Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUMPHREYS, BENJAMIN (1856 - 1934), Baptist minister from the chair of the Welsh Baptist Union (1926), ' Y Bedyddwyr: Eu Hegwyddorion Gwahaniaethol a'u Rhagolygon.' He edited Seren yr Ysgol Sul for many years and was offered, but refused, the editorship of Seren Gomer. He was a theologian, commentator, and historian, as is shown by his commentaries on the epistles to the Philippians and the Colossians, his Hanes Bedyddwyr Felinfoel, 1909, and his
HUMPHREYS, JOHN (1767 - 1829), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author .' He was ordained in 1816. Towards the end of his life, he removed to Cil-llwyn, Bodfari, where he died, April 1829 - 9 April according to contemporary periodicals, 13 April according to later statements; Seren Gomer, 1829, says he was then ninety-five, but all other evidence says sixty-two; he was buried at Caerwys. He was not a popular preacher, but a diligent author and publisher. He translated
ISAAC, DAVID LLOYD (1818 - 1876), cleric and author industrious (though unsystematic and uncritical) writer on history, antiquities, and philology. When a Baptist, he wrote much in Seren Gomer; as an Anglican, even in his Lampeter days, he was a voluminous contributor to Yr Haul - one may specify his articles on antiquities (Haul, 1854-5) and on the translators of the Bible (ibid., 1856), and the miscellany ' Llyfrgell Llwyd o Langathen ' (ibid., 1858-9); he
JAMES, DAVID (Defynnog; 1865 - 1928), schoolmaster, educationist, organiser of summer schools, and author , teaching manuals, plans for language teaching and a children's dictionary. He contributed prolifically to Cymru, Cymru'r Plant, Y Darian, Yspryd yr Oes, Y Genhinen, Seren Gomer, The Welsh Outlook and The Welsh Leader. More importantly it was he who started the Welsh Summer School in 1903. He was an excellent organiser and succeeded in inviting some of the nation's leading scholars to address members of
JENKINS, JOHN (GWILI) (1872 - 1936), poet, theologian, and man of letters (and also at University College) at Bangor. He did much work there, publishing in 1928 Arweiniad i'r Testament Newydd, and in 1934 a volume of poetry (Caniadau), and editing Seren Gomer from 1930 to 1933. But quite certainly his magnum opus was his book on the history of theology in Wales, published in 1931 under the somewhat misleading title Hanfod Duw a Pherson Crist, a piece of research in a field
JOHN, JAMES MANSEL (1910 - 1975), Baptist minster and college professor of Youth Clubs. He was also an able musician. He played both the piano and the organ, and while a student in Cardiff he played in a quartet that broadcast regularly on Welsh B.B.C. programmes. As a minister, he contributed articles regularly to Seren Cymru (sometimes using the nom-de-plume 'Selnam'), Y Goleuad, Y Faner, Y Dysgedydd, Trafodion Cymdeithas Hanes y Bedyddwyr and Seren Gomer. He
JONES, BENJAMIN (P[rif] A[rwyddfardd] Môn; 1788 - 1841), poet, writer, and Baptist apologete born to them. He is best remembered for his disputations on the question of baptism with David Owen (Brutus) and Michael Roberts, Pwllheli. He contributed much to Seren Gomer, and published Athrawiaeth Bedydd, 1830; Y Cronicl: neu Draethawd ar Fedydd, 1831; Temperance v. Teetotalism, 1838; An Elegy on the death of Benjamin B. Jones, the eldest surviving child of B. Jones of Holyhead, 1824; and
JONES, DANIEL (1771 - 1810), General Unitarian Free-communion Baptist minister a Calvinistic secession from Swansea Old Meeting, Jones soon developed anti-Calvinistic views which ultimately led him into Unitarianism. He took a leading part in the controversies of 1794-9 among West Wales Baptists, and seems to have been the ablest and also the fairest debater on the anti-Calvinist side. He left Back Lane in 1800, and was succeeded by Joseph Harris, Gomer to become pastor of
JONES, DAVID BEVAN (Dewi Elfed; 1807 - 1863), minister (B, and Church of Christ and Latter Day Saints - Mormons) October 1862. He settled in Logan, about a hundred miles north of Salt Lake City, but died of tuberculosis in May or June 1863. He published Eos Dyssul (1838); Cân newydd yn dangos niweidiau meddwdod (n.d.); and Serch Gerdd (n.d.). His work appeared mainly in the Baptist and Mormon periodicals, (Seren Gomer and Udgorn Seion in particular); but the zenith of his literary career came undoubtedly with his
JONES, DAVID GEORGE (1780 - 1879) Tir-Waun,, blacksmith According to his epitaph, he was the author of the well-known verse ' Bydd myrdd o ryfeddodau '; see the discussion on p. 17 of Gomer M. Roberts's edn. (1961) of J. Thickens, Emynau a'u Hawduriaid.
JONES, GWILYM EIRWYN (EIRWYN PONTSHÂN; 1922 - 1994), carpenter, entertainer, nationalist Eirwyn Pontshân was born on 31 August 1922 at Preswylfa, Talgarreg, the son of Mary Theodosia Jones. He had a sister, Margaret Irene (Magina) Jones (later Thomas). The greatest influence on him in his childhood was his grandmother, Ruth Jones, Mynachlog. At the age of over eighty she published her autobiography, Atgofion Ruth Mynachlog (Gwasg Gomer 1939). Eirwyn left the local school at the age
JONES, HUGH (1831 - 1883), Baptist minister and college principal Switzerland and Italy for reasons of health. He was at one time editor of Y Greal. A racy writer, he contributed numerous articles and sermons to various denominational and other periodicals, among them being the following: Yr Athraw, Y Greal, Seren Gomer, Baptist, Baptist Magazine, Traethodydd, Gwyddoniadur, etc. He also published works on Baptism and one on Biblical Exposition. Although quiet and gentle

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