Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JARVICE, WILLIAM (d. 1743), Independent minister or 1713) as joint minister, with Reynallt Wilson, of the Llanbryn-mair congregation which, at that time, worshipped in the Tŷ Mawr conventicle; after Wilson's death, some time between 1715 and 1720, it fell to Jarvice's lot to minister to all the congregations in the county. About 1733 he moved to Llanfyllin and confined his activities to that congregation. It is thought by some that he left
JONES, ELIAS HENRY (1883 - 1942), administrator and author repatriated only a fortnight before the Armistice. The book was reprinted seventeen times and then ran into three editions. He married in 1913 Mair Olwen, the youngest daughter of Dr Griffith Evans of Brynkynallt, Bangor.
JONES, EVAN (1836 - 1915), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and publicist Born 27 October 1836, at Esgair Goch, Pennal, Meironnydd, son of John Jones of Maestirau, Darowen, and his wife, Catherine Jervis, of Llanbryn-mair; his maternal grandmother was a sister to Abraham Wood, a preacher in lady Huntingdon's connexion. His early education was soon over, and in 1849 he was apprenticed to Adam Evans, a Machynlleth printer. He subsequently worked as a printer at Bethesda
JONES, IEUAN SAMUEL (1918 - 2004), minister (Cong.) married Mair Arfona (or Fona as he called her) from Tremadog. Her amiability and cheerfulness and the strength of her great faith in no small measure contributed to her husband being able to accomplish his work so effectively. It was a heartfelt pain for him to lose her in 1993, after a brave and hard fight against cancer, when they were living in Swansea. Ieuan was ordained as a minister at Seilo
JONES, JOHN EDWARD (Iorwerth Twrog; 1886 - 1934), schoolmaster, poet, and penillion -singer training at the Normal College, Bristol, after which he worked as a schoolmaster at Caernarvon, Llantwit Fardre, Glamorganshire, Llanwddyn, Arddleen, and Oakley Park, Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire. He joined the army in the 1914-19 war, and on demobilisation went to Bont, Llanbryn-mair. In due course, he was transferred to Pennal, Meironnydd, and went to live at Tŷ Coch, Aberdovey, where he spent the last
JONES, JOHN PULESTON (1862 - 1925), Calvinistic Methodist minister, writer, and theologian Born at Berth, Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd, 26 February 1862, son of Evan Jones, carpenter and builder, and Mary Ann Puleston (Mair Clwyd), sister of Sir John Puleston. The family moved to Bala, and when the boy was 18 months old he met with an accident which resulted in total blindness. His mother set to work and taught him to do everything possible for himself without expecting, or getting, help
JONES, RICHARD LEWIS (1934 - 2009), poet and farmer Lewis (1980-) and Esyllt Mair (1980-1981). Esyllt was born with Downes Syndrome and died within a few months. The poem which Dic composed in her memory is regarded as one of the most powerful elegies in the Welsh language. Two of the children, the actress and singer Delyth Wyn and the television personality and musician Brychan Llyr have become familiar voices and faces on the Welsh media. Following
JONES, THOMAS (1910 - 1972), Welsh scholar seriously ill in 1965 and heart problems obliged him to take early retirement in 1970. Nevertheless, he continued his work in spite of increasing debility and in 1971-72 he was able to complete his edition of the first part of 'Ystoryaeu Seint Greal', the Welsh translation of La queste del Saint Graal, which was published in 1992. Thomas Jones married Mary (Mair) Sivell in 1947 and they had two daughters
JONES, THOMAS LLEWELYN (1915 - 2009), poet and prolific writer Llewelyn and Iolo Ceredig who inherited many of the father's gifts and contributed significantly to national life in their various activities, Emyr as a writer, teacher and lecturer, and Iolo as an international chess player. T. Llew Jones was educated at Capel Mair and Saron primary schools and Llandysul secondary school. He left school aged 16 and for a while he was a pupil-teacher at his old school in
JONES, WILLIAM SAMUEL (Wil Sam; 1920 - 2007), playwright visitor to Ireland, where he attended Dublin theatres, and Irish nationalism was a strong influence on him. In 1953 he married Dora Ann Jones and they made their home in the Crown (formerly a public house). They had two daughters, Mair and Elin. Wil Sam set up his own garage where over the years he found ample material for his plays in the colourful characters he met, listening to their stories and
LEWIS, DAVID (Ap Ceredigion; 1870 - 1948), cleric, poet, and hymn-writer of B.A. in 1896. In December of the same year he was made deacon by Bishop Richard Lewis of Llandaff, and licensed to the curacy of Ynys-hir, Rhondda. He received priest's orders in 1897, and in the same year went as curate to Cwm-parc and Treorchy. From there he went to Llanbryn-mair in 1900, and thence to Mallwyd in 1905. In 1906 he obtained a curacy at Llanllechid, and in 1915 he was appointed
LEWIS, JOHN SAUNDERS (1893 - 1985), politician, critic and dramatist , Cumberland, on 31 July 1924, and they had one daughter, Mair, born in 1926. In Swansea he began his literary and critical work in earnest. As well as his first Welsh-language play, Gwaed yr Uchelwyr (1922), he wrote the pamphlet An Introduction to Contemporary Welsh Literature (1926) and the pioneering Freudian study Williams Pantycelyn (1927), in which he argued that Wales's foremost hymn-writer could

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