Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, REES JENKIN (1835 - 1924), Unitarian minister, schoolmaster, historian, and hymn-writer Jones were members of his classes. In 1879 he resumed his old duties in the pulpit of the Old Meeting House and at Trecynon seminary, popularly known as ' Jones's School '. There he had among his students Sir T. Marchant Williams, G. Pennar Griffiths, and T. Botting. He retired from the ministry in 1909. He married Anne Griffiths (died 7 March 1899), Aberdare, and they had five children. He edited Yr
JONES, RICHARD IDWAL MERVYN (1895 - 1937), schoolmaster, poet, and dramatist . David's College School, Lampeter (1909-11). After spending a short time as a clerk in the office of a solicitor at Lampeter, he became a clerk to his father who had relinquished school-mastering after a dispute with the governors of his school (Felin-fach) and had started in business in Lampeter as a coal-merchant. He joined the army in March 1915 and saw service in East Africa; he left the army in
JONES, RICHARD LEWIS (1934 - 2009), poet and farmer Richard Jones, or Dic as he was known throughout Wales, was born on Good Friday, 30 March 1934 at Pen-y-graig, a smallholding near Tre'r-ddôl in North Cardiganshire. His mother, Frances Louisa (1910-1986) was one of the daughters of the Isaac family who farmed there. She qualified as a teacher and after taking up a post at Blaen-porth school she married a local farmer, Alban Lewis (Abba) Jones
JONES, ROBERT (1560 - 1615), priest, of the Society of Jesus four Welsh secular priests known to have worked under Fr. Jones's direction. These activities, doubtless, underlie the sheriff of Hereford's unsubstantiated charges of political subversion made against Jones in 1605 and explain the phrase ' Jones the Jesuit, the firebrand of all.' He became vice-prefect of the whole Jesuit mission in England and Wales on 30 March 1609, at a crisis in the affairs of
JONES, ROBERT (1806 - 1896), Baptist minister and author . He was an ardent Liberal (see Y Faner, 2 December 1868), and was constantly lecturing on political, religious, and social subjects. He died 3 March 1896.
JONES, ROBERT (1810 - 1879), cleric and author Barmouth from 1840 to 1842. In 1842 he was appointed vicar of All Saints, Rotherhithe, London, where he remained till his death on 28 March 1879. He was buried in All Saints churchyard. While at Barmouth he published a collection of Welsh psalms and hymns, and in 1864 he produced a reprint of Dr. John Davies, Flores Poetarum Britannicorum. In 1876 he published the Poetical Works of Goronwy Owen: with his
JONES, ROBERT (1891 - 1962), aerodynamicist March 1962 at Stanwell. Robert Jones ' early work at the National Physical Laboratory was on the mathematical theory of aeroplane stability. Later he did much theoretical and wind tunnel work on airships and became one of the leading experts in the world on the stability of these craft. In 1923 he was awarded the R.38 Memorial Prize of the Royal Aeronautical Society for a classic paper on airship
JONES, ROBERT AMBROSE (1848 - 1906), Calvinistic Methodist minister, man of letters, and publicist Born 24 March 1851, the eldest child of John and Maria Jones, at Bryn Aber, near Abergele, where his father was a gardener. The knowledge of the fact that his great-grandfather had married a French woman who was a lady's companion at Gwrych Castle helped to foster Emrys's interest in France and the Continent generally. After leaving the elementary school at Abergele, he went, at the age of 14, to
JONES, ROBERT EVAN (1869 - 1956), collector of books and manuscripts Twrog, Maentwrog, and they had one daughter. He died 27 March 1956 and was buried at Maentwrog.
JONES, ROBERT ISAAC (Alltud Eifion; 1813 - 1905), pharmacist, littérateur and printer , 1889; Y Gestiana, sef, Hanes Tre'r Gest, 1892. He left the Methodists and became a faithful member of the Anglican church at Tremadoc, and started a Sunday school in the town hall. He also edited and published Baner y Groes, a Church monthly magazine, and he contributed articles to Yr Haul, Y Llan, and Cymru. He died 7 March 1905, and was buried at Ynyscynhaearn.
JONES, THOMAS (1648? - 1713), almanack maker, bookseller, printer, and publisher the Welsh tongue' was made on the first day of March in the same year. In 1681 he appears to have had a shop in Paul's Alley, London, in 1685 he was settled in Blackfriars, whilst the preface to his Welsh dictionary of 1688 was written at his house near the sign of the Elephant in Lower Moorfields. Three very rare works published by him in London were Llyfr Plygain, 1683; Athrawiaeth i ddysgu
JONES, THOMAS (1818 - 1898), parish clerk ) was presented to the National Library of Wales in 1919 by archdeacon Albert Owen Evans. It is of value because it is representative of what was being composed by contemporaries, known and lesser-known, of Thomas Jones. He died 25 March 1898.

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