Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, MAI - see JONES, GLADYS MAY
JONES, MARGARET (Y Gymraes o Ganaan; 1842 - 1902), traveler and writer
JONES, MARGARET - see HUGHES, MARGARET
JONES, MAURICE (1863 - 1957), priest and college principal Born 21 June 1863, at Trawsfynydd, Merionethshire, 2nd son of William Jones, shoemaker, and his wife Catherine. He was educated at the local school and with scholarships proceeded to Friars School, Bangor, Christ College, Brecon, where Dr. D. Lewis Lloyd was headmaster, and Jesus College, Oxford, where he graduated with 1st-class hons. in divinity, 1886. He gained the degrees of M.A. and B.D. in
JONES, MEGAN - see HUGHES, MARGARET
JONES, MEIRION (1907 - 1970), educationist Born at Llithfaen, Caernarfonshire, 30 July 1907, the son of Robert Owen Jones and Annie Jones. He attended Llithfaen primary school, Pwllheli grammar school, and Bangor Normal College, and served as a teacher at Corris primary school (1929-30), Blaenau Ffestiniog central school (1930-39), headmaster of Llandrillo primary school (1939-45), headmaster of Dyffryn Ardudwy primary school (1945-50
JONES, MICHAEL (1787 - 1853), Independent minister and first principal of the Bala Independent College Born at Neuadd-lwyd, Cardiganshire, in 1787. His parents, who had meantime moved into a little cottage called Ffosybontbren, turned to religion late in life; his father, Daniel Jones, a Llanybydder man, was, at the time of his death, a member of the Wesleyan congregation at Capel-y-ficer, while his mother, Mary Jones, had joined the Calvinistic Methodists at Ffos-y-ffin. He started life as a farm
JONES, MICHAEL (d. 1649), soldier Of Irish birth but Welsh family, being sixth in descent from Gruffydd Derwas, lord of Nannau and ancestor of the family of Nannau as well as (on the female side) of John Jones the regicide. His father, Welsh-born LEWIS JONES (son of John Wynn ap John) went from Merioneth to Brasenose College, Oxford, c. 1562, proceeding straight from B.A. to a Fellowship of All Souls (1569), thence to Ireland
JONES, MICHAEL D. - see JONES, MICHAEL DANIEL
JONES, MICHAEL DANIEL (1822 - 1898), Independent minister and principal of the Independent College at Bala Born 2 March 1822 at the Old Chapel manse, Llanuwchllyn, son of the Rev. Michael Jones, he received his early education at his father's school and at the age of 15 went as an apprentice to a Wrexham draper's shop where, however, he only stayed a few months. In 1839 he went to Carmarthen Presbyterian College to train for the ministry. After four years at Carmarthen he went to Highbury College
JONES, MORDECAI (1813 - 1880), promoter of British Schools, colliery proprietor, etc. Born 2 May 1813 at Brecon, son of Richard Jones, boat-builder on the Brecon Canal, a nephew of Robert Jones, Rhos-lan. He was educated at the expense of a coal-merchant at Brecon, and later succeeded his patron as the proprietor, trading in coal and lime from Lanelli, Brecknock, to Brecon by means of boats on the canal. He owned a brewery at Brecon (1841), purchased the Abergavenny Gas Works, and
JONES, MORGAN (1717? - 1780), Congregational minister

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