Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, JOHN (1787 - 1860), Calvinistic Methodist minister - see JONES, EDWARD
JONES, JOHN (1790 - 1855), printer and publisher year - a disciplinary measure in which John Elias concurred, although Jones was not only a friend of his but had, in February, officiated as groomsman at Elias's second marriage. Jones was restored to membership in 1833, but his re-election as elder (1836) was over-ruled. He would seem (on admittedly prejudiced testimony) to have been a difficult yoke-fellow; his theological and his political views
JONES, JOHN BOWEN (1829 - 1905), Congregational minister and writer
JONES, JOHN CAIN (d. 1826?), poet - see JONES, CAIN
JONES, JOHN CHARLES (1904 - 1956), Bishop of Bangor Born 3 May, 1904, the ninth child of Benjamin and Rachel Jones, Llan-saint, Carmarthenshire. He was educated in Carmarthen Grammar School, and after graduating first class in Hebrew at University College Cardiff in 1926, he went on to Cambridge with a Hody Scholarship. He was at Wadham College, where he won the Junior LXX prize and the Pusey and Ellerton scholarship in 1927. He graduated B.A. in
JONES, JOHN DANIEL (1865 - 1942), Congregational minister Born at Ruthin 13 April 1865, son of Joseph David Jones, schoolmaster and musician; his mother was Catherine, daughter of Owen Daniel, Caethle, Tywyn, Meironnydd, farmer. Owen D. Jones, head of an insurance firm, Sir Henry Haydn Jones, M.P. for Merioneth, and the Rev. D. Lincoln Jones were his brothers. Upon the father's death in 1870 the family went to live at Tywyn where he had at one time been
JONES, JOHN DAVID RHEINALLT (1884 - 1953), philanthropist, founder and Director of the South African Institute of Race Relations Born 5 July 1884 in Llanrug, Caernarfonshire, the youngest son of John Eiddon Jones and Sarah Jones. He was educated at Friars School, Bangor, but in 1897 became a boarder at David Hughes' grammar school, Beaumaris. It was there, in 1900, that he won a School Certificate in English, history, arithmetic, Latin, Welsh (with distinction). He emigrated to South Africa in October 1905. According to
JONES, JOHN EDWARD (IOAN MAESGRUG; 1914 - 1998) Born 23 December 1914 at 35 Mulliner Street, Liverpool, son of Thomas Robert Jones and his wife Elizabeth Jane (Roberts); he subsequently lived at a number of other addresses in Liverpool. He was educated at Sefton Park Council School and the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys. He was employed at the British Engine Boiler and Electrical Insurance Co, Manchester, 1933-45 but studied in his
JONES, JOHN EDWARD (1905 - 1970), secretary and organiser of Plaid Cymru Born 10 December 1905 at Hafoty Fawr, Melin-y-Wîg, Meironnydd, the third son of Rice Price Jones and Jane (née Williams). His father died before J.E. was a year old, and his mother, assisted by his two eldest brothers, farmed the homestead afterwards. No doubt the splendid location of his home and the rich musical, literary and religious culture of the district bound him to Wales from a young age
JONES, JOHN EDWARD (Iorwerth Twrog; 1886 - 1934), schoolmaster, poet, and penillion -singer He was born in the old School House, Maentwrog, Merionethshire, 12 May 1886, the son of John Ellis and Kate Jones. His father was a capable musician who, for fifty years, had been organist at Maentwrog church. ' J.E.,' as he was known throughout Wales, was educated at Maentwrog school where he became a pupil teacher. In 1905 he moved to Corris, and thence to Aber-carn, Monmouth. He went for
JONES, JOHN EDWARD (1801 - 1866), Unitarian minister, schoolmaster, and first editor of Yr Ymofynydd
JONES, JOHN EIDDON (1841 - 1903), Calvinistic Methodist minister, eisteddfod enthusiast, and temperance advocate

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