Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, ARTHUR LLEWELLIN - see MACHEN, ARTHUR
JONES, ENOCH ROWLAND (1912 - 1978), euphonium player and singer attention of Arthur O. Pearce, the renowned conductor of the Black Dyke Mills Band. In 1934 Pearce trekked to Wales to recruit him. Players in sponsored works bands were provided with a job, and during his period at the Black Dyke Mills in Queensbury, Yorkshire, he was described as a 'gasman'. He was at Queensbury until 1939, when he was attracted away by a better offer from the Bickershaw Colliery Band
JONES, EVAN (Gurnos; 1840 - 1903), Congregational and Baptist minister, poet, critic, lecturer, and eisteddfod conductor the award. He secured the prize for a drama on Owain Tudur at the Caernarvon National Eisteddfod, 1894. He excelled in shorter poems, proverbial stanzas, and poems for recitation. He was one of the chief public lecturer s of his day, and for the last twenty years of his life was the leading Welsh eisteddfod conductor. He published the following works: Rhian-Awdl: 'Alis Arthur' (Aberaman, 1871); Awdl
JONES, GRIFFITH ARTHUR (1827 - 1906), cleric
JONES, HUGH (1837 - 1919), Wesleyan minister and historian Llansilin. John Arthur Jones, editor of the Calcutta Statesman, was his son. He was elected secretary of the province (1886), chairman of the province (1893), and a member of the Legal Hundred of his connexion (1893). He delivered the Provincial Lecture (1893), and was given a testimonial to celebrate the jubilee of his ministry (1909). From 1863 on he was a regular contributor to the Eurgrawn. He
JONES, JOHN (Shoni Sguborfawr; c.1810 - 1867), Rebecca rioter having sexual intercourse with a twelve year old girl on 31 March 1863 and was sentenced to Port Arthur, where he died on 24 December 1867. He was adequately described by a contemporary as 'a half-witted and inebriate ruffian.'
JONES, JOHN (Humilis; 1818 - 1869), Wesleyan minister, editor, translator, and essayist Born at Llantrisant, Glamorganshire, he started preaching before he was 20 years of age, went to Didsbury College, and began to 'travel' in 1843. He was Editor of Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd from 1849 to 1851. A prolific writer on various topics, his published works include a translation of W. Arthur, The Successful Businessman, 1853, Darlith ar Rwsia a'i Rhyfel, 1854, Traethawd ar Dwrci, a Hanes Bywyd
JONES, JOSEPH DAVID (1827 - 1870), schoolmaster and musician last-named work had a somewhat remarkable effect - musical Wales was weaned from the music of the 18th century ballads and the way prepared for it to appreciate the songs composed by Joseph Parry, R. S. Hughes, and William Davies); a volume of anthems, and a cantata ('Llys Arthur'). With Edward Stephen (Tanymarian) he edited Llyfr Tonau ac Emynau, Jones being responsible for the greater part of the
JONES, THOMAS (1908 - 1990), trade unionist and Spanish Civil War veteran general secretary of the TGWU, Arthur Deakin (1890-1955), himself a product of north-east Wales trade unionism. He found some of Deakin's successors at the TGWU, notably Frank Cousins and Jack Jones, more amenable, as they shared Jones's socialist outlook. In 1968 the north and south Wales regions (regions 13 and 4) of the TGWU were amalgamated to form an all-Wales region and Jones became its first
JONES, THOMAS GWYNN (1871 - 1949), poet, writer, translator and scholar later published in Gwlad y Gân a Chaniadau Eraill (1902). W.J. Gruffydd in 1949 referred to the poem as juvenilia but recalled its effect on him as a thunderbolt. In 1902 also his poem 'Ymadawiad Arthur' won the chair at the Bangor national eisteddfod, under the adjudication of John Morris-Jones, a poem which secured for him a unique place in the emerging world of new Welsh poetry. He again won the
JONES, WILLIAM ARTHUR (1892 - 1970), musician
JONES, WILLIAM LEWIS (1866 - 1922), professor of English was specially interested in the relations between English and Welsh literature. From this interest sprang his King Arthur in History and Legend, 1911. He also contributed three chapters to the Cambridge History of English Literature (i, xiii), which together illustrate his command of English, Welsh, and Latin literature.

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