Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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 (1801 - 1866), Unitarian minister, schoolmaster, and first editor of Yr Ymofynydd Born 7 July 1801 at Carmarthen, where his father was a deacon at Lammas Street chapel. He was educated at David Peter's school and at Carmarthen Academy (1817-21). At the end of his course he received a call from the churches of Bridgend and Betws, where he spent the remainder of his life and where he kept a school until 1842. When Yr Ymofynydd was started he was appointed its first editor, a
JONES, JOHN EMRYS (1914 - 1991), secretary and organiser of Labour Party Wales remained following the passage of the Leasehold Reform Act of 1967. In the general election of July 1945 Jones had served as the political agent for George Thomas and had helped to ensure that the party made seven gains in that watershed general election. He also served as the chairman of the Cardiff North Divisional Labour Party. His hobbies were reading and writing. He married in 1935 Stella, the
JONES, JOHN EVANS (1839 - 1893), journalist Born at Bagillt, Flintshire, 1839. After apprenticeship to P.M. Evans, printer and publisher, Holywell, he entered the service of David Roberts, timber merchant, Liverpool, in 1867. While at Liverpool he began to preach and became a student at the Bala C.M. College with a view to entering the Calvinistic Methodist ministry. He did not proceed to ordination, decided to become a journalist, and in
JONES, JOHN FOULKES (1826 - 1880), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born at Machynlleth, 6 June 1826, son of John Jones of Fron Deg (Wrexham) and his wife Lydia, daughter of Thomas Foulkes and grand-daughter of Simon Lloyd of Bala. Foulkes Jones at the age of 13 was sent to the recently opened C.M. College at Bala, under Lewis Edwards and David Charles. Deciding (1843) to enter the ministry, he returned to Bala for a second period, and thence went (1844) to
JONES, JOHN ISLAN (1874 - 1968), minister (U) and author Born 17 February 1874, son of Evan and Mary Jones, Tynewydd (later of Cornant and Melin Llys-faen), Cribyn, Cardiganshire. He went to schools in Cribyn and Llanwnnen (under David Thomas, ' Dewi Hefin') until he was about ten years old. After being a farm servant and a stonemason with his father he attended the school of David Evans, minister (U) at Cribyn, (1896-98). He won a scholarship to Jesus
JONES, JOHN ITHEL (1911 - 1980), minister (Baptist) and college principal was ordained minister of Gilgal, Porthcawl in 1936, moving to Horfield, Bristol in 1940 and Haven Green, Ealing, London in 1950. He married Hannah Mary Rees ('Nana'), the daughter of the Reverend Thomas Lloyd Rees who was minister of Calfaria, Morriston, but who had been raised to the ministry in Moreia, Dowlais. They had no children. Ithel Jones returned from London to Wales in January 1958, having
JONES, JOHN LLOYD - see LLOYD-JONES, JOHN
JONES, JOHN MORGAN (1838 - 1921), Calvinistic Methodist minster , and Y Deonglwr; he published Cofiant David Morgan, Pant, Cefncoedycymer, in 1887, commentaries (in Welsh) on Hebrews, Ephesians, and Acts, Yr Efengylau ('Davies Lecture,' 1906), Y Tadau Methodistaidd, 1895-7, with W. Morgan, and other works. He died 22 May 1921.
JONES, JOHN MORGAN (1873 - 1946), minister (Congl.) and Principal of Bala-Bangor College, Bangor Commonwealth and Geiriadur Beiblaidd. He contributed chapters to M.E. Sadler's Moral Instruction and Training in Schools, 1905; to Welsh Political and Educational Leaders, on David Rees, Llanelli; and on the Gospel according to St. Matthew to The Story of the Bible, 1938. He edited Yr Efrydydd from April 1928 until September 1931 and the Cofiadur from 1923 to 1946. He also edited Hanes ac Egwyddorion yr
JONES, JOHN OWEN (Ap Ffarmwr; 1861 - 1899), journalist Nottingham as leader writer of the Nottingham Daily Express (see under David Edwards. During this time, he wrote a biography of Gladstone (Cofiant Gladstone, Caernarvon, 1898). He died at Nottingham 2 March 1899 and was buried in the Methodist burial-ground, Dwyran, 7 March. A memorial was placed on his grave in 1902, partly by subscriptions from Anglesey farm labourers. As his pen-name suggests, he took a
JONES, JOHN OWEN (OWEN BRYNGWYN; 1884 - 1972), singer conductor of the Llanegryn choir and his mother was an excellent pianist. He was educated at Llanegryn primary school and at Tywyn grammar school. He won a scholarship in 1903 to study at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, and graduated BSc in 1907. At Bangor he was greatly influenced by John Lloyd Williams and he became a member of the Welsh Folksong Society in its early days. From 1907 to

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