Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, RICHARD (Gwyndaf Eryri; 1785 - 1848), poet, farmer, and stone-mason
JONES, RICHARD (1784 - 1840), Calvinistic Methodist minister - see JONES, LEWIS
JONES, RICHARD Maesygarnedd - see JONES, JOHN
JONES, RICHARD IDWAL MERVYN (1895 - 1937), schoolmaster, poet, and dramatist
JONES, RICHARD LEWIS (1934 - 2009), poet and farmer Richard Jones, or Dic as he was known throughout Wales, was born on Good Friday, 30 March 1934 at Pen-y-graig, a smallholding near Tre'r-ddôl in North Cardiganshire. His mother, Frances Louisa (1910-1986) was one of the daughters of the Isaac family who farmed there. She qualified as a teacher and after taking up a post at Blaen-porth school she married a local farmer, Alban Lewis (Abba) Jones
JONES, RICHARD ROBERT (Dic Aberdaron; 1779 - 1843), polyglot
JONES, ROBERT (1769 - 1835), cleric 1792, Jones was a Fellow of his college until 1806, when he became rector of Souldern, Oxfordshire. Wordsworth visited him at Souldern in 1820, and again in 1824 at the parsonage, Llanfihangel-glyn-myfyr, near Corwen. Jones remained rector of Souldern for the rest of his life, but spent various periods in North Wales. He died, unmarried, at Plas-yn-llan on 5 April 1835. He was a descendant of Richard
JONES, ROBERT (1745 - 1829), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter and author (1768), Rhuddlan (1769), Brynsiencyn (1770), Llangybi (1772-3), and Brynengan (1778). In 1768 he began to exhort among the Calvinistic Methodists and became a prominent figure in their assemblies. He preached throughout North and South Wales, and in 1779 got as far as London. He married Magdalen Prichard at Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, 2 November 1772; his wife was the daughter of Richard Griffiths, one of
JONES, ROBERT (1560 - 1615), priest, of the Society of Jesus and Superior of the English Jesuits from 1609 to 1613; was born in 1560 near Chirk, Denbighshire. Another account says Oswestry. He may have been a pupil of the martyr Richard Gwyn and was certainly acquainted with the Edwardes family of Plas Newydd yn y Waun, for he arrived at Reims on 20 August 1581 with Richard and Francis Edwardes, and at the English College, Rome, with the first named on 6
JONES, ROBERT EVAN (1869 - 1956), collector of books and manuscripts Williams (1723 - 1796) to his son Eliezer Williams from 1798 onwards. His interest and knowledge of books and manuscripts was invaluable to students and researchers, particularly in Celtic studies. He also wrote copiously on Welsh bibliography and Welsh studies in periodicals and newspapers. He married, 12 August 1920, in Maentwrog Church, Sissie Hughes, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Hughes, Llys
JONES, SAMUEL (fl. 1715-1764), Congregational minister and tutor , Llannon, Carmarthenshire, and kept a school there for twenty-two years; among his distinguished pupils were Richard Price, Owen Rees, Thomas Morgan (1720 - 1799), and Noah Jones (Walsall). He moved to Morriston c. 1766; there also he opened a school, with his son as a tutor. He was suspected by some of being an Arian but his sermons testify to his evangelical spirit and opinion. He died 1767. The burial
JONES, SAMUEL (1628 - 1697), Nonconformist minister and schoolmaster . Richard Price, James Owen, and Philip Pugh. Samuel Jones was a convinced Nonconformist, but liberal-minded and tolerant. In spite of all appeals made to him to conform he remained true to his principles to the end. His correspondence with a bishop and archdeacon of Llandaff and his letter to a friend are historical documents. Under the Act of Indulgence, 1672, he secured several licences to hold

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