Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JOHN, WALTER PHILLIPS (1910 - 1967), minister (B) 1967. In 1940 he married married Nansi, only child of Morgan A. Jones, minister (B) at Whitland, Carmarthenshire, and grand-daughter of Daniel Jones, his predecessor. Walter P. John achieved prominence early in his career as a cultured preacher, whose services were in great demand in his own and other denominations in England and Wales. He also mastered the art of broadcasting, and was the first
JOHNES, THOMAS (1748 - 1816), landowner and man of letters Cardiganshire, 1800-16. Johnes married (1) 1779, Maria Burgh of Monmouth (died 1782), daughter of the Rev. Henry Burgh, Monmouth, and (2) in 1782, his cousin Jane Johnes of Dolau Cothi, Carmarthenshire (1759 - 1834). In 1783 he settled at Hafod Uchtryd, near Cwmystwyth, Cardiganshire, and devoted himself to improving the estate. A new mansion was built for him by Thomas Baldwin (see D.N.B.); this was extended
JONES family Llwyn-rhys, . cit.) may have been another brother. John Jones is described as an elder-elect at Llanbadarn Odwyn in the letter which Henry Maurice wrote to Edward Terrill in 1675 (Broadmead Records, 512). In the Cilgwyn book (W. D. Jeremy's extracts) he is described as a ruling elder ('presb. gub.') between 1692 and 1698. In the ' Happy Union ' review of 1690-2, he is linked with Morgan Howell (above) as two
JONES, Sir ALFRED LEWIS (1845 - 1909) Born 24 February 1845, at Carmarthen, son of Daniel Jones by his wife, Mary, daughter of Henry Williams, rector of Llanedy, Carmarthenshire. The family moved to Liverpool when he was 2 years of age. Commencing his career as a ship's apprentice, he became a clerk in the firm of Fletcher and Parr, shipping agents, and rose to be manager of the firm. He subsequently became one of the leading figures
JONES, AUDREY EVELYN (1929 - 2014), teacher and campaigner for women's rights Audrey Jones was born on 15 October 1929 in Bushey, Hertfordshire, the eldest of three children of John Henry Reed (1901-1971), a police officer, and Evelyn Mary Reed, (née Tofield, 1898-1938), a newsagent. She had a brother Bernard (born 1936) and a sister Marion (born 1938). After her mother's early death, the family moved to Essex. Audrey won a place in Chelmsford County High School for Girls
JONES, BENJAMIN (1756 - 1823), Independent minister Born at Tre-cyrn-fawr, Llanwinio, Carmarthenshire, 29 September 1756. His parents were well-to-do church-goers whose intention it was that he should take holy orders. He was given his early education by a clergyman at Llanddewi-Velfrey school, Pembrokeshire. He came under the influence of Richard Morgan of Henllan and John Griffith of Glandwr who persuaded him to become an Independent; he joined
JONES, BENJAMIN MAELOR (1894 - 1982), educationalist and author Grefyddol ('Religious Education') was published in Yr Adroddiad am 1952; see also his article on Addysg Grefyddol yn yr Ysgolion ('Religious Education in Schools') in Seren Cymru, 8 and 15 July 1938. His M.A. dissertation was published under the title Henry Fielding: Novelist and Magistrate (1933). The University of London made a grant towards its publication and the distinguished judge, the Hon. Mr
JONES, CALVERT RICHARD (1802 - 1877), pioneer photographer, artist and priest Penrice he came to know very early of the discoveries of their cousin William Henry Fox Talbot of Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire, the inventor of the positive-negative method of making a photograph. Because of the practical problems associated with Talbot's process he first took to the daguerrotype process and completely mastered it by 1841. During the 1840s he collaborated with Talbot and with Frenchmen such
JONES, DAFYDD RHYS (1877 - 1946), schoolmaster and musician ' School in Aberdare, before taking charge of Cwmystwyth school in December 1902. At the end of March 1906 he returned to Patagonia to be first headmaster of the secondary school there. A few weeks earlier Eluned Morgan had visited Cwmystwyth school and addressed the pupils. Apparently there was a connection between this visit and his appointment as headmaster in Gaiman where he spent 8 influential and
JONES, DANIEL JENKYN (1912 - 1993), composer English in 1934: he gained his MA in 1939 for a thesis on Elizabethan literature and its relation to the music of the period. Between 1934 and 1939 he studied composition with Harry Farjeon and conducting with Sir Henry Wood at the Royal Academy of Music, and won the Mendelssohn Scholarship for his compositions in 1935. He travelled widely in Europe and mastered several languages, and during the Second
JONES, DAVID (1741 - 1792), Baptist minister Harry. He induced Peter Williams to join him - this was the direct cause of Williams's expulsion by the Methodists (1791), but the Baptist Association in 1787 and in 1788 officially commended the book. Publication began in 1788, and was completed in 1790; Jones himself acted as travelling salesman. He died 24 January 1792, and was buried at Troed-yr-aur; elegies upon him were written by Morgan John
JONES, DAVID (c. 1630 - 1704?), Puritan (particularly David Jones, vicar of Llangeler, 1661-1680). He was approved to the vicarage of Llanbadarn-fawr in 1658 and ejected in 1662. His domicile at Coedmor, Pencarreg, was sufficiently long for that place to become attached to his name. He secured a general licence to preach, 28 October 1672. Henry Maurice, in his list of 1675, records him as the only minister of the 'Cardiganshire church.' Howel

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