Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, JOHN (1802 - 1863), Unitarian minister and schoolmaster
JONES, JOHN (1775 - 1834), cleric;
JONES, JOHN (Myllin; 1800 - 1826), poet
JONES, JOHN (Poet Jones; 1788 - 1858), spinner, sailor and poet paraphrases of Aesop, and selling his works in the market. In 1856, he published a small book of them, Poems by John Jones. He died 19 June 1858; Ceiriog and Creuddynfab were present at his funeral.
JONES, JOHN (1776 - 1857), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born in September 1776 to John and Ellen Jones, of Tŷ Mawr, Penmorfa, Caernarfonshire, and educated at Botwnnog grammar school. He began to preach in 1803, and was ordained in 1814; he is usually known as ' John Jones of Tremadoc.' He was reckoned a powerful preacher; his views were very conservative, and he was one of John Elias's henchmen. In 1834 he published a small biography of Richard Jones
JONES, JOHN Maes-y-garnedd,, 'the regicide' John Jones (1597? - 1660), ' the regicide,' was a younger son of Thomas Jones, Maes-y-garnedd, Merionethshire, lineal descendant of Ynyr Vychan (lord of Nannau and ancestor of the family of Nannau, through a younger son who was also ancestor of the Vaughan family of Hengwrt. His mother was Elin, daughter of Robert Wynn of Taltreuddyn, Llanenddwyn, Meironnydd, descended on her mother's side from
JONES, JOHN (c. 1578-1583 - 1658?) Gellilyfdy, Loveday, Ysgeifiog, calligrapher and transcriber of manuscripts John Jones leaves his readers in no doubt as to his ancestry, for many of the surviving manuscripts contain such an entry as this: ' Siôn ap Wiliam ap Siôn ap Wiliam ap Siôn ap Dafydd ab Ithel Vychan ap Kynrig ap Rrotbert ap Ierwerth ap Rryrid ap Ierwerth ap Madog ab Ednowain Bendew …' (Peniarth MS 224), with, often, such an ending to the pedigree as 'Yr hwnn Siôn ap Wiliam a elwir yn ol y
JONES, JOHN (Jac Glan-y-gors; 1766 - 1821), satirical poet acquired the licence of 'The King's Head' tavern, Ludgate Street, and from that time until his death in 1821 his home was the regular resort of the London Welsh, although it is not officially recorded that the Gwyneddigion ever met at the ' King's Head,' and the Cymreigyddion only met there for three months [in 1818 ]. John Jones is now chiefly remembered because of his lampoons, some of which can be
JONES, JOHN (1650 - 1727), dean of Bangor, educationist, and antiquary Born at Plas Gwyn, Pentraeth, Anglesey, 2 June 1650, son of Rowland Jones and Margaret, daughter of John Williams of Chwaen Issa, Llantrisant, Anglesey. His brother's grandchild married Paul Panton, the antiquary. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated M.A., 1668, and later B.D. and D.D., 1689, he took holy orders and was preferred in 1672 to Rhoscolyn and its chapelries of
JONES, JOHN (1645 - 1709), cleric
JONES, JOHN (1761 - 1822), Calvinistic Methodist minister -gwyn, to Anglesey he was convinced and in 1784 began to preach. He was a strong, powerfully built man, and his ministry was incisive and convincing. He is said to have converted 180 in the course of one meeting. When he was 35 years of age he married Mary Williams, heiress of Pen-y-bryn, Edern, where he spent the remainder of his life; he is usually known as ' John Jones of Edern.' He was ordained in
JONES, JOHN (1700 - 1770), cleric and controversialist son of John Jones, Llanilar, Cardiganshire - not from Carmarthenshire, as said in D.N.B. He went to Worcester College, Oxford, in 1721. He was ordained priest in 1726 and became curate of King's Walden, Hertfordshire, and afterwards of Abbot's Ripton, Huntingdonshire, becoming vicar of Alconbury, in the same county, in 1741. Although he became rector of Bolnhurst, 1750-7, and curate to Dr. Young

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