Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, WILLIAM (1675? - 1749), mathematician ' nickname, ' Pabo,' for William Jones. The father was John George; the mother was Elizabeth Rowland, of the family of Bodwigan, Llanddeusant (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 3), and Elizabeth's mother was of the family of Tregaian and therefore, according to Lewis Morris (Add. M.L., p. 190), related to the Morris family's father and mother. He was at school at Llanfechell, and showed such skill as a calculator
JONES, WILLIAM (1718 - 1773?), early Methodist exhorter, and possibly the first Anglesey Methodist way, other evidence connecting him with Liverpool), was alive in February 1779. It may be noted in passing that he and the Cymmrodor William Lloyd (1717 - 1777) of Cowden were cousins - their mothers were sisters. See J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 93.
JONES, WILLIAM (1764 - 1822), hymn writer Born at Cynwyd, Meironnydd. He went to Bala as a lad, and was a weaver in a factory belonging to Simon Lloyd; he became a Calvinistic Methodist elder. In 1819 he published Aberth Moliant, neu Ychydig Hymnau; one or more of these hymns of his will be found in practically all our present-day hymnaries. He died 2 May 1822, aged 58.
JONES, WILLIAM COLLISTER (1772 - ?), printer Christened 12 July 1772, son of William and Sarah Jones, Chester. W. C. Jones and Thomas Crane were printing Welsh books in partnership from about 1796; in 1797 they began to print George Lewis, Drych Ysgrythyrol. In 1798 they arranged to print Welsh religious works for Thomas Charles, Bala, and Thomas Jones, Denbigh; in that year, however, the name of Crane disappears from the imprints. W. C
JONES, WILLIAM ELLIS (Cawrdaf; 1795 - 1848), poet and man of letters leaders of the 'Little Wesley' schism]. He was enrolled as a member of several Cymreigyddion societies and wrote awdlau for eisteddfodic competitions on such subjects as 'A Welshman's longing for his country,' 1820; 'The regency of George IV,' 1824; 'The Druids of the Isle of Britain,' 1834; 'Job,' 1840. His prose work, The Bard, or the Welsh Hermit, 1830, an account of imaginary journeys to various
JONES, WILLIAM GARMON (1884 - 1937), professor of history and librarian of Liverpool University Miscellany); ' Bosworth Field, an episode of Welsh history ' (Trans. Liverpool Welsh National Society), 1912; York and Lancaster (Bell's 'Source Books of English History'); ' Welsh Nationalism and Henry Tudor ' (The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1917-18). In 1923 he married Eluned, only daughter of (Sir) John Edward Lloyd of Bangor. He died 28 May 1937 and was buried in the family
JOSHUA, SETH (1858 - 1925), minister (Presb.) Born 10 April 1858 in Ty Capel, Trosnant Uchaf, Pontypool, Monmouth, son of George Joshua and Mary (née Walden) his wife. He married Mary Rees, Llantrisant, in Neath, Glamorganshire, 23 September 1883, and they had eight children (one son, Peter, was a minister and a popular evangelist in America; another son, Lyn, was responsible with Mai Jones for the radio programme ' We'll keep a welcome in
KELSALL, JOHN (fl. 1683-1743), Quaker diarist Born in London in 1683. He came to Wales in 1702, and kept school (he was a man of good education) at Dolobran, Montgomeryshire, while also acting as clerk in the iron-works belonging to the Lloyd family of Dolobran. He was in the Lloyds ' service till c. 1743, being dispatched here and there in their industrial interests; e.g. he supervised their furnaces near Dolgelley in 1714-20 and again at
KELSEY, ALFRED JOHN (1929 - 1992), association football player many including Les Morris, a local football manager, who had been on Arsenal's books during the pre-war years. Morris arranged for the young Kelsey to receive trials with his former club, and the club was sufficiently impressed with his performance to offer him an immediate contract, and he signed for the Highbury giants in 1949. Initially he acted as the understudy to the dependable George Swindin
KEMEYS family Cefn Mabli, March 1822, J.P., D.L., for Monmouthshire and Somerset, colonel Somerset Militia. He married, as his first wife, 2 November 1848, Mary, daughter of George Frome, of Puncknoll, Dorset; as his second wife, 1873, Hannah Lewis; and, as his third, 1879, Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Fothergill, M.P., Tenby. He died 10 January 1891. HALSWELL MILBORNE KEMEYS-TYNTE (1852 - 1899), J.P. and D.L. Politics
KENRICK family Wynn Hall, Bron Clydwr, co-defendant in the suit before the Great Sessions at Wrexham (18 March 1788), in which the 'New' Meeting maintained against the 'Old' its right to use the graveyard devised by Daniel Lloyd (died 1655) to Morgan Llwyd's congregation; another son, SAMUEL KENRICK, a Unitarian and an accomplished linguist who travelled widely (as a tutor) and met Rousseau and Voltaire in France, joined his brother
KENYON family Gredington, Peel Hall, Kenyon of Peel by Peregrina, youngest daughter and coheiress of Robert Eddowes (above), by whom he had three sons - LLOYD (1775 - 1800), GEORGE (1776 - 1855), and THOMAS (1780 - 1851). He died at Bath 4 April 1802 and was succeeded by his second son GEORGE KENYON, 2nd lord Kenyon (1776 - 1855) He was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford - B.A. 1797; M.A. 1801; D.C.L. 1814, ' Custos Brevium ' of

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