Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, ROBERT (1806 - 1896), Baptist minister and author Garn, 1842; Bedydd y Testament Newyddyn yn cael ei Amddiffyn, 1846, an answer to William Roberts of Clynnog's book on infant baptism; Casgliad o Hymnau ar Destynau Efengylaidd, 1851, containing 918 hymns, many of them by Robert Jones himself; Ystyriaethau ar Fedydd, 1853; Traethawd ar Babyddiaeth, 1855 - this was the book to which he devoted most time; Gemau Duwinyddol, 1865, a collection of notes
JONES, ROBERT (1706? - 1742), country gentleman Born at Fonmon Castle, Glamorganshire, son of Robert Jones (1681 - 1715?), M.P. for Glamorgan (1710, 1713, and 1714), and great-grandson of colonel Philip Jones. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was a contemporary of Charles Wesley (matriculated 24 April 1724), but returned to his estate at Fonmon without graduating. He was sheriff of Glamorgan in 1729. In 1732 he married Mary
JONES, ROBERT (1560 - 1615), priest, of the Society of Jesus several libraries in Europe. Early in 1595 he was placed by the Jesuit General, Aquaviva, at the disposal of Fr. Robert Persons, the Prefect of the English Jesuit mission, who had long hoped to provide for the needs of the Roman Catholics in Wales. Passing through Spain, Jones arrived in England by July 1595. By 1605 he had set up an organization, centred in Monmouthshire and extending along the Marches
JONES, ROBERT (WILFRID) (1862 - 1929), musician Born 5 July 1862 at Tyddyn-bach, Arthog, Meironnydd, the son of Meredith and Jane Jones. He joined a band when he was quite young and became a competent player of the cornet. He was sent to Chester to receive music lessons from John Owen (Owain Alaw), and stayed there until his teacher died in 1883. After a course of lessons given him by J. H. Roberts he went to the Royal Academy of Music, London
JONES, ROBERT (1891 - 1962), aerodynamicist founders of the science of aerodynamics. He also studied Welsh philology under Sir J. Morris-Jones. An outstanding student, he won several prizes including the R.A. Jones prize in mathematics (1910). In 1911 he graduated with a 2nd-class honours degree in Pure Mathematics, following this with a 1st-class honours degree in Applied Mathematics in 1912. The award of a substantial scholarship (Isaac Roberts
JONES, ROBERT, poet - see JONES, LEWIS
JONES, ROBERT ALBERT (1851 - 1892), barrister and educationist Born 16 September 1851, son of the Rev. John Jones, Pen-y-bryn, Wrexham, Denbighshire, and great-grandson of Robert Jones, Rhoslan. He was a cousin of ' Ioan Maethlu ' [ John Maethlu Jones, 1839 - 1866 ]. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School, and entered Corpus Christi, Oxford, in 1870, where he graduated B.A. with first class in Mathematics in 1874. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's
JONES, ROBERT AMBROSE (1848 - 1906), Calvinistic Methodist minister, man of letters, and publicist list of over eighty of his letters and articles to the press which appeared between 1876 and his death. They appeared mostly in Y Faner and Y Geninen. Much of his work is also found in the additions to Y Gwyddoniadur. In the year of his death appeared a volume of his 'homilies' (Homiliau), edited by the Rev. Ezra Roberts; another volume appeared in 1909. Yet another collection of his sermons appeared
JONES, Sir ROBERT ARMSTRONG- - see ARMSTRONG-JONES, Sir ROBERT
JONES, ROBERT EVAN (1869 - 1956), collector of books and manuscripts Born 22 May, 1869, one of seven children of John and Catherine Jones, High Street, Penrhyndeudraeth, Merionethshire. His father was a grocer, and soon after Robert Evan's birth the family moved to Meirion House, Tanygrisiau, Blaenau Ffestiniog. He received his early education in the boys' school, Tanygrisiau and later spent five years there as a pupil-teacher before becoming an assistant teacher
JONES, ROBERT ISAAC (Alltud Eifion; 1813 - 1905), pharmacist, littérateur and printer Born at Tyddyn Iolyn, Pentrefelin, near Portmadoc. On his mother's side he claimed descent from the family of Roberts of Isallt, Eifionydd, renowned as physicians, and he also claimed special gifts as a physician and veterinary surgeon. He was educated in his home neighbourhood, and about 1831 was apprenticed to a pharmacist at Pwllheli; he was afterwards at Caernarvon and London. At Tremadoc in
JONES, ROBERT LLOYD (1878 - 1959), schoolmaster, children's writer and dramatist Born 7 December 1878 in Porthmadog, Caernarfonshire, the sixth of the ten children born to Robert Jones, master mariner, and his wife Elizabeth (née Williams). He was educated at the elementary schools in Porthmadog, Minffordd and Penrhyndeudraeth, the higher grade school, Blaenau Ffestiniog, the grammar school, Bala, and the Normal College, Bangor (1899-1901). He began his career as a teacher in

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