Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, JOHN (1725? - 1796), musician Born c. 1725. He was appointed organist at Middle Temple on 24 November 1749, organist at Charterhouse (as successor to Dr. Pepusch) 2 July 1753, and organist at St. Paul's cathedral, Christmas 1755. He published some salm-tunes in 1785; one of these was sung when George III visited St. Paul's, 23 April 1789, and also at the annual services for the children of the ' Welch Charity '. After hearing
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 authorities the names of several of his associates. 'Shoni' was removed from Carmarthen gaol on 5 February 1844 to the Millbank penitentiary, in the company of David Davies 'Dai'r Cantwr' (1812? - 1874). He was then separated from 'Dai', and embarked on the Blundell on 8 March, reaching Norfolk Island, a probationary station for convicts, on 6 July. Here he remained until he was transferred to Van Diemen's
JONES, JOHN (1837 - 1906), minister (Presb.) and writer Born December 1837, son of George Jones, Abercin (Abercain), Llanystumdwy, Caernarfonshire, see Caernarvonshire Historical Society Transactions, 1945, 46-8, 54, and the chart in J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 211 (although this particular branch of the pedigree is not included in it). He served in drapers' shops in Caernarfon and London, but he began to preach and went to Bala College in 1861. He was
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 (1786 - 1865), printer and inventor was diverting company, was cultured and composed verse under the pseudonym 'Pyll'. After his death 19 March 1865, his son Owen Evans-Jones continued the business, without much enthusiasm, until his death in 1887. His grandson J.J. Lloyd then owned it until 1935 when the shop was closed after the family had been in the printing trade over five generations from 1776 until 1935. Evan Jones (1830 - 1918
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

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