Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JENKINS, ROBERT THOMAS (1881 - 1969), historian, man of letters, editor of Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig and the Dictionary of Welsh Biography , and to her husband, William Dafis, a coalmerchant. Profoundly influenced by the town of Bala, its craftsmen and his recollections of notable inhabitants, its sturdy Welsh culture, the old grammar school and the denominational colleges, it was thus natural for him often to rejoice that he had been baptized by Thomas Charles Edwards. He was firmly grounded in Latin by John Cadwalader Evans, headmaster
JONES, Syr THOMAS (d. 1622?), cleric and poet Llandeilo Bertholeu' in Iolo MS. 40. This was printed in Cymru Fydd, 1889, 404-6, in Hen Gwndidau, 187-92 (ed. Hopkin-James and T. C. Evans), and in Parry-Williams's Canu Rhydd Cynnar, 367-72. It will be noticed that the Iolo MS. alone connects the poet with the parish which is today oddly called ' Llantilio Pertholey ' (near Abergavenny); and Iolo Morganwg has a note on the poet (quoted in Hen Gwndidau
JONES, ALAN TREVOR (1901 - 1979), health service administrator and Provost, Welsh National School of Medicine professional people. After one meeting he wrote in his diary: 'A very good dinner and very good conversation, as one would expect from a crowd of this kind. I like it very much'. In 1931 he married Gwyneth Evans, and they had a son who became a consultant paediatrician and a daughter who became a nurse. He died on 10 June 1979 and, though a staunch Presbyterian throughout his life, he was buried in Gelligaer
JONES, BENJAMIN (P[rif] A[rwyddfardd] Môn; 1788 - 1841), poet, writer, and Baptist apologete Born 1788, son of William Jones, Treddaniel, one of the earliest Baptist deacons at Holyhead, and Elizabeth Roberts, daughter of William Roberts, Garreg-fawr. He was baptized at Holyhead by Christmas Evans in 1811, and spent his whole life there, as a draper, until his death on 19 February 1841. He married, 12 October 1810, Mary, daughter of Edward Parry of Holyhead, and thirteen children were
JONES, CAIN, almanac-maker MS 1891E, verses in NLW MS 1817E, psalm-tunes in NLW MS 1932E, a poem giving an account of a drunkard from Cymdu in NLW MS 6729B, and a poem greeting Edward Bennion, a physician, in NLW MS 12868B. John Cain Jones is said to have died in 1826, leaving a daughter, Leah Evans, a gifted poetess, at Glyn Ceiriog.
JONES, Sir CYNAN (ALBERT) EVANS (Cynan; 1895 - 1970), poet, dramatist and eisteddfodwr Born 14 April 1895, the son of Richard Albert Jones and Hannah Jane (née Evans), Pwllheli, Caernarfonshire. He received his education at the elementary school and the County School at Pwllheli, and University College, Bangor (on a Baptist scholarship), where he graduated in 1916. In the same year he enlisted in the R.A.M.C., serving in Salonika and France as a member of the 86th Field Ambulance
JONES, DANIEL (1757 - 1821), Methodist cleric Born c. 1757, a native, it is thought, of Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire. He was ordained deacon in 1781 and licensed to the curacy of Pencarreg, but he was curate of Llanybyther when he was ordained priest in 1782. He was transferred to Radyr, Glamorganshire, c. 1785, where he remained as curate for the rest of his life. In 1792 he married Joan, daughter of Edmund Williams of St. Fagans. He was a
JONES, DANIEL (1813 - 1846), Calvinistic Methodist missionary .) College, and in 1844 took a further course of training in missionary work in London. Later he was ordained, and after serving churches for some time from Rossett, near Wrexham, he and his wife, Ann Evans, sailed for India in 1845, reaching the Khasi Hills in the following year. After a survey of the hinterland, he returned for supplies to the station at Cherrapoonjee, where he died of jungle fever. He
JONES, DANIEL OWEN (1880 - 1951) Madagascar, minister (Congl.) and missionary Born at Tŷ-gwyn, Rhiw-Siôn, Cwm-cou, Cardiganshire, near Newcastle Emlyn, 23 February 1880, son of David and Rebecca Jones. He was educated at Tre-wen British School. At 16 years of age he began preaching in Tre-wen chapel under the ministry of David Evans (who later became his brother-in-law). He received further education at Newcastle Emlyn grammar school, the Old College School in Carmarthen
JONES, DAVID (1834 - 1890) Wallington, local historian and genealogist itself. At Somerset House, e.g. he made abstracts of every Welsh will down to 1650 and every South Wales will down to 1700. Under the terms of his own will his Welsh collections passed to Illtyd B. Nicholl, The Ham, Llantwit Major, and half a century later Nicholl presented the greater portion of them to Cardiff City Library, where the numerous letters which David Jones wrote to T. C. Evans (Cadrawd
JONES, DAVID HUGH (Dewi Arfon; 1833 - 1869), minister (CM), schoolmaster and poet Born in Ty Du, Llanberis, Caernarfonshire, 6th July 1833, to Hugh and Ellen Jones. He was the eldest of 4 children; one brother was Griffth Hugh Jones, ('Gutyn Arfon'), composer of the hymn-tune ' Llef ', written in memory of Dewi Arfon. When Dewi Arfon was about 5, he went to a school kept by Ellis Thomas, in Capel Coch, Llanberis, and then to a school kept by John Evans, Ceunant Coch. He left
JONES, DAVID JOHN TAWE (1885 - 1949), musician extensive to be included in this article. He suffered a great deal from the effects of World War I when he was gassed and received a shrapnel wound in his head. Shortly before his death he completed a five-act opera, The Enchantress, based on the biblical theme of ' Jezebel ' - the libretto by J. Dyfnallt Owen and an English translation by ' Wil Ifan ' (William Evans). The opera is scored for full

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