLANVILLE REES JEFFREYS (1923 - 1996), historical geographer himself contributed, was published in his memory. Glanville Jones married, first Margaret Rosina Ann Stevens in 1949 (marriage dissolved 1958); second, Pamela Winship, 1959, with whom he had two children, Sarah Catryn and David Emrys Jeffreys. He died at Leeds on 23 July 1996, and the funeral service at St Margaret's Church was followed by cremation at Rawden. Selected essays published in P. S. Barnwell
JONES, GWILYM EIRWYN (EIRWYN PONTSHÂN; 1922 - 1994), carpenter, entertainer, nationalist Waunwen in Talgarreg, where he had a workshop in the village. The main influences on him there were the headmaster of the local school, Tom Stephens, and Dewi Emrys, who lived there for eleven years in Y Bwthyn. Eirwyn attended Dewi's evening classes and was a member of his drama company. The family moved in 1959 to a smallholding on the outskirts of the village called Black Lion. Eirwyn changed the
JONES, JOHN EMRYS (1914 - 1991), secretary and organiser of Labour Party Wales dole queue in the Cynon Valley in the 1930s; this was to become a major influence on his thinking and political outlook. In 1942 he left his post at Aberaman station to move to Cardiff where he held a number of positions under the NUR and was elected a member of Cardiff City Council - the youngest member of the council at the time. Emrys Jones was the first full-time, salaried regional organiser for
JONES, JOSEPH (1786? - 1856), mine steward, and eisteddfodwr Nicander was chaired in preference to Emrys, a verdict that led to a long war in the newspapers, a verdict also that has been universally condemned by later critics. Joseph Jones died on 23 March 1856, and was buried at Amlwch on the 28th, Nicander officiating.
JONES, MICHAEL DANIEL (1822 - 1898), Independent minister and principal of the Independent College at Bala opposition. He was also an out-and-out nationalist, the father of the nationalist renaissance in Wales; he loathed the English -worshipping Welshman, and it has been said that ' the credit should be given chiefly to him and to Emrys ap Iwan for transforming Welsh patriotism into a vigorous practical nationalism. ' He died 2 December 1898 and was buried in the Old Chapel burial ground at Llanuwchllyn.
JONES, ROBERT AMBROSE (1848 - 1906), Calvinistic Methodist minister, man of letters, and publicist in predominantly Welsh -speaking localities, and as a result he was refused ordination at Llanidloes (1881), but after a keen controversy he was ordained at Mold (1883). He served as pastor at Ruthin and at Trefnant, and in 1900 he moved to Rhewl, where he died 6 January 1906, and where he lies buried. He was never married. The late T. Gwynn Jones appended to his biography of Emrys ap Iwan, 1912, a
JONES, THOMAS GWYNN (1871 - 1949), poet, writer, translator and scholar , Aberystwyth, in 1913, and promoted to the Gregynog Chair in Welsh literature in 1919 - its only occupant ever - which he held until his retirement in 1937. He married in June 1899 Margaret Jane Davies : they had a daughter and 2 sons. He died at his home in Aberystwyth 7 March 1949 aged 77 and was buried in Aberystwyth cemetery. T. Gwynn Jones was influenced by Emrys ap Iwan (R. Ambrose Jones), early in his

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