Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, WILLIAM (Bleddyn; 1829? - 1903), antiquary, local historian, geologist, and collector of folk-lore Born at Beddgelert, 1829, son of John Jones, sexton (who is referred to in Charles Kingsley, Two Years Ago) and Catrin Williams. He was apprenticed to a tailor at Caernarvon in 1841, but apart from a brief spell at Portmadoc he spent his life in business at Llangollen, and died there 30 January 1903. He shared the prize with Owen Wynne Jones (Glasynys) for an essay on the antiquities of the
JONES, WILLIAM LEWIS (1866 - 1922), professor of English ground of ill-health he resigned in 1919 and was made Professor Emeritus. He died at Bangor 2 February 1922. In 1901 he had married Edith Owen of Menai Bridge. Lewis Jones wrote many articles for the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, the Quarterly Review, etc. He edited Caniadau Cymru, 1897; Land of my Fathers, 1915; and, in collaboration with W. Cadwaladr Davies, The University of Wales, 1915. He
JONES, WILLIAM OWEN (1861 - 1937), minister of the 'Free Church of the Welsh', Liverpool
JONES, WILLIAM OWEN (Eos y Gogledd; 1868 - 1928), musician Born in Llanbedr, in the Conway Valley, 29 December 1868, the son of Owen Jones and his wife; they moved in 1877 to Dolrhedyn, Blaenau Ffestiniog. He went to Tanygrisiau elementary school and afterwards started to work as a quarryman in Cwmorthin slate quarry; he worked later in Maenofferen slate quarry. In 1901 he married Margaret Jones, Capel Garmon. He went to Cardiff University College to
JONES, WILLIAM SAMUEL (Wil Sam; 1920 - 2007), playwright Wil Sam was born on 28 May 1920 at Belle Vue, Llanystumdwy, the younger of the two sons of Gabriel Jones, mariner, and his wife Ann (née Owen). His brother Elis Gwyn (1918-1999) was a well-known artist and author, and he worked closely with Wil Sam in the theatre. Their father died in an accident at sea in 1939. Wil Sam's formal education took place at the Church School in Llanystumdwy and
KENRICK family Wynn Hall, Bron Clydwr, generally worshipped from the Declaration of Indulgence of 1672 (and perhaps earlier) until a permanent chapel was built in 1762, while Samuel Kenrick had joined the 'New Meeting' (Presbyterian) when it split off from the Old in 1691, and housed it temporarily pending the completion of a chapel c. 1700. Edward Kenrick married Susannah, daughter and heiress of Hugh Owen, Bron Clydwr (1639 - 1700
KOTSCHNIG, ELINED PRYS (1895 - 1983), psychoanalyst and pacifist Elined Prys was born on 16 February 1895 in Trefeca, Talgarth, Breconshire, the eldest of the two daughters of Owen Prys, the Principal of the Calvinist Methodist College, and his wife Elizabeth (née Parry). The family moved to a new home in Lluest, North Road, Aberystwyth, when the college was relocated in 1906, and Elined went on to study at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. In
LANGFORD family Allington, Humphrey Lloyd, sheriff of Montgomeryshire, 1540, and it was his grandson, Thomas Langford, who wrote the pedigree manuscript Bodewryd MS 102D), William, Roger, David, Mathew, Elizabeth, Catherine, and Ann. By his second wife, Marsli, daughter of John ab Ieuan ap Howell of Trefriw, he had Thomas, George, Owen, Jane, Ellen, Jane (2), and Alice. JOHN He married Catherine, daughter of John ap Harry Jervis
LAUGHARNE, ROWLAND (d. 1676?), Parliamentary major-general The son of John Laugharne of S. Brides, Pembrokeshire, and his wife, Janet, daughter of Sir Hugh Owen of Orielton in that county. In his youth he was page to Robert Devereux, third earl of Essex, and he may have accompanied him on military service in the Low Countries. When the Civil War broke out in August 1642, some of the leading gentry in south Pembrokeshire, supported by merchants who had
LAWS, EDWARD (1837 - 1913), historian collaboration with his adopted daughter Emily Hewlett Edwards, A Short History of the Civil War as it affected Tenby and its neighbourhood, 1887, and a number of articles in Archæologia Cambrensis, 1882-1906. With assistance from Henry Owen (1844 - 1919), before the work was completed, he produced an ' Archaeological Survey of Pembrokeshire,' 1908. He died 25 July 1913 after an accident while driving his
LEWIS family Llwyn-du, Llangelynnin Two linked families which were very prominent in the history of Quakerism in Merioneth. I. Lewis, son of John Gruffydd ap Hywel ap Gruffydd of Derwas, died 8 August 1598, was married to Elin, daughter of Hywel ap Gruffydd; from these were descended four brothers, ELLIS, OWEN, GRUFFYDD, and RHYS. The remainder of this paragraph is concerned with the second of these, Owen Lewis I (died 1658?), and
LEWIS GLYN COTHI (fl. 1447-1486), one of the greatest of the 15th century Welsh bards He took his bardic name from that of the forest of Glyn Cothi, within the confines of which, probably, he was born, perhaps at Pwllcynbyd in the parish of Llanybydder. Early in life he became an outlaw in North Wales in company with Owen ap Gruffudd ap Nicholas. This may have been as early as 1443. The earliest certainly datable of his poems is his elegy upon the death of Sir Griffith Vychan of

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