Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, WILLIAM ELWYN EDWARDS (1904 - 1989), Labour politician He was born on 4 January 1904 [some sources cite 1905], the son of the Reverend Robert William Jones, a minister with the Calvinistic Methodists at Bootle, and Elizabeth Jane, his wife. He was educated at Bottle Secondary School and Ffestiniog Grammar School and the University College of North Wales, Bangor and the University of London. He qualified as a solicitor in 1927, was appointed clerk to
JONES, WILLIAM GARMON (1884 - 1937), professor of history and librarian of Liverpool University Born 15 November 1884 at Birkenhead, son of William Jones of Birkenhead (of the firm of Jones, Burton and Co., engineers, Liverpool) and Jane Jones of Mold. He was educated at King William's College, Isle of Man, his intention being to qualify for a business career. He actually worked in a Liverpool office for two years and in 1903 went to Liverpool University to study for a degree in engineering
JONES, WILLIAM HENRY (1860 - 1932), journalist and local historian Born 4 February 1860 at the Mumbles, near Swansea, the son of William Henry Jones (1826 - 1912) and his wife Ann (Fisher). He was educated at the Goat Street British School, Swansea. For years afterwards he worked as a journalist and editor of newspapers at Swansea, Caernarvon (1879), Exeter, Norwich, and Yarmouth; he returned to Swansea in 1913. He married, 1885, Annie Elizabeth, daughter of
JONES, WILLIAM JENKYN (1852 - 1925) Brittany, Calvinistic Methodist missionary
JONES, WILLIAM LEWIS (1866 - 1922), professor of English Born 20 February 1866; son of William Jones, Llangefni, and Hannah Lewis, sister of Thomas Lewis, M.P. for Anglesey. Educated at Friars School, Bangor, he obtained an open scholarship at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in the Easter term, 1884. He read for the Classical Tripos and graduated in 1888; he had won the Members' University Prize in the previous year. After graduation
JONES, WILLIAM OWEN (1861 - 1937), minister of the 'Free Church of the Welsh', Liverpool
JONES, WILLIAM OWEN (Eos y Gogledd; 1868 - 1928), musician
JONES, WILLIAM PHILIP (1878 - 1955), minister (Presb.) and Principal of Trefeca College
JONES, WILLIAM RICHARD (Goleufryn; 1840 - 1898), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and writer
JONES, WILLIAM SAMUEL (Wil Sam; 1920 - 2007), playwright
JONES, WILLIAM TUDOR (1865 - 1946), minister (U) and philosopher
KATHERYN of BERAIN (Mam Cymru, The mother of Wales; 1534/5 - 1591) Hamburg, where Clough died in 1570. She and Clough had two daughters, (a) Anne (born 1568), who married Roger Salusbury, and (b) Mary (born 1569), who married William Wynn of Melai. Clough provided handsomely for his widow and daughters and for his two stepsons. Katheryn returned to Berain and engaged William Cynwal of Penmachno, the bard and genealogist, to compile a record of her family - see his own

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