Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, ELEN ROGER (1908 - 1999), actress and teacher Elen Roger Jones was born on 27 August 1908 in Marian-Glas, Anglesey, the daughter of William Griffith (1873-1935), the Anglesey Education Committee Secretary, and his wife Mary (née Williams, died 1961). Elen was William's first child and Mary's second, as she had a son with her previous husband, a captain who died in a storm whilst travelling on a ship a few months before the birth of their
JONES, EMRYS (1920 - 2006), geographer Emrys Jones was born at 3 Henry Street, Aberaman, Aberdare, Glamorganshire, 17 August 1920. His parents were Samuel and Annie (née Williams) Jones. The geologist Sir Alwyn Williams, his mother's nephew, was a cousin. From his upbringing in the mining valleys, and like many of his contemporaries of the depression years, he inherited a tradition of total commitment to Wales, its language and
JONES, EMYR WYN (1907 - 1999), cardiologist and author for due recognition of the Welsh language within the health service. In 1936 he married Enid Llywelyn Williams (1909-1967), daughter of Dr David Llewelyn Williams and sister to Alun Llywelyn-Williams. They had one daughter, Carys (b. 1937) and one son, Gareth Wyn (b. 1940). During the intense bombing of Liverpool in the Second World War, the family moved first to Enid's parents' house in Old Colwyn
JONES, ENID WYN (1909 - 1967), a prominent worker in religious, social and medical fields Born 17 January 1909 in Wrexham, Denbighshire, daughter of Dr. David Llewelyn Williams and Margaret Williams. The poet Alun Llywelyn-Williams was her brother. The family moved to Cardiff just before World War I, but she was brought up at Rhyl during the war. She was a pupil at the Welsh Girls' School, Ashford, from 1919 to 1926, and afterwards was trained as a nurse at Cardiff Royal Infirmary. On
JONES, EVAN (Gwrwst ab Bleddyn Flaidd, Gwrwst; 1793 - 1855), Baptist minister and littérateur Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu) and David Owen (Dewi Wyn o Eifion), and was an active member of the Cymreigyddion Society at Dolgelley. He published Gwentwyson: sef Ymdrechfa Y Beirdd; neu Awdlau Galarnadol am … Y Parch. Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), 1849, and the translation of Traethawd ar Faddeuant Pechod, 1809, by Abraham Booth is attributed to him, although he was then but a youth (see under Evan
JONES, EVAN (Ieuan Gwynedd; 1820 - 1852), Independent minister, and journalist appointment by L. Williams, the Dolgelley banker, but was soon found inefficient. Between 1836 and 1839 he tried to open schools at Brithdir, Rhyd-y-main, Llanwddyn, and Pen-y-bont. He failed in every attempt because the public would not support him. He began to preach in Sardis chapel, Llanwddyn, 18 March 1838. In May 1839 he was appointed an assistant master at the Dr. Daniel Williams school at Bangor
JONES, EVAN (1777 - 1819), Baptist minister , in 1797, in the attack on ' Siôn Singer ' (John Williams, died 1807). He was to have been pastor at Pen-y-bont, but he had objections to 'the imposition of hands,' and accordingly preferred to accept a call (5 November 1800) from the newly-founded church of Bethania at Cardigan, where he also kept school. In the meantime, the 1799 schism among the Welsh Baptists had broken out, and Jones entered
JONES, EVAN DAVID (1903 - 1987), librarian and archivist E. D. Jones was born in Llangeitho, Ceredigion, on 6 December 1903, the eldest of the seven children of Evan Jones, farmer of Y Wenallt, and his wife Jane. He was educated at Tregaron County School and at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he graduated with honours in Welsh in 1926 and in History in 1927. Awarded the Sir John Williams research scholarship, 1928-29, he began to
JONES, EZZELINA GWENHWYFAR (1921 - 2012), artist and sculptor Ezzelina Jones was born in Pontarddulais on 28 June 1921, the second of the three children of Godfrey Hugh Beddoe Williams, a doubler in the Clayton Tin Works, and his wife Elizabeth Mary Williams. She had two sisters, Elizabeth Jane (Betty) and Rita. In the early years Ezzelina was known in the family as Gwen or Gwenhwyfar. It appears that she was given the unusual name of Ezzelina in memory of
JONES, FRANCES MÔN (1919 - 2000), harpist and teacher Jean Bell, and also received instruction in music from Professor D. E. Parry-Williams in Bangor. Having retired from competing, she concentrated on teaching, and counted among her pupils the folk singer Siân James and Ieuan Jones, Professor of Harp at the Royal College of Music, London. She also taught in schools, particularly in the area around her home in Llanfair Caereinion, and established a harp
JONES, GRIFFITH (1683 - 1761), cleric and educational reformer times before bishop Ottley, chancellor Edward Jones, and David Havard, bishop's deputy at the bishop's Court at Carmarthen, for ignoring Church laws and customs. On 27 July 1716 he was appointed by his patron, Sir John Philipps, to the rectory of Llanddowror, Carmarthenshire. Here, S.P.C.K. duties received much of his attention, and, together with Moses Williams and Erasmus Saunders, he supported
JONES, GWENAN (1889 - 1971), educationalist and author , 1910-1914, completing an M.A. dissertation in her spare time, a comparison of two texts of Brut y Brenhinedd. During this time she was invited by Ifor Williams to join the Macwyaid and her contributions were published in Y Brython under the pseudonym Macwyes y Llyn. She was awarded a scholarship to study the relationship between drama in medieval Wales and Cornwall and in England under the

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