Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JOHN - see WALLENSIS, JOHANNES
JOHN WYN ap MAREDUDD (d. 1559), politician - see WYNN
JOHN, AUGUSTUS EDWIN (1878 - 1961), artist Born 4 January 1878, third child of Edwin William John and his wife Augusta (née Smith); younger brother of Gwendolen Mary John. The family moved to Tenby from Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, after the death of their mother in 1884. After being educated locally and at Clifton, Augustus John went to London in 1894, where he studied art at the Slade School for four years under Henry Tonks and
JOHN, BRYNMOR THOMAS (1934 - 1988), Labour politician He was born on 18 April 1934, the son of William Henry John, a painter and decorator, and Sarah Jane John. He received his education at Wood Road elementary school, Treforest, Pontypridd Boys' Grammar School and University College, London. He graduated Ll. B. (Hons.) in 1954. He was an articled clerk, 1954-57 and he became a solicitor in 1957. He was on National Service, 1958-60, serving as an
JOHN, DAVID (1782? - 1853), Unitarian minister, a Chartist, and, by trade, a smith , where on Sundays and the evenings of week-days, subjects to help workmen in their occupations were taught. His sons, DAVID JOHN and MATTHEW JOHN, were also prominent Chartists; the former, a fiery soul, published, with Morgan Williams, the Welsh Chartist paper Udgorn Cymru, 1840-2, and the English Advocate and Merthyr Free Press, 1840, of which only five numbers appeared. He represented the Chartists
JOHN, DAVID, Chartist - see JOHN, DAVID
JOHN, EDWARD THOMAS (1857 - 1931), industrialist and politician Born 14 March 1857 at Pontypridd. His industrial career was bound up with Middlesbrough, where he was on the staff of the firm of Bolckow Vaughan, ironmasters - a firm founded by John Vaughan (1799? - 1868), a Welshman, which attracted many Welshmen to Middlesbrough at one period (see under Edward Williams, 1826 - 1886.) Later, John and a man named Torbock bought the Dinsdale Iron-works, and
JOHN, EWART STANLEY (1924 - 2007), theologian, Welsh Congregationalist minister, college professor and principal Stanley John was born on the outskirts of Goodwick, Fishguard, in the parish of Llanwnda, on 20 May 1924, the sixth of the seven children of Dafydd (a deacon and precentor in the church at Rhosycaerau) and Mary Ann John, Bwlch y Rhos (his birthplace), and later Ffynnon Clun and Brynhyfryd. He was educated at Goodwick elementary school and Fishguard County School, where his English master, D. J
JOHN, GEORGE (1918 - 1994), minister (Bapt) and college principal George John was born in Pen-rhiw in the parish of Eglwys Wen, Pembrokeshire, on 8 November 1918, the son of William and Margaret John. He had one sister, Mattie, and two half-sisters from his widowed father's first marriage. He was educated in the local primary school and in Cardigan County School. He was baptised in Bethabara Baptist church and there, under the ministry of the Reverend Lewis
JOHN, GRIFFITH (1831 - 1912), missionary visited Soochow, planted stations in Sung Kiang, and founded a permanent base at Hankow. In 1868 he travelled 3,000 miles in touring the provinces. His wife died whilst returning from England in 1873. John was chairman of the Central China Tract Society and the author of many popular tracts. In 1885 he published a version of the New Testament in the Wen-li dialect of China. Elected chairman of the
JOHN, GWEN - see JOHN, GWENDOLEN MARY
JOHN, GWENDOLEN MARY (1876 - 1939), artist Born in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, 22 June 1876, the second child of Edwin William John and Augusta (née Smith) and the elder sister of Augustus John. She was educated at Tenby, where the family moved after her mother died in 1884. She continued to draw from childhood, and her first surviving oil paintings are a portrait of her younger sister Winifred (Tenby Museum) and a view of Tenby harbour

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