Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, BEN (1840 - 1930), Independent minister, popular preacher, and author and Watford. In 1873 he moved to the Tabernacle at Treorchy, and from there, in 1885, to Trelech, where he was also in charge of Capel Iwan; it was as 'Davies Trelech' that he was known in the days of his popularity as a preacher. In 1902 he left Trelech to take charge of Ebenezer, Newcastle Emlyn, with Capel Iwan, but gave up the latter in 1918. He published in 1882 a volume of sermons, Gair y
WILLIAMS, DAVID (Iwan; 1796 - 1823), Baptist minister
JONES, THOMAS GWYNN (1871 - 1949), poet, writer, translator and scholar Born in Gwyndy Uchaf, Betws yn Rhos, Denbighshire, 10 October 1871, eldest child of Isaac and Jane Jones. His father was a farmer and also a lay-preacher with the Calv. Methodists and a poet. The son began to add Gwynn (from Gwyndy) to his simple baptismal name Thomas about 1890 when, among other pen-names, he used Gwyn(n)vre ap Iwan (or ap Isaac). Apart from elementary education in Llanelian
DAVIES, DAVID (Dewi Emlyn; 1817 - 1888), Congregational minister in the U.S.A., poet and writer Born 9 November 1817 at Pant-y-garn, Cenarth,Carmarthenshire; he was a member of the Congregational church at Capel Iwan. He was educated at Newcastle Emlyn and Swansea Academy, and later became a school teacher. He began to preach in 1843, emigrated with his wife to the U.S.A. in 1852 and, the same year, was ordained at Paris, Portage, Ohio. He had a long ministry at Tallmadge, Thomastown, and
NICHOLAS, THOMAS (1816 - 1879), Congregational minister, theological college tutor, and historian , Nicholas had disagreed with some of the promoters and had resigned (for details see Iwan Morgan in The College by the Sea, Aberystwyth, 1928, particularly 257-66). In the meantime he had been busy writing and publishing (a) Middle and High Class Schools, and University Education for Wales, 1863, a work which exerted considerable influence in Wales at the time; (b) Pedigree of the English People, 1868
HUGHES, WILLIAM MELOCH (1860 - 1926), colonist and writer Born 9 April 1860 at Pen-sarn, Betws Gwerfyl Goch, but the family moved to Melin Meloch, near Llandderfel, about 1868. He was educated at Bala grammar school, at the same time as T. E. Ellis, O. M. Edwards, J. Puleston Jones, Mihangel and Llwyd ap Iwan. Trained as a photographer, he set up in business at Newtown, where he also started preaching with the intention of entering the Congregational
MORGAN, IWAN JAMES (1904 - 1966), extra-mural tutor and politician
JONES, MORGAN (1768 - 1835), Independent minister at Glandŵr school, Pembrokeshire under John Griffiths (1731 - 1811), paying particular attention to English and divinity, but also acquiring a fair knowledge of Latin and Greek. He was ordained at Tre-lech and Capel Iwan, Carmarthenshire, 13 March 1770, and spent the whole of his ministry in this one district. Influenced by his powerful preaching, his churches experienced a strong spirit of revival
JONES, LEWIS (1837 - 1904), pioneer in Patagonia, and writer and started two newspapers - Ein Breiniad, 1878, and Y Dravod, 1891; the latter is still being published. A lecture given before the Cymmrodorion in 1885, when he was visiting Wales, was subsequently published, and his book Y Wladfa Gymreig was published in 1898. He had two daughters - Eluned Morgan and another who married Llwyd ap Iwan, son of Michael D. Jones. Lewis Jones was a gallant leader in
HOOSON, JOHN (1883 - 1969), teacher, scholar the City of Westminster School for over thirty years. However his main interest was in the life and culture of Wales, particularly the social and economic life of Hiraethog and the Vale of Clwyd. He was an authority on the place-names of these areas and on their famous people - such as the Myddleton family, Galch Hill, Denbigh, the Salusbury family, Emrys ap Iwan, Thomas Jones, Thomas Gee of Denbigh
JONES, ROBERT AMBROSE (1848 - 1906), Calvinistic Methodist minister, man of letters, and publicist in predominantly Welsh -speaking localities, and as a result he was refused ordination at Llanidloes (1881), but after a keen controversy he was ordained at Mold (1883). He served as pastor at Ruthin and at Trefnant, and in 1900 he moved to Rhewl, where he died 6 January 1906, and where he lies buried. He was never married. The late T. Gwynn Jones appended to his biography of Emrys ap Iwan, 1912, a
THOMAS, WILLIAM (KEINION) (1856 - 1932), Congregational minister, and publicist 'Keinion') to his name. His pastorates were: Garisim with Peniel (Llanfairfechan) 1879, Siloh with Moriah (Port Dinorwic) 1900, Pentraeth (with Penmynydd, Llanfair-pwll, and Menai Bridge) 1910, and finally Beaumaris 1922-32. He was twice married: to Ruth in 1889, and they had two sons, Garth and Robert Tibbot Kerris, and in 1902 he married Jannette Spencer, and they had five sons, Gwyn, Alon, Iwan, Jac

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