Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, THOMAS PARRY (1935 - 2013), inventor, entrepreneur and philanthropist Inorganic Chemistry at the Welsh College of Advanced Technology (afterwards the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology (UWIST)) in Cardiff. The 1967 Road Safety Act introduced a legally enforceable maximum alcohol level for UK drivers leading to roadside breathalyser tests. With his colleague, William ('Bill') Ducie, an engineer, Jones developed a chemical breathalyser based on the colour
JONES, THOMAS ROBERT (Gwerfulyn; 1802 - 1856), founder of the charitable movement, the True Ivorites up a society which would assist its members financially as well as safeguarding and nurturing the Welsh language. Robert Davies, ' Bardd Nantglyn ' and William Owen Pughe expressed their willingness to be sponsors but both died before having an opportunity to help. Jones ventured and established a ' United and Gomerian Society under the sign of the Cross Guns ' in Wrexham on 6 June 1836. There is
JONES, THOMAS WILLIAM (Baron Maelor of Rhos), (1898 - 1984), Labour politician
JONES, TREVOR ALEC (1924 - 1983), Labour politician , Jones had a deep and abiding interest in issues like housing and social services. He married on 12 August 1950 Mildred Maureen, the daughter of William T. Evans, and they had one son. They lived at 58 Kenry Street, Tonypandy, Rhondda. He died at his home on 20 March 1983 having suffered from heart trouble for several years and cremated at Glyntaff Crematorium. His wife and son survived him.
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 (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
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 (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, WILLIAM (1755 - 1821), Evangelical cleric
JONES, WILLIAM (1806 - 1873), cleric and man of letters

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