Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JENKINS, ROY HARRIS (1920 - 2003), politician and author
JONES, JAMES IDWAL (1900 - 1982), headteacher and Labour politician He was born on 30 June 1900, the son of James Jones and Elizabeth Bowyer and was brought up in the Welsh community of Rhos. He was a brother to Thomas William Jones MP, Baron Maelor (1898-1984). He was educated at Ruabon Grammar School and Bangor Normal College. He later gained the degree of B.Sc.(Econ) as an external student of the University of London in 1936. He began his career as a certified
JONES, JOHN (Talhaiarn; 1810 - 1869), architect and poet employed by T. Penson, who was in charge of the bridges of Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire, and in 1843 as an assistant in the firm of Scott and Moffatt, ecclesiastical architects, London. In 1851 he left them to join Sir Joseph Paxton and was one of the superintendents of the building of the Crystal Palace and of the mansion of baron Meyer de Rothschild, near Menton, France. In 1855 he was again sent
JONES, LEIFCHILD STRATTEN LEIF (1862 - 1939), Liberal politician and temperance advocate Born in London 16 January 1862, son of Thomas Jones (1819 - 1882). He graduated with a 'first' in mathematics from Trinity College, Oxford. After repeated failures in other constituencies, he became M.P. for N. Westmorland (1905-10), Rushcliffe, Notts. (1910-18), and Camborne, Cornwall (1923-4 and 1929-31). He was raised to the peerage in 1932, as baron Rhayader. He died 26 September 1939 (Who
JONES, THEOPHILUS (1759 - 1812), historian of Brecknock bringing out a third edition, which was completed by the county historical society in 1930, with copious additions from the collections of the first baron Glanusk. In this handsome four-volume edition the work is indispensable for the student of the history of Brecknock and of Brecon.
JONES, THOMAS WILLIAM (Baron Maelor of Rhos), (1898 - 1984), Labour politician Electricity Board to establish a nuclear power station at Trawsfynydd and in getting the pump storage scheme set up at Blaenau Ffestiniog. These were two areas of high unemployment. He had served as chairman of the Welsh group of Labour MPs and of the North Wales Labour Federation. He then entered the House of Lords as Baron Maelor of Rhos (life peerage), remaining active in the upper house until his health
JONES, WILLIAM (1675? - 1749), mathematician that his landlord (Bulkeley of Baron Hill) sent him up to London; after a period in a countinghouse there he became instructor on a man-of-war, and attracted the notice of admiral Anson. Tutorships in great families followed; two of his pupils, Thomas Parker (earl of Macclesfield) and Philip Yorke (earl Hardwicke) became Lords Chancellor. Macclesfield afterwards took him as tutor to his son, and
KEMEYS family Cefn Mabli, . He served as J.P. for Monmouthshire and Somerset. He married 10 August 1899, Dorothy, daughter of major-general Sir Arthur E. A. Ellis. The abeyance of the barony of Wharton, with which a branch of the family had been connected, was terminated in his favour by writ of summons to Parliament 15 February 1916, and he became 8th baron Wharton. He died 4 March 1934.
KENRY, 2nd Baron - see WYNDHAM-QUIN, WINDHAM THOMAS
KENYON family Gredington, Peel Hall, March 1784. He was appointed privy councillor on 12 April and created baronet on 28 July 1784. On 4 June 1788 he succeeded lord Mansfield as chief justice of the King's Bench, and was created a peer on 9 June with the title ' Lord Kenyon, Baron of Gredington, co. Flint.' During his long career at the Bar, Lord Chief Justice Kenyon was concerned with many interesting cases: as advocate he led the
KYLSANT, Baron - see PHILIPPS, OWEN COSBY
LACY (DE) family, constables of Chester Halton, Red Tower of the castle. His other son, JOHN, having also predeceased him, he was succeeded by his daughter, ALICE, wife of Thomas, earl of Lancaster, though dower was assigned to his second wife, a Welsh lady, Joan, sister of William, sixth baron Martin of Cemais. Alice was involved in her husband's downfall, and following his execution, in March 1322, she surrendered to the king all her

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