Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, THOMAS GRIFFITHS (Cyffin; 1834 - 1884), antiquary son of David and Elizabeth Jones; was born at Llansantffraid, Montgomeryshire, 12 January 1834. His father, a shopkeeper, died when he was 14 and he carried on the business until his own death, 10 September 1884. Since he had received very little schooling, owing to ill-health, he undertook to educate himself by extensive reading and writing. He took great delight in collecting books and
JONES, THOMAS GWYNN (1871 - 1949), poet, writer, translator and scholar . Upon his retirement in 1937 he was awarded hon. D. Litt. degrees by the two universities closest to his heart - Wales and Ireland - and made a C.B.E. A special memorial number of Y Llenor (28, 2) was published in 1949. There is a good bibliography to 1937 in Owen Williams, A bibliography of Thomas Gwynn Jones (1938), with a supplement by David Thomas (1956). Both are now superseded by D. Hywel E
JONES, THOMAS HUGHES (1895 - 1966), poet, writer and teacher answer during the public examination held at the close of the Sunday school and which required a sound knowledge of the Bible. He also excelled above his contemporaries at Tan-y-garreg elementary school, Blaenpennal, where his schoolteacher until 1903 was John Finnemore, followed by David Davies who persuaded Jones's father that the boy should go to Tregaron county school. He entered the county school
JONES, THOMAS IVOR (1896 - 1969), solicitor particular Undeb y Cymdeithasau and the Welsh School, but above all perhaps in the Merionethshire Society. He assisted Sir Ifan ab Owen Edwards and Lady Edwards with legal work in the formation of Urdd Gobaith Cymru, and remained its legal adviser. He also assisted Sir David James with legal work and was a member of the Pantyfedwen Trust. He married Jane Gwyneth, the eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas
JONES, THOMAS LLOYD (Gwenffrwd; 1810 - 1834), poet He is said to have been born at Brynffordd (then in the parish of Ysgeifiog), but there is no confirmation of this - others have suggested Holywell or Whitford as his native parish. The 'Lloyd' in his name was perhaps a later addition, though it occurs in the name of an uncle of his. He worked in a cotton-mill at Greenfield, Holywell, up to the age of about 18, and then became clerk to Thomas
JONES, THOMAS ROCYN (1822 - 1877), bonesetter Rhys Davies ('y Glun Bren'). Towards the end of his life he was presented with his portrait in oils in recognition of his many charitable services. He died at the age of 55 on 2 April 1877. A public monument was erected over his grave in Rhymney churchyard. DAVID ROCYN JONES (1847 - 1915) Medicine Music His eldest son, succeeded him in his practice. He was equally dexterous in manipulating and
JONES, THOMAS WILLIAM (Baron Maelor of Rhos), (1898 - 1984), Labour politician chairman of the Ruabon bench of magistrates for twenty years. Jones had joined the ILP in 1919 and served as the chairman of both the Wrexham Trades Council and the North Wales Labour Federation. He was short-listed as a prospective parliamentary candidate for Anglesey in 1931, but withdrew in favour of Megan Lloyd George, the Independent Liberal candidate and sitting MP for the county. He unsuccessfully
JONES, WALTER DAVID MICHAEL (1895 - 1974), painter and poet David Jones is one of the great literary artists of British modernism, as well as being an important engraver, illustrator and painter, and an accomplished essayist. He was born in Brockley, Kent, on 1 November 1895, the third child of James and Alice Jones, and baptized Walter David (by the age of nine he had succeeded in dropping his first name, which he considered too Anglo-Saxon). When he
JONES, WATCYN SAMUEL (1877 - 1964), agricultural administrator and principal of a theological college early education at home in Ogmore House, a house that the family built in the same year as the son's birth. He was educated thereafter at Lampeter school (1890-92), Rev. David Evans's school at Cribyn (1892-94), and for a short time at Llanybydder grammar school, before he was accepted into the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen at the end of 1894. He displayed early scientific tendencies and it is said
JONES, Sir WILLIAM (1566 - 1640), judge from the time of his son William. Anthony Wood's statement (corrected by Humphrey Humphreys in the Bliss edition of Athenae Oxonienses) that William Jones was educated at Beaumaris grammar school is manifestly wrong: as a rising barrister he helped and advised David Hughes (died 1609) in its foundation and acted as feoffee of the school and the almshouses. He entered S. Edmund Hall, Oxford (1580
JONES, WILLIAM (1675? - 1749), mathematician ' nickname, ' Pabo,' for William Jones. The father was John George; the mother was Elizabeth Rowland, of the family of Bodwigan, Llanddeusant (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 3), and Elizabeth's mother was of the family of Tregaian and therefore, according to Lewis Morris (Add. M.L., p. 190), related to the Morris family's father and mother. He was at school at Llanfechell, and showed such skill as a calculator
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

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