Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, RICHARD (1780 - 1853), itinerant Independent preacher Born at Tŷ Du, Llwyngwril, Meironnydd, 1780. He was brought up as a Calvinistic Methodist but the family seceded from that connexion, in disapproval of church discipline imposed on one of the sons. Richard Jones then invited the Rev. Hugh Pugh of Brithdir to come over to Llwyngwril to preach, and this was the beginning of the Independent church in that village. Richard Jones was totally
JONES, RICHARD (Gwyndaf Eryri; 1785 - 1848), poet, farmer, and stone-mason
JONES, RICHARD (Dofwy; 1863 - 1956), folk poet
JONES, RICHARD Maesygarnedd - see JONES, JOHN
JONES, RICHARD (1848 - 1915), itinerant bookseller Born 24 August 1848 at Ty'n-y-fron, Clipiau, Aberangell, Merionethshire, the son of Richard Jones, farmer, and his wife Lowri (née Hughes). His mother hailed from Cwmtirmynach, Bala. He originally intended to follow his elder brother, Robert, into the ministry, but because of his poor health and a lack of education he had to abandon this path. He was persuaded by friends to become an itinerant
JONES, RICHARD (Glan Alaw; 1838 - 1925), minister (Presb.)
JONES, RICHARD (1784 - 1840), Calvinistic Methodist minister - see JONES, LEWIS
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 (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 (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

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