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JONES, ROBERT TUDUR
(1921 - 1998), theologian, church historian and public figure
. Even though he gained a scholarship to Jesus College, Oxford, Tudur bowed to family pressure and entered the University of Wales, Bangor, and followed courses in Welsh, under Professor Sir
Ifor
Williams, and philosophy. He graduated with First-Class Honours in Philosophy in 1942. He went on to train for the Independent ministry in Bala Bangor College in Bangor and was steeped in church history by
JONES, SAMUEL
(1898 - 1974), journalist, broadcaster and Head of the BBC in Bangor
Sam Jones was born in Clydach in the Swansea Valley on 30 November, 1898, the ninth child born to Samuel Cornelius Jones (1865-1939), tinplate worker, and Mary Ann Jones (1866-1921). She gave birth to fifteen children, but only eight survived infancy - David Robert (born 1887); Hannah Mary (born 1889); Cornelius (born 1890);
Ifor
(born 1892); Annie (born 1896); Garfield (born 1897); Samuel (born
JONES, SARAH RHIANNON DAVIES
(1921 - 2014), author and lecturer
'christendom' by the Headmaster E. Pugh Parry, and those lessons later inspired research for several of her novels. She was also introduced by her Welsh teacher, Aneurin Owen, to works of literature which influenced her. She went on to University College Bangor in 1940 and there she came into contact with a number of influential people such as Professor
Ifor
Williams, Professor Thomas Parry and Professor R.T
JONES, THOMAS LLOYD
(Gwenffrwd; 1810 - 1834), poet
some verse translations from the English, done by him, and is dedicated to William Owen Pughe. An elegy of his on
Ifor
Ceri (John Jenkins, 1770 - 1829) won the prize at the Beaumaris eisteddfod of 1832. He moved from Holywell to Denbigh - it was from here that he wrote a letter to R.L. Morris, Holywell, which was published in Adgof uwch Angof, and it was there that he wrote ' Llinellau for Y
JONES, THOMAS ROBERT
(Gwerfulyn; 1802 - 1856), founder of the charitable movement, the True Ivorites
. David's lodge and the Union which had developed around it declared itself the chief lodge of the whole of Wales and a fierce contention arose between it and T.R. Jones and his followers. St. David's lodge won the day and in 1845 the movement's central office moved from Carmarthen to Swansea. ' Ivorism ' (named after
Ifor
ap Llywelyn, or
Ifor
Hael, of Bassaleg) was on the increase throughout Wales and
LEWIS, IVOR
(1895 - 1982), consultant surgeon
to contribute to the wider development of health services in his homeland. Outside Medicine Ivor loved the traditions, the language and literature of Wales and nothing gave him greater pleasure than to be admitted, in 1970, as a member of the White Order of the Gorsedd of Bards with the bardic name
Ifor
o Wynfe, at the National Eisteddfod held that year in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire. In 1977 his
LLOYD
family Rhiwaedog, Rhiwedog,
bards who are named below, Llywarch Hen, named by them as an ancestor of the Lloyd family, was himself a bard. Today we know (see
Ifor
Williams, Canu Llywarch Hen, 1935) that he was a chieftain who is the subject of the early Welsh 'saga' contained in the poems associated with his name. The older belief that he was a poet may account (in part only, of course) for the remarkable amount of patronage
LLYWARCH HEN
(fl. 6th century), British prince and a hero of a cycle of Welsh tales dating from the mid-9th century
appear in Dwnn (Visitations) and the descent from him of the leading families of Penllyn and the surrounding country, together with the legend of his burial in Llanfor, and the association of his name with the old remains there and elsewhere in Wales. The unravelling of the recorded facts concerning the historical Llywarch from these legendary accretions is the work of Sir
Ifor
Williams, on whose
LLYWELYN ap GRUFFYDD
(d. 1317), nobleman, soldier and rebel martyr
contemporary chronicle has it. All this suggests that he was the son of Gruffydd ap Rhys, a native vassal of the honour of Glamorgan, and a great-grandson of
Ifor
Bach, lord of Senghenydd, and Nest, granddaughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr. Since 1256 Senghenydd had been fully absorbed into the feudal organisation of the honour, and Llywelyn appears to have been on excellent terms with the young earl, Gilbert de
MADOG ap GWALLTER
, friar, a religious poet
or early 14th cents.), which contains a Latin text of the 'Dares Phrygius' and Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum,' we find twenty-six lines of Latin leonine hexameters in which it is stated that Geoffrey had translated Welsh panegyric poems in praise of the ancient valour of the kings of Britain. The author refers to himself as 'Frater Walensis madocus edeirnianensis.' Sir
Ifor
Williams
MEREDITH, JOHN ELLIS
(1904 - 1981), minister (Presbyterian Church of Wales) and author
aspect of the life of the town and the educational institutions. He was a loyal member of the local Free Church Council, acting as its President and served six times as the Mayor's Chaplain. He served as the Chairman of the local Committee for the United Theological College, giving loyal support to the Principal W. R. Williams (a member of his church) and Principal S.
Ifor
Enoch. He served as Chairman
MORGAN
family Tredegar Park,
from Bledri was LLYWELYN AB
IFOR
, lord of S. Clears and Gwynfe, who married Angharad, the daughter and sole heir of Sir Morgan ap Maredydd, said to be descended from the Welsh lords of Caerleon and, in her right, acquired the estates of Tredegar and Cyfoeth Feredydd. Of this union there were three children, MORGAN of Tredegar and S. Clears,
Ifor
Hael, the ancestor of the branch of the family at Gwern
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