Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, ELIZABETH MAY WATKIN (1907 - 1965), teacher and campaigner example, the inhabitants of Cwm Tryweryn appeared on Granada television's Under Fire programme, filmed in Manchester, brandishing their placards and with Elizabeth and her harp, a symbol of their cultural pride, placed amidst them. The many radio and television interviews in which Elizabeth participated included one on The Dragon's Teeth, where, alongside Megan Lloyd George, she argued against the
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, ENOCH ROWLAND (1912 - 1978), euphonium player and singer Rowland Jones was born on 19 July 1912 in the village of Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen in the Amman Valley, Glamorganshire,the son of Timothy Jones, a coal miner, and his wife Annie (née Lloyd). He had a younger and an older sister: Peggy and Nellie Bronwen respectively. He demonstrated some musical talent as a child, and at the age of twelve, three years before he started working in the local coal mine, he
JONES, EVAN (Gwrwst ab Bleddyn Flaidd, Gwrwst; 1793 - 1855), Baptist minister and littérateur Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu) and David Owen (Dewi Wyn o Eifion), and was an active member of the Cymreigyddion Society at Dolgelley. He published Gwentwyson: sef Ymdrechfa Y Beirdd; neu Awdlau Galarnadol am … Y Parch. Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), 1849, and the translation of Traethawd ar Faddeuant Pechod, 1809, by Abraham Booth is attributed to him, although he was then but a youth (see under Evan
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
JONES, EVAN (TALFRYN) (1857 - 1935), Baptist minister . Further, he took a keen interest in the history of his denomination, and Trafodion Cymdeithas Hanes Bedyddwyr Cymru contains three valuable papers by him - in 1908-9 on Titus Lewis, in 1913-14 on the Cilfowyr church, and in 1932 on the Baptist historian David Jones of Carmarthen.
JONES, EVAN DAVID (1903 - 1987), librarian and archivist
JONES, FRANCES MÔN (1919 - 2000), harpist and teacher Frances Môn Jones was born on 20 October 1919 at Broughton near Wrexham, the daughter of David Charles Davies and his wife Mary Jane (née Goodwin). She was educated at the local school and Grove Park Grammar School in Wrexham, and mastered Welsh as a schoolgirl, in spite of not hearing the language at home. She began to play the organ at Pisgah chapel in Broughton at the age of 14, but a year
JONES, GARETH RICHARD VAUGHAN (1905 - 1935), linguist and journalist Born 13 August 1905, son of Edgar and Gwen Jones, Barry, Glamorganshire. He was educated at Barry County School (of which his father was headmaster), Aberystwyth College (first class hons. French), Trinity College, Cambridge (Modern Languages Tripos I and II, first class hons. French, German, Russian). In 1930, he became foreign affairs secretary to David Lloyd George. From 1931 to 1933 he was
JONES, GARETH RICHARD VAUGHAN (1905 - 1935), journalist experience before he could be considered for a permanent position. In January 1930 he went to work as foreign affairs advisor for David Lloyd George, a man for whom he had great respect, and produced reports on developments within the British Empire, the League of Nations and the Soviet Union. He travelled to report on the rising political, economic and ethnic tensions in central Europe, especially in
JONES, GEORGE DANIEL (1877 - 1955), master printer Born 1877 in Lampeter, Cardiganshire, the son of Daniel and Margaret (née Rees) Jones, Red Lion Fach, later of Harford Row, Lampeter, Cardiganshire. George was apprenticed to T.L. Davies, Caxton Press, Lampeter and thereafter joined the staff of a well-known firm of printers at Gloucester as an improver. Within a few years, on the advice of J. Gwenogvryn Evans, he joined the Oxford University

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