Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, WILLIAM (d. c. 1700) south-western Wales, Baptist minister the south-west of Hereford, the reputed home of the first colony of strict Baptists on the borders of Wales, to be there baptized by immersion, and with the coming of two officers of that church to found a new cause in the west, for convenience usually called ' Rhydwilym,' a cause devoted to immersionist baptism and exclusionist communion (12 July 1668). William Jones was named as chief elder
JONES, WILLIAM (1770 - 1837), Calvinistic Methodist minister One of the eight North Wales ordinands of 1811; born in 1770, son of Cadwaladr and Catherine Jones of Nant-fudr (Coed-cae-du), Trawsfynydd, Meironnydd. The father was a cattle dealer, and the boy was sent to school in England. Later, having taken a drove up to London, he went to hear William Romaine, and was converted. He joined the Methodists at Trawsfynydd, but in 1794 married Susan Watkins, a
JONES, WILLIAM (Gwrgant; 1803 - 1886), lawyer and writer
JONES, WILLIAM (1826 - 1899), secretary to the Peace Society as successor to Henry Richard, Tregaron; son of John Jones, a Ruthin Quaker, and great-grandson of Jonathan Hughes, the bard mentioned by Borrow in Wild Wales. William was educated at Ackworth Quaker School. Later he was appointed head of a commission for the relief of distress during the Franco-German war of 1870-1. He had discussions with president Cleveland and Li Hung Chang and other
JONES, WILLIAM (1784 - 1847), Independent minister and divine Born 1784 at Bala, son of William and Elizabeth Jones. The father was a Calvinistic Methodist elder, but the son [educated at Bala grammar school] joined the Independents c. 1800 and began to preach in 1801. He was trained for the ministry at Wrexham Academy, 1805-9, ordained minister of Bridgend and Brynmenyn chapels, Glamorganshire, in 1810, died 5 June 1847, and was buried near his chapel at
JONES, WILLIAM (1857 - 1915), Member of Parliament the Liberal Welsh members. Twenty-one volumes of his private papers are lodged in the library of the U.C.N.W. - by reading them one can see how wide was his range of friends, how high his ideals were, and how valiant his efforts to make those ideals workable in the lives of ordinary men. William Jones was a lovable personality, full of human kindness and given to good works, and as a politician one
JONES, WILLIAM (1718 - 1773?), early Methodist exhorter, and possibly the first Anglesey Methodist by the historians of Anglesey Methodism, and Robert Jones of Rhos-lan, though he never mentions him by name, seems to hint at the reasons for his eclipse. It is certain that he adhered to Harris at the disruption, but Harris soon fell foul of him, thinking him an Antinomian. And Thomas William (1717 - 1765) of Eglwysilan hints in 1751 that Jones had become a Moravian. However that may have been, we
JONES, WILLIAM (d. 1679), Puritan minister Grefydd Christianogol. Later he seems to have moved from Plas Teg to Hope, where he died in February 1679. His funeral sermon was preached by Dr. David Maurice, a 'conforming Minister of Abergeley,' who also penned a Latin inscription to be placed on his gravestone (this ' minister ' was during William Jones's latter years vicar of Llanasa, Flintshire; the ' conforming minister ' and William Jones had
JONES, Sir WILLIAM (1566 - 1640), judge was the eldest son of William ap Griffith ap John (died 1587) and of his first wife, Margaret, daughter of Humphrey Wynn ap Maredudd of Cesail Gyfarch (died 1583), first cousin to the grandfather of Sir John Wynn of Gwydir. His great-grandfather, John ap Robert ap Llywelyn ab Ithel, alias John Roberts, of Castellmarch (Llangïan), was among the first batch of Caernarvonshire local officials
JONES, WILLIAM (1675? - 1749), mathematician Born at Merddyn, Llanfihangel Tre'r Beirdd, Anglesey. His son's biography says that William Jones was born in 1680, but he was born in 1674 or 1675, the same year as Morris Ap Rhisiart Morris, the father of the Morris brothers of Anglesey; the family removed to Tyddyn-bach, Llanbabo, and when the father died the mother went to live at Clymwr in the same parish - hence the Morris family's
JONES, WILLIAM (Bleddyn; 1829? - 1903), antiquary, local historian, geologist, and collector of folk-lore
JONES, WILLIAM (1726 - 1795), antiquary and poet Son of William John David and Catherine his wife. The father was a guard on the coach which ran between Shrewsbury and Machynlleth but also farmed Dôl Hywel, Llangadfan, Montgomeryshire, where William Jones lived all his life. He was christened in Llangadfan parish church, 18 June 1726. The only education he had was when one of Griffith Jones's schools was set up for a short time in the

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