Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, JOHN (Myllin; 1800 - 1826), poet He was born at y Glyniau, near Llanfyllin. He learnt the trade of a shoemaker and worked for a time in Liverpool. His literary efforts were encouraged by the Rev. David Richards, Llansilin, and he was friendly with Gwallter Mechain, Ieuan Glan Geirionydd, and others. In an eisteddfod held at Welshpool in 1824 he won the prize for his englynion ' Beddargraph Die Sion Dafydd.' Examples of his work
JONES, JOHN (Shoni Sguborfawr; c.1810 - 1867), Rebecca rioter Tumble on 28 September, tried at the Carmarthen assizes, and sentenced (22 December) to transportation for life, on the charge of having, on 25 August, shot at one Walter Rees, at the New Inn, Pontyberem, with intent to cause grievous bodily harm (and not, as is generally supposed, for his share in destroying turnpike gates). He received his sentence with laughter. In prison he revealed to the
JONES, JOHN (1837 - 1906), minister (Presb.) and writer ordained in 1863, but apart from a short period (1872-78) when he was pastor of Capel y Graig near Bangor, he did not serve as a minister of a church. He married a daughter of David Jones, Treborth (1805 - 1868). For some years after 1878 he was manager of a private (family) bank ' Pugh, Jones & Co. ' in Bethesda, but returned to Pwllheli (where he had lived before going to Capel y Graig), and died there
JONES, JOHN (1761 - 1822), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born at Tyddyn-Dafydd-Ddu, in the parish of Llandwrog, Caernarfonshire, but he was brought up in Caernarvon town until he was 17 years of age, and attended a school kept by one Thomas Brown. He was apprenticed to a barber at Mold but, after two years, returned to his family which, by this time, was living at Amlwch, Anglesey. During the course of a visit paid by David Morris (1744 - 1791) of Twr
JONES, JOHN (1773 - 1853), cleric Born 31 March 1773, the eldest of the thirteen children of Thomas and Lowri Jones, Dolgellau, Meironnydd. Thomas Jones was a businessman and financier, founder of the first bank in Dolgellau, and a relative of David Richards, ' Dafydd Ionawr '. John Jones was educated in Dolgellau, Ruthin Grammar School and Jesus College, Oxford where he graduated B.A. in 1796 (M.A. in 1800). He was curate in
JONES, JOHN (Tegid, Ioan Tegid; 1792 - 1852), cleric and man of letters Born at Bala, 10 February 1792, first son and third child of Henry and Catherine Jones; according to Elizabeth Davis, the mother had a pretty large millinery business, and Tegid's prolonged sojourn at schools suggests that his family was not too badly off. He speaks of a brother, David (born 1794, a banker), a sister Elen christened 29 January 1787, and another Gwen, born 1788, who died young
JONES, JOHN (Ivon; 1820 - 1898), man of letters Born 10 May 1820 to David and Hannah Jones, Spite, Bethel, Mynydd-bach, Cardiganshire. He obtained a little formal education from a retired exciseman and one-time pupil at Ystrad Meurig, Owen Morris, who kept school at Bethel. In 1835, he was apprenticed to the grocery trade at Canton House, Aberystwyth. Upon his marriage in February 1848 he established his own grocery business in Princess Street
JONES, JOHN (1766? - 1827), classical scholar and Unitarian divine Born at Wernfelen near Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, the son of a farmer. When about 14 years of age, he entered Christ College School, Brecon, then under David Griffith (1726 - 1816), and remained there until 1783. He later became a divinity student at Hackney College, London. In 1792 he became assistant tutor at the Presbyterian Academy at Swansea, but left in 1795, when he became minister of
JONES, JOHN (1820 - 1907), minister (B) and historian slight volumes of sermons which are of no great merit. His only valuable written work was his History of the Baptists in Radnorshire on which he started before 1876, but was unable to finish, owing to the pressure of pastoral work until 1895. He relied on printed sources such as the works of Thomas Rees and Joshua Thomas for the early period, but for the period 1795 to 1895 he depended on his personal
JONES, JOHN (Myrddin Fardd; 1836 - 1921), writer, antiquary, and collector of old letters and manuscripts memorial to David Williams of Castell Deudraeth; this was in the Eryri eisteddfod. In 1861 he made a bid for the chair at the national eisteddfod held at Conway with an awdl, ' Mynyddoedd Eryri,' but the prize was won by Gwilym Cowlyd with Myrddin second. In the national eisteddfod held at Caernarvon in 1877 he won a prize for his work ' Enwogion Sir Gaernarfon ', which was published in 1922. He was a
JONES, JOHN (CYNDDYLAN) (1841 - 1930), preacher and theologian succeed in business and sailors. The revival of 1859 deeply affected him and soon afterwards he moved to London. There, under the stimulating influence of Owen Thomas and David Charles Davies, he quite naturally became inclined towards the ministry. As the Calvinistic Methodists were reluctant to support his candidature, he entered Bala College in 1864 as a lay student. Nevertheless, he was not deterred
JONES, JOHN (1802 - 1863), Unitarian minister and schoolmaster Born 20 July 1802 at Pantlluest, Llanarth, Cardiganshire. He was educated at David Davis of Castellhywel's school and at Carmarthen Academy (1825-1827). In 1831 he opened, in conjunction with the Rev. Rees Davies, a school at Cribin, and meantime preached occasionally at Pantydefaid. In February 1833 he was appointed minister of the Old Meeting House, Aberdare, and opened a grammar school in Heol

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