Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, JOSIAH THOMAS (1799 - 1873), publisher and Independent minister offices; Iago ap Dewi and Cawrdaf may serve as examples. David Griffiths (1756 - 1834) of Nevern was J. T. Jones's uncle.
JONES, LEWIS (1837 - 1904), pioneer in Patagonia, and writer and started two newspapers - Ein Breiniad, 1878, and Y Dravod, 1891; the latter is still being published. A lecture given before the Cymmrodorion in 1885, when he was visiting Wales, was subsequently published, and his book Y Wladfa Gymreig was published in 1898. He had two daughters - Eluned Morgan and another who married Llwyd ap Iwan, son of Michael D. Jones. Lewis Jones was a gallant leader in
JONES, MICHAEL (d. 1649), soldier Of Irish birth but Welsh family, being sixth in descent from Gruffydd Derwas, lord of Nannau and ancestor of the family of Nannau as well as (on the female side) of John Jones the regicide. His father, Welsh-born LEWIS JONES (son of John Wynn ap John) went from Merioneth to Brasenose College, Oxford, c. 1562, proceeding straight from B.A. to a Fellowship of All Souls (1569), thence to Ireland
JONES, MICHAEL DANIEL (1822 - 1898), Independent minister and principal of the Independent College at Bala opposition. He was also an out-and-out nationalist, the father of the nationalist renaissance in Wales; he loathed the English -worshipping Welshman, and it has been said that ' the credit should be given chiefly to him and to Emrys ap Iwan for transforming Welsh patriotism into a vigorous practical nationalism. ' He died 2 December 1898 and was buried in the Old Chapel burial ground at Llanuwchllyn.
JONES, OWEN (Owain Myfyr; 1741 - 1814), a skinner in London and one of the most prominent figures in the literary life of Wales at the end of the 18th cent, and the beginning of the next in the history of the literature of Wales and in the literary life of the period. At this time he called himself ' Owain ap Huw.' With his friend, Robin Ddu o Fôn (Robert Hughes, 1744 - 1785), he is found in 1768 copying from the manuscripts of the Morris brothers the work of Dafydd ap Gwilym, together with all kinds of other material which they saw in the old manuscripts. This was one of his main
JONES, OWEN WYNNE (Glasynys; 1828 - 1870), cleric, antiquary, story-writer, and poet churchyard. He was the author of Fy Oriau Hamddenol, sef, Caniadau Moesol a Difyrus, Gan Gwyndaf Hen a Chaersallwg, 1854; Lleucu Llwyd (2nd. imp. 1858); Yr Wyddfa: sef Gwaith barddonawl a rhyddieithol Glasynys. Dan Olygiad H. O(wen) Glaslyn. Rhifyn I … (1877?); Dafydd Llwyd; Neu Ddyddiau Cromwell (2nd imp. 1857); Dafydd Gruffydd, pa beth wyt ti yn ei feddwl o'r Ddwy Fil a'r dydd hwnnw? (3rd imp. 1894). He
JONES, RICHARD (1603 - 1655/6?), cleric and author Born 1603; son of John Pew of Henllan, Denbighshire, according to A. Wood, Athenae Oxonienses, and Foster, Alumni Oxonienses, but John ap Hugh of Hendre Caerwys in Northop, Flint, according to Thomas, A History of the Diocese of St. Asaph. Educated at Jesus College, Oxford, he graduated B.A. in February 1625-6, and M.A. in July 1628. He was appointed vicar of Llanfair Caereinion, Montgomeryshire
JONES, ROBERT AMBROSE (1848 - 1906), Calvinistic Methodist minister, man of letters, and publicist in predominantly Welsh -speaking localities, and as a result he was refused ordination at Llanidloes (1881), but after a keen controversy he was ordained at Mold (1883). He served as pastor at Ruthin and at Trefnant, and in 1900 he moved to Rhewl, where he died 6 January 1906, and where he lies buried. He was never married. The late T. Gwynn Jones appended to his biography of Emrys ap Iwan, 1912, a
JONES, SAMUEL (1898 - 1974), journalist, broadcaster and Head of the BBC in Bangor Welsh and History. As a student at Bangor he met Maud Ann Griffith. They were married on 2 September 1933 at the Welsh Wesleyan chapel in Cardiff. Their only child, Dafydd Gruffydd Jones, financial consultant, was born on 4 May 1942. Mrs Maud Jones died on 3 January 1974. On 8 September, 1924 Sam Jones began his teaching career at Harrington Road School, Liverpool. He left Liverpool for Cardiff in
JONES, THOMAS (1756 - 1820), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author Dictionary, 1800. He wrote poetry well in the strict metres, and delighted in the work of Dafydd ap Gwilym, as is shown by his cywydd to the thrush, 1793. Many of his hymns are still sung. He took a leading part in the theological controversies of the period and tried, by advocating in books and pamphlets a moderate Calvinism, to steer his denomination between the extremes of Arminianism and High Calvinism
JONES, THOMAS (c. 1622 - 1682), Protestant controversialist Born at Oswestry, the son of John Williams (son of William ap Meredith of Pwllheli), and probably nephew of Henry Williams, town clerk of Oswestry in 1623. His studies at Jesus College, Oxford, interrupted by the Civil War, were resumed in 1646, when on taking the covenant he was awarded a Fellowship at University College by the parliamentary visitors before graduating (B.A. 23 February 1650, M.A
JONES, THOMAS GRUFFYDD (Tafalaw Bencerdd; 1832 - 1898), musician Born 6 January 1832 at The Forge, Pen-y-cae, Monmouthshire, the son of Gruffydd and Hannah Jones. He was apprenticed as carpenter but his chief delight lay in music. He received his first lessons in music from Rosser Beynon. When only 16 he became precentor at Sardis, Pontypridd, of which his father was then the minister. In 1850 he began to send his compositions to eisteddfodau; at an eisteddfod

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