Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, EDWARD (Iorwerth Ceitho; 1838? - 1930), carpenter and eisteddfodwr Born c. 1838, the youngest of six children of Thomas and Eleanor Jones of Ffos-dwn, Dihewyd, Cardiganshire. When he was about 5 years old the family moved to the tenement of Bryn Haidd in Nantcwnlle. He was apprenticed as a carpenter with David Davies, Brynhyfryd, Bwlch-y-llan, who specialized in the making of threshing machines. He migrated to London to serve in a milk-walk and to tend cattle
JONES, EDWARD (1761 - 1836), poet, farmer, and schoolmaster Born at Tan-y-Waen, Prion, Llanrhaeadr Dyffryn Clwyd, Denbighshire, 19 March 1761, son of John Jones, farmer, and his wife, Ann, daughter of William Williams, Rhyd-y-Cilgwyn. When he was about a year old the family moved to Bryn-y-gwynt-isaf in the same parish. The father died when Edward was about 10 years old. He had little formal education, and that from Daniel Lloyd, Independent minister at
JONES, EDWARD OWEN (E.O.J.; 1871 - 1953), journalist and writer of englynion Born in May 1871 at Welford, Northamptonshire, where his father, ' Berwron ', was a farm bailiff, but in 1875 the family moved to Llosg-yr-odyn, Y Gaerwen, Anglesey. He was apprenticed to the printer's trade at the Bangor office of the North Wales Chronicle in 1887; then in 1903 he succeeded Hugh Edwards as editor of Y Clorianydd, the Anglesey weekly paper, at Llangefni, and held the post for 48
JONES, ELEN ROGER (1908 - 1999), actress and teacher and recital competitions in eisteddfodau, and subsequently becoming a judge at the National Eisteddfod. Just two years after they moved to Bala, Elen and her family spent time living in Abersoch and Amlwch, before coming back to Marian-Glas to live. Elen Roger Jones was most widely known as an actress in radio, stage and television plays in Wales, and institutions such as Theatr Fach in Llangefni
JONES, ELIZABETH MARY (Moelona; 1877 - 1953), teacher and novelist . Her eldest brother was Owen Rhys Owen (1854 - 1908), a Congl. minister whose name has become associated with Glandŵr. The family had to leave Moylon and take Llwyneos, a smaller, remote farm, and it was from there that she went to the elementary school in Rhydlewis. John Newton Crowther was the headmaster -an Englishman who learnt Welsh and became a Welsh poet; he also took a leading part in Hawen
JONES, ELIZABETH MAY WATKIN (1907 - 1965), teacher and campaigner had fled from Nazi oppression and enlisted in a Polish corps within the British army during the Second World War. Eventually, he settled at Llanuwchllyn and began to work as a painter in the Bala area, before settling after the marriage at 'Celyn' with Elizabeth and her father. Following two journeys to visit her husband's family in Poland (1960, 1962), Elizabeth submitted a travel journal to a
JONES, EMRYS (1920 - 2006), geographer Hospice of St Francis at Berkhamstead 30 August, 2006. His ashes lie partly in St Mary's Church in Berkhamstead and partly in his wife's family church at Brynsiencyn, Anglesey.
JONES, EMYR WYN (1907 - 1999), cardiologist and author for due recognition of the Welsh language within the health service. In 1936 he married Enid Llywelyn Williams (1909-1967), daughter of Dr David Llewelyn Williams and sister to Alun Llywelyn-Williams. They had one daughter, Carys (b. 1937) and one son, Gareth Wyn (b. 1940). During the intense bombing of Liverpool in the Second World War, the family moved first to Enid's parents' house in Old Colwyn
JONES, ENID WYN (1909 - 1967), a prominent worker in religious, social and medical fields Born 17 January 1909 in Wrexham, Denbighshire, daughter of Dr. David Llewelyn Williams and Margaret Williams. The poet Alun Llywelyn-Williams was her brother. The family moved to Cardiff just before World War I, but she was brought up at Rhyl during the war. She was a pupil at the Welsh Girls' School, Ashford, from 1919 to 1926, and afterwards was trained as a nurse at Cardiff Royal Infirmary. On
JONES, EVAN (1790 - 1860), the last of the Usk japanners was descended from the Allgood family. He bought the japannery from John Pyrke in 1826, but after the death of John Hughes (1784 - 1851), and of his artist Morgan Davies (1770 - 1837), he paid comparatively little attention to this business, and became increasingly absorbed in his farm, his ironmongery shop, his brickworks, and his gasworks, not to mention his participation in public life - he
JONES, EVAN (Ieuan Gwynedd; 1820 - 1852), Independent minister, and journalist Born at Bryn Tynoriad near Dolgelley, 5 September 1820, one of the six children of Evan and Catherine Jones. In 1824 the family moved to Ty Croes, Bontnewydd, Dolgelley. He suffered from ill-health all his life and, because of this, his attendance at various schools at Brithdir, Rhyd-y-main, Llanfachreth, and Dolgelley between 1826 and 1836 was extremely erratic. In 1836 he was given an
JONES, EVAN (1777 - 1819), Baptist minister Born at Llandysul, Cardiganshire, but his family was of Eglwyswrw, Pembrokeshire, and William Richards of Lynn calls him 'the man from Eglwyswrw.' He began preaching as a member at Pen-y-bont, Llandysul - according to David Jones (Bed. Deheubarth) in 1796, but according to other data in 1792. He spent four years at Bristol Baptist Academy under Ryland, who said that he was the ablest student he

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