Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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.
JONES, THOMAS (Glan Alun; 1811 - 1866), Calvinistic Methodist minister and man of letters Born 11 March 1811 at 'Cefn-y-gadair shop,' Mold, son of John Jones, formerly of Cefn-y-gadair in Llanelidan, and before that of Hendre, Derwen, Denbighshire, who was son of JOSEPH JONES, of Y Seinad near Ruthin. ' Joseff y Seinad,' an Antinomian, was one of the sectaries who found a following after the Methodist disruption of 1750 - see on him J. H. Morris, Hanes Methodistiaeth Liverpool, i, 226
JONES, THOMAS (1742 - 1803), landscape painter Jenkin Jenkins, and proceeded thence to Jesus College, Oxford, where he matriculated 11 July 1759. It was intended that he should take holy orders, but on the death of John Hope, his mother's uncle, in 1761, he left Oxford and devoted himself to painting. He entered William Shipley's drawing school in the Strand, London, then directed by Henry Pars, in November 1761, and in March 1763 he became Richard
JONES, THOMAS GRUFFYDD (Tafalaw Bencerdd; 1832 - 1898), musician minister of a Congregational church at Slatington in 1867, and in 1869 became teacher of the fine arts in Emporia College. He served several churches in the U.S.A.; he died 17 March 1898.
JONES, THOMAS GWYNN (1871 - 1949), poet, writer, translator and scholar , Aberystwyth, in 1913, and promoted to the Gregynog Chair in Welsh literature in 1919 - its only occupant ever - which he held until his retirement in 1937. He married in June 1899 Margaret Jane Davies : they had a daughter and 2 sons. He died at his home in Aberystwyth 7 March 1949 aged 77 and was buried in Aberystwyth cemetery. T. Gwynn Jones was influenced by Emrys ap Iwan (R. Ambrose Jones), early in his
JONES, THOMAS IVOR (1896 - 1969), solicitor Hughes, of Solway, Buarth, Aberystwyth. Never one to seek the limelight, he was a quiet man but with mischievous humour and a steadfast nature. He died 29 March 1969, aged 72, and was buried at Llanuwchllyn.
JONES, THOMAS JERMAN (1833 - 1890), missionary for twenty years with the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists (1863-9). He married, and sailed for India, 1869, reaching the Khasi Hills by March 1870. After ministering at Jowai for a time, he moved to Shillong in 1875, where he served with distinction during the cholera epidemic of 1879. Returning to his native land to recuperate, he died 14 April off Dungeness, and was buried in Smithdown Road cemetery, Liverpool, 18 April 1890.
JONES, THOMAS PARRY (1935 - 2013), inventor, entrepreneur and philanthropist Tom Parry Jones was born on 27 March 1935 at Dwyran, Anglesey, and was brought up at Carreglefn in the same county, the eldest of three children of Owen Thomas Jones (1916-1999, a farmer, and Grace Parry (1917-2018), his wife. He attended Carreglefn Primary School and the Sir Thomas Jones School, Amlwch. After leaving school he worked at an ICI factory in Northwich, Cheshire, subsequently
JONES, TREVOR ALEC (1924 - 1983), Labour politician Party in 1945. He had been chairman of the Wood Green CLP and secretary of the Rhondda West CLP, 1965-67, and of the Rhondda branch of the National Association of Labour Teachers. He was also a member of the Wood Green Borough Council. He acted as political agent to Iori Thomas MP in the general election of March 1966. When Thomas died the following year, Jones was chosen as his successor, and held
JONES, Sir WILLIAM (1566 - 1640), judge Griffith II, Cefnamwlch, over a royal order to transport ordnance from the coast of Llŷn for defence of the border, which Jones maintained would leave the coast dangerously exposed; after that he appears to have taken little active part in public affairs till in June, 1647 - after the county had fallen to Parliament - he was appointed by the Rump to the county assessment committee. On 6 March 1649 the

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