Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, DAVID (1797 - 1841), missionary A missionary connected with the Madagascar Mission for nearly twenty-five years under the London Missionary Society; born 1797 at Pen-rhiw, near Neuadd-lwyd, Cardiganshire. He studied when 14 under Thomas Phillips at the Neuadd-lwyd Academy, and later at Llanfyllin and Gosport. At 16 he felt the urge to preach, and, offering himself for service under the L.M.S., was appointed to Africa and
JONES, DAVID BEVAN (Dewi Elfed; 1807 - 1863), minister (B, and Church of Christ and Latter Day Saints - Mormons) the influence of Mormonism. But even before he left Rhymney it was rumoured that he fostered unorthodox ideas, leaning towards Unitarianism. An investigation was held by the Glamorgan Baptist Association at Aberdare, November 1850, and he and the congregation of Gwawr were excommunicated from the Association. In 1851 Dewi went to William Phillips, president of the Saints in Wales, and received (with
JONES, DAVID HUGH (Dewi Arfon; 1833 - 1869), minister (CM), schoolmaster and poet ), intending to become a school-teacher. After consulting John Phillips, Bangor (1810 - 1867) he decided to go to Borough Road College, London, and to mark the occasion, a testimonial was presented to him in January 1856 by the Literary Society of Capel Coch, Llanberis. He went at his own expense to Borough Road, and after a year gained a teacher's certificate, second class. For four years after that, he was
JONES, DAVID JOHN (1906 - 1978), opera singer recordings. According to those who heard him it was a sonorous voice, which could fill the largest halls without the aid of a microphone. Bruce Dargavel said that his voice combined the size of the Amazon with the clarity of a Welsh mountain stream. His varied career is a good example of success in the world of singing without the advantage of formal education. He married in 1934 Mary Phillips (b. 1912
JONES, DAVID STANLEY (1860 - 1919), Congregationalist minister , under John Thomas, a grandson of Thomas Phillips of Neuadd-lwyd. He was received into church membership at Pisgah, Talgarreg. Apprenticed to a tailor when not yet 12, he afterwards worked at Cwrtnewydd, and later in a shop at Lampeter, but found neither place congenial; nor did a move to Ffestiniog in North Wales prove auspicious. He returned to South Wales, settling down at Deri, Glamorganshire
JONES, JOHN (1777 - 1842) Ystrad, politician Cawdor interest in 1812 but, on the death of general Picton in 1815, became member for the Pembroke boroughs, a seat which he held until 1818. In that year he again unsuccessfully contested Carmarthen borough but, when his opponent in this election succeeded to the earldom of Cawdor in 1821, he won the seat against the Whig candidate, Sir William Paxton, and was re-elected in 1826 and 1830. He led the
JONES, JOHN Maes-y-garnedd,, 'the regicide' ; Phillips, Civil War, i, 274-5; Hist. MSS. Comm., 9th R., ii, 443). By April 1645 he was serving in the siege of Chester, and protesting against the indiscriminate plunder of Welsh goods by his own side. Next year he had become a colonel of horse, and was one of the three envoys sent to negotiate the surrender of Anglesey (30 May to 14 June). Next year (23 September) he succeeded one of his fellow-envoys
JONES, JOHN HENRY (1909 - 1985), educationist and translator fragmentary - work of the prolific polymath Varro (116-27 B.C.) and completed a Ph.D. (London) thesis, 'A Critical Study of the Life and Work of Marcus Terentius Varro' (1936). After a short period as a master at Friars School, Bangor, in 1937 he was appointed lecturer in Classics at University College, Swansea. There he met Marian Phillips (1916-2013), originally from Brynamman, a lecturer in the college's
JONES, JOHN ITHEL (1911 - 1980), minister (Baptist) and college principal South Wales Baptist College as a ministerial student. He graduated in Welsh (2nd class) in 1932 and in philosophy (first-class) in 1933 before going on to gain his B.D.; he graduated M.A. in 1946 with a theological dissertation. The two great influences on him during his college days were the professor of Hebrew, Dr Theodore H. Robinson, and Dr Thomas Phillips, Principal of the Baptist College. Thomas
JONES, JOHN ROBERT (1911 - 1970), philosopher and patriot (1968); A rhaid i'r iaith ein gwahanu? (1967); Yr ewyllys i barhau (1969); Gwaedd yng Nghymru (1970); Ac Onide (1970); Welsh articles on philosophy and religion in Y Drysorfa, 1933, 1943, 1949; Credaf, 1944; Taliesin, 1967; Efrydiau Athronyddol, 1938, 1939, 1947, 1950, 1951, 1957, 1961, 1969; Diwinyddiaeth, 1969; Y Drysorfa 1956; Saith ysgrif ar grefydd (ed. Dewi Z. Phillips), 1967; in English
JONES, MICHAEL (1787 - 1853), Independent minister and first principal of the Bala Independent College labourer, became a stone-mason, and after his brother, Evan, had helped him to get a little schooling went to Lampeter where he was trained as a book-binder. In 1807 Thomas Phillips (1772 - 1842) admitted him to full membership at Neuadd-lwyd, and it was he who urged him to start preaching. He then went to the school kept by David Davis of Castellhywel, working now and then to pay his way, and for a time
KNIGHT, HENRY HEY (1795 - 1857), cleric and antiquary Phillips, Hist. of the Vale of Neath, 115). The most important of these is the very valuable ' Account of Newton Nottage,' published in Archæologia Cambrensis in 1853 (90-8, 161-80, 229-62), which includes a history of the descent of the Tythegston and other estates of the Turbervils, the Loughers, and the Knights.

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