Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JOHNS, Sir THOMAS - see JONES, 'Sir' THOMAS
JONES family Llwyn-rhys, -natured,' and adds that it was he who got him introduced to Roger Coke, grandson of Sir Edward Coke. He was living in Clerkenwell in 1696. It is difficult to compile a full bibliography of his writings, as he sometimes wrote anonymously, but his literary activity between 1697 and 1720 can be summarized thus: (1) The Secret History of White-Hall from the Restoration to the abdication of … King James
JONES, Syr THOMAS (d. 1622?), cleric and poet says Bradney, i, 310). Then again, NLW MS 1553A has a solitary englyn by 'Syr T. Johns,' and NLW MS 13068B a series of englynion addressed by 'Syr T. Jones' to ' Syr William' - the latter, as is clear from the verses, was no cleric, but a knight, possibly Sir William Herbert (died 1593) of S. Julians.
JONES, ALAN TREVOR (1901 - 1979), health service administrator and Provost, Welsh National School of Medicine he later observed, 'an unnecessary exhibition of patriotism to those of us who were content with the easier and less arduous London Degree' - he proceeded to University College Hospital, London, obtaining the MB BS Lond. in 1924. After being a houseman to the distinguished Welsh physician, Sir Thomas Lewis, Trevor Jones held a series of hospital appointments in London and the provinces which
JONES, ALFRED ERNEST (1879 - 1958), psychoanalyst and Sigmund Freud's official biographer of the Royal Colleges (L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S.), and a year later, he obtained a London University degree in Medicine (M.B.) with honours and gold medals in Medicine and Obstetrics; and Sir John Williams awarded him the University's Gold Medal in Obstetrics. Within five years, he obtained a series of postgraduate qualifications (M.D. with a gold medal, M.R.C.P., D.P.H.), but after several disagreements
JONES, Sir ALFRED LEWIS (1845 - 1909) in the firm of Elder Dempster, and played a major part in the shipping and general trade of the West African coast. He also had a great share in restoring prosperity to the Canary Islands. In 1900 he was invited by Joseph Chamberlain, then Secretary for the Colonies, to co-operate in developing the trade of the West Indies. He helped to form the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in 1899. In
JONES, Sir CADWALADR BRYNER (1872 - 1954), a leading figure in Welsh agricultural education and eminent civil servant marked by the award of C.B.E. in 1920, C.B. in 1934, and a knighthood in 1947. Sir Bryner was the author of the first Welsh book on the scientific principles of manuring, Egwyddorion gwrteithio (1907); he edited Livestock of the farm and numerous reports of agricultural experiments. He was a contributor to the Welsh Jnl. of Agric., first published in 1925, on behalf of the Welsh Agricultural Education
JONES, Sir CYNAN (ALBERT) EVANS (Cynan; 1895 - 1970), poet, dramatist and eisteddfodwr
JONES, DANIEL (1811 - 1861), Mormon missionary Born 4 August 1811, the son of Thomas and Ruth Jones, Tan-yr-ogof, Abergele. His eldest brother, John Jones (1801 - 1856), was celebrated as an anti-Baptist controversialist. After emigrating to America, Daniel Jones became a convert to Mormonism through conveying believers on a river boat of which he was in charge. Jones was with the prophet Joseph Smith on the night of 26 June 1844, when he was
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, DANIEL JENKYN (1912 - 1993), composer English in 1934: he gained his MA in 1939 for a thesis on Elizabethan literature and its relation to the music of the period. Between 1934 and 1939 he studied composition with Harry Farjeon and conducting with Sir Henry Wood at the Royal Academy of Music, and won the Mendelssohn Scholarship for his compositions in 1935. He travelled widely in Europe and mastered several languages, and during the Second
JONES, Sir DAVID BRYNMOR (1852 - 1921), lawyer and historian Wales. He took part in the drafting of the charter of the University of Wales, was a very important member of the Welsh Land Commission of 1893, and was placed on the Welsh Church Commission of 1907. With Sir John Rhys he produced a useful book, The Welsh People (1900), based on the knowledge acquired by the authors during their work on the Land Commission. But he also published contributions to Welsh

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