Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, JAMES IFANO (1865 - 1955), librarian and bibliographer Born Oxford Str. Aberdare, Glamorganshire, 15 May 1865, according to WWP, but there is no record of his birth under this date in the Registry of Births and Deaths in Pontypridd; there is, however, a James Jones, son of Jane Jones of Harriet Street, born 14 May, and a clerical error is possible. His father, Thomas Jones, was a miner and his mother came from Cwmtwrch. She was a sister of the Rev. J
JONES, JENKIN (d. 1689) Kilgerran, captain in the Parliamentary army, Puritan preacher, Independent will, dated 2 January 1688/9 - it was proved at Carmarthen on 25 June - proves that he was a man of considerable substance: he kept four yoke of oxen, more than twenty horses, and was possessed of much landed property in the counties of Pembroke and Carmarthen. The overseers of his will were Stephen Hughes and John Evans of Trefenty in Abercywyn, high sheriff of Carmarthen in 1687-8; the first
JONES, JOHN (Ioan Bryngwyn Bach; 1818 - 1898), working man, astronomer, and linguist musician and a writer of verse. Samuel Smiles visited him and wrote about him. He died at Bangor in 1898.
JONES, JOHN (Leander; 1575 - 1636), Benedictine monk and scholar Born at Llanfrynach, Brecknock, probably son of Thomas ap John of Tŷ Mawr, and Janet his wife. Brought up as a Protestant, he proceeded in 1591 from Merchant Taylors ' to S. John's College, Oxford, of which he was elected a Fellow in 1593. On account of his Romanist leanings he was deprived of his Fellowship in 1595-6, and left Oxford to study theology with the Jesuits at Valladolid, having in
JONES, JOHN (1731 - 1813), early Welsh Moravian Leominster and acting as agent on a nearby estate. By 1790 (at latest) he was assistant pastor of the Congregation. He died 4 February 1813. There was a Thomas Jones, also of Llanfaredd, and also concerned with Moravianism; but nothing seems to be known about him (Cymm., xlv, 17).
JONES, JOHN (1807 - 1875), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 4 October 1807 at Melin Blaenpistyll, Llangoedmor, Cardiganshire, son of Samuel and Charlotte Jones. While still very young, his parents went to live at Cytir-bach, near Blaenannerch. He was given a little education in the local day school and later in a school at Cardigan. His interest in preaching started when he was a boy, and in 1833, after experiencing a profound religious emotion, he
JONES, JOHN (Shoni Sguborfawr; c.1810 - 1867), Rebecca rioter Merthyr for Brecon, for colonel Thomas Wood, M.P. for Brecknock, who later testified in writing on his behalf, swore him in as a special constable at Brecon during an election. He appears to have served for a time in the 98th Foot, during which period he exerted himself in obtaining information for the authorities in suppressing the 'Scotch Cattle' in the Monmouthshire industrial area, and
JONES, JOHN (EMLYN) (Ioan Emlyn; 1818 - 1873), Baptist minister, poet, and man of letters Fawr (by Titus Lewis), published Tiriad y Ffrancodym Mhencaer in 1856 and Gramadeg Cerddorol in 1860, not to speak of other books. He undertook the resumption of Y Parthsyllydd, a large-scale treatise on geography which had been begun by John Jenkins of Hengoed and Thomas Williams (Gwilym Morgannwg), but failed to complete it (it was completed in 1875 by J. Spinther James). Two bardic chairs fell to
JONES, JOHN (c. 1578-1583 - 1658?) Gellilyfdy, Loveday, Ysgeifiog, calligrapher and transcriber of manuscripts the Fleet Prison), and appeals to Endymion Porter, Prince Rupert, and others; for details, gathered from sources in the National Library of Wales, the British Museum, the Public Record Office, etc., see the thesis (in N.L.W.) by Samuel Jones (1926) named at the foot of this article. He was out of prison and at Gellilyfdy in 1654, but was back in the Fleet in November of that year. Many of John
JONES, JOHN (1761 - 1822), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born at Tyddyn-Dafydd-Ddu, in the parish of Llandwrog, Caernarfonshire, but he was brought up in Caernarvon town until he was 17 years of age, and attended a school kept by one Thomas Brown. He was apprenticed to a barber at Mold but, after two years, returned to his family which, by this time, was living at Amlwch, Anglesey. During the course of a visit paid by David Morris (1744 - 1791) of Twr
JONES, JOHN (1773 - 1853), cleric Born 31 March 1773, the eldest of the thirteen children of Thomas and Lowri Jones, Dolgellau, Meironnydd. Thomas Jones was a businessman and financier, founder of the first bank in Dolgellau, and a relative of David Richards, ' Dafydd Ionawr '. John Jones was educated in Dolgellau, Ruthin Grammar School and Jesus College, Oxford where he graduated B.A. in 1796 (M.A. in 1800). He was curate in
JONES, JOHN (Tegid, Ioan Tegid; 1792 - 1852), cleric and man of letters teach in a college; but at the end of that year to took orders and became chaplain of Christ Church; in 1823 (he had proceeded M.A. in 1821) he became precentor of Christ Church, with the cure of the parish of S. Thomas. He was energetic in his parish, enlarged the church, and built schools. But he was also a scholar, a good Hebraist; in 1830 he published a new version of Isaiah, which went into a 2nd

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