Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, THEOPHILUS (1759 - 1812), historian of Brecknock . He was educated at Christ College school under David Griffith (1726 - 1816); Edward Davies (1756 - 1831), his lifelong friend, was his schoolmate. Jones practised in law for a considerable period, but on being appointed deputy-registrar of the archdeaconry he gave up his private practice and devoted himself to historical research. He married Mary Price, daughter of Rhys Price of Porth-y-rhyd (near
JONES, Sir THOMAS (1614 - 1692), chief justice . and in Williams, Montgomeryshire worthies. The son of Edward Jones, of Sandford (Salop), he went from Shrewsbury school to Emmanuel College, Cambridge (B.A. 1632), but had entered Lincoln's Inn in 1629, and was called in 1634. During the Civil War and the Commonwealth, he 'trimmed,' but after 1660 he rose rapidly: serjeant, 1669; king's serjeant and knight, 1671; judge of the King's Bench, 1676
JONES, THOMAS (1756 - 1820), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author Born at Penucha, Caerwys, Flintshire, freehold of his father Edward, and received a classical education at Caerwys and Holywell. Refusing to prepare for holy orders, he did not go on to a university, but joined the Methodists in 1772, and in 1783 began to preach. He had the supervision of societies in Mold (1795-1804), Ruthin (1804-1806), and Denbigh (1809-1820). He married (1) 1795, Elizabeth
JONES, THOMAS (1810 - 1849), Calvinistic Methodist missionary Born 24 January 1810 to Edward and Mary Jones, Tan-y-ffridd, Llangynyw, Montgomeryshire. Originally a wheelwright, he became miller at Llifior, Berriw. About 1835 he began preaching; he was one of the first of Lewis Edwards's students at Bala (1837). Desiring to become a missionary, he offered himself to the London Missionary Society, which however refused to send him to India, thinking that his
JONES, THOMAS (1742 - 1803), landscape painter friends included Garrick, Evan Lloyd (1734 - 1776), Farington, and Francis Wheatley. He left for Italy in 1766 and settled in Rome, moving to Naples in 1780. His circle of friends in Italy included Towne, John Smith, Edward Pars, and Day, and he carried out a large number of commissions there. He returned to England in 1783 with his wife, Maria, and two daughters, and continued to paint, avowedly at
JONES, Sir WILLIAM (1566 - 1640), judge appointed under the Act of Union (1542) and became sheriff of the county in 1548. His grandfather, Griffith ap John, entered the service of John Dudley, earl of Warwick (later duke of Northumberland), co-regent for Edward VI, and was made constable of Caernarvon castle (1549). John was the ancestor from whom the surname Jones was adopted by some of the brothers of William ap Griffith, and consistently
JONES, WILLIAM (1726 - 1795), antiquary and poet neighbourhood, but he set to work to educate himself. He wrote good English although he spoke it with difficulty. He mastered Latin and translated portions of Horace and Ovid into Welsh verse. He corresponded with the Gwyneddigion and contemporary men of letters and collected folk-songs and country dances for Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin), and poetry, together with notes on the metres, for Owain Myfyr. He
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
JONES, WILLIAM PHILIP (1878 - 1955), minister (Presb.) and Principal of Trefeca College Born 21 November 1878 at Rock House, Tre-fin, Pembrokeshire, son of Edward and Margaret Jones. His father died when he was five years old, and his mother returned to her native district of Nevern. He was educated at Nevern elementary school, and at Llandysul and Newcastle Emlyn grammar schools. He began preaching at the age of 15 at Gethsemane, Nevern, and entered the University College, Cardiff
JONES-DAVIES, HENRY (1870 - 1955), farmer and pioneer of agricultural co-operation Development Commission for Wales from 1910-36, and it was largely for his services in that capacity that he was made a C.B.E. in 1936. He represented the Commission on the executive committee of the Irish A.O.S. from 1914-21. In 1903 Jones-Davies married Winifred Anna, youngest daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Ellis, Cynlas, Cefnddwysarn, Bala, and sister of Thomas Edward Ellis, and they settled at
KATHERYN of BERAIN (Mam Cymru, The mother of Wales; 1534/5 - 1591) grandfather (18 March 1577/1578) became the ward of the earl of Leicester, who, however, gave his consent to the completion of the marriage agreement. Maurice Wynn died in August 1580. There were two children of Katheryn's third marriage, (a) Edward and (b) Jane. (4) Sometime in 1583, to Edward Thelwall, son of Simon Thelwall of Plâs-y-ward, Denbighshire. At the same time a child marriage was arranged
KELSALL, JOHN (fl. 1683-1743), Quaker diarist years), but are complete from then on to May 1743. They are an invaluable source for the chequered history of the Lloyd fortunes, for that of the North Wales iron industry, and for that of Quakerism in Wales during that period. Edward Griffith printed excerpts in Wales (O.M.E.), ii - see also Caernarvonshire Historical Society Transactions, 1940, 75-6. Kelsall published a book, The Faithful Monitor

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