Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES family Llwyn-rhys, added at right angles to the house to serve, it is said, as the meeting house. Preaching continued there until 19 October 1735. The house became an irreparable ruin about 1918. John Jones (1640? - 1722) traced his descent, through his father, John ap Ieuan Lloyd, from the Clements, lords of Caron, and through his mother, Angharad, daughter of Ieuan ap Thomas, from Rhydderch of Glyn Aeron (Golden Grove
JONES, Syr THOMAS (d. 1622?), cleric and poet Willis, Llandaff, 205), and that he had left it at an uncertain date before the end of the century (Bradney, ii, 208 - ' Thomas ap John '). It is generally held (see G. J. Williams, Traddodiad Llenyddol Morgannwg, 129) that this is the same man - incumbent successively of Llandeilo and of Llanfair, in that case - and it will be seen that the established dates are consistent with this belief. It is also
JONES, CADWALADR (1783 - 1867), Independent minister and first editor of Y Dysgedydd highly individual outlook and a most determined nature (see Ap Vychan, Cadwaladr Jones, 138). Although he was George Lewis's 'spiritual son,' yet, 'in the next generation he became Michael Jones's supporter in the battle of the Systems.' He was a Liberal in politics but was too moderate for some of his fellow-Independents.
JONES, DAVID (1708? - 1785) Trefriw, poet, collector of manuscripts, publisher, and printer Little is known about his birth and early years. His father's name is given as Siôn ap Dafydd in NLW MS 476E and NLW MS 3107B, and his mother's as Jane ferch Elizabeth Rowland in B.M. Add. MS. 14888, and Jane ferch Dafydd ap Sion in NLW MS 3107B. He married Gwen ferch Richard ap Rhys (NLW MS 3107B), but the date of his marriage is uncertain; Trefriw parish records note a marriage between a David
JONES, DAVID (c. 1630 - 1704?), Puritan opposite his name, but he was alive in 1700 when David Evan Rhydderch nominated him, as his friend ' David Jones of Coedmor,' overseer of his will. According to Evan Lewis (1788 - 1864), who wrote an account of the Cilgwyn church about 1864, with the old register in front of him, there was a record of his activities there until 1704. Tradition places his death in 1700. He married Deborah, daughter of
JONES, EDWARD (fl. 1781-1840), member, from 1781 of the London Gwyneddigion political debate in the Caradogion Society. When Leathart's book was published (1831), Jones was living in Paris, and was the oldest living member of the Gwyneddigion; [in the letter mentioned above, Leathart describes him as ' so advanced in years that we can say nothing more to him than ask his health ']. His help (and that of his brother Owen) is acknowledged in the preface to the 1789 Dafydd ap Gwilym
JONES, EDWARD (d. 1586), conspirator was the eldest son of Edward Jones of Plas Cadwgan, Denbighshire, and of Cornhill, London - tailor to Mary Tudor and master of the wardrobe to Elizabeth I - who was the son of John ap David ap Robert, a descendant of Cynwrig ap Rhiwallon. Edward Jones the elder (sheriff of his county in 1576), died at Cadwgan in 1581, leaving substantial legacies to North Wales relations and money for founding a
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, GRIFFITH (1683 - 1761), cleric and educational reformer Born at Pant-yr-efel, Cwmhiraeth, Penboyr, Carmarthenshire, 1683; christened 1 May 1684, son of John ap Gruffydd and Elinor John. Educated in the village school, he afterwards became a shepherd. He then determined to be a clergyman, and, after some preparation, entered Carmarthen grammar school, under John Maddocks. About 1707 he applied for ordination, and, according to John Evans of Eglwys
JONES, JAMES IFANO (1865 - 1955), librarian and bibliographer writer. In 1905 his prize play in the Bangor national eisteddfod of 1902 was published, entitled Rhys ap Tewdwr Mawr (a tragedy in three acts). He also published a number of poems, tunes, articles, reviews, and special bibliographies in Welsh and English periodicals. He was a keen eisteddfodwr, a member of the Gorsedd of Bards and an enthusiastic supporter of its supposed antiquity. From 1901 he
JONES, JOHN (Leander; 1575 - 1636), Benedictine monk and scholar Born at Llanfrynach, Brecknock, probably son of Thomas ap John of Tŷ Mawr, and Janet his wife. Brought up as a Protestant, he proceeded in 1591 from Merchant Taylors ' to S. John's College, Oxford, of which he was elected a Fellow in 1593. On account of his Romanist leanings he was deprived of his Fellowship in 1595-6, and left Oxford to study theology with the Jesuits at Valladolid, having in
JONES, JOHN (c. 1578-1583 - 1658?) Gellilyfdy, Loveday, Ysgeifiog, calligrapher and transcriber of manuscripts John Jones leaves his readers in no doubt as to his ancestry, for many of the surviving manuscripts contain such an entry as this: ' Siôn ap Wiliam ap Siôn ap Wiliam ap Siôn ap Dafydd ab Ithel Vychan ap Kynrig ap Rrotbert ap Ierwerth ap Rryrid ap Ierwerth ap Madog ab Ednowain Bendew …' (Peniarth MS 224), with, often, such an ending to the pedigree as 'Yr hwnn Siôn ap Wiliam a elwir yn ol y

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