Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, SAMUEL (1898 - 1974), journalist, broadcaster and Head of the BBC in Bangor 1898) and Gwenhwyfar (born 1905). This was a faithful family of Baptists who worshipped at Calfaria Chapel, Clydach. Affectionately known as 'Sammy bach', Sam Jones was educated at the local primary school and then in 1910/11 at the Ystalyfera County Intermediate School. In 1912 the school was relocated to Pontardawe and called Pontardawe Higher Elementary School. On 3 September, 1917 Sam Jones
JONES, SARAH RHIANNON DAVIES (1921 - 2014), author and lecturer Rhiannon Davies Jones was born on 4 November 1921 in Llanbedr, Meirioneth, the second daughter of Hugh Davies Jones (1872-1924), a Baptist minister, and his wife Laura (née Owen, 1887-1977), a teacher. She had one sister, Annie Davies Evans (née Jones). Her father was brought up near Oswestry, but his original family home was Derwen Fawr farm, Corwen, which the family had to leave in the 1880s
JONES, SHÂN EMLYN (1936 - 1997), singer Shân Emlyn was born in Oxford on 8 February 1936, the daughter of Emlyn Jones and his wife Joanna (née Owen). The family lived in Oxford, where the father was a clerk in Morris Motors and a member of the works band, until the beginning of the Second World War, when they returned to Wales, settling first in Felinheli and then in Pwllheli. With a trombonist father and a mother who was a music
JONES, TERENCE GRAHAM PARRY (1942 - 2020), actor, director, writer and popular historian Terry Jones was born on 1 February 1942 in Colwyn Bay, Denbighshire, the second son of Alick George Parry-Jones, a bank clerk, and his wife Dilys Louisa (née Newnes). He first met his father on the platform of Colwyn Bay railway station when he returned from India after serving with the RAF during World War Two. When Terry was four, the family moved to Surrey where he attended primary school in
JONES, Sir THOMAS (1614 - 1692), chief justice was of Welsh descent (of the tribe of Ednowain Bendew, for which see Arch.Camb., 1876, 1877, and more directly, 1878), but the family had long been associated with Shropshire, and Sir Thomas himself acquired Welsh denizenship only after his marriage (with Jane Barnard, of Chester), when he took up his residence at Carreghwfa ('Carreghova') Hill, Montgomeryshire. His career is described in D.N.B
JONES, THOMAS (1860 - 1932), farmer and poet Born at Tyn-y-gors, Nantglyn, Denbighshire, 10 June 1860, son of Thomas and Margaret Jones - the mother belonging to the Tyn-y-gors family and the father to that of Llidiard-ygwartheg, Cerrig-y-drudion. He was brought up by his grandparents, moving to Tai-isaf in 1872. He had six months schooling at Pentrefoelas and two periods of six months each at Cerrig-y-drudion. He married Mary, daughter of
JONES, THOMAS (1769 - 1850), Baptist minister Born at Llangollen, he had his religious upbringing in the celebrated church of Glynceiriog. On his father's side he was descended from the Dôl Hir family of Glynceiriog. He and his neighbour, John Edwards, were ordained joint ministers of Glynceiriog 2 July 1794. By 1796 the views of Robert Sandeman had set the people by the ears and there was a schism in the church, one party under the
JONES, THOMAS (1742 - 1803), landscape painter Born 26 September 1742, second son of Thomas and Hannah Jones of Trevonen in Cefnllys, Radnorshire. His parents moved to Pencerrig in Llanelwedd near Builth, which still remains the property of the family. He entered Christ College School at Brecon in 1753 and there first developed an interest in pictures and in drawing. He moved in 1758 to the school at Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire, kept by
JONES, THOMAS (1908 - 1990), trade unionist and Spanish Civil War veteran at that time. The family moved to Rhosllannerchrugog (Rhos), Denbighshire, in 1915, when Jones was six years old, and he soon settled into that vibrant Welsh-speaking mining village, rich in character and community spirit. After leaving school in 1922, Jones found work at the Hafod and, subsequently, the Bersham collieries. This was a time of industrial strife culminating in the General Strike of
JONES, THOMAS JESSE (1873 - 1950), educationalist, statistician, and sociologist Born 4 August 1873 in Llanfachraeth, Anglesey, he emigrated at the age of 11 to the U.S.A. with his widowed mother, a brother, and two sisters, the family settling in Ohio with relatives. He went to the Universities of Washington and Lee (Virginia) and Columbia (New York), graduating M.A. and Ph.D.; he was also B.D. of the Union Theological Seminary. For seven years he was at the Hampton
JONES, THOMAS JOHN RHYS (1916 - 1997), teacher, lecturer and author Prys Jones, 1957). Appointed a Welsh-language organiser for Glamorgan, his office was situated in Cardiff but his main area of work concerned west Glamorgan. A year later, following his appointment to a similar position in Carmarthenshire, he moved his family to Llangadog to live. During this time the publishers Hodder and Stoughton invited his friend J. T. Bowen, a teacher of Welsh at Aberdare Boys
JONES, THOMAS LLEWELYN (1915 - 2009), poet and prolific writer T. Llew Jones, who published about 100 books for children and adults, was born at 1 Bwlch Melyn, Pentre-Cwrt, Carmarthenshire, 11 October 1915, the eldest son of James and Hannah Mary Jones and brother to Edwin Sieffre and Megan Eluned. His father was a weaver at the Derw Mill in Pentre-cwrt. T. Llew married Margaret Enidwen Jones, descended from the Cilie family and they had two children, Emyr

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